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Improvement needs to start with Moyes

By John Charles :  30/12/2010 :  Comments (12) :

In the cool light of day, obviously it's inpractical even if I still thought that. You look at paying Moyes's contract off for the next three years (£3M/yr) and then paying someone like Bolton compensation for (for arguement's sake) Owen Coyle ? and it's not going to happen, nor probably should it. Moyes has many many positives and is a great manager but right now he needs to have a good look at himself.

I'd like to see him improve... as with some players he too has a weakness in his game:

I can understand him starting with Cahill upfront ? really I can. The logic was there with the strikers not scoring etc. But, after 25 minutes clearly it wasn't working. Why not change it there and then? Or at the very least, change it at half time??

After 25 minutes I thought he should have subbed Hibbert for Saha or Beckford and put Rodwell into central defense. Hibbert's too small and not strong enough for the center and clearly Cahill is less effective uptop. The Hammers were looking dangerous as Hibbo wasn't clearing the danger from crosses in his central berth.

Now, after that tactical ineptitude I find it incredable to give Beckford all of 3½ minutes and totally scandalous to then give Bilyaletdinov all of 90 seconds. Not only was it unfair on the two players to think they can contribute in that time, but way more worrying the fact they were so late ? and not made simultaneously ? suggest's he was running the clock out for a point. A frigging point.... Running the clock out? Are you serious??

Attitudes need to change and it starts at the top. It seems medicrocity or just doing 'average' is acceptable. That was 2 points PISSED away at West Ham ? along with countless others. A point isn't good enough from that game yet, at the end, he's playing out time for one when we should be going for three?

Moyes obviously has many strong points but I wish he would be more positive ? not necersarily with his starting tactics ? as I say, I could see the logic in Cahill up-top, but more positive in making a change when it clearly isnt working. I'll bet you Mourinho would have made a substitution after 25 minutes as soon as he saw it ar at least at half-time. Personally I would have re-subbed Yakubu too as he is one lazy bastard when he doesn't care.

I don't believe Moyes would not have been thinking the same problems and issues, so why not have some courage and make substitutions early and have time to put it right? We're a way better team than mid-table but not if we keep being so rigid and so predictable from the bench.

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