Slaven Bilic named as West Ham Manager (09.06.15)

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Putting antonio RB makes absolutely no sense

Take away our biggest goal threat and put a winger in an already leaky back 4

Yeoldhammer

Antonio is joint top scorer in the league 5 in 5. Nuff said really.

IronHerb

We,ll sell him January though Yeold.

Deal with it ;cool

Pearces_Left_Foot

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

Everyone is deep in thought, how we can get out of quite possibly the worst situation the club has seen in living memory

;wink

Not even close to worse situation nearly going bankrupt under the icelandics was worse ;wink

SuzanneClaret

The Bond Scheme...

Deanscaleshammer

Lou Macari....

grey_til_I_dye

Don't say the name! Don't say the name! ;nonono

Oh. He said it. ;run

Ravel49

;hippo

Bazshuayi

SuzanneClaret said:

The Bond Scheme...

Yes, it left me shaken (but not stirred) ;puzzled ;smoking

Deanscaleshammer

I meant "the Scottish Manager". ;yercoat

SuzanneClaret

bazWHUusa said:

SuzanneClaret said:

The Bond Scheme...

Yes, it left me shaken (but not stirred) ;puzzled ;smoking

Excellent work sir ;clap

Pearces_Left_Foot

http://www.claretandhugh.info/love-a-panic-up-remember-85-86/

SuzanneClaret

I remember it well.

Swissiron

this is a surprisingly good post from the c&h. A grasp of perspective maintains sanity

KingHammerAbroad

Serious questions need to be answered!

How much more time should Bilic get?

Our worst start in 14 years, most goals shipped at this point of the season for 28 years.

14 in the last 4 games... most importantly not all against "top teams", Citeh fair enough, but Watford, west Brom and Southampton?

thornburyiron

Another one if our "winnable" games where we've been embarrassed

Hammerdublin

We need somebody who can sort the team out, and Bilic is not the man. He is an inspirational manager; when things work well his teams can produce miracles. Not so when things go wrong: in this situation he has no clue. Last year he motivated the players; this year they look disinterested. Whatever he tries, we are getting more of the same.

There's still time to replace Bilic, and I think we should do so rather sooner than later. If we keep him, things will unravel following the Abraham Grant scenario.

grey_til_I_dye

Feel the opposite, Dublin.

If we become a knee-jerk, sack the manager every 5 bad results club, what are we?

I've supported West Ham for 45 years, and for most of those years we haven't been very good, but I romantically thought we stood for something beyond short-term success.

Maybe sacking John Lyall spelled the end of that, but I still want us to be better than that.

I can forgive us being rubbish (lord knows, I've had the practice), but I can't forgive us being classless.

SuzanneClaret

Bilic should stay.

Getting rid would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Hammerdublin

If there's a choice between being relegated with Bilic and survival with another manager, it is obvious what I would have chosen, classless or not classless. If we get nothing from the next three games, Bilic will have to go, as simple as that.

MrsGrey

No. He has to have at least until January.

I hate all that knee-jerk sacking after a few bad results.

Realistically, in a season, how many do we (a club like us) expect to lose? 15? How many draw... and win...

Getting rid of the manager after 6 losses is a really bad decision. I'd go further - a pathetic decision. Especially when we have key players coming back from injury.

tbh, I'm less embarrassed by our results and more by the calls for the manager to be sacked. (Not that there are any on here yet, that I've seen.... but elsewhere, on forums with less class ;biggrin )

SuzanneClaret

Absolutely

sweepy23

Bilic stays ;pray

KingHammerAbroad

Mrs Grey,

I'm not saying he should be sacked right now but something has to change.

Our next 3 games are Middlesbrough at home, Palace away and Sunderland at home, all winnable games realistically imo... say we don't win any of them, would you think he still deserves to stay in a job? Personally I would say No

grey_til_I_dye

KHA

If we don't win any of the next 3 games I'd be more inclined to sack the players.

Antonio letting Austin run past him (and possibly Adrian not getting down quickly enough) and Kouyate Cruyff turning into trouble when surrounded by 3 Soton players: how, exactly, is that Slav's fault?

KingHammerAbroad

Grey,

We are stuck with this squad till at least January, most of which I'm sure Bilic wanted with a few Sully specials thrown in. It's Bilic's job to motivate them and set the team up tactically, if the players don't follow his tactics then they should be dropped... but this has to come from the top down, after all he is employed to manage the team, right?

MrsGrey

KHA, I'd still probably say yes, all other things being equal.

Actually, I do like him, but slightly more worrying is that I am starting to question a teeny bit his judgement in the new signings.

Although he still has a lot of credit in he bank for Payet, obviously ;ok

Hopefully they'll turn out to be as wonderful, but just needing (as is often the case) a bit longer to settle. (Hopefully they will follow in Payet's footsteps, rather than Maiga's...)

grey_til_I_dye

KHA

The majority of the players who have turned out for us in recent games were the same lot who did so well for us last year.

Bilic certainly has to take responsibility, but so do the players.

Bilic can't stop them making stupid, stupid, schoolboy errors.

Putney_Hammer

Well I'm sure the board are starting to panic now and all of a sudden Roberto Mancini is being spouted about. Probably rumours but they know relegation is not an option so wouldn't be surprised if we lose to boro its bye bye Slav.

Vorselaarhammer

Slaven Bilic: 'I am worried. I’m not going to lie to you, of course I’m worried'