Brentford: Strakosha, Dasilva, Mee, Ajer, Jenson (c), Wissa, Damsgaard, Sorensen, Roerslev, Ghoddos, Lewis-Potter Subs: Cox (GK), Henry, Canos, Schade, Jorgensen, Janelt, Stevens, Trevitt, Yarmoliuk.
West Ham: Fabiański, Johnson, Dawson, Ogbonna, Aguerd, Emerson, Rice ©, Souček, Paquetá, Bowen, Antonio Subs: Randolph (GK), Cresswell, Fornals, Downes, Benrahma, Kehrer, Coventry, Swyer, Mubama.
I see that Okoflex,Chesters and Nevers have been recalled from season long loans,good hope they play in the cup this saturday
I see that West Ham have recalled 3 players from loans, Okoflex,Chesters and Nevers ,good hope they all play in cup game
Leeds: Meslier, Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Struijk, Roca, Adams, Aaronson, Gnonto, Summerville, Rodrigo. Subs: Robles, Firpo, Harrison, Llorente, Gyabi, Kristensen, Gelhardt, Greenwood, Klich.
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Kehrer, Dawson, Aguerd, Rice ©, Paquetá, Souček, Fornals, Bowen, Scamacca Subs: Areola (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Emerson, Downes, Lanzini, Benrahma, Antonio. Special Sub: David Gold.
We once wrote an article entitled "weird scenes at the Gold mine" which paraphrased the name of a Doors album title, in it we eulogised but mocked David Gold's twitter messages that he would randomly add, later on as he got a bit older his account was 'highjacked' by the club's PR team in order to avoid too much of the truth getting out!
That is how we shall remember him, never afraid of speaking his mind and constantly voicing his opinion without pandering to political correctness. He truly loved West Ham and will be sorely missed, but he did have a good innings and rose from humble stock to being a very successful businessman.
Those ignoramuses at Porto who nicknamed him and David Sullivan the dildo brothers had no idea how much he chuckled, if they had done their research they would have realised that the Gold and Sullivan partnership was unique, they were competing against each other selling men's mags etc when they realised if they joined forces they could survive what was a very 'gas light' business where it was necessary to make all sorts of unofficial payments to various Police benevolent funds if you know what we mean.
David Gold was old school, the likes of which will rarely be seen again, we wish all his family well and hope his genuine legacy will remain, starting with a win tonight, the players owe him that! David Gold R.I.P - Ed
So according to David Moyes the Board and himself are a LOT older and wiser than most and are able to see the 'bigger picture' when all others can only see what is in front of them.
Bold talk indeed for a manager who has just overseen an appalling run of domestic form of 14 wins in 42 games, culminating in the recent sequence of FIVE defeats in a row!
Bad luck and injuries are all part of the game, past and present, so to reference these old managerial adversaries is really back ward thinking, look at Chelski and how they pull the trigger even on successful managers, we are not suggesting that the Hammers board should adopt such ruthless procedures but perhaps they may concede privately if not publicly that David Moyes' tenure as manager has come to an end, that is not to say he hasn't done brilliantly for the club over the last three years, but all that good work and Kudos is in danger of going up in smoke.
Moyes has ALWAYS been superb at bringing players through, converting players to play on other positions and working on a shoe string budget, however when he has a team of top players at his disposal he has struggled, unfortunately he seems to have hit that impasse again at West Ham.
In the past it is fair to say the club has been under financed in the transfer market, but the same cannot be said now, the fact is Moyes DOES have a superb squad now, despite injuries to key players and is currently unable to get the players he DOES have available to perform to the vest of their capabilities, although no experts we at the Org are of the opinion that losing Alan Irvine AND Stuart Pearce fro the coaching teM Has had a collateral effect on the club from which it has NEVER recovered, just look at the results over the last 18 months, the European adventures have masked a woeful run of domestic results.
IF Hammers win at Leeds tonight which is highly doubtful it will only postpone what will eventually be a painful but necessary decision from the board, we state this with NO malice, just a sprinkling of reality. - Ed
So what happens if we lose tonight,will he stay or will he go as Joe Strummer once said!Rumours are that they may stick with Moyes regardless of what happens,because he's the type of manager that we would go for in this situation...what a sad state of affairs & to be expected from the BS brigade,this is probably the biggest decision in our history & not to be taken lightly because relegation with this stadium will be a disaster for our club...so thoughts please what would you all do? Shit or bust?
Players like Cresswell, Dawson, Fabianski and Antonio are getting on a bit and we can all see the faults more and more so they need to be bench players at best. Our biggest problem is our leaky defence which puts every other player under pressure. When we where playing well it didn’t matter if they scored first because the confidence was there that we would score especially at home but now as soon as they score we drop our heads and start passing sideways or backwards leaving players like Benny, Bowen and Scammacca out of the equation. Even Decs seems to pass the ball more backward then forward lately. Hopefully Aguerd will be back for Leeds but he will need help and until Zouma is back Dawson will have to do but he seems to have his mind on going home and is not what he’s been for us the last couple of seasons. Against Brentford Moyes dropped Soucek and put Paqueta in his place which is where he plays for Brazil, he’s not a number 10 and until we conceded we played ok.
Looking at last season the shit set in early, Antonio kept flying off to Jamaica and lost his form but Bowen came good, Cresswell kept getting beat by anyone that wanted to get past him and as we all know got himself sent off and suspended and we lost our chance to play Champions league, Rice decided he wanted to go forward more so to cater to him Soucek got told to stay back and he lost his way, Coufal had a hernia because of what should have been a sending off and hasn’t been the same since. We are going to lose Ashby because he can’t get a game, Moyes needs to play the best player in their natural position instead of catering to their whims and things will turn around. We have the players to do it if they can get a chance.
Unless results improve dramatically over the next three Premier League games against those facing the relegation trap door as well, starting with fellow strugglers Leeds United on Wednesday, a new manager WILL be brought in with the clever money being on the 'muder ball' specialist Marcelo Bielsa arriving on an initial six month contract.
The Argentine born manager is famous for his no nonsense training sessions they make those of the man he would replace, David Moyes, look pedestrian! The Hammers squad have got used to relentless running during training which many now see as an outdated mode of training, instead many 'forward thinking' managers prefer to concentrate on short sharp recovery runs which are more aligned to the needs of a player during the 90 or so minutes of a game, after all footballers are there to play football, NOT run mini marathons!
Bielsa or 'Bielzibub' as he was often named while at Hammers next opponents Leeds Utd, is renowned for his intense training sessions that were given the 'murder ball' moniker by players and staff alike. Players who couldn't reach his desired level of fitness found themselves training with the youth players or on the transfer list, or BOTH!
With the 2nd oldest squad in the Premier League there will be several Hammers players anxiously waiting for the new manager's arrival and hoping it is NOT Bielsa, because IF he is appointed things will be subject to seismic changes starting at the club's 'Goose Green' training ground. The likes of Aaron Cresswell in particular will NOT be looking forward to being 'dug out' by the fiery Argentine, despite being a loyal servant to the club it is time for 'Cressy' to retire or move on because time and time again he gets caught out through his lack of pace.
Jarrod Bowen is currently 'employed' on taking corners from the right hand side of the pitch whereas he should be in the box to pick up scraps or even be a target man, because Cresswell lacks the pace to recover the ball if it is pinged out of defence on what would be the wrong side of the pitch for him, a younger fitter player COULD make up the distance, alas Cresswell can't anymore.
Picking onCresswell is a touch unfair because he is merely at the head of the queue of 'footballing pensioners' at the club, Bielsa wouldn't think twice about using some of the 'energetic' youth players that would be at his disposal. Of course Moyes MIGHT survive, but don't put your house on it! - Ed
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