It would be very easy to blame Unai Emery’s Aston Villa team selection for the shocking performance that his side produced last night in surrendering meekly to a Spurs side desperately in need of the points.
However it would miss the point to do so and any West Ham coach in the same situation would have rested key players in trying to overturn a semi final deficit just four days later.
The Hammers aren’t back in the bottom three because Aston Villa capitulated.
They aren’t even back in the bottom three because of bad luck against Brentford.
West Ham are in the bottom three as a consequence of the season long failure to pick up points and let results slip. The apathetic 0 – 0 against Crystal Palace, the many occasions in which the Irons threw away points from winning positions (eight points, in case you are wondering)- any number of occasions in which the club has come up short.
Nuno’s early blunders, Graham Potter’s terrible tenure – these are the reasons the Irons have only a paltry 36 points on the board after 35 games and the division’s third worst goal difference behind relegated Burnley and Wolves. Statistics don’t lie.
West Ham’s bad luck against Brentford is symptomatic of bigger problems
It isn’t over, of course, no doubt there’ll be another twist in this campaign but it would be very West Ham to win the next three games and still get relegated. As fans have commented since the Hammers got dumped back into the relegation zone, the dreadful managerial decisions over the past couple of seasons and signings of past it, overvalued, inept players may finally be about to come home to roost.
West Ham dodged a bullet last season when Potter should have got us relegated – but there’s only so long terrible mismanagement can go unpunished. And sadly, West Ham are exactly where they deserve to be right now. Fans will be forever fans, but of the regime that brought this historic club to the brink of the abyss, few will have anything but contempt and a fervent desire for change.
A glass half empty….
Ive seen a bad 2/3rds of a season admittantly, but what we’ve done to turn it around, has been nothing short of a miracle. I stand hand in hand with these players, as you should. If we dont pull it off, then l for one, will commit next season.
The only reason for our season, is because this negativity.
I put you on a par, as a fickle fan
Lets not start the post mortem yet. We can perhaps blame predecessors as they have now departed after the damage caused and maybe look at some of those early Nuno decisions. But I’m of firm belief that the squad morale was shot and the personality was rotten. It needed serious shake up including throwing in some very unconventional selections to wake up some players from the apathy they were displaying. Nuno has gone on to prove like most good managers that a long term fix is more sustainable than the quick new bounce fix. This is how we’ve enabled ourselves to post too half form for the second half of the season.
It is the boards fault we are where we are.. however, Emery through that game last night. He couldn’t of cared less and why should he? It’s just bad luck we have been negatively impacted by one of the best teams in the league throwing a game.
I watched the Ipswich v QPR game on Saturday’s early kick off. I saw an Ipswich side that looked absolutely determined to win the 3 points from the very beginning. They came out of the blocks and drove at QPR from the kick off and we’re soon 2-0 up. I was sitting there thinking,‘That’s what I want from my West Ham later. A determined team taking the game by the scruff of the neck.’
What I witnessed couldn’t have been more different. Brentford we’re allowed to play their game, and not a great deal of effort was needed for them to control the game from start to finish. We saw flashes of what might have been, but it was a continuation of the apathy shown against Palace. The blame game will go on, but the bottom line is, a change of attitude is vital and the handbrake much be removed.
Exactly this. We deserve to be where we are and I for one would welcome a reset in the Championship where we can start again (if that’s possible)
That sentence rings true Martin.”Fans will be forever fans”.
If we go down and believe me I really don’t want that to happen i will cry into my cornflakes for a few days and then think we’ll we’ve gone down but it’s not the end of the world.No VAR,more games to watch.Maybe walking out of the ground with that buzz feeling after we have won(haven’t had that feeling for a few seasons now).
If we stay up I’ll be happy as Larry but also knowing it’ll be another struggle next season.
A “world-class relegation” is almost a certainty now.
This is what happens when you have egomaniac narcissistic clueless cretins running the club; one of whom has already jumped ship to save their “brand”.
Still, the tide is turning. Major change is coming.
thanks for the laugh 😁