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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where will we finish?
- Replies: 916
- Views: 50234
Re: Where will we finish?
I could see this being the year we finish above Man Utd but also miss out on Europe - mainly becauase of how bad they are. 8th, I reckon.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
We were great first half last night but really should have got the 2nd goal as Leverkusen were, to put it mildly, all over the shop. I have never seen a team give the ball away so much. Some of their playing out from the back was suicidal! Yep, that was our chance. Reminded me a bit of the Bruno v ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ✍ Welcome Edson Álvarez
- Replies: 704
- Views: 63970
Re: ✍ Welcome Edson Álvarez
Absolutely ran himself into the ground yesterday. He was immense in the first half.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
That’s demonstrably untrue. Andrich for Wirtz is no upgrade. Adli for Grimaldo is no upgrade. Boniface for Schick no upgrade (some may argue this) I’m talking about the ability to make a sub before half time and two changes at half time to switch things up. Andrich and Aldi both came on in the last...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
If you watch that and don’t conclude that the difference was that one team had the ability to bring equivalent (better even) players on and the other couldn’t despite their players having played 45 minutes at a completely unsustainable level…..then I think you need to have a bit of a sit down. As h...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Declan Rice
- Replies: 24841
- Views: 1812436
Re: Declan Rice
Paqueta is getting a bit of this treatment at the moment. You're not wrong. Guilty as charged, to be fair (me, not him - investigation ongoing). I think the difference between him and Rice though is that part of the stick Paqueta is getting relates to his behaviour on the pitch, whereas Rice has ha...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
Those betting on Paolo Di Canio to score the only goal at Old Trafford in the 2001 FA Cup tie got 76/1... those are the best odds I can recall involving a WHUFC fixture. I got 100/1 in a bookies on the morning of the game. What a day that was. I remember trying to place the double on Di Canio first...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Declan Rice
- Replies: 24841
- Views: 1812436
Re: Declan Rice
This week Rice is overrated, Saka's not nailed on to start on the right for England, Cole Palmer is the future of the English game and Haaland is a flat track bully. Give it a couple of weeks and it'll be someone else under the spotlight for better or worse. I think it's fair to say that Arsenal hav...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Romford's Snug
- Topic: Things that are gone that you miss
- Replies: 71
- Views: 2344
Re: Things that are gone that you miss
A world without Breakfast TV and 24 hour "news" channels. It adds nothing positive and fuels all manner of negative mindsets. A world where people weren't filming, photographing and recording everything. It triggers the vanity, narcissism and Stasi informant in too many people. This is a ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Romford's Snug
- Topic: Things that are gone that you miss
- Replies: 71
- Views: 2344
Re: Things that are gone that you miss
Knowing interesting stuff that other people didn't or talking to people who knew interesting stuff that you didn't. I love Wikipedia and the like, but I miss the days when people knew stuff because they'd taken the time to become knowledgeable, rather than using a quick google search to get the gene...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
if jarrod's front and centre for the cameras and moyes says there's a good chance he'll feature, bet your house on him being out. Yeah, but if if Jarrod's front and centre for the cameras and Moyes says there's a good chance he'll feature, and you've just bet your house on him being out - you can b...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Julian's CV
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2450
Re: Julian's CV
Wonder whether Slav offered him the chance to go out to Saudi with him or whether he only brings him in as UK-based sidekick.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
Would be surprised to see Cornet in the starting line up tomorrow. For whatever reason, be it lingering fitness issues, long-term impact of his previous injury, or the manager just thinking he's rubbish, he's just at the bottom of the pecking order. It took a very worrying injury to a 19 year old ma...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
- Replies: 1793
- Views: 48905
Re: West Ham Utd v Bayer Leverkusen: match thread (2nd leg)
I'm actually really looking forward to the first 5-10 mins of this game, when I imagine we'll go at them, the atmosphere will be good, and who knows, we might score. What I'm not looking forward to, is the prospect of Leverkusen scoring early, the tie being killed off, and spending 80+ minutes calcu...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
- Replies: 4979
- Views: 399553
Re: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
Is there something else he needs to be doing over the next two or three weeks? The booking on Thursday was ridiculous, but the one today almost looked like a man trying to get suspended. They were the actions of a man not playing for the team and only thinking about his own ego. Terrific player on h...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
- Replies: 4979
- Views: 399553
Re: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
He is in the same category as Alvarez i think, in that he needs that edge and bite to his game to be at his best. Unfortunately that means silly yellow cards quite often as he cant tackle and picks stupid little arguments I appreciate the edge and the bite when he's doing it for the team. The foul ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: West Ham United FC Match Threads
- Topic: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
- Replies: 1970
- Views: 70882
Re: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
The first goal next Thursday either kills the tie stone dead or sets up a proper game. No choice but to go for it early on. Live and die by the sword. I had no issues with how we set up last night, but next week we have to go for it, and if Leverkusen win because they're just better than us then fai...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: West Ham United FC Match Threads
- Topic: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
- Replies: 1970
- Views: 70882
Re: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
They cut through us pretty quickly on the rare occasions that we had men committed forward and lost the ball, so I've no complaints with the containment tactics. It very nearly paid off. The second goal is a hammer blow in terms of the tie and a lot of the negative reaction to Moyes on social media ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
- Replies: 4979
- Views: 399553
Re: ✍️ Welcome Lucas Paquetá - Our Brazilian Magnifico
Would love to see the stats on the number of times he's got the ball under pressure in his own half, rolled the ball under his foot to work a bit of space while trying to hold players off, lost it, then got annoyed and gone in too hard trying to win the ball back. It's one of his signature moves. Th...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: West Ham United FC Match Threads
- Topic: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
- Replies: 1970
- Views: 70882
Re: Bayer Leverkusen v West Ham Utd Europa QF 1st leg match thread
Given our absences, you could make a case for Johnson starting in one of three or four different positions, even though there's every chance he won't start at all. Almost certain to be the first player off the bench if he doesn't though.