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[dytkos 17,784]

21 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

 I can't believe a big club hasn't snapped up Eddie Howe. His CV/work ethic is out of this world. If Ollie doesn't cut it our place, Howe would be my first choice manager with a  five year contract. Eventually old farts are replaced by ambitious young bucks. I think he's not only destined for a big club but also England manager.

Eddie Howe has won 8 yes 8 Premier League games in the whole of 2019.

Cheers, D.

[Nicepix 5,650]

5 minutes ago, dytkos said:

Eddie Howe has won 8 yes 8 Premier League games in the whole of 2019.

Cheers, D.

And he's doing that with gates of 11,000 and no money to spend on players. And the team are playing attractive football.

[jukel123 7,957]

10 minutes ago, dytkos said:

Eddie Howe has won 8 yes 8 Premier League games in the whole of 2019.

Cheers, D.

Fair comment, but let's examine his recored. He achieved promotion from the bottom league having being deducted 17 points. He then achieves two further promotions and has established Bournemouth firmly in the premiership. He's had a lot of injuries this season and, I grant you, suffered a run of defeats recently, but I would back him to establish the team in the middle of the table before the end of the season. He's the brightest young manager we have, I'm sure he's destined for bigger things.

[dytkos 17,784]

54 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Fair comment, but let's examine his recored. He achieved promotion from the bottom league having being deducted 17 points. He then achieves two further promotions and has established Bournemouth firmly in the premiership. He's had a lot of injuries this season and, I grant you, suffered a run of defeats recently, but I would back him to establish the team in the middle of the table before the end of the season. He's the brightest young manager we have, I'm sure he's destined for bigger things.

Sure your right but no ones took a punt on him. (Except the Dingles) Why?

Cheers, D.

[jukel123 7,957]

16 minutes ago, dytkos said:

Sure your right but no ones took a punt on him. (Except the Dingles) Why?

Cheers, D.

I don't know mate, maybe some clubs have approached him but he wants to stay put for the moment. Perhaps chairmen think foreign managers have more ability than English managers. Maybe he would only be tempted by an offer from one of the big 5. He's only 42, time is on his side. I think eventually he will have to accept that he's achieved all he possibly can with Bournemouth and he will feel the need to test himself at the next level.

[dytkos 17,784]

16 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I don't know mate, maybe some clubs have approached him but he wants to stay put for the moment. Perhaps chairmen think foreign managers have more ability than English managers. Maybe he would only be tempted by an offer from one of the big 5. He's only 42, time is on his side. I think eventually he will have to accept that he's achieved all he possibly can with Bournemouth and he will feel the need to test himself at the next level.

You'd think he would be perfect for Everton, West Ham or even Arsenal?

Cheers, D.

[Stoney100 1,179]

More good times ahead

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/50780855

[WILF 46,608]

Just now, Stoney100 said:

More good times ahead

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/50780855

Yeah, that’s a decent result for you lads.....gives a bit of certainty as much as anything can in modern football.

[gnasher16 30,025]

20 hours ago, WILF said:

I’d accept it if it meant we could get out of this “just hover about in the prem” mentality and bring in any old hat manager to help us do it way of thinking.

If dropping down made us have the bottle to bring in someone who wants to do modern fresh stuff then I’d be happy.

Greenwood said himself “People come to West Ham to watch good football” and I’m sure he meant football played in the right way, not this shit.

As I don’t need to tell you our “academy of football” came from fresh thinking about the way you develope players, the ideas for was nicked from the Real Madrid team of the time and Tony Carr over 40 years produced some of the best players this country has ever seen.

Before his time it produced 3 World Cup winners.

That was all done off the back of trying to play good football the right way with lads who were thinking ahead of their time.

Too f***ing right I’m happy to go backwards in order to have a chance of recapturing a bit of that mentality mate.

Its where the games going now, we are being outdone at our own original game by these modern coaches mate, except they have moved it even further on.

If we are talking about roots and history of a football club, that’s ours pal.....f**k me, your the last bloke I probably need to tell that.

So what your saying is you wanted the move,you wanted the whole " big club " thing and " a brand " to keep up with the modern football world taking us to the " next level " and creating the instant success we was promised etc etc.....but now your " brand " isnt quite working out how you hoped it would and all the promises of European football,top 6 finishes,attracting the worlds elite players isnt quite materialising your getting all sentimental for the old traditions and principals that made us the club we were and your happy to drop down a division like we used to..........in other words instead of stamping your feet and demanding what YOU wanted.... you now want back exactly what we already had 

Wilf ive had this same conversation a thousand times with a thousand different people and i always say the same thing......sing our club song and actually listen to the words.......that is who we are,we was never meant to be " a brand " 

Edited December 13, 2019 by gnasher16

[blackmaggie 3,376]

1 hour ago, gnasher16 said:

So what your saying is you wanted the move,you wanted the whole " big club " thing and " a brand " to keep up with the modern football world taking us to the " next level " and creating the instant success we was promised etc etc.....but now your " brand " isnt quite working out how you hoped it would and all the promises of European football,top 6 finishes,attracting the worlds elite players isnt quite materialising your getting all sentimental for the old traditions and principals that made us the club we were and your happy to drop down a division like we used to..........in other words instead of stamping your feet and demanding what YOU wanted.... you now want back exactly what we already had 

Wilf ive had this same conversation a thousand times with a thousand different people and i always say the same thing......sing our club song and actually listen to the words.......that is who we are,we was never meant to be " a brand " 

i dont know if you or wilf have read the thread about football grounds gone but not forgotten but its a really good read it talks about places like filbert st highbury white hart lane upton park burden park ayresome park baseball ground highfield just to name a few and it talks about away days and  memories with some cracking photos of how it was back then  it shows just how fans communites businesses in the surrounding  areas all seemed more tighter than today i know your attendances are up but i wonder how many older westham fans  or fans from other clubs dont bother now  theres a new stadium  but business means as long as you fill the ground and compete with thoses round you  and make a profit that all that  matters it seems 

[WILF 46,608]

1 hour ago, gnasher16 said:

So what your saying is you wanted the move,you wanted the whole " big club " thing and " a brand " to keep up with the modern football world taking us to the " next level " and creating the instant success we was promised etc etc.....but now your " brand " isnt quite working out how you hoped it would and all the promises of European football,top 6 finishes,attracting the worlds elite players isnt quite materialising your getting all sentimental for the old traditions and principals that made us the club we were and your happy to drop down a division like we used to..........in other words instead of stamping your feet and demanding what YOU wanted.... you now want back exactly what we already had 

Wilf ive had this same conversation a thousand times with a thousand different people and i always say the same thing......sing our club song and actually listen to the words.......that is who we are,we was never meant to be " a brand " 

Mate, like all of us, I can only view football from my own perspective.

If I only wanted to follow a “big” club I wouldn’t be a West Ham fan would I and I rather resent the accusation......what I am is a football lad and I like to think an honest one.

A football team should be progressing or at least doing something entertaining at what ever level it plays at.

At our old ground we were a club in the top flight of the best league in the world.

We developed some of the best English players ever to grace the game and promptly sold them.

We brought in managers like Fat Sam, Glen Rhoder, Grant etc and let them buy decent first division players and player at the end of their career

All the decent players we never, ever kept.

The excuse was always “we are too small, we don’t have the money to keep these people”

What?...a club that contributed the players that won us the World Cup?, not just played a part....actually won us it !

A club that produced 7 players in the 2010 World Cup squad out of its youth system?

A club that produced the most expensive defender ever at the time?

A club that produced Chelsea’s all time record goal scorer and from mid field into the bargain ?

And we were pleading f***ing poverty all the time!......

So.....the move should have put all that shit to bed.

Fantastic ground, not some piss hole surrounded by pakis like a scene out of Zulu......a place where good players actually want to come to work 

60,000 season tickets and a decent brand to market the merchandise 

It should have meant an end to the excuses and we should have then been able to keep developing players and actually keep them.

What we have is what we have always had and there’s only one reason for it, to stay in the prem and keep getting the revenue from that......f**k the football as long as you stay alive!

For a club like us who have contributed as much as we have to English football that stinks of having no pride about yourself at all !

So yes, I’d rather watch us have some pride about ourselves as a set of players and coaches and fans at a lower level if that is what it takes......I’d rather watch lads knocking their bollocks out for every inch of grass at Sunday league than people going through the motions of just staying alive......that’s a shit attitude to any sport that is mate.

[NEWKID 27,088]

I'm.sure you 2 are "arguing" exactly the same argument from the same side?

You both love West Hams history, you both love what that academy gave to the game and you both have great memories from Upton Park

You both know that the club has employed absolute dross as managers for 10 - 15 years now, and the sides put our resemble that...

So you could've stayed ar the old ground, sang bubbles and watched shit football....

The shit thing is, for both of you and all west ham fans, is you moved to a swanky stadium with no soul and you're still.managed by a dinosaur and playing shit football... 

I think this whole transition wouldve been.a success if there was decent football being played, a decent forward thinking, coherent coach in charge, a cup run, a shout at Europe...etc... that's not making you a "big" club and all the bullshit that goes along with it, and you both (I think) would hate to be classed as a "big" club (I think that's a shit way to describe a club as well, but its unavoidable at times)... it makes you exactly what you should be, a club with aspirations, brand and commercialism is secondary... you should be like the current Leicester, Wolves, Totenham..... but your acting like Southmpton or Watford in a shiny stadium...

Hopefully the bloke gets the boot and your next manager is the right man, I really think that will make a big difference..

Edited December 13, 2019 by NEWKID

[WILF 46,608]

Exactly mate, you don’t have to have ideas above your station to have a bit of pride about yourself as a sporting establishment.

And I remember Gnasher was as pissed off as anybody else when that fat c**t pulled that stunt in the cup at Forest the other year.......does thinking you should try and win a cup make you a dreamer with ideas above your station ?

No, I dont think it does, what it makes you is a proper sporting outfit with the right mindset imho 

[Stoney100 1,179]

3 minutes ago, WILF said:

Exactly mate, you don’t have to have ideas above your station to have a bit of pride about yourself as a sporting establishment.

And I remember Gnasher was as pissed off as anybody else when that fat c**t pulled that stunt in the cup at Forest the other year.......does thinking you should try and win a cup make you a dreamer with ideas above your station ?

No, I dont think it does, what it makes you is a proper sporting outfit with the right mindset imho 

What stunts that out of interest?

[WILF 46,608]

2 minutes ago, Stoney100 said:

What stunts that out of interest?

We took around 5000 away to an FA cup game at forest mate......what?, 5 or 6 years ago and he put out a side of kids that got murdered 5-0 and it could have been more in order to try and preserve players to just stay alive in the main league.

Thats suns up our total ambition for a lot of years mate imho.......I don’t think that means I want us to be Manchester United and I don’t think it means the 5000 angry fans want to be either.