None of those West Ham players should touch that trophy before Declan Rice lifts it. I'd be docking them 2 weeks wages. (Not that they would give a **** but its the principal)
Moyes did a **** job with us and I don't think he gave a **** about that so I'm not fond of him but that's nothing new, there are a lot of managers I don't like. I have no respect for him for giving up before he'd started but even if he'd been really enthusiastic and made great decisions the writing was on the wall for us.
Well that nearly ruined my Thursday, just remembered we are going for afternoon tea at the Cragwood so that cheered me up again
When Sam left, he has is in the best looking forward position I can remember, Moyes came in and gave the players an excuse. If he’d come in and said “we finished well so we’ll see” then maybe (you never know), thise players have different mindsets.
Totally agree. After that Everton game under Allardyce, it felt as though it was time to kick on and finally move away from constant relegation battles.
It'd have been interesting to see how well we did if Allardyce had stuck around and for how long but we didn't end up in league one because we were well run. Moyes just did his best to accelerate our downfall.
It’s much easier to run a club making £100m a year in the prem than the significant decrease in finance the championship brings. I honestly believe, had Sam stayed, we’d not have got relegated. He was a proper manager. He’d hate working for the current lot mind and having no say in transfers!!
I've always thought that about Allardyce I'm just not sure how long it would have been sustainable for. I think we were far from healthy financially and at some point funds would have dried up and he'd have left eventually.
I disagree. We finished the previous season under Allardyce like a train and looked capable of giving anyone a game.
If Allardyce had stayed we may have finished lower mid table the next season. But that would have still papered over the cracks. We were still an injury crisis or a run of defeats away from total meltdown. I feel that the end of that Allardyce season was possibly our peak. Whether that would have continued for a few seasons and gained us Premier League and financial security? I doubt it, but it would have been nice to have found out.
Allardyce would have ****ed off either way imo. There was major signs of him being unhappy with the lack of spending in the interview he have at the training camp. He would have tried to force a bit kore out of the club and when it didn't come left with a 'my hand were tied' excuse. We were ****ed as a club from top to bottom and in the long run everything that happened with the fa getting Allardyce, is getting Moyes, back to back relegation, the chancers have all brought us to this point where we seem to be a well run professional club. **** I might like Moyes now
