Irons heartbeat starts to tick – let’s start judging tomorrow

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Sometimes we tend to take too little into consideration and allow ourselves to believe we know as much as the manager and backroom team.

Our judgement is affected by personal prejudices and mindsets which, were we in full possession of the facts, might make a large difference to our thinking.

The Newcastle game set up some serious barriers to our thinking after a lifeless performance had us all believing this was going to be a season of despair.

In reality, two players – probably the most important in the team – Declan and Tomas Soucek looked way off the pace and understandably so.

Did I not know better I would wonder whether Dec had not been affected by COVID whilst Tomas had been in quarantine and not training for eight days.

Declan had been injured and despite playing for England – which did us no favours – had perhaps his worst game in the claret and blue since his early days in the first team.

With both now fully fit we are seeing a midfield duo which is the heartbeat of a team growing in all areas.

Tomas now is more than happy to get forward into goal scoring positions knowing his back is covered by the best defensive midfielder in the country.

Beyond that we are seeing competition growing in all areas of the pitch with Andriy Yarmolenko doing his best to push Bowen- which is a pretty impossible job, Pablo Fornals arriving as a top assist maker and hugely industrious player and of course ARTHUR …say no more.

This weekend we go to Leicester City and will presumably be playing a formation which will see something well over £100 million worth of Hammers talent on the bench!

When has the club ever been in such a position and despite much criticism that we have bought players at prices they aren’t worth that may be another presumption.

Tomorrow will give us a better opportunity to judge when presumably the likes of Anderson, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Haller take on a PL team in the Carabao Cup after shining against  League One outfits Charlton and Hull.

At this moment – and we are all aware of previous inconsistencies – West Ham are a team on the rise and one which for all the moans has been in goodish shape since the last season re-started.

And whether people are fans are not full credit for that goes to the manager and a backroom team including Kev Nolan and Stuart Pearce which looks to have been well and truly on the case over the last few weeks!