With no Nuno Espirito Santo to take their anger out on and Scott Parker just 72 hours into the job, West Ham fans turned on the players after another hugely damaging defeat to a distinctly average Blackburn Rovers side.

West Ham can change the manager all they like, it won’t disguise the fact this team and squad – and the characters within it – clearly do not have what it takes to mount a serious challenge for automatic promotion back to the Premier League.

While not impossible, that now looks a huge ask for Scott Parker after the Hammers made it a dismal one point from the last 12 in the Championship.

Given how fiercely competitive the race for the top two has been so far this season, West Ham need to be on course for between 90-95 points.

West Ham fans tell players they’re not fit to wear the shirt

After three defeats and a draw from their last four games, West Ham are on course for just 70 points.

And you would struggle to find a single West Ham fan who would have any confidence in this team to have to win the play-offs given how they crumble when it really counts.

It is just the same garbage, different manager at West Ham.

Parker looked like he might have sorted the problem with the slow starts when West Ham did not concede in the first half.

But the truth is Blackburn were happy to sit in and bide their time.

The second half brought the usual capitulation as West Ham found themselves 2-0 down after missing a couple of chances at the other end.

The Hammers did their usual, waking up and having a go when it was too late. At 2-0 there was a late flurry and Joel Piroe got one back. But forget the football, it was the same old story we’ve seen time and again. So much so you could copy and paste any match report from the last three years here.

The real story from Ewood Park was those loyal West Ham fans turning on these players.

The travelling army of over 7,000 West Ham fans chanted “You’re not fit to wear the shirt” at the players as they slipped to yet another defeat – making it four for the season so far. A side note here is that on average, teams winning automatic promotion lose five or six games in an entire season.

At the final whistle, Parker and the players sheepishly went over to applaud the supporters. None got closer than the edge of the 18 yard box, which was probably a wise decision so angry was the reaction of the fans, who again chanted “You’re not fit to wear the shirt” while aiming plenty of frustration and vitriol their way too.

Fans answer their own question about biggest problem at West Ham

Some fans think West Ham’s players are being complacent, turning up believing they will walk games and then only playing when they get shocked into action by falling a couple of goals behind.

The truth of the matter is supporters have probably answered their own question on the biggest problem at West Ham – besides the ownership of course.

Tonight, as the Hammers sit in ninth place in the Championship, outside the EXTENDED play-off places, it is hard to argue that Redknapp is wrong.

While West Ham must now fester on this for two weeks of another international break, it may have come at the perfect time for Parker.

He has been given a pass on the last two results for obvious reasons.

That honeymoon period will be over when the action resumes and West Ham simply must get themselves on a long winning run to have any hope of going up automatically.

West Ham player ratings vs Blackburn:

Hermansen 2/10, Veltman 4/10, Mavropanos 5/10, Kilman 4/10, Mayers 7/10, Engels 6/10, Kante 4/10, Mukasa 6/10, Austbo 7/10, Bowen 5/10, Piroe 6/10.

Subs: Taty 4/10, Soucek 6/10, Orford 5/10, Solomon 3/10.