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At least if we go down Plymouth Argyle look like getting promoted, so I could go to a match 15 minutes from my house as a novel change.

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****ing Plymouth cost me on my ACCA at the weekend!!

93rd minute equaliser..

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simonpaulthomas wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 4:28 pm At least if we go down Plymouth Argyle look like getting promoted, so I could go to a match 15 minutes from my house as a novel change.

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Latest odds.
Bookies have some faith in our chances.
https://www.oddschecker.com/football/en ... relegation
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Roby wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:07 pm Garry - the Saints got promoted back to the Premier the same season we did under Big Sam.

We went up by winning the play offs and Reading and Southampton were the automatic promotion places.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:28 pm Toe to toe with the Central Element!
The man that “taught” me to tattoo was one of the heads of that shower of ****wits. I wouldn’t be too bothered 😂
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After Everton we have Geordies (A), Chelsea (H) and Spuds (A). We'll be lucky to get 3 points from them.
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All season I've thought it'll be Bournemouth, Forest and one other.

Forest seem to just keep throwing more and more money at players and eventually a few of them have turned out to be decent enough, so they might just survive.

Most likely at the moment to drop would be us, Bournemouth and Southampton or Everton.
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Aah Championship play offs. Something to look forward to

The one we lost vs Palace. Brian Deane (?) was called offside for a goal and me Dad (RIP) woke up from his dementia and said "Kin ell ref. What did he have his cock out or something,,?". It was a sign of life!
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Not overly bothered if we get relegated I rather we sort our identity first.

I think we should be a club who are heavily involved in the East End community (in all it's modern guises).

We invest in youth and give youth a chance in our first team.

We play attacking attractive football.

Us fans feel valued and make a real contribution to the running of the club.

Give cups a real go every time.

Our league position comes after all that but I'm sure if we achieve the above our league position will improve too.
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Bilic'sLimp wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:04 am Not overly bothered if we get relegated I rather we sort our identity first.

I think we should be a club who are heavily involved in the East End community (in all it's modern guises).

We invest in youth and give youth a chance in our first team.

We play attacking attractive football.

Us fans feel valued and make a real contribution to the running of the club.

Give cups a real go every time.

Our league position comes after all that but I'm sure if we achieve the above our league position will improve too.
I know somebody who works for the Show Racism the Red Card organisation. He reckons that West Ham do more for local community outreach than any other club in the country.
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Looks to me that the table now splits almost clearly 3 ways

1. Top 4 pull away

2. Spurs<===>Villa (separated by 6 points and 5-11 in the table), and, then,

3. Palace <==> 20th (separated by 9 points, admittedly, but their 6 victories is followed by us on 5 with 2 other teams, several on 4 and Everton stinking it out on a 15% win rate!)

I think the latter need to win a game sharpish, or will lose too much ground.

Secondly, as much as there are issues with it, our defence might prove to be the difference this season. Our goals against is the best in the bottom half and the equal of Man Un and Liverpool.
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There’s starting to be too many similarities to the 2003 season for my liking.

Nice of us to honour the 20th anniversary of that mind you.
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Coops wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 11:33 am I know somebody who works for the Show Racism the Red Card organisation. He reckons that West Ham do more for local community outreach than any other club in the country.
I'd be very interested to know more about this community outreach you talk of.
As far as I can see they do next to sweet FA.
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mushy wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:12 am I'd be very interested to know more about this community outreach you talk of.
As far as I can see they do next to sweet FA.
For all the owners' ills, the community work in Newham which has happened under their ownership has been amazing.
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mushy wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:12 am I'd be very interested to know more about this community outreach you talk of.
As far as I can see they do next to sweet FA.
To be fair there's a whole section on this on the OS

https://www.whufc.com/club/community
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mushy wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:12 am I'd be very interested to know more about this community outreach you talk of.
As far as I can see they do next to sweet FA.
I'm just going by what the chap I know told me. He works with clubs all over the country. He hasn't got any West Ham bias, he is a Southend fan.
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jabbaglob123 wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:23 am For all the owners' ills, the community work in Newham which has happened under their ownership has been amazing.
Quite right to given the Council Tax payers of Newham contributed £40 million to the conversion of the stadium for West Ham's use.
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That’s a shame. I was looking forward to seeing them implode further under Bielsa.
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