Yet another social media poll has put the boot into David Moyes tonight with over 10,300 voting. West Ham season ticke holder Baz Cox has been running a Moyes in Moyes Out twitter poll. With 1 day left on the poll 89% of supporters say Moyes out while 11% say Moyes in.
Another Twitter poll ran by @WestHamSocial has amassed nearly 13,000 votes in a few days with 86% saying he should NOT be offered a 2-year contract this summer just for keeping West Ham in the Premier League. Just 14% want him to be given a new contract.
While the supporter tide seems to have turned on Moyes in recent days West Ham fan and Guardian journalist Jacob Steinberg has spoken against the campaign against David Moyes.
Steinburg wrote on Twitter “Amazing PR campaign taking place against David Moyes on here at the moment. He took over a team in the bottom three, one that hadn’t had a proper season and was unfit, and job was to keep them up. Wasn’t backed in Jan. Prob going to do it. But let’s pile in on him”
Steinberg adds “Almost as though people have lost sight of who’s really responsible for what’s happening at West Ham. Funny, really, as everyone seemed to know after the Burnley game. Where’s that feeling gone?
Moyes has two skittish keepers, one fit PL centre-back, poor and slow full-backs, two fit central midfielders who do nothing, no fit wide players, a couple of good creative players and joke strikers who do no work off the ball. Why hasn’t he won the league?”
“Make no mistake, West Ham would be much worse off right now if Slaven Bilic was still in charge. His charm had worn off. Players didn’t know what they were doing and were unfit. Moyes inherited an absolute shambles.
“The people leading this little campaign have been had in an amusing way”
The journalist seems to have it about right. Why start all this stuff now? Nothing much is going to be different in two weeks- why not leave it until then?
Steinberg obviously sees that taking us out bottom three is enough. Forgetting if it wasn’t for other results going in our favour we would be bottom. Moyes only plus was playing arnie up front but now leaving him on his own undoes all the good things arnie does. He needs support with the quality lanzini has but what does this clown do! Yep takes him off through losing possession shame he didn’t take Hart off and give him public stick for his disastrous spell bar one game in his period here. Get moyes out asp
I can still see us going down. If that happens he will be out the door anyway, but it won’t happen before the end of the season.
Jacob Steinberg has got it wrong about Mr Moyes. He got the job of picking up the pieces from Slaven Bilic because he was the only coach desperate enough to go for it. Having led Sunderland into the abyss, our Club was perceived to be so dysfunctional and with such unprofessional and appalling strategic leadership, that the ‘best’ they could get in our hour of need was Mr Moyes. Let’s be candid here: what PL options did Mr Moyes have? Clubs more desperate than us at the time wouldn’t offer him a contract.
Jacob is correct in pointing to the source of our problems on the pitch. Not the training ground, not the manager, but the promise of champions league football on the one hand, and the starving of tends to buy new players on the other. And who did the starving? Well, the owners of course. Having sold the Boleyn they have failed to invest in top quality playing staff and coaching team.
Despite the appalling leadership of the club that Jacob alludes to, Mr Moyes remains a pathetic spent force, yesterday’s mediocre manager. He can’t be blamed for not having those qualities the team desperately need and doesn’t possess. Although he can be blamed for pretending otherwise. That’s the Gordian knot of deceit at the core of the on/off crisis at our club.
As for the mythology surrounding Mr Moyes draconian intervention to get the team fit, the players looked tired, unfit and frankly unmotivated in the second half against Arsenal, and throughout the Mancity game. Our players strolled, didn’t run back in and cover, and were a disgrace. So what’s with the continuing hard man myth surrounding Mr Moyes? Does Jacob really believe the dressing room is behind Mr Moyes…naive thinking at best.
I haven’t voted but, for what it’s worth, I’m leaning increasingly towards ‘Moyes out’. I was very surprised to see Evra in the starting line up on Sunday, this meant we had 2 players well into their 30s against a supremely agile, mobile and pacey Man City team. Add to this the inclusion of Fernandes who is workmanlike at best and we were up against it from the start.
This team was clearly selected to contain City so, at 1-3 when the plan blatantly wasn’t working, why did he take such a ridiculously long time to make a change? By the time our subs were ready it was 1-4!
The after-match comments from Moyes and skipper Noble gave us some insight into the submissive performance witnessed. The awestruck way they spoke about City suggested to me that we were beaten before kick off. Yes, City are clearly a superb team but the least we could expect was to match them for effort and commitment.
If we manage to stay up I’m afraid it’s not Moyes who I want to see at the helm next season.
I think Steinberg makes some good points, as much as anything Moyes would have been pretty shellshocked when he came here from his last 3 appointments, he has improved the players that he has inherited, been given virtually zero money to spend, I am not convinced Huggill was his choice but maybe he wanted a second class battering ram in the absence of any money to spend, he is also like Bilic not the first choice of DS, I hope he gets a 2 year contract, I think when he rebuilds his own confidence we will see the results. I would rather have him than Rafa thats for sure, like I have mentioned previously if Wenger is interested,break the bank to get him in, he would have us playing proper football, we already have a pants defence so not much to worry about there.
I am bemused by the thinking of some fans who think top level managers like Wenger would be interested in coming to West Ham??
Moyes may not be top draw, but he’s far from Avram Grant???
IF there are better managers out there who are willing to take the job, then maybe Moyes should be replaced, but are there?
Given the state of Premiership management churn, maybe a rolling 1 year would save the club a few £mil. but it seems ‘cheapskating’ to me.