Forum | Non-Football Related

Much has been made of how much better certain aspects of the club are following Tiim Steidten’s appointment by David Sullivan.

Now is the time to see the German’s arrival fully bear it’s fruit. Virtually everyone connected with the club know that David Moyes’s tenure as manager is drawing to a painful yet inexorable end and as fate would have it, two of the stars required to expedite the Scot’s departure have recently aligned.

Thomas Tuchel is leaving his club Bayern at the end of the season and Brendan Rodgers looks to be on borrowed time at Celtic, so IF Steidten, who is a pal of TT’s, can weave his magic, then Hammers could be quids in.

Moyes could leave the Irons with his head held relatively high and Hammers could get the sort of progressive yet safe pair of hands manager who would male fans actually WANT to see the team play and the board would get a manger who knows his way around the Premier League and who could work closely with Steidten.

This is a once in a decade chance for the club to finally reach @nd surpass the glass ceiling that was so tantalisingly close a couple of seasons ago.

The club MUST pull out all the stops to bring Tuchel in, now is the time for Timmy to show his worth and go from Pearl diver to manager miner, it would retain the club’s top players and give the fans something to dream about that might NOT fade and die-Ed

Continuing with our Western vernacular of the Three Wheels on my Wagon, we again find ourselves in 'Bandit' territory with 'Marshall Moyes' attempting to keep the press and public at bay from his fort in the east end.

Security has been tightened in Moyes' tower block ahead of possible insurgences by 'the disgruntled', of which there are many! Even the lovely Mrs Moyes has been instructed with and made aware of the defensive capabilities of a frozen Haggis taken straight out of the freezer should the outer perimeter defences be penetrated.

These are indeed tough times for the beleaguered Hammers manager, and yet those persistent voices in his head keep on telling him that a couple of 'big wins' will be all that it takes to calm the circling 'natives'.

Even the sound reduction in his Bentley SUV is not enough to blot out the anger of restless fans as they vent their anger in his direction. However is it Moyes' fault in its entirety that the fans are 'gunning' for him? Surely the board are at the very least a bit culpable for the events unfolding now?

If they had 'pulled the trigger' at the end of last season things could have worked out SO differently and for the good! Moyes could have walked away, head held high and breezed into the Celtic job just like that, Hammers could have moved on by appointing a new  'progressive' manager who could have worked with Tim Steidten and everything would have been relatively 'tickety boo' in the Hammers 'Happy Garden'.

Instead, whether by indecision or fear of being 'Pellegrinied' again, the club chose to stick with Moyes despite the dreadful football he had overseen, the drosness of which was only papered over by 'that night in Prague'.

There is no use in crying over spilled milk, other clubs have completely sussed out Moyesball, just as they did last season, hence the dramatic drop off in form, As others have mentioned, Lucas Paqueta is only ONE player and cannot be expected to drag the club out of the mire, although you can 'bet your house' that he will try!

The Board MUST learn and go hell for leather for a manager to take the club forward, and that manager is not the arrogant sod who sat before you in his post Notts forest presser! -LN

There was a novelty hit record back in the sixties when such records sold in vast numbers, many a coke habit and country pad were paid for by the royalties such 'dumned down' music generated, even the great Sir George Martin used to make songs like "right said Fred" before going on to craft some of the Beatle's finest.

Eventually people outgrew Novelty singles and songs like 'Three Wheels on my Wagon' were confined to the past. The essence of Three Wheels was the song recounts a hazardous journey made by an American pioneer family aboard a wagon being pursued, with the wagon progressively losing each of its wheels one by one, those good ol' Cowfellas in a Wagon being chased by tham thar 'red indians' across the Plains concludes with the Cherokees capturing the wagon, but being asked to "sing along" with the family in the final chorus: "Higgity, haggity hoggety, high. Pioneers, they never say die ..."

You will excuse the digression from what has become the usual 'autopsy' following yet another 'CSI' Hammers performance, but finding the creative juices to be positive about the club is currently as difficult as finding water in the middle of the Colorado desert!

Pathetic, Abject, Appalling, Headless, the list of adjectives could go on as long as a cheap thesaurus could keep listing. Surely some ones somewhere in a position of power MUST realise what is going on? West Ham dared reach the glass ceiling and then promptly shrank away from the challenge by REFUSING to take the next step required.

There ARE actually mitigating circumstances however, Manuel Pellegrini and his partner in crime Huscos metaphorically raped and pillaged the club leaving Sullivan and the dear departed David Gold to pick up the pieces. Hammers have only just finished paying off the last of the money owed for Pablo Fornals for example, Pellegrini will be laughing his bollocks off at getting his man for a song.

Likewise, Felipe Anderson has proven to be an excellent acquisition for Roma, a player Pellegrini completely destroyed. The Chilean spent big and seduced Sullivan and Gold into 'buying a lemon', a spanking gleaming model on the outside but a rot box underneath.

So the Board had their hands well and truly burned, BUT they are perpetrating that injury by NOT pulling the trigger on Moyes! They appear to see him as a safe pair of hands whereas he is the one who is going to silently assassinated their dreams.

Unless they bounce Moyes they will lose the support of the fans who WILL still but their season tickets but who could start a Guirilla campaign of 'non co-operation' by not buying replica shirts and the like, money still talks and perhaps that is the only way ANYONE will take notice.

The 'Kretin' in the Sky certainly won't want to see his investment lose value, but what about the rest? Only time will tell, but they are fast running out of Wheel's on their Wagon. - Ed