David Moyes - Taking a knife to a gunfight at West Ham, Part 2

[wandyr79]

Honestly think apart from Martinez's first season the football was better under Moyes. We had spells where we reverted to terrible stuff in order to grind out results but more often than not we were good to watch.

I agree, I probably should have put 'hoofball' in air quotes, to be honest. I have never taken to the 'hoofball' term, when referring to how Moyes played. There were times where we were direct, especially when Fellaini was being used as a makeshift centre forward. But I put 'hoofball' in the realms of aimless(ish) balls down the middle for flick ons, etc. I thought that most of the time we were much more measured than that.

 

[Joey66]

Now we’re no better than a 737 max

A young DM would have trouble getting us out of this mess so why mention him?

No way would be leave West Ham ..

 

[AndyKing58]

Honestly think apart from Martinez's first season the football was better under Moyes. We had spells where we reverted to terrible stuff in order to grind out results but more often than not we were good to watch.

Not necessarily good to watch, more competitive for sure. Martinez should have been given more time IMO with a larger budget to work with. Moshiri is way too trigger happy when it comes to changing managers albeit Ancelotti leaving wasn’t his fault

 

[dannyboy]

Not necessarily good to watch, more competitive for sure. Martinez should have been given more time IMO with a larger budget to work with. Moshiri is way too trigger happy when it comes to changing managers albeit Ancelotti leaving wasn’t his fault

When we got Arteta, Pienaar etc on the pitch it was decent. Problem always came when we had injuries and we turned more pragmatic.

 

[AndyKing58]

When we got Arteta, Pienaar etc on the pitch it was decent. Problem always came when we had injuries and we turned more pragmatic.

Yeah those flair players transformed us at the time. Happy days.

 

[ds3000]

A young DM would have trouble getting us out of this mess so why mention him?

No way would be leave West Ham ..

I don’t recall doing so

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Not necessarily good to watch, more competitive for sure. Martinez should have been given more time IMO with a larger budget to work with. Moshiri is way too trigger happy when it comes to changing managers albeit Ancelotti leaving wasn’t his fault

Or maybe Moyes should have been given more money so he could afford some/more flair players?

We were always a few players short, even when he out his best squads together

 

[AndyKing58]

Or maybe Moyes should have been given more money so he could afford some/more flair players?

We were always a few players short, even when he out his best squads together

He knew the situation, it was what it was at the time.

 

[twoblue]

Hoof when he was with us football .... he has a good squad at West ham .....

Absolute myth. Arteta, pienaar, cahill, baines, mirrallas.
Went direct at times, worked on set peices, but we played good football too.
Walter smith and Joe royle played worse football. Barely scored a goal that wasn’t a goal mouth scramble

 

[Joey66]

Absolute myth. Arteta, pienaar, cahill, baines, mirrallas.
Went direct at times, worked on set peices, but we played good football too.
Walter smith and Joe royle played worse football. Barely scored a goal that wasn’t a goal mouth scramble

Joe Royal won trophy ......DM won nothing...

 

[twoblue]

Joe Royal won trophy ......DM won nothing...

Luck huge part in cup games. We had decent runs with moyes.
Plenty of poor teams have won trophies.
* not say we were poor with royal. Hit a decent run of form

 

[Bebeto]

Injuries are starting to catch up for moyes...no zouma for 12 weeks will be a huge miss alongside ogbonna missing for the season. Let's see how they manage in the next few weeks...hopefully we can close that gap a fair bit

 

[Aberblue]

Luck huge part in cup games. We had decent runs with moyes.
Plenty of poor teams have won trophies.
* not say we were poor with royal. Hit a decent run of form

ROYLE!

 

[BlueAmigo]

Joe Royal won trophy ......DM won nothing...

Sorry, who?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

When we got Arteta, Pienaar etc on the pitch it was decent. Problem always came when we had injuries and we turned more pragmatic.

So so so miss players of their ilk. Not only were they quality, but they worked for the team.