I don't think many doubt Slav as a man as he has always come across well, not only decent and sporting but a great passion for the game. It is a high stress and high stakes game and if you will enjoy the feeling of 50,000 fans chanting Super Slav then he will accept the other side of that coin I feel sure.
The essence of the stress and stakes is that there can be no other profession that has 50'000 people appraising your performance at every move and no other profession for which the results of your work are so instantly viewable, week after week. I would say to Rosenior that this is the nature of the job, it is not for the faint hearted, you will be held aloft on shoulders and also kicked when you are on the floor (metaphorically) and if that's not for you then become a kit man or physio when you retire, or maybe go retro and open a pub.
West ham wanting a manager sacked after an away draw SMH
It's got nothing to do with the fact we drew today. Our football has been poor all season. And a lot of last season too.
If we were winning every week the performances wouldn't matter, but to play as badly as we have been and have only 9 points from ten games (including Huddersfield, Brighton, Newcastle, Palace, Swansea, Burnley, Southampton and West Brom) is just not good enough.
The comment you often hear made about other clubs is "How many of their players would you want playing for West Ham?"
I have always been largely pro-Slav but I am now asking myself the question "How many of the other 19 clubs in the Premier League would want Slaven Bilic as their manager?"
It's always nice to beat Tottenham but IMHO the Premier League is more important. The win last Wednesday probably gave Slaven a few more weeks before we hit another bad patch of results and he is one defeat away from the sack again. Whilst he can't be blamed for a couple of brainless decisions today we can ask why we didn't continue to attack and get a third goal which would surely have killed off Palace off. I could understand trying to defend the lead a bit more if we had a top rated CDM, now why didn't we get one of those in the last window? ;doh
I know Pep called the white half of North London "The Harry Kane" team, based on what has happened since a certain Frenchman left it appears one player can make a lot of difference! ;weep
West ham wanting a manager sacked after an away draw SMH
It isn’t solely that, and it’s churlish to suggest that’s the only reason people want him gone.
It’s the entirety of last season and the start of this. The inability to even remotely address our continual problems. The conviction that under Bilic this scrappy, disorganised, mistake-ridden team is all we will ever be, a team so many fans are fed up of watching and a team which provides extremely little enjoyment even when they win.
You can shake your head, but this is a bad side to watch defensively and offensively, and Bilic does not seem capable of doing anything about it.
The problem is we are told we aren't allowed to aspire to greater levels by the traditionalists "It's the West Ham Way". Regretably we appear neither to have the manager nor the financial clout (owners) to be able to compete and look to have to struggle most seasons unless we can unearth a couple of gems. I don't think we would lose our identity if we were regularly at the upper end of the table. We didn't in 1986 when we finished 3rd.
When I saw “Kevin Nolan”, “Notts county”, “sam allardyce” and “champions league” all in the space of a few words, I felt obliged to click on the link purely out of curiosity....
Yes Nolan for sure, he will do a SA / Curbs Job for someone, trouble is that isn’t good enough for many fans these days, they took the words “try and close the gap to the next level” far too seriously, some even thought it was promised
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I don't think many doubt Slav as a man as he has always come across well, not only decent and sporting but a great passion for the game. It is a high stress and high stakes game and if you will enjoy the feeling of 50,000 fans chanting Super Slav then he will accept the other side of that coin I feel sure.
The essence of the stress and stakes is that there can be no other profession that has 50'000 people appraising your performance at every move and no other profession for which the results of your work are so instantly viewable, week after week. I would say to Rosenior that this is the nature of the job, it is not for the faint hearted, you will be held aloft on shoulders and also kicked when you are on the floor (metaphorically) and if that's not for you then become a kit man or physio when you retire, or maybe go retro and open a pub.
Simple as that
Not good enough
He had little choice today, injuries to two defenders and Zab on a yellow
I've supported him wholeheartedly throughout, but enough is enough
If we were winning every week the performances wouldn't matter, but to play as badly as we have been and have only 9 points from ten games (including Huddersfield, Brighton, Newcastle, Palace, Swansea, Burnley, Southampton and West Brom) is just not good enough.
I have always been largely pro-Slav but I am now asking myself the question "How many of the other 19 clubs in the Premier League would want Slaven Bilic as their manager?"
Just has no identity of what he wants and how he wants his team to play and he's in his 3rd year
Over achieved in a season where Chelsea finished 10th, Liveprool 8th and Leicester won the league
Players are a good bunch just feel they don't want to play under him as the desire isn't there anymore
It’s the entirety of last season and the start of this. The inability to even remotely address our continual problems. The conviction that under Bilic this scrappy, disorganised, mistake-ridden team is all we will ever be, a team so many fans are fed up of watching and a team which provides extremely little enjoyment even when they win.
You can shake your head, but this is a bad side to watch defensively and offensively, and Bilic does not seem capable of doing anything about it.
The problem is we are told we aren't allowed to aspire to greater levels by the traditionalists "It's the West Ham Way". Regretably we appear neither to have the manager nor the financial clout (owners) to be able to compete and look to have to struggle most seasons unless we can unearth a couple of gems. I don't think we would lose our identity if we were regularly at the upper end of the table. We didn't in 1986 when we finished 3rd.
Astra
Brighton
One for the future? ;wink
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/29/kevin-nolan-notts-county-manager-sam-allardyce-champions-league