Has Slav took his eye off the ball since we beat liverpoole i. The cup?

Come off it mate, we were 10 games unbeaten. Antonio orginally went right back cuz injuries and yes he needs to be back on the right wing next game but at the end of the day we were winning games with Antonio at right back and if not for refereeing decisions would have been more. Antonio playing right back is actually the reason we beat west brom. The swansea game was bad but apart from that Bilic hasnt gotten to much wrong apart from that game. Yes hes not a right back but the reason we were so exposed by it this week was because Moses is the laziest player ive seen in a west ham shirt, Kouyate has the positional sense of a porcupine and Reid is wank.

Using Antonio as a wing back is a big ask for the guy as Bilic is trying to get the maximum from this player at both ends of the pitch.It proved the undoing of Jenkinson and now Antonio's shortcomings are being exposed when it comes to his positional sense in defending,I think Cresswell struggles at times too.Priority for me,for any player used as a wing back, will be the backs defending ability,and I think if Bilic had concentrated on that more Westham wouldn't have conceded so many goals this season,having said they probably wouldn't have scored as many either,that is the dilemma Bilic is having to contend with using the system he does. When you look at all the successful teams in this country, and in Europe ,they all have solid defences,an essential platform to build upon.What is the point of scoring loads of goals ,when you are leaking goals like a sieve, at the other end.That has got to be priority for Bilic in the summer ,get our defence sorted out, using a system that doesn't sacrifice it's strengths.Antonio's strength,is without doubt,in attack,thats where he should be used,it's counter-productive to use any player in a position where he is going to struggle to fulfil.

I think Bilic seems to be blinded a ittle. I find it hard to fathom why he hasn't used Collins, Tomkins or Byram of late. When Ginge was playing before his injury he was quite commanding at the back. Yes he is prone to make the odd mistake but his commitment was never in doubt and his understanding with others was good. Now we have a back four who have no teamwork. Not been helped by others not tracking back to help. Watching Noble track back for the last Swansea goal summed it up for me. Everyone was up in the goal area so there was no provision for any breakaway. Bilic has not addressed this for some time. I like attacking football as much as any one but there has to be a balance. Bilic must pick players suited to their positions who have game awareness. Our goal difference has plummeted. So disappointing.

We have a really good team, but we've been punching above our weight most of the season. On paper we are not as good as Liverpool, or possibly Southampton. (Hell, on paper we are not as good as Chelsea or Everton!) So give Bilic some credit. There are a couple of worries, though, and almost everybody here recognises them, so I hope the manager does, too. (1) Clean sheets: we haven't kept many since the Collins injury (the WBA masterclass aside), and the reasons include Antonio but also Winston Reid, who hasn't been anything like the player that was wanted by Liverpool and Arsenal last season. (2) Lack of variation in the side: Bilic has persisted with Moses and Emmenike when they are offering very little, and he has also sometimes failed to use AC to best advantage. The Swansea match was a case in point -- Moses was a passenger and AC had a poor match, so why not get Sakho and Val on at halftime when we were already down 2-0. And although we needed to attack Swansea when 2-0 down and consequently left ourselves open, the gift of a third goal was shameful and the fourth embarrassing. Slav was a defender, and so was Dicks -- they need to put some steel back into the spine. It would have been more boring to have Obiang, Collins and Byram start that last match and sit a little deeper, but we would have won 1-0 or 2-0. Let's hope that is a lesson learned!!!

Have been questionable nearly all the way through the season but largely he has got away with it. Antonio has done a stirling job at RB but it is not his position. I accept that Byram was only going to be a squad player until next term, but Bilics refusal to use him, Joey or Tomkins in the RB position since Jenks went down is letting the rest of the team down. We all love the West Ham way but I think Bilic has gone too far down the line in trying to achieve that. Sending on four strikers ,thus cutting off any supply against Swansea was sheer suicide. Next season is going to be the litmus test for Bilic as he still hasn't got my vote as being the man for the job.

Billic has his faults but come on people we have come very close this season to qualifying for the champions league. Bilic deserves credit for getting us this far in his first season in charge. This has been an exciting season for us hammers fans and we have a manager who at last has us playing a better style of football and a record number of points in the premier league. I have confidence we can continue next season in the same vain and that Bilic is the right man to lead us.