Declan Rice insists the Hammers have to target six pints from the next two games against Cardiff and Palace.
He told www.whufc.com: “Saturday was a special start to this next run of games. We have got Cardiff and then Palace and we have got to look at it as a chance to get nine points.
“Since the Everton game, when we got our first win, things have started to click. We’ve played well in nearly all our games and we’ve either scored but conceded more and lost or we’ve played really well and won.
“We’re all excited for Tuesday now and to try and get another three points and move up the table.”
Discussing his season so far he declared: “I’ve come up against world class players before, and you’ve got to think about it just a game of football. If you play well, you do and if you don’t, you don’t, and that’s how you’ve got to think about it.
“If you get too caught up about who they are, you can get fazed so you have to forget about that and just play your own game.
“I had a tough day last season where I got subbed off here at half-time, and that day probably made me into the player I am today. You need one of those games in your career. I was gutted, it was only my third game but it kicked me on for the rest of the season and from my mistake.
“I’ve grown so much since then, I’ve come on since then and you could see today I am a different player to last year. It was massive for us to get the three points [at Newcastle].”
ClaretandHugh says: Some of us have supported the Hammers long enough to have those words ‘fortune’s always dying ‘ at the forefront of our mind. Declan’s youthful optimism therefore is timely and the sort of stuff we all need to hear. It’s probably fair to say that were the team generally to have shown the same level of improvement as this young man we would likely be in the top three and four, for there can be few greater success stories than his anywhere over the course of the season so far. He is of course right about the next two games and if that Pellegrini message of “playing like a big team ” means anything then it starts here with three wins which will really have the team buzzing and the rest of us – probably albeit temporarily – forgetting that line from our favourite song. Cardiff and Palace sounds tasty but this game is played on grass not paper.
Six pints? I’ll drink to that. Hic.
Those of us who have followed the Irons for any length of time know to always expect the worst , but live in hope! By the way I think you mean “hiding” rather than dying,
Of course Scaly but perhaps Hugh had 6 pints before he wrote this one 😉
I’ll take what Rice is saying one step further!
A good friend of mine (who is an Arsenal fan, but I don’t hold that against him) was telling me earlier this season that the Gunners supporters were bandying about the term Project 24, to get 24 points in a run of 8 games. They came up just short with 22 points (draw against the Palace), but it was a run which helped establish Arsenal back in the top portion of the table.
He suggested to me that West Ham needs a Project 12 right now — Newcastle, Cardiff, Palace, and Fulham, and I agree completely. Getting 12 points out of this run of matches will be a boon for the Irons — we need to take advantage of our schedule and get the wins we “should” be getting! The 3-0 result at Newcastle was a great start for 3 points, now let’s get 9 more!
Yeah sounds good jacone …we real! Do have to be beating teams like this at home there can be no excuses. We need back to back wins at the very least …rice is right you can’t always play well but as I’ve said before you can always work your socks of and sometimes that’s enough …let’s hope that we keep going after Newcastle and not sit back …we need a run of wins and a plus goal difference with a few clean sheet s thrown in …merry Xmas