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I maybe more positive than some on here but we played worse than that several times last year and we managed thirteenth, who'd have thought eh?
Give it a reasonable time before writing the season off and declaring we are relegated.
COYI
It’s not for me about writing off the team or thinking about being relegated.
It is about enjoying watching your team play good football and all of the players looking as if they are putting in 100 percent and looking like they know what they are doing .
We may survive every season but who wants to watch a team playing as badly as ours week after week no matter what league they are in.
I have supported West Ham like many on here for years and we have struggled in many seasons but the players used to look like they cared and entertained the fans no matter what the result .
Apart from the Payet season the football we play has been awful for a number of years .
We change our managers and we have spent money on players but we are still so very poor.
As I said earlier I don’t really care what league we are in I want an entertaining side to watch . I won’t go back until I feel that the players have the desire and togetherness that the fans deserve.
I understand some might view watching on tv as not a good judgment, fair enough.
What I witnessed yesterday was dire, not one bit of motivation that things have improved.
I can't believe that it won't improve because let's be real it can't get much worse than this start.
I'm not writing the season off YET...
But if little improvement or tactics are not changed or Pellegrini doesn't realise it's not working soon I do fear this season.
However IH I applaud your positivity.
It’s only been 4 games. There’s another 34 games to go.
4 games down out of 38, two of which were very tough, two disappointing. I think Pellegrini will eventually settle on his best XI but until he does it’s going to be a bit rocky.
We were poor on Saturday. Make no mistake. We were poor in all 4 of Moyes’ first games (1 point from 12) & poor in 2/3 first games under Bilic when we finished 7th (3 points from 9), & poor for the first 3 games last season (0 points), before finishing 13th. It isn’t unusual. We also lost 5 of our first 6 under Bilic in 2016/17 (3 points from 18), before finishing 11th. We tend to start slowly. In fact we’ve been bottom in September every year for the past 3 years.
Manuel is the best man to sort it. He will. I have no doubt about that.
We played terribly against Liverpool and Wolves and lost. We played ok against Bournemouth and lost. We played well against Arsenal and lost. I honestly wonder what would have happened against Wimbledon had they not gone down to ten men.
If this continues, we will struggle to stay up. The players' confidence seems shot and they appear to be physically and mentally weak. The same rhetoric gets wheeled out by the players time after time, and it feels almost robotic. I'm tired of reading the same things game after game, season after season. I want to see a difference in their application and ability, but I expect that it will be the same story against Everton with the same result.
I just get frustrated with this ‘we want it now’ mentality. Pellegrini isn’t an idiot. He knew it wasn’t working on Saturday. We had a team with 8 new players in trying to click against a Wolves side who have been working towards a vision for over a year now & have only added a couple of additions fo improve their 11.
We were poor. They were good. I reckon we’ll get something at Everton but we need to back the side & have patience with Pellegrini.
Well that’s what I’m gonna do.
Give the team some time.
TC also very publicly condemned Allerdyce during his time as our manager yet now thinks we should ask him to ‘rescue us’.
Tsk...
Under Pelle we seem to have reverted back to the unfit lackadaisical tempo. Is it something to do with foreign managers who feel that the tempo of the English game is too frantic and needs to be played at a slower pace. Having said that Pelle has experience of the PL.
Patiently waits until its eight games in and we still only have a point or two if we are lucky! ;whistle
I don't think we should sack Pellegrino but we need points, it's as simple as that
Everton have changed managers from the dinosaur of Fat Sam to the creative Silva and they have 7 points from 12 getting points from both Wolves & Bournemouth
Getting beaten is one thing but beaten because the other team put the work in you didn't is totally inexcusable.
I am actually as dismayed as most of us. I was trying, politely as I could, to ask the question how will people feel if we have played eight games and are still bottom with possibility of zero points? ;ok
adam @ 6.54 is asking for 19 games before we really need to review the situation!