OLAS V Cardiff league cup

Don't say you wasn't warned, don't say it wasnt pointed out by many people, this is what you get when you appoint a manager whose (perceived) brand of football is alien to everything that had gone on before it. I have always said that the big man should never have darkened our door, he was a business appointment not a football appointment brought in because the Daves had in their infinite wisdom appointed the worst manager to tactically manage our club, and preceded to get us relegated. We had sunk so low that even the appointment of a manager who style of football was alien to everything this club had stood for looked to many a good move. We gave ourselves the title as "The Academy of Football" as a statement that we were where the best products of English football came to learn the game, learn it to played the right way. The production line that produced most of the golden generation of the last 20 years, players that have won hundreds of England caps, premier league titles and champion league trophies, fcuk it, we even did win the World Cup. 3 of our youths, taught the right way, leading the country to glory, not only that but some of the goals scored came off the West Ham training ground not the England training ground. You could make an argument that Ron Greenwood had a hand in lifting the trophy as much as Ramsey as it was him that came up with the ball to the nearpost for Hurst to head home v the Argies and the Germans. Academy of football, my fcuking arse,
The style of play should run through all the clubs teams, from the 1st team all the way down through the development (reserves) and the under 19's 16's etc etc. are we honestly teaching our kids to play the Alladyce Way, has the Great Tony Carr forsaken all that he has coached in the past, because if we are then we got to take down the signs proclaiming us as the academy of football because following the shame will be too much to bear.
I'm not a lover of Stats but even I can't ignore the evidence they give to the fact that something is wrong with the way we play. Every team, except Cardiff, has possession greater than we have, we have the worst pass completion rate in the top flight and our shots on target across the 5 games in the league are also the worst, 8 in total.
I can hear people saying that this is a typical knee jerk reaction and we've only had 5 games, but the opposition in those 5 games are teams that we should In The least be matching, but we're not, and the problem is after Hull we start a run against the big boys who on current form it could be embarrassing. It seems we are stuck, counting the days until Andy Carroll is deemed fit enough to bring a bit of hope but then he is not really the answer, in fact he is possibly part of the problem, big lump up front a easy target to hit early, Sam has built his team around him neglecting to realise that if he's not available we had no like for like replacement. Love him or hate him but Carlton Cole at least did slot in to that role a dam sight better than Maiga, who if we are honest we are not playing to his strengths and we were trying to off load to anywhere in the summer.
It appears we chased Lukaku in the summer to no avail, Demba BA & Jermain Defoe as well, all it appears turned us down who knows why the did s open for debate but its not out of the realms of fantasy to suggest they all knew when Carroll is back, they are out the 1st team, most of Sams signings have been in their very late 20’s or early 30’s this is not building a team, but short termism, think forward 3 years to the OS, it appears to foundations of the team has been built on sand. Knock Pards as we might, he bought young players that even when it went tits up we managed to sell at a good profit.
Unfortunately it seems we are stuck with Sam as our owners probably just look at staying in the premier league as success, I doubt they give a monkeys arse about entertainment or seeing a team playing half decently and that is why his appointment was purely a business decision made by desperate owners to clear up the god awful mess their 1st appointment made.
What the answer to this mess is to be honest I don’t know, me personally I would out him straight away, but then again I would of sacked him after the play off final, then again I would never of appointed him in the 1st place. The answer of who could take west ham forward is out there somewhere, I just doubt our current owners would ever take the risk on that person. They like safety managers as highlighted by their appointments at Brum, could you ever see them appointing a manager in the way Southampton did, they were on the up but the owner realised it wouldn’t last so rather than stick with the incumbent he went bold, a total unknown, now Southampton are no great team but they certainly outplayed us at their ground and then topped it off by going to Liverpool and winning. Look at Swansea and the appointments they have made, 2 of their previous managers are managing in the premier league and yet they go from strength to strength.
The fact that both Swansea’s and Southampton’s managers learned their trade in Spain is no coincidence to the success they are impacting on their respective teams, when you look at the success of the Spanish national side, that comes from every team in spain playing virtually the same style, so any new player called into their squad can fit straight in with the stars of Barca and Real, you cant say that of the English national team.
Some where out there is a manager for us, I just hope we find him before someone else does.