Winston Reid continued to preach a message of “we will learn from this season” in his comments after yesterday’s match against Liverpool.
And he was keen to pay tribute to the Reds saying: ““It turned into a game that we really didn’t want. They are really good. They have good quality players and have a lot of speed. Everything went wrong.
“I thought we started alright and we had a couple of chances. But at the end of the day we lost as a team.
“The last few weeks we’ve been doing well as well. But we’ll move on to next season and learn from this season, especially at home.
“It’s just one of these things. We tried our best and went out there to try and put on a performance. But sometimes you have days like that and unfortunately we’ve had a few of them this season.”
“It’s been a bit of a roller coaster this season but towards the back end we really started to pick up.It obviously hasn’t gone how we hoped but we’ll move on to next season and hopefully next year at home we’ll pick up some better results.”
Same old, same old from the club PR machine….. it’s all too lazy ‘it’s just one of those things’ apparently.
I know Pop, if you asked anyone in the street that has watched PL football what to expect from each team they could probably tell you more or less, there aren’t many surprises in the way we play football and in truth there has never been, the one thing that originally marked us out our teams was physicality and determination to get a result but that has been missing this season at West Ham, no one other than Obiang, Lanzini and sometimes Antonio have been consistently working hard, Reid had a few decent games but for the most part they have just ambled around the pitch and against teams of lesser quality have got reasonable results but against any hardworking team other than Spurs they have unravelled haven’t they ? I hoped for the best against Liverpool but wasn’t surprised by what was served up, one team was hungry and fit and one team was not, I believe the players and fans paying to watch are being sold short by the quality and intensity of the training, not something I can prove but if I had to I would bet pretty much anything on it, when players leaving for clubs in the Championship are saying how much more intense the training is, following on from other players leaving for other clubs on loan or permanently all are saying the same thing eventually the phrase no smoke without fire comes to mind, for me at least. Anyway roll on next season COYI !!!
I kept a close eye on how Nordveidt played – this is the guy now playing in his favoured position as a defensive midfielder – and wanted to see if he thought he was playing for a squad spot or was off in the summer. His effort levels were awful, embarrassing He gave up on 50/50 balls, he never challenged properly He was a total embarrassment to the club and shirt – and he’s paid how much a week – Time for the big clear out Feghouli, Nordveifdt, Zaza, Tore, Snodgrass? Calleri, Carroll, Sakho, Valencia, plus sundry others Squad needs a major overhaul
I was also hoping we could hold Liverpool to a draw it after 20 minutes it was obvious we couldn’t score so it was just a matter of time before Liverpool ran away with it. After Ayews first half performance I thought anew e should have been substituted & perhaps Slaven would have gone for a more attacking option with Fletcher but no we get Feghouli this just about sums up Slavens season he does not have a plan B & seems unable change tactics or get the players to perform. I seem to be unlucky I had a season ticket when Allerdyce was manager & watched crap football at all the home games so did it renew it then they got Slaven & played some good football so I got a season ticket at the new ground surprise surprise we had a crap season & I have not seen a team play so badly & not Get relegated so I will not be renewing my ticket