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Where the wingers are concerned it’s turned into a painful inconsistency at best. While Bowen easily has the highest calibre of any player in the league he’s not consistent in his performances. As always his stats remain high but we either expect too much of him on a regular basis or he just hasn’t got in it him to be reliable on a weekly basis. I won’t mention the captaincy side of things. Despite Solomon having a decent start he’s tailed off to being as bad as Summerville at his worst or if I’m really harsh Savio Nsereko (remember him?!). Austbo has been a bright spark and needs to become the main left winger on my opinion, was harshly brought off against Blackburn for me.

And last but not least, the strikers. My oh my, we just can’t get it right can we? Three senior forwards all with different attributes that we can’t get the best out of, nothing new there, right? Pablo has practically no technical ability, Piroe has no pace and Taty has been like a ghost with two left feet. Who’d have thought we could sign someone who ran around like a Duracell bunny and scored the goal he did at Newcastle in the prem to looking like a deer in headlights and who’s allergic to the ball in the championship! Make it make sense. For what it’s worth, I do think Pablo is our most effective forward (yes you heard right!). I get that he’s painful to watch at the best of times but we just look half a team when he’s not playing, especially when he’s got a partner up top with him.

That’s the positions covered. Now the coaching staff. I’m not a huge fan of Parker but I will give him a chance, like I would any manager, it’s only fair. I just have a few concerns. He’s got a reputation for playing 1-0 football, and we’ve asked him to freshen things up and try to play more attacking, that’s seems illogical and pandering. I’m all for more entertaining and robust football but not if it’s just done for the sake of it and there’s no thought behind it as it rarely works. Bringing Noble in as his assistant seems like a fairytale match up at first but these sort of link ups don’t always go as people hope. Look at Carrick at United, started off well but now hits the rough patch. “They know/gets/loves the club” always has the potential the ruin legacies and leave a sour taste in the mouth.

I think the fans chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” on Saturday were extremely harsh. I personally think that’s only warranted if the players aren’t trying and there’s no effort, but they showed that in abundance against Blackburn but just fell short, it happens. And going from the reaction against Cardiff one could understand if the players found it fickle. Supporters have every right to feel frustrated but the effort was there, the football was much improved and we’re under new management. I would’ve understood it at half time away to Cardiff but not on Saturday when everything was there apart from a bit of luck in the final third.

This is a marathon, not a sprint. We’ve had a few reality checks this season and there will be more to come I’m sure.

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The season so far.

This just my opinion. No one else’s.

From a decent start, to no wins in four. But this was never going to be a walk in the park. We kept a lot more players in the summer than I thought we would, most significantly Bowen, so perhaps that possibly naively made a lot of us think we’d piss the league easy and have everything tucked up by March/April at the latest, but a las, that is not the West Ham we know…

This is one of the toughest leagues in the world, but that’s no secret, and if the club had ong term planning they would know that. Keeping Nuno on with his promotion experience in charge of wolves made sense. Not selling the likes of Bowen, Mavro, Taty, Soucek, Walker-Peters etc surprised a lot of us and seemed a bit of a coup. Yes they had just played a hand in getting us relegated but one could switch that round and say they’d be the perfect standard of player to seal an automatic return to the prem.

Again, not quite gone to plan has it. Taty can’t hit a barn door in this league when he looked a decent premier league player last season. Mavropanos has scored as many goals as he’s cost us so far and Bowen either plays like a world class conductor or a music teacher that’s struggling to teach his pupils how to get a tune out of any of their instruments.

After beating Wrexham 6-0 it looked like we’d hit top gear and wouldn’t be slowing up, however since then it’s like the car keeps breaking down but the club are just hoping it’ll fix itself rather than but a new one that works.

Yes we’ve just hired Scott Parker, but to me that’s like slapping some duct tape on a punctured tire. He’s the best option to achieve promotion given his cv, but this team seems to have so many holes in it it’s gonna need more than a tube of polyfilla.

Take the goalkeeper situation for example; one’s good at saving shots but terrible at passing, the other is the practically the opposite. Good distribution vs match saving shots. I know what I’d prefer. But let’s not kid ourselves into thinking Areola hasn’t left us with our head in our hands more than a few times. And although I’m no big fan of Hermansen I’m not gonna pretend he’s the worst keeper we’ve had between the sticks. Modern football now tends to opt for keepers who are good with their feet over those who are reliable with their hands, how times change, eh.

The defence needs to be just as solid as the bloke behind them, and ours has been leaky and inconsistent at best. We’ve been playing a Centre back at left back, unable to decide between Veltman or KWP and while Kilman has been resurrected as an actual functioning defender, Mavropanos has taken over as the dodgy one despite scoring more goals than our strikers at the start of the season. It isn’t exactly concrete and consistent is it?

Then you have the midfield. The constant changing between 2 and 3 in the middle whether we play 442 or 433 doesn’t ooze consistency and we’ve got a lot of similar players to choose from as it is. While Mukasa has brought a touch of class and creativity this season he’s playing alongside Engels who’s become the new Ward-Prowse and Kante who’s proving more and more to be an impact player off the bench than a starter. Lewis Orford can’t get a real sniff while Alvarez and Magassa have been frozen out for so long they almost feel like new signings. While many fans love that Soucek is slowly making his way back for me he’s only effective in either box, which makes him limited contribution wise if you’re gonna use him as strict midfielder.

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HT: Blackburn 0-0 West Ham

Thoughts?

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Our starting XI v Blackburn

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"I've been in this division three times and I've got out of this division three times." — Scott Parker ⚒️
#WHUFC #COYI #WestHam #Parker

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"I've come here because I believe that this football club is a Premier League football club." — Scott Parker ⚒️
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3-0 DOWN AT HALF-TIME. 3-3 AT FULL-TIME. ⚒️

Scott Parker's first game in charge, and for 45 minutes it was horrible. Jack Moylan scored a 1st half hat-trick & Cardiff were 3-0 up after 39 minutes. The away end let the players know how they felt.

Then the second half happened 👇

⚽ 58' Mukasa: Bowen slips him through and he lifts it over Trott, in off the post

⚽ 65' Engels: Piroe flicks on Bowen's pass, and that's his first goal for the club

⚽ 82' Kilman: tucks in Bowen's cross to make it 3-3

Bowen had a hand in all three. Mayers and Soucek both nearly won it at the end. It's a point, but more than that, the shirt finally fought back.

So which is it: a POINT GAINED that kicks off the Parker era, or TWO DROPPED after another first half like that? Tell us below 👇

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FT: Cardiff City 3-3 West Ham

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HT: Cardiff City 3-0 West Ham

Thoughts?

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Our starting XI v Cardiff

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OFFICIAL: West Ham have confirmed that Scott Parker has agreed a deal to become the Club’s new men’s first-team Head Coach.

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PARKER IS OUR LEADER - OFFICIAL... https://t.co/LGgyX3ArMs