Mavropanos has used that mid air block of his a few times successfully, didn't work yesterday...can forgive that error but can't overlook how that mistake put him off for the rest of game...looked 2nd best throughout. Paqueta, had a terrible game, sloppy and I'll tempered... 2nd goal was all about h...

People really not expecting Bowen to play...interesting.... when he came off at the weekend I thought there'd be a midweek update about how his injury was much worse than we thought...And then he'll start.

Not the first time Moyes has played this card...

Quite. My WhatsApp groups were going ape with this change, slating both Creswell and Moyes. When the match was won, they came back with - 'Why can't that idiot do it earlier '? "Bringing a defender on to improve the attacking play...It's what he does" Shirts with the new slogan available ...

Wilko1304 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:47 am The Cresswell change is the one that impressed me.

Considering we've been told that Cresswell is frozen out and Moyes refuses to speak to him the whole thing was quite remarkable.

We scored twice, had a third harshly ruled out and if Soucek and Kudus sort their feet out we score 5.

They had two chances... one was a penalty the other offside.

If he isn't stood in front of Fab ...then it's an easy catch for Fab...if he's not offside it'd be due to us having a player on the line who clears the header.

Totally made up hypotheticals but more believable than whatever a 'subjective' offside is.

As poor as we were in the first half I don't recall them having many good chances, they didn't get in behind us once, gave Fab some easy catching practice with their distance shots and only scored from a pretty soft penalty.

Lots of nice passy passy but not a lot else.

I agree, but second season with a club always has a bit of a different edge to it. Huge risk anyone taking him before seeing how he does a second season with Wolves. Agreed. .if they finish top 10 he will also have some expectation on him which really changes things. O'Niells done well but he's had...

I’ve seen a fair few people saying that, should Moyes go, they wouldn’t mind seeing Gary O’Neil get the gig. I wonder what the reaction would be if, whilst WHU manager, he was leading 1-0 at half time against a team playing absolute dog ****, sat back in the second half and only come out to play ag...

Look absolutely pony for a while, have a think about it, then do something different, then win. The amount of times we've been on the other end of that. Moyes does seem to set us up to do our homework in the first half and then get down to it second half. It'd be nice to see us play two decent halv...

Id have it as a bog standard offside...shot on target...player in offside position...offside...lino get yr flag up!

This subjective line of sight nonsense is as much a problem as VAR Is. The rules are too complicated...no wonder there are so many poor decisions being made.

Would like to come out anti-VAR but player was stood in offside position, middle of goal directly in front of keeper...How could it not be offside?? Plenty of sketchy performances today, first half to forget. But today does show how astute Moyes can be with subs...Johnson was a real game changer and...

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Is my prediction for the summer, based on our tentative sniffings.

The moment he loses the ball or gets a bit fired up, he's a walking yellow card. To be fair to him, a lot of his bookings look almost intentional because of how inevitable they are when he starts pursuing a player with a fired up look in his eye. He also likes a bit of a push and shove - but I thin...

There was a very interesting interview with Postecoglu in yesterday’s Standard. He was asked how come Spurs so often come back from a goal down to secure points. His explanation was that it was a characteristic of every team he had previously managed and based on the fact that he coaches his team t...

So has Paqueta at times. And Antonio in probably every single match thread. You are going to have to link me to the thread where a large section of the fanbase are saying that Paqueta isn't good enough to play for West Ham. Antonio does keep getting written off but when he's playing like he is now ...

But to go full circle, maybe last night's bench wouldn't have been so bad had more of the senior squad players been kept on and had more minutes over the course of the season and made to feel like part of the team. The impression I get is that they were considered fringe players and that's not goin...

So he hasn't spoken to Cresswell, but he started against Freiburg. Guess he told Bowen to tell Cresswell he was playing? Cresswell also sits in the tunnel pre-game and at half time, has a little tressle table with a kettle and some crisps on...been asked to wear his headphones in case he hears word...

Obviously a lot of talk about the Subs or lack of... Not enough talk about the in game changes made by Moyes. First 10 minutes we were getting ripped apart by there Fullbacks - anyone notice they were playing on the inside like Number 10s??? :hush: - Dropped Paqueta back and pushed JWP up top and we...

Could it not be that a different manager could get more out of our squad? In a similar way that Emery got more out of the Villa squad than Gerrard ever could? Of course it could... but in that scenario you are going from a very VERY poor manager who isn't getting anywhere near enough out of his squ...