MAGNIFICENT! That's the only word you can use to describe Rovers' 7-1 mauling of a woeful West Ham on Sunday.

Graeme Souness's braves had threatened to give someone a good hiding for a while and sadly for the hapless Hammers it turned out to be them.

After weeks of bemoaning the lack of a killer touch infront of goal, a total of seven different players then go and get themselves on the scoresheet. Whoever said football's a funny old game might just have had a point!

But as good as Rovers were -- and some of their football was truly exhilarating at times -- just how bad were the Hammers?

The West Ham board's decision to part company with Harry Redknapp last season was one of the most baffling moves of the year for me. In his seven years at the helm, the happy Hammers had never finished below 15th in the Premier League.

And in three of the last four years they had finished 5th, 8th and 9th.

For a club of their size and spending power that's bordering on the miraculous. But you can't just measure a manager's success on results and league placings alone.

In the likes of Joe Cole, Michael Carrick and Jermain Defoe, the former Bournemouth boss has also nurtured some of the hottest young talent in the English game.

Then throw in the likes of more established stars like Paolo Di Canio and Freddie Kanoute and you've got a squad on paper at least seemingly loaded with top talent.

Where was the sense, therefore, in replacing him with a man who nearly took Burnley into the Third Division as Chris Waddle's side-kick?

Glenn Roeder as a person seems a pretty decent fella -- mild-mannered, accessible and ever-so-polite. But it's often the nice guys who struggle to succeed in a cut-throat business awash with ego-maniacs.

They say teams tend to mirror their managers and you could see a bit of Roeder in the Hammers on Sunday -- mild-mannered, soft-centred and ever-so-polite.

The question is where do they go from here? Do the board lose face and admit they made a mistake in appointing a man clearly lacking the qualities to do the job? Or do they try and ride out the storm in the belief that the former England coach can turn it around?

I know what I would do.