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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"

If we get out of trouble and I suspect we will . It will be purely down to the players pulling there fingers out and sod all to do with Moyes . The way we sat back on Saturday in the second half was typical of Moyes hes a bigger danger to our survival than any of the sides around us .

I honestly believe Moyes is here to stay......at least to the end of the season. The time to sack him was after the 0-2 defeat at home to Leicester prior to the World Cup. That would have given the new Manager 5 to 6 weeks to work with the bulk of the squad that didn't make it to Qatar.

Moyes remains dead man walking. There's no getting away from that. Anyone who thinks he can 'turn it around' is deluded. He's been trying for 12 months without success...this season is simply a continuation of form. Which means the whole club is in limbo whilst he remains at the helm.

There's no chance we'll go for Lampard if we bin off Moyes.

Bookies drumming up business. You probably get fair odds us qualify for Europe next season. But would you put your money on it.?

"Well FOMB Betfair have Lampard at 7/2 to join West Ham as his next post And we are the favourites Oh and in other news, Danjuma is stalling on Everton, the Moyes reject is heading to Spurs apparently Strange old world"

"I wouldn't overthink it, alf son, he's just a fucking terrible manager whose methods are hideously outdated and don't work with modern footballers. His comparative success with us - achieved mostly off the back of stumbling across something and not having any significant injuries for two years - is the aberration in his last decade of management"

we simply must be rid of this ancient manager. been poor for over a year. 'customers' hate the 'product' karen. practice what you preach.

"""We don't want any more of West Ham being known as flakey in terms of how we play and results""ù . A quote from Moyes to that effect which he was still using a week or so back. Well it's looking that we are exactly that and he has failed completely despite a large investment in players. I guess he never really had money to invest except very briefly at United so never built a team that was not about being the underdog and employing the siege mentality, playing that counter attack football to great effect. The game has unfortunately changed immensely with the Pep, Klopp and top managers attracted to the Premiership money. He had to get recruitment right but also recruitment of his coaching team and that has perhaps been the biggest failure ? A change in approach, style, tactics to match the high energy / tempo requirements of the Premiership. A team that can pass comfortably from back to front , lots of pace, movement and pressing. I suspect that Moyes is far less ""hands on""ù than perhaps we thought? The reliance on coaches that are in step with his idea of how to play. Irvine was and it was counter attack, sit deep, keep the shape etc. Moyes is like a general manager with oversight and alls meetings with his coaching team and working out drills but for a different approach he would have to bring in someone or several people which is why clubs nowadays change the manager and his team. Warbarton might be the attempt to bring in someone who's had experience of teams playing with more possession ? It's downright failed so far. No more possession and not doing a bit of what was at least successful. Not letting him go a month ago or earlier was a massive mistake. Lose Aguerd , Zouma or Rice and we are fvcked. They are good enough to perform in spite of the tactics and set up. I cannot see where 22 points are going to be earned over the next 18 games. Even teams like Forest are quicker, more energetic and score more. I still think Nevin is a big part of the problem but of course Moyes cannot see it and still relies on his input. Moyes job is just to bullshit each week about his good we were doing 12 months ago. Even if we sat deep but we saw better pressing in midfield and upfront we would improve. To some extent that is what Paqueta has helped with. Not quite what we thought when we saw 50 million for a Brazilian. He can do more creatively but not easiky in the current set up. Do we think Moyes, Nevin , Nolan realise that wingbacks are the key to playing thru the thirds via possession ? Aside from strikers we need 2 very good ones. Oh and more energy and pace in midfield. Downes might fix that bit but will never be played with Rice and Paqueta Time to get out the lucky rabbits foot and horseshoe because that's what we need to survive imo"

"We may have won the game on Saturday but we lost much more. I think we lost the chance of getting rid of Moyes in the short term. I believe he will now be given the next three games. If we are back in the bottom three at the end of those games, it will be rather late to change the manager then, in hope of escaping relegation."

Don't let this slide down the page it makes me lose the hope that something might happen still

WTF has the bond scheme gotta do with Moyes??!??

I was wondering... Do all the bods who unequivocally back Moyes also think that the bond scheme was a terrific idea? There must be some relative symmetry there

"Trouble is, and using the amusing if brutal analogy of someone earlier in this or another thread, in terms of managerial candidates and options, Moyes is one of the ugliest men in the burns unit :-( Our chances of survival may well be down to the fitness of Aguerd and Zouma and a fair number of the marginal decisions going our way ( e.g. VAR or Antonio's deflected cross landing nicely for Bowen's second). Nevin and Moyes aint changing the tactics or they would have by now. I don't honestly think they know how to as both have no experience of playing a more possession based style. I think they will say that's exactly what they are trying to do but the implementation of it ( recruitment, lack of pace, selections, formations, players out of position, poor pressing and movement etc.) confirm to me ( IMO ) they really don't understand or want to truly commit to a different approach due to the risks or ""unknowns"" for them. So slow tempo, side to side, 8 or more behind the ball , hoofs out from the back handing possession back and 40% or less possession will continue to be the order of the day. The possession stats are not dissimilar to when we were doing ok 12+ months back except it was not noticeable or acceptable as we were scoring lots of goals from fast counterattacks and set pieces and of course winning football matches. The ""Death March"" under Moyes and Nevin is set to continue. Just hope they can muster another 22 points."

What's worrying is that there are reports on players now apparently indicating they don't want to work with him.

"Most on here rated the Everton match as a lose/lose fixture before the start, so it has proved. 2-0 up and go defensive in the second half against the worst team in the premiership at present tells us what we already knew about moyes. Sadly it gives a board who don't seem to give a damn a reason to leave things as they are, well good luck to them but they won't be forgiven if/when we go down. Not that sullivan cares as he will be off .........................I hope!!"

"""drivel"" ? How can I help?"

"Crassus 2:46 Mon Jan 23 Soz, didn't see yours when I started typing my drivel"

"Apparently Danjuma seeking assurances that Moyes won't be brought in as Everton's next manager before he will sign for them. Cheeky cսnt, but will be interesting to see if he signs now. Please take him from us Everton!"

"Interesting Moyes tangent Danjuma to Everton deal stalled, apparently the player wants assurances that a particular manager will not be replacing Lampard, on account that he personally blocked a summer move - Moyes So if that is so, should the player sign we can conclude we are lumbered with the dour one on that Everton switch rumour"

I don't think West Ham fans are clambering for 'brilliant football' just to have the football for an even amount of time would suffice. There is also the frustration that we seem to have a few attacking players who can't really express themselves fully.....this is like telling Devonshire not to glide his way past players in the final third to take us out of shape and asking Brooking to have one out ball as apart from the striker he's on his own up there.

"Surface - Felix back for our game, Madueke and Murdryk both signed. Don't count on their poor form lasting too long and especially against us."

"Charoo Chelsea are bang average at the moment. We should be targeting some points there. Obviously, though, they are probably on that list of clubs we don't try against nowadays.."

"32% possession at home to Everton, bottom of the table, worse than useless Everton. What do you think Newcastle, Chelsea and Spurs will do with 68% possession - score loads of fucking goals is the answer. Everton could have easily gone ahead Saturday and would have been a very different game. Everyone being happy with how our defence played is great, they still had chances to score and better teams would have buried us. Moyes simply has to go."

I believe they've noticed we spend more in the ground when in a state of anxious boredom.