Declan Rice has been busy telling the squad what must happen next… like WIN a game!
The captain is also seen regularly on Twitter and Instagram giving opinions on a number of issues.
But his latest comments about the squad becoming unified and doing the business hasn’t gone down that well with Claretandhugh forum follower Cleasm who has made it clear he wants fewer words and more behind the scenes and off field actions from the skipper and squad.
He said:
“Maybe if Rice and a lot of the players put as much effort in on the pitch as they do in their social media posts we may get somewhere.
Rice is not Captain material – too young and to inexperienced despite his career to date;
Dawson is better skipper material and if this squad want to do something then en masse go to Moyes tell him his training and tactics not working and it needs to change because until someone has the balls to speak up we are going to be back in our usual relegation scrap
So I don’t want to hear that you or the players are angry Rice. Get your backsides off the couch and work…stop posing, stop all the media bull concentrate on the job you are overpaid to do.
CandH says: Got to agree. I can’t believe – even if Twotter had been around – we would have seen Mooro giving it large on social media. And he remains the yardstick by which player behaviour is judged as far as we are concerned.
Here here.
I knew it would be a tough start by looking the at the fixtures but to look all disjointed and all over the place, is hard to watch.
We need to play our new guys and drop Souchek, play Flynn or get someone with some bottle and creativity because we need both
GET A GRIP !
was everyone saying he was a rubbish captain last season when got to euro semis and sat top 6 all season long ?
We have lost to man city ( as we normally would do 9 times out of 10)
we lost to notts forest when on another day could have scored 5
and granted got played off the park by Brighton – which has happened many times before.
Grown men throwing a mickey-fit after 3 games like 13 year olds on instagram is the cringiest thing i have seen in a while. Turning on our club captain in August of a season because he from a generation that uses social media. the same social media these websites thrive off with their nonsense clickbait articles like the above. Shameful.
Everyone wasn’t and only one is here.
Can’t disagree, it’s too early for us to start getting on the players and managers back.
Sure , it’s not the start anyone would want, but it takes time to settle a new bunch of lads in and gel the team. Clearly the tactics need a tweak, and he needs to use his 5 subs better, but it’s a big change this season and its not been any easy start. Best thing we can do is support our team. We wanted new players and I’m chuffed with the quality and youth he has gone for, and if there is more on the cards we can’t say he hasn’t been backed so we have to match their faith in him last thing they need is the West Ham family getting on their backs, they are professionals and they know when it’s not good enough.
You lead by example – Moore, Bonds and Noble being three great role models – not by twitter !
His body language hasn’t been great. 1-0 down and he should be rousing the players not dropping his head and looking like he is lost. That goes for the whole team not just Rice. Agree Dawson or even Zouma would be more captain material as it stands. What happened to the team that played so well in their last 2 games?
You can be wildly out of form, but where is the fall back option of being hard to beat, hard to play against, quick in closing down, snappy in tackles, disrupting at, winning niggly fouls, etc? What about just gaining territory rather than just aimlessly passing it around at the back? What about chasing down and hunting in packs? What about putting on pressure to rush decisions?