West Ham v Crystal Palace (and probably VAR) (a) - Boxing Day 2019, 3pm
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each to their own. When I moved in with his mum, in Fulham, my stepson asked me if I'd take him to Chelsea. I said he could come to West Ham with me, or I'd take him to Fulham. He got the same answer when he asked me to take him to Arsenal. He was 8 at the time. His first game was a dull 0-0. His reaction? That was brilliant, can we come next week? He's 32 now, and still a Hammer.
I thought Rice was really good today. Zabaleta also did well with Zaha but Rice was always there to cover him.
We are at the moment and for the majority of the season been average at best, and IMO that is being kind, inconsistency, no leadership on or off the field, losing a whopping 15 points from winning positions, blame the players?, the manager ? his chopping and changing the team ? the strange & too late substitutions ?
I don't have the answer, but being our most rewarded manager in the club's history, pay wise & his budget he has had, he is as poor a manager that I can rememeber going back to Grant, even last season was nothing more than OK in performances, I've said it before that a few "attractive performances " we saw - big bloomin deal, IMO Slav in the final season at Upton Park provided far more in all terms, performances, team spirit , fan approval..
Again IMO , I might sound like a parrot repeating myself, but from the start I thought Pellegrini was and is an ill fit for us, like when you think you still have the same waist size you did in your 20's and then reality bites, sad....
If he remains, IMO it'll be a miracle if we survive relegation, and for what he get's , that IMO is simply not acceptable.
Re yesterday, another fine example, playing an out of sorts team, leading the game , then buckling like a poorly made item of clothing, a sad case of Deja Vu this season, a very bad habit we have under the current manager.
While some think we deserved a point and played OK, fair enough, but is OK really enough & at the end of the day it's a point's thing, something we are seriously lacking. 7 points at home so far half way through the season, shambolic IMO and certainly relegation form.
I really hope he is gone by 2020, otherwise IMO championship football awaits us.
He seems unable to inspire players & only knocks their confidence, so obvious to see with a lot of players form this season, PLS GO PELLE ASAP.
Our goal and their second had some real quality about them but outside of that any true quality was hard to find.
Biggest disappointment for me was Haller, he was very quiet and yet having Antonio (Who was pretty much a beast today) alongside him should have given him the opportunity to shine but at least IMO, it was a wild swing and a miss from him - he was pretty anonymous.
Ironically once Haller was substituted, we actually put in a few crosses that he would hopefully have thrived from, but what do I know.
This may be turning out to be a surprisingly disappointing season but I think it is a bit early to throw in the towel just yet.
BTW I started attending games pretty regularly in 78/79, had some really good times early on but have had my share of dross as well.
We are in a slump but far from the worst I have seen
COYI
He wasn’t and give it up it’s bad enough the lad has to deal with the jeering and cheering every time he deals with an easy save or back pass from out away fans (really irks me that does and I love our away support)
He done okay yesterday it was others that were wanting at certain key moments in a game we should’ve won and probably took a point at least
Hate sacking managers but he’s probably got to go, as for the 3 at the top the less said the better,
However we won’t be spending much in Jan unless we sell a Diop or a rice for big money, we’re skint as always robbing Peter to pay Paul
The move has been a total waste of time, unless your goal is to try and increase the clubs value however a relegation would sort that out, plus the tourists (every club has them) and test the 50k waiting list the writer for the Sun maintains we have
COYI
At worse, you take a draw, which would still not have been great as Villa won, but you take the draw & go two unbeaten. Move on to Leicester.
The side has lacked any sort of consistent backbone all season. I find it odd that players like Cresswell, Noble, Rice, Antonio, Snodgrass, Ogbonna, who clearly put in effort, can be part of a collective that has such a poor mental resolve.
The way this is playing out is ridiculous. I have already read an article that says Pelle now has two games to save his job. Then if he gets the necessary points, he’ll have another few games to carry on.
Just shows how indecisive they are.
Thing is, people want it to matter to players. The incident clearly shows it does. You can argue it shouldn't have happened, but for me, it shows the passion which apparently our players lack.
And now they're just trusting to luck that he'll win at least one in every four so they can justify not sacking him.
The very least they want is to not sack him before the end of January so they can avoid giving a new manager any funds that may be a condition of taking on the job, and can withold money from Pellegrini on account of the doubts around his and Husillios' futures.
It's win-win for them.
It is hard to see where the goals are going to come form. Haller has been missing and Anderson and Lanzini are not at the races. Zabaleto did a reasonable job on Zaha. Player confidence would only improve with a new manager and we need to change now rather than wait for another two defeats.
We looked solid in the first half (albeit lacking a bit of creativity). I didn't mind the lack of creativity as we looked fairly hard to break down.
In the second half our midfield disappeared. Snodgrass ran out of steam. Fornals who did have energy and looked defensively solid ended up coming off. Noble does have good fitness but with his little legs he struggles to keep up. Rice was running out of steam. We had no one else to battle in the midfield so we brought on an attacking midfielder in Lanzini who looked as tired as the others after 20 minutes.
There's no point even bringing Ajeti on as he's offered absolutely nothing in all the time he's been on the field for us. We'd be far better bringing on someone like Masuaku who can make things happen with his trickery. Pelle seems reluctant to bring on Masuaku - I don't mean to speculate but it makes me wonder if something has happened behind the scenes?
We’re doomed