Not this old chestnut again.

Nonsense. You cant excuse McManus's terrible recruitment

Exactly. People have to realise it's not all black and white. McManus did a great job of stabilising our finances and providing us with the stadium. Great, very deserving of praise on that. However, at the same time the club he is ultimately responsible for suffered during that time and the fact we're in this position now isn't some fluke caused by injuries and players not putting enough effort in, like his programme notes seem to claim. It's due to horrendous recruitment in both coaching and playing roles over the last 5 or 6 years.

Same with Wello. Another club legend and a man who I would take a bullet for, based on what he's done for the club over the years. But he's not good enough anymore, he isn't worth a contract now.

I can't testify to its accuracy but a guy behind me said he was at a forum a few weeks ago and KC was asked about the "situation" with our pack and how they are performing.

His response was that in his opinion "we have the best pack in the league".

Needless to say everyone in the room looked round at each other as if to say he must be watching a different team. At least Eamon doesn't buy into that.

As a West Ham fan as well as rugby league I know far too well that Club Chairmen should keep a background role or otherwise they have to take all the blame!

Senior management report to the CEO, CEO reports to the Chairman, all actions taken are the responsibility of everyone in a senior position at the club, with the buck stopping at the Chairman.

Same in every company.

You poor soul!

Really funny that bit a lady got banned from Red Vee for saying the same about the site, it must be catching

Not sure if that has been totally the case with McManus? not every chairman has hands on control as he likes, some are the final decision maker only.

West Ham, not bad 10th position, but I am no Sam fan and fellow fans know it well now!

I see his 'notes' are just hot air as usual. He states that in the programme on Sunday and it's on twitter that he's extended his contract on Monday.

The McManus notes sounds as though he has kept his "eye off the ball" during the new stadium tenure and perhaps he,s now trying to get back on track "hands on". Rushy will be taking the load of McManus so maybe our Chairman wants improvements or there will be actions on players as he already has mentioned.

Or maybe he is just trying to placate the fans by saying stuff he thinks they will want to hear.

What are you going on about you tedious windbag? Why do you keep posting crap about west ham ? Your like a less entertaining version of Rogues.

McManus is [ithe[/i boss at Saints and has been since he walked through the door, he can take alot of credit for the new stadium but he's also got to take the stick for leaving us with a weak unbalanced squad carrying too many people living on past reputations.

Does anyone honestly think we would sign any player unless McManus was 100% behind it ? I don't

What are you on about? you need to calm down and read properley first! I agree fully about your comments about McManus!!