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title: "Five things West Ham should do to ensure 2017/18 starts well"
canonical: "https://readwestham.com/2017/03/28/five-things-west-ham-ensure-201718-starts-well/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Luke Osman"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2017-03-28T17:29:34Z"
modified: "2017-03-28T17:29:34Z"
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# Five things West Ham should do to ensure 2017/18 starts well

It’s been a hugely rocky season for West Ham and they’ll be looking to write this one off already, focusing on the coming campaign.

The Hammers have picked up since midway through the season and are currently sat in and around the middle of the table, but the club’s start to the season under Slaven Bilic looked to promise treacherous consequences.

Fears of relegation were aplenty after a shambolic beginning to the 2016/17 campaign at the London Stadium and it’s certain that West Ham will want to avoid such an underwhelming start to next season.

It was a difficult time for the club and a period that will not be welcome again. So, what can they do to ensure that this season’s initial demise doesn’t repeat itself in August?

We’ve taken a look at five things that West Ham as a collective need to do to ensure that 2017/18 starts better than 2016/17 did for them.