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"Posted the same last year. Nothing has changed, except win don't win matches anymore. I'm fed up, we can do much better"

"Would you like a flashing envelope, twundle? Just let me know."

stewie griffin 9:03 Tue Jan 24 Just seen it. Envelope wasn't flashing. Wil reply in due course.

"Absolute joke appointment anyway, the bloke can barely string a sentence together for fucks sake. Nice work on Ings Nobes son!"

I guess we'll see Trunds. Most of the best sporting directors were nothing as players. Oh and classic grassLOLper there.

A fall out with kretinsky makes sense . Weve been heavily linked with Napolis sporting director in recent days .

Trunds... check whomail from Saturday in case you didn't get an envelope...

"goose 8:51 Tue Jan 24 I was a bit sceptical of Noble's appointment originally, but looking at the roles of Sporting Director, then he's probably one of the best people for it. Quite a few others out there are ex-players from the club who have stepped up."

Can ...make it up or can't I .. doh.

Rumour is I cant make a lot of shit up and you will be very hard pressed to prove me wrong.

"stewie griffin 8:48 Tue Jan 24 Yeah, it's a bit weird that they even bothered to come out to deny a random TWITTER rumour in the first place."

Well I'm clearly batting blind on this But I deduce something is afoot and it ain't 12''

LOL grasshopper Almost impossible to be more wrong

"Very telling. Hopefully we're replacing him with someone who has experience in the role, and someone who can help fix this club."

"Rumours are the Noble thing was over recruitment, but they have had a sit down straightforward it out and he remains in post. No doubt been told not to get ideas above his station, and to go check on the U 12s."

Rusta 7:56 Tue Jan 24 Not a falling out but a disagreement. Sullivan and Noble want Moyes to stay in position. Kretinsky thinks Moyes should be sacked. Tend to agree with Kretinsky on this one. Especially since he has wasted 180m of his money to go backwards this season.

"goose - the speed with which the club reacted to one, seemingly untraceable , comment on twitter is quite telling, no?"

"Well I have to say I can't see a good reason for the Noble thread being locked? A lad had a word and posted it Now if the originator had a rep' for taking the piss and it took a 'turn' then ok, but I'm not sure the thread took that direction"

"Any specifics, Rusta? Or a source?"

Guessing the Noble thread was locked because he hasn't walked.

"The rumour I read was that Noble has had a big falling out the Ketinsky""¶Who knows"

A modern manager or even a successful old school one isn't afraid to appoint an assistant or coach who can challenge some of his ideas to bring the best out of his ability. If you're confident and without an inferiority complex there is nothing to fear... however only about 35% of the human race are like that. It's completely regardless of social class or status. It's no different to office politics - the good eggs are few and far between.

There is a next West Ham manager market on Skybet headed by Benitez at 5/6 & Sean Dyche 7/2 second favourite. & Selected others Poch 12/1 & Vincent Company 33/1

out of interest - why was the Noble thread locked?

"Moyes, it seems, is perhaps one of those blokes who has lived in a bubble all his life. To be fair, playing football and then staying to manage in the industry is by definition highly likely to cause some myopic thinking. Thing though, and to paraphrase that great sage of our time Donald Rumsfeld, he ""doesn't know what he doesn't know""ù ( the unknown unknowns ) but worse still his closed minded, insecure personality or psychology means he ""doesn't know that he doesn't know what he doesn't know""ù ;-). He must also be suffering with cognitive dissonance or something similar as his words have never match his actions. He gets angry when questioned and in fact doubles down on ""his way""ù just making things worse. In short get a straight jacket and take him home to his family or nearest institution for a psychotic evaluation or delusion therapy ;-). I mean next he'll be telling us Antonio is an accomplished forward and there's no better or that Soucek is only a game away from returning to ""Premiership player of the year "" form"

"Agree. it was after that Leicester game where it made a lot of sense. You could argue three games after the world cup to see if things had improved but that Leeds result probably clouded the thinking. I'm sure if we lost that he'd have been gone, just like I'm sure had we been knocked out of the cup he'd have been gone, likewise had we lost to Everton. It's like we are doing just enough to keep the situation on life support and dragging it out. Which really isn't helping anyone. Losing to Derby might do it. After that I am sure he's safe until we play Forest at home come the end of Feb, unless we get absolutely thrashed by one of Chelsea, Newcastle or spurs in the meantime, it would be the manner of defeat rather than defeat itself in games like those. That said, Chelsea haven't won away in the league since October, so it would be a bad look losing that one."