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by NedN
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

The theory is right. You can move early if you are happy signing players where you are their first choice. If you want better quality then sometimes you need others to say no first. It also helps if you know whether you have European football or not. We could have anything from Champions League thr...
by NedN
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

The thing is, and this is a genuine question, I wonder if we’ve become so used to mismanagement and leaving transfers/managerial appointments to late in the windows, that the task of integrating players seems tougher than it may be (if you have the right manager and right character of player) If, fo...
by NedN
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

Of course its foolish that we are in a situation that we have to do wholesale business this summer. Bonkers isnt it? We shouldn’t be in a place where we have to make so many signings, and we shouldn’t sign anyone just to add names, but we’re in a bad situation. I think it’s fair to say that we coul...
by NedN
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

Takeiteasy wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:12 pm He’d be perfect. I think there will be a bidding war for him in the summer.
Don’t think we have a chance but hope we try. Think he will go for around 50-60
by NedN
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

Zirkzee :eyes:
by NedN
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

norse wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:57 pm Braithwaite is probably possible to get. Branthwaite not so much.
Oh great…another tricky spelling for everyone to get wrong on their wishlists for the next 5 months
by NedN
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024
Replies: 1533
Views: 84370

Re: The Summer Transfer Thread 2024

Yeah, I'm convinced he'll be staying, but would be nice to have it rubber stamped, wouldn't it? No, it’s best that we drag it out to July over minor technicalities and finalize it after the players have returned for preseason. We also should hold off on any signings until the manager is confirmed, ...
by NedN
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Plastic fantastic
Replies: 115
Views: 5613

Re: Plastic fantastic

I saw my first game in ‘99, when I was an 11 year old kid, and like most kids that age in the states, had only heard about the big name players. We didn’t have weekly broadcasts of games at the time, or 24 hour highlights, only a weekly PL review show on fox sports with Max Bretos, and football cata...
by NedN
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

If they are going to continue with this VAR system then why not put a camera on the inside of the post top left and right corners. Do you think this would help? Tbf, with the amount of money in the game, and technology available, I’m surprised we don’t already have this. Even cameras on the *outsid...
by NedN
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

If the Kudus goal was disallowed for a foul on the keeper, it goes to show why we need refs who have actually played the game at some level. At first I thought it was a clear foul on Antonio. Watching the replay it looks more like both of them are jockeying for position, but nowhere near the ball, a...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Freiburg - Leverkusen
Replies: 21
Views: 3093

Re: Freiburg - Leverkusen

Of course not, but they’ve been this run lately where they are scoring overtime goals, every ref decision. Is going their way, etc. Seems unsustainable. Overtime? What is this hockey? The NFL? In all seriousness they do seem to be running on some good luck recently and arguably we’re running on som...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

That was terrible. They showed a replay from behind him and it didn’t even look like the shot was on target. Looked like it was going wide to me as well. Ironically, if he had just trapped it after feigning a shot, cash would have been out of the picture and Martinez would have already dived and he...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

I'm not even sure it should go back to the ref. Apparently the VAR crew couldn't decide and asked the ref to look at it. If they couldn't decide then it wasn't clear and obvious and the ref needn't have had to look. The ref had originally awarded a goal. The ref should only have to go look if the V...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

I really don’t see how you can blame DM for anything on this one other than not making subs earlier, I think we should have had fresh legs on when we were ahead. I’m not going to blame him for putting the players on that he put on, it just would have helped to do so when we had the lead and were get...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

Great first half, we totally outmanaged and outplayed them. DM properly had Emery’s number and we were pressing when we should and sticking to the block when we should. It was probably one of the best PL halves we’ve played all season. I thought the subs did come too late in the second half. When th...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

We need to get some fresh legs on. We actually have more quality on the bench now, and there it is
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

Weirdy wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:17 pm My dog gets a treat everytime we score and the little s**t won't give me the last one back :crossed:
Bloody hell you out the jinx on us! You can’t give him a treat until after the opposition takes the ensuing kickoff
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

I think for a handball leading to a goal it doesn’t have to be a clear and obvious error with the new rule right? I think if it hits the hand and goes in, even if not a clear and obvious miss, it’s chalked off no? Or is it just that any goal off the arm which is missed is just deemed to be a clear a...
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

They must have an angle or freeze frame that we don’t because I couldn’t tell anything from that
by NedN
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)
Replies: 1220
Views: 68080

Re: West Ham United v Aston Villa: match thread (17.03.24)

Tell you what, Bailey intentionally put that ball off of Emerson’s arm. You could tell from the reverse angle. Good no call. I think this is 100% what the ref and VAR room saw. There was no reason to play it in that direction other than to hit Emerson’s arm. No player who would have received the ba...