on January 11, 2026, 9:01 am, in reply to "Oddly, Moyes is someone who has bucked that trend many times before "
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When we finished 4th it was with a negative goal difference, and I’m sure his highest finish with West Ham (maybe 7th one year) was with a goal difference of less than 5. Previous Message
Because if Moyes somehow carries that on for another 17 games and we finish 55-60 points, I’ll be the first to starting a petition for a stand at HDS to be named after him.
It would be outlier, utterly freakish performance based on normal trends.
If our scoring output stays the same I’m expecting our points tally to start to fall back in line accordingly in the 2nd half of the season.
So that won’t be “Moyes has lost it, he needs to go”, if that does happen, it will just simply be reverting back to what 1 goal a game usually gets you.
For me, our points tally currently is an overachievement, so credit to them for somehow managing it.
Whoever the manager is this Summer (could we do better than Moyes IMO? Yes. Could we do worse than Moyes? Yes also) I hope somehow our new recruitment team are able to source players like Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth have in recent years given it’s likely we won’t be shopping in the “I want Europe” category of player again which Moyes got continual knock backs from last Summer. Previous Message
11 points up vs this time in 2025. City and Villa next up (+8), then Arsenal (+6).
It’s frustrating at times, I agree. Moyes is not without his faults, I agree. But the progress is indisputable. There’s no guarantee at all that the next flavour of the month doesn’t turn into one of the many pumpkins we’ve endured over the last decade+.
Again, I’m not preaching giving the man a permanent pass. But I think we can allow for a bad patch when he has (literally) half the squad unavailable and has only had one transfer window to try and improve things.
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