Long Shot Kick De Bucket!

Towards the end of Hammers embarrassing showing against one time relegation favourites Everton, Alphonse Areola collected the ball and then 'sprinted' towards the opposition. "Shoot" was the Cry from the crowd, and it was NOT ironic! Areola has a massively powerful kick in his repertoire which also includes being able to accurately throw the ball to the halfway line, IF he had taken a shot he could have caught Pickford off his line and quite possibly scored.

Least ways he stood just as much of a chance of scoring as the 'Inept' brigade he was playing alongside of! Having failed so miserably at creating ANY shots on goal until late in the game, surely the coaching staff MUST have had the idea that long shots might be a way to break down a 'resilient' Everton defence.

Unfortunately the only two occasions when anyone tried the ball fell to Edson Alvarez, who DOES have a shot like a mule on him, sadly he cannot hit a barn door with a banjo, but at least he tried! Why couldn't some of the other players 'have a go?' Were they worried about the fans reaction if their shot went into row Z (or row zxl in the dome's case)? Well the crowd weren't exactly overjoyed with the 'David Moyes Experience' so a few misplaced shots would hardly have been noticed as was attested to by the Universal boos that rang out at the end of the game.

Something has to change, otherwise the 'easy' games where points might have come from will run out, leaving the potential of yet another relegation struggle. This time it is extremely likely that Hammers will NOT go the distance in either the League Cup nor the Europa League.

The times must be 'a changing' soon, hopefully Tim Steidten already has a manager in mind to recruit who operates in this millennium and not in the past! Long shot kick de bucket, why not? If it misses, the ball might hit Moyes instead and knock some sense into him! - LN