Away to Burnley - Saturday 9th November 3pm
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He is the worst goalie I have seen for a long while. We should have known as he shipped four goal in the Carabou against Oxford the week before Fab was injured and he has been a disaster since. He is more to blame than Pelle in my view but if he starts the next match Pelle will automatically own that blame in my view as he cannot have seen anything today which says he should start again in goal for West Ham.
We have wasted a host of winnable games and now need show some character by picking up those wasted points in harder matches.
In hindsight it’s easy to say they’ve made mistakes here, but the last two years they’ve done a lot right on paper and at the time.
Honestly, I hate it when we change manager. I used to be very proud of our record of, what, 6 managers in 100 years? But tbh, I can’t see the manager turning this around.
I rest my case
If that's true, then it throws a whole new light on their levels of competence.
IMO at that time we should have splashed the cash and got Rafa, I know he wouldn't be everyones choice but IMO he is a better coach/manager than Pelle ever has.
Rafa is now in China, and it would cost us to get him & dispense of Pelle, but that could be money well spent considering the way we are playing, Pelle's tactics- what ones..& our current injuries again will not help, but Pelle seems out of his depth in this type of situation & without an answer. He seems unable to change tactics & not able to inspire any confidence into the team. I cannot think of 1 player who he has improved, I think it's fair to say that players he bought & were already here have certainly declined since his arrival here..Anderson being a prime example & Lanzini another. ( the only exception would possibly be Snodgrass, but he even has declined this season )...
If I could get rid of him this international break I'd do it, IMO it's a perfect time & I'd risk who we end up with even if it's a stop gap till the end of the season.
I know many people who don't like chopping/changing managers & I get that, I really do, but they do need to consider how we've been playing for a long while against in general very average teams, I think Thorn mentioned even some of our wins/draws were not very convincing.
I really fear if Pelle remains this season will be the season that see's us end up either in the bottom 3 or just survive by a point or 2, which IMO is not acceptable.
With what Pelle has been given ( money wise etc ) I feel he has not just let himself down , but all of us, the players, owners & fans for that matter, I feel for the supporters who pay to see this rot, no effort, no clue.. The only game I have seen live since Pelle becoming our manager was last season at home to Wolves, that was another horrible performance.
Out here in South Africa every PL game is shown live, sometimes I hate that! It's just got too embarrassing iMO.
It's over to the Dave's to either sit tight or be brave & bold.
Although not quite sure what the connection is there.
The fact is, any new manager will have to deal with an unbalanced squad: no amount of motivation will compensate for lack of GK, DMF and CF cover. It's tough times ahead, and we need a bit of the so-called Dunkirk Spirit from players and fans alike in the next months. And plenty of Yeold dark humour
If so I'd do it straight away, Martin is not great from what I've read/ heard, & we all know how poor Roberto seems to be, so is there an option to recall Trott?, again from what I have heard about Trott he sounds very talented if not one for the future for sure, but he might just be a better option than Roberto ( can he be any worse ) if not abailable to be recalled I'd be tempted to play Martin, little to lose IMO.
So we get Antonio back for the Spurs game but lose Noble and Lanzini. This season just gets better and better...
Just how awful was Balbuena?
I would consider a back three now to sure us up but not sure that is ever going to happen under Pelle.
Martin
Balbuena - Ogbonna - Diop
Fredericks - Rice - Snodgrass - Masuaku
Yarmolenko - Anderson
Haller
Just to get us some solidity at the back.
There seems to be very few other options in the short term
Also another shocking response from pellegrine, it's all to passive "we'll see what we can do next time". As if he doesn't know what to do. It doesn't inspire me at all.
He reminds me of Sven Goran Erickson, no passion in his interviews, pellegrine cannot motivate players imo.
I will go spurs game and give my full support.
But I fear it will be heartbreak for us.
COYI
I’m leaning heavily towards the latter.
But I think him missing has caused a new level of bafflement in the back four, but I don’t think it should do. That is a poor excuse on their part but it will have a made an impact as Fab played pretty much every game last season.
We may as well play Martin now. Roberto is struggling with the basics of English keeping, something Martin will know all too well having been at MK Dons & Millwall.
Imo