twoleftfeet
1:55 Wed Jan 24
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80/81
85/86
05/06
20/21
21/22
23/24
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Stowie.40
12:19 Wed Jan 24
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That was under Curbs though weren’t it?. I meant that cunt Scaloni kicking the ball out and it ends me up with that scouse cunt sticking one in from 30 yards. Remember Ashton & Bellamy tearing Reading a new one away from home, 3-0 I think it was.
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Helmut Shown
11:25 Tue Jan 23
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January 74 til December 74. We had Billy Jennings, Keith Robson and Bobby Gould up front and they were scoring goals for fun. If one didn't score the others would. We had a shit start to the 73/74 season but came good after Christmas. Then at the end of 74 we were top of the league. We didnt win another league game til March iirc but we got through to the cup final and won it that year. Lyall bough Alan Taylor from Rochdale and replaced Gould who I thought made the other two play better.
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zico
11:01 Tue Jan 23
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Stowie - I reckon that stone's throw was Ashton. Disaster for player and club. Can imagine if he and Bellamy had had a long run together it would have been cracking.
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Stowie.40
10:50 Tue Jan 23
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For me one season stands out as my most enjoyable and that’s the 05/06 season with Pardew. Few of the Redknapp years was decent football with some wonderful players but that Pardew season was brilliant and was a stones throw away from something special.
Moyes might statistically be our best manager in the premiership era but it’s been a fucking chore watching us. Don’t help he comes across as such an unlikeable cunt.
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Vexed
10:47 Tue Jan 23
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Bilic then Pardooo
But let's be honest, we've never played less entertaining football than this. Yes even under Allardyce.
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Iron Duke
10:44 Tue Jan 23
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Seasons I have enjoyed the football (I started going in 1985):
1985-86
1990-91
Roughly 1996-2000
2005-06
2015-16
2020-22
Last year the football was mostly shit but the cup win more than made up for it.
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Lato
7:34 Tue Jan 23
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1985/86 we should have won the old First Division that season. Having hardly played for the first 6 weeks of 1986 we had to play 10 games in that April Saturday, Monday, Wednesday etc. At times the football was sublime probably the best and most consistent I have witnessed in my opinion!
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El Scorchio
7:28 Tue Jan 23
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Pardew until it went tits.
Bilic until it went tits.
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goose
7:14 Tue Jan 23
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first season in the PL was fun under Billy Bonds.
there a few games under the lights that were absolute belters......
man city at home (was it 3-1?)
sheff weds at home (2-0 i think, pretty sure clive allen scored)
norwich at home (3-3)
i enjoyed all those early PL seasons, even the ones when we were a bit shit.
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zico
6:34 Tue Jan 23
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Agree with most of the posts here. I grew up with the Lyall years,. Incredible to think that from when I started supporting West Ham in 73ish as a very young kid right the way through to 89 John Lyall was West Ham's manager. Of course there were barren years and bloody awful results but the Lyall style was always there, even in defeat,. Generally though it was just the way the Club was that was the reason why I put up with the bad times. I found the guy and the club likeable at the time. Family club is a cliché but the whole feel was why I supported West Ham.
Under Bonds it was the same and Redknapp kept the same style of play although he obviously changed the staff around the place. Harry was gung ho and you could win 5-0 one week and get done 0-5 the next, but it was entertaining. Brooking obviously played the right way and spells under Pardew and Zola were decent. No idea with his upbringing why Curbs was so dull, maybe we would have seen a change if he had stayed longer. When Sam wet with Sakho and Valencia with Downing at the top of the diamond it looked good but he reverted to type after Christmas if memory serves. Pellegrini first season was ok and of course Bilic, Payet and Lanzini. was an absolute joy to watch whilst it lasted.
When Moyes has got us playing fast counter attacking football it's been good to watch but that's a rare occurrence these days. Yes it's also his demeanour as well that pisses you off. Best ever for me though was 85/86 just a shame due to the TV striker nothing until November or so is on tape!
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mallard
6:09 Tue Jan 23
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Played some delightful football in Bonds’ second season
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62Hammer
6:01 Tue Jan 23
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1962-89.
Then same as Side of Ham.
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Side of Ham
5:56 Tue Jan 23
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Almost agree with Len but would say I enjoyed
79 to 86
The Redknapp era
That 1 season with Zola when he had 'Can't Control' scoring and Bellamy was a good watch.
The first 2 seasons of Pardew
That last season at the Boleyn under Bilic with Payet
And some of Pellegrini's 1st season when Anderson wasn't a bottle job.
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yngwies Cat
5:54 Tue Jan 23
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The West Ham way eh.
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Stubbo
5:53 Tue Jan 23
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Given where I believe this thread is trying to be pointed at...
IMO the 'style of play' is a misnomer of the Moyes problem.
I'm not convinced anyone (well, most) would have a problem if we were playing a fast, direct counter attacking style, and many would prefer that to a tiki-taka style.
The BIG problem is the attitude Moyes sends us out with, and in that, his attitude.
He is passive, subservient, and embodies the idea that we're not as good as other teams. He also has that classic self preservation trait of not backing us, and always bigging-up the opponent so that when he fails (he clearly expects to fail) he can say, "see, told you they were a good side."
If he sent us out to have a right go, get in other teams faces, and take it to them...even if we lacked quality on the ball or attacking thrust, but had the sprinkling of stardust that the likes of Paqueta and Kudus give us, he'd get a pass.
But he's passive, defeatist and that does not play well.
To answer your question:
Manager's whose styles I liked (and as a result the seasons of which I enjoyed watching) regardless the result were:
- Redknapp
- Pellegrini #BigClubMentality
- Bilic
- Bonds
- Zola
- Brooking
- Pardew
Some of those seasons we were good. Some shit. Some ok. But the difference was that the managers had an attitude that you could get behind.
None of them were as successful from a results perspective than Moyes. But all of them I felt I could get behind them and what they were setting out to try and do.
Football is a metaphor for war. We're part of the army, and the manager is the General who sets the attitude of the whole company.
Can't wait to see the back of Moyes and his passive, defeatist, play-to-spoil-'cos-they're-better-than-us mindset. That's not 'West Ham'.
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Leonard Hatred
5:50 Tue Jan 23
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Oh yeah I forgot the Bilic era.
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Tomshardware
5:49 Tue Jan 23
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Redknapp era especially 97 onwards.
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Nagel
5:48 Tue Jan 23
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For me the ones that stand out are obviously early 80s and 85-86 under Lyall and late 90s under Redknapp, plus a few others:
05/06 FA cup final season under Pardew - not just for the cup run but the way we'd only scraped through promotion but played with no fear now we were back in the top flight. It was very direct football with everything played down the flanks through Etherington and Benayoun but enjoyable.
15/16 Last season at the Boleyn, under Bilic. Just fucking great. No doubt the atmosphere in the ground had something to do with it, and obviously having arguably one of the best players in the world at the time in Payet was a big factor, but the way our boys were constantly looking to get forward was something we hadn't seen since the 90s.
These two were just half seasons really:
08/09 Zola's first season. In 17th at Xmas we went on a fantastic run of games bringing us up to 7th in April. Calrton Cole was suddenly on fire and our formation had switched to a very narrow 442 with Parker, Noble, Collison and Behrami which proved very effective while it lasted.
14/15 Fat Sam's last season. 4th at Xmas. Playing like a completely different team. Carroll and Nolan out long term so had the new boys Sakho and Valencia running the channels in front of another narrow midfield 4. Of course when Sam's faves were back from injury we reverted to long balls and knock downs and managed to drop from 4th to 12th by season's end.
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Leonard Hatred
5:42 Tue Jan 23
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79 to 81
84 to 86
The Redknapp era
The first 2 seasons of Pardew.
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