SKD

Or Stephens not doing Stephens things and failing to win a header.

One game closer to survival. Let’s hope we can get through tomorrow without any injury and have full focus on securing 14th place. COYR

If I remember rightly, our form improved second half of the season, when gabbi arrived. May be wrong on that though.

No particular point. They’ve always been a shambles defensively, obviously had a quiet night against us, but they genuinely have a team that is over performing. Raphina and Phillips are the only 2 with any real quality about them. Bamford going through a purple patch. Probably benefiting from playing in a team who only know how to attack.

The team that beat us with absolute ease.

Yep, agree with this. Clearly a confidence player and at the moment he has none and isn’t playing well, but the reaction on here is ridiculous. Technical Ability wise, he’s probably one of our best players, he doesn’t show it enough, pretty much as Pep said to him. That being said, he’s played under some pretty average managers who’ve probably wrecked his confidence. He’s very much our level of a bottom Half PL player.

Seems to be forgotten on this place. Wouldn’t have been if it was another manager though.

What makes things worse is that every other team has beaten them as well. Awful looking back with hindsight. It’s been a season full of cringe to be honest, Ralph’s tears combined with ‘stop the count’ T-shirts actually being made. We deserve relegation.

I’m not sure that’s true. I’m pretty sure if memory serves right, our form drastically improved at home when the crowds weren’t allowed in. Im sure Ralph himself said our little snowflakes couldn’t handle the moans from the crowd and it put them under pressure.

I’ll tell you a statistic that I appreciate and does matter, rather than theoretical ‘he should have scored’ nonsense. Puel - 8th place in the league and a cup final. Ralph - 11th place in the league, likely to be lower this term. 2 record breaking defeats and a recording breaking run without a win.

Clearly a football hipster.

Agree.

The trendy bloke for football hipsters who wank off over XG and spend their spare living hours playing football manager, fifa and live behind a football twitter account. Virgins as we used to call them back in my day.

Hahaha are you okay darling? Ralph isn’t going to give you his used boots to sniff just for sticking up for him on an Internet forum.

I’ve no idea what or who you’re going on about, but in fairness, current form isn’t much better than Hughes, is it.

No it’s not for real, no one said that, you’ve just made it up.

You’re all over the place mate. You claimed that he’s miles better than Puel. Stats prove he isn’t. Regardless how you look at it. You can say Puel had a better squad, he did have a few better players, but he also had almost half the season with Stephens and Yoshida at CB. The core of this side is the same as the Puel days. I’m sure Puel would have died for Ings up top. 1 win in 12 is shambolic, regardless of his 2020 record. If it continues, he needs to go. Outside of 2020, his record has been average. It’s silly to just brush off and dismiss the idea that we couldn’t do better like he is some kind of super manager. 2 9-0’s and recording breaking runs without a win and PPG record being middle of the road would suggest he isn’t. I can’t even be bothered to continue arguing with you. We want the same thing, but see things slightly different. I don’t want to see you calling for his head if we get dragged into a relegation battle 👍🏻

Because you’re banging on that his whole tenure is some kind of raging success and this is a blip. It’s not, we’ve been average for more than we’ve been successful. The successful period was a blip.

See above, you’re not. You’re judging him on C. 1/3rd of his time here.

Another Myth about to be debunked. according to https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ralph-hasenhuttl Ralph has been in charge of 102 Games with 1.32 PPG record. 34 of these were in 2020 accumulating 56 points = PPG 1.64 The remaining 68 are at 1.16 PPG. (these figures may be slightly skewed due to cup games (I don’t know how Transfermrkt works out the PPG), but that should be negligible.) so in fact, we’ve actually been very poor for more than we’ve been good. Other than 1 run which boosts the appearance of his tenure, very average. Compare that to Puel, who’s 53 games = 1.38 PPG.

But again, Ralph knew what he had to deal with when he came and signed the contract. If his style isn’t working for us, is it fair to say he’s not the right man for us? That doesn’t make him a bad manager, although I’d suggest one that isn’t willing to change and adapt his style to the team isn’t a great one, it just means perhaps they’re not the right fit for us?

Hard to predict, yes. But surely, when you are aware of the demands and the issues around recovery you change your style, to perhaps less physically demanding to suit. He hasn’t. That’s not ownerships fault, that’s not the players fault, that’s the managers fault.

You can spin it how you like, but The only reason Ralph is still in a job is because we have a absent owner who wants to do the bare minimum to keep us up before he can sell the club, coupled with the fact we cannot afford to sack him hastily. Ralph will Be in a job, seemingly under no pressure, until we drop into the bottom 3. 99% of owners and chairman across global football would not put up with this recent run.

Were clearly not the 3rd best team in the country, are we. so yes, it was a freak run. It’s also the longest Ings has gone without an injury playing so many games and the most goals he’s scored in a season, pretty much all from that spell. unless of course you don’t think it was an overachievement which would then mean that we underachieving... right?

Yes, I know there was football before and I also know that, until 2020, we were still pretty average. As I’ve said before, football is a pretty ruthless business and any manager in the world to go 1 win in 12 is very very lucky to still be in a job, so yes, I will continue to go on about it, because it’s very relevant. In fact; he’s lucky he didn’t get sacked after the first 9-0. We want the same thing, I repeat, I’m not suggesting I want Ralph sacked. I want him to turn it around (lose tomorrow and I’m Ralph out). I’m starting to have doubts in Ralph’s ability to get the best out of this team though. His methods seemingly are no longer working and I don’t like his reluctance to change. I fear for next season. I’m just pointing out that those who criticised Puel, cannot start to defend Ralph and not appear to be very hypocritical. Do I think Ralph is a good manager? Yes. Do I think he has some Serious faults and isn’t the Messiah some saints fans think he is? Yes. Do I think he’s the right man for us? Benefit of the doubt, yes. Starting to doubt though. out of interest, if you were a West Ham fan, next season if They win 1 in 12 and are lingering around the bottom 3, would you say Moyes deserves to go?