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Jaan Kenbrovin
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Who should be next as manager?

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Might as well be Sullivan in the dugout with Brady helping out on tactics
Could see her sitting players down in front of a cheeseboard & moving the pieces around 
‘Right, the cheddar makes a late run into the box while the Brie drops back’
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Lampards Coventry 2 up in 8 minutes, I tell you he is our future 😉

Fat Franks claret and blue army.
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twoleftfeet wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 10:59 How interesting that no one has mentioned Will Still this time round, not exactly pulling up trees at Southampton is he.

I’d love to get Lampard in but know the fan base will fume at that but he has a history with us and knows what we represent.
And this cսnt has the neck to suggest everyone one else is a spurs fan.

Fucking dreidel spinning troll.
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Considering Sullivan has a knack for hiring managers that somehow make even more bizarre decisions than the previous manager, he’s gonna have a job on his hands to top the work of his latest appointment 
I can only assume he’s scouting the local dementia wards this time round 
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How interesting that no one has mentioned Will Still this time round, not exactly pulling up trees at Southampton is he.

I’d love to get Lampard in but know the fan base will fume at that but he has a history with us and knows what we represent.
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Sydney_Iron wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 06:15 When Harry went to Browns office in 2001 he was expecting to sign a new 4 year contract, but he got sacked instead, had been a lot of arguments about money for transfers, Harry said we needed players (we did) Brown disagreed, Harry then mouthed off in an interview so got he sacked, he had been the manager for 7 years!

Point is up until that time, we had only a handful of managers in our entire history of about 100 years, 7 i think including Macari who didn't last long, remember the press saying it was like getting a new Pope such was the rarity of this happening at West Ham, think other clubs and fans in general had lot of respect for us, we were a bit of an icon in the Football world, had a reputation for playing great football even if our Trophy cabinet was bit lacking!!! And fans of all clubs always looked forward to playing us, Since Harry's departure we have had 14 managers (if you include Sir Trev) in 24 years.......Name 1 (ONE) who did a decent job and you would have back??????

Don't give a fuck about who our "next" manager is as odds on he will NOT turn us around, all that's left of West Ham is a name and a club who were once revered for the football they played that's it.



 
 
 
For me it's obvious that at that point any resemblance the the club the way it was in a management sense died a death.  I won't state that it was because all future managers had no link at all to West Ham and the ethos that had been there for years because Ron Greenwood himself was an "outsider" but really he created that ethos of the "West Ham Way" that a lot of us were brought up on.  To be fair Harry ripped a lot of it up himself backroom staff wise letting the likes of Ronnie Boyce go but he did bring in the likes of Jimmy Hampson who did a very good job bringing a lot of the youngsters through.

As you say Macari was the deviation from that and to be fair brought in a lot of very good players that served the club well, but Bonds and Harry had benefitted from both Ron and John so kept that club ethos going.  Since then it's been in fits and starts.  Pards had a spell, Bilic a season, but Curbs was the one who really surprised me considering he had learnt from Ron and John but he didn't really go down that route.  Maybe he would have if he had stayed longer.  It's all got bizzare though under the current owners bar that brief spell with Bilic.  BFS was a safe pair of hands but as you know shouted from the rooftops that the "West Ham Way" hadn't worked for years. All these managers under the current owners just seems like a scatter gun approach, same with recruitment. 
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Mad Ferret" wrote: 24 Oct 2025, 22:35 Nobes
yes, the obvious answer. a fan bashing board puppet, that has zero management experience. fucking clueless yid cսnt
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When Harry went to Browns office in 2001 he was expecting to sign a new 4 year contract, but he got sacked instead, had been a lot of arguments about money for transfers, Harry said we needed players (we did) Brown disagreed, Harry then mouthed off in an interview so got he sacked, he had been the manager for 7 years!

Point is up until that time, we had only a handful of managers in our entire history of about 100 years, 7 i think including Macari who didn't last long, remember the press saying it was like getting a new Pope such was the rarity of this happening at West Ham, think other clubs and fans in general had lot of respect for us, we were a bit of an icon in the Football world, had a reputation for playing great football even if our Trophy cabinet was bit lacking!!! And fans of all clubs always looked forward to playing us, Since Harry's departure we have had 14 managers (if you include Sir Trev) in 24 years.......Name 1 (ONE) who did a decent job and you would have back??????

Don't give a fuck about who our "next" manager is as odds on he will NOT turn us around, all that's left of West Ham is a name and a club who were once revered for the football they played that's it.

 
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northbankfrank wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 00:14 Does anyone think we would be in a worse situation if Moyes had been given another two years?
That depends on the particulars of the contract that Moyes was (allegedly) offered and then refused to sign. If it meant that Moyes had no say over players coming into the club it could be worse
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A change of ownership is whats needed . But Nuno can fuck off if he keeps on picking crap like the last 2 starting line ups .
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Fuck me have we lost our way.
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northbankfrank wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 00:14 Does anyone think we would be in a worse situation if Moyes had been given another two years?
No we wouldn't ..but that's  hardly a compliment.
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Carlton Cole with Mark fookin  Robson as his 2IC
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Massive Attack" wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 00:23
northbankfrank wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 00:14 Does anyone think we would be in a worse situation if Moyes had been given another two years?

It would be very similar. We avoided the drop the season we won the Cup because Rice was still here. He was the difference (along with Bowen of course) that meant we stayed up. 
Where did we finish in the other three seasons of Moyes second stint? 
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northbankfrank wrote: 25 Oct 2025, 00:14 Does anyone think we would be in a worse situation if Moyes had been given another two years?

It would be very similar. We avoided the drop the season we won the Cup because Rice was still here. He was the difference (along with Bowen of course) that meant we stayed up. 
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Does anyone think we would be in a worse situation if Moyes had been given another two years?
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Come On You Irons" wrote: 24 Oct 2025, 22:31 I said on the match thread what needs to be done. Pay Fat Sam a big advance to come out of retirement on a contract until the end of the season with a MASSIVE bonus for keeping this rabble up.

We are out of options now and that is the last resort to save us from relegation under Sullivan's cheapskate MO of never buying an employed manager out of a contract.
I had to listen to the game on radio London tonight where Neil McDonald was sumerising 

He seems to still have a genuine affection for the club and has a handle on what we need to do to get out of the predicament we are in.

I'm certainly not a fan of Big Sam but we are in dire straits so maybe he and McDonald as no 2 could be a final throw of the dice.

They would at least drill some discipline into the squad and get them defending effectively.

Not so much a step backward but one to prevent us falling through the relegation trap door.
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I think Derren Brown could work some magic.
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Iron Duke" wrote: 24 Oct 2025, 22:29 When Potter took charge, we actually looked good n his first game. At least in the first half, until Fullkrug and Summerville got injured.

In Nuno’s first game, we looked okay against an admittedly mediocre Everton side.

 

That was both their new managerial bounces instantly used up and that was only a poxy draw against a defensive Moyes side and a loss in the Cup. 🤪
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Some unfashionable old cսnt that no west ham fan wanted until Nuno rocked up 
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I said on the match thread what needs to be done. Pay Fat Sam a big advance to come out of retirement on a contract until the end of the season with a MASSIVE bonus for keeping this rabble up.

We are out of options now and that is the last resort to save us from relegation under Sullivan's cheapskate MO of never buying an employed manager out of a contract.
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When Potter took charge, we actually looked good n his first game. At least in the first half, until Fullkrug and Summerville got injured.

In Nuno’s first game, we looked okay against an admittedly mediocre Everton side.

In hindsight, neither of them could have made that much impact in a short space of time.

My conclusion is that the players are better off without a manager, or someone else took charge of training for both those games and is better than all these tossers we keep throwing money at.
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I know the Premier League have a manager of the month award but we are on our way to having a manager a month!!!!
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