Monk~koknee 4:49 Sun Aug 17
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What is there to back up this Noble best passer claim and how effective is it supposed to be. Dropping deep and playing mainly short and sideways passes may have its uses and looks great on the stats but it achieves little. His ability to use a range of passing to create openings is very limited. Opportunities to break quickly are often lost when he is involved as momentum is lost.

Irons10 4:28 Sun Aug 17
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Owners demand more entertaining football... So BFS sticks with Carlton Cole who has 13 goals in three Premier League seasons as a lone striker when the opposition are down to 10 men. Couldn't make it up could you?

Texas Iron 3:55 Sun Aug 17
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good points Zico...

Agreed Noble is our best passer and one of the best in the Prem...

However too many of his passes are sideways and back..

...and if only he had an extra gear...too slow to be a real top class player....

zico 3:31 Sun Aug 17
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I know most are calling for two up front but it's not as easy as that in the Premier League anymore. Yes against 10 men today BFS should have done that but 11 v 11 in a lot of games unless you have a very energetic, powerful and solid midfield four you can get overwhelmed in a three v two scenario in central midfield. So you need the personnel to do that and any midfield with Noble and Nolan isn't going to work as a 442. Kouyate and Diame as a midfield two might work in principal based on strength and work rate but does Diame do it consistently? Ok Noble missed a penalty today but he scores most of them and I still think he is our best passer and puts a shift in most games but Nolan is a liability these days so shouldn't be anywhere near the starting line up. As I said many times before without his goals he offers very little so why pick him?!!!

One thing that has bugged me for a while and it shows itself regularly on MOTD and that is for a long while now we create very little running behind. When did we last score a goal like Tottenham's today? We play a big lump up top with his back to goal that's why and don't have the runners behind and around him. 5 years ago that was Nolan's forte but not now. Downing's game isn't that he is the supplier (well on paper) so you need runners from midfield to get beyond the striker or play a different type of striker. Valencia looked like he could get behind when he came on.

So either Valencia or Sakho with a Zarate or Ravel just in behind in a 4411 or go with a 352 with wing backs, a holding midfielder and two bombing on is the way forward not this 4231 that BFS seems to persist with. To play that way you need intelligent footballers that rotate around a top quality striker and right now we don't have a top quality striker and very one dimensional players like Downing. Unless he throws caution to the wind and plays Noble as a deep lying playmaker with Kouyate beside him and say Poyet, Zarate and Valencia supporting Sakho, or Poyet, Zarate and Ravel behind Valencia. But Sam will always play Nolan so the above is irrelevant anyway!!

JGW1 3:16 Sun Aug 17
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Just seen the managers comments. Predictable stuff from the cunt ..... only ourselves to blame blah blah.

But Poch taking even more shit ..... deserved to win? Shot for the pen wasn't on target?

Aren't football managers clueless self serving vacuous cunts?

w4hammer 2:15 Sun Aug 17
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oh and while im at it.





downing...youve go ten yards of space to attack...yid cunt retreating...what do you do?



oh, why not ping a cross into...im actually not sure where...it was kind of between the east stand and greenwich....


team bloated with fucking clueless overpaid cunts

w4hammer 2:11 Sun Aug 17
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toss up betwen who had their worst games ever in a west ham shirt.

nolan love to see the stats- apart from pointing and huffing-just awfull vacous empty cunt all game long in three or four "roles"

colins- continuing his sunday pub form from the preseason...dopy first booking, waving his hands al l game long for "another" fuck up

oh, and then the body shot which should have been a red, straight. I m indcanescant about how fucking useless\\that ginge fukin idiot was

truly two professional footballers "performing" today?\\


fuck off both of you

british is best 12:30 Sun Aug 17
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We had no killer instinct as usual Nolan is a busted flush sadly .

Dapablo 12:22 Sun Aug 17
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Feel like I've been mugged.

The team played well apart from two stupid bookings. Good to see us giving as good as we got in the playing stakes.

Could've, should've maybe. I just feel we were playing well why the need to change it, and then fuck it up.

mrjc 11:52 Sat Aug 16
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Has anyone got a link to that embarrassing YouTube video of those cunts singing from a couple of seasons ago with them outside the ground? remember one bit about them signing top fours there everything. Could really do with the link to get back at some mouthy cunts of there's.

JAC 11:41 Sat Aug 16
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thought we looked ok,especially in first half....Noble to miss the target with the penalty was pathetic,but hes West Ham through and through so thats ok.

charleyfarley 11:33 Sat Aug 16
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I am missing Bleeding Claret, if he was here now he would have a new thread, asking

"Is our next game a must win?" Bless him

bruuuno 11:12 Sat Aug 16
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I was impressed by all of our new signings, and my mum thinks Valencia is handsome

Buster 11:10 Sat Aug 16
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Cheers, about to watch it on Sky just to see how well Cresswell and Kouyate did, sounds like they both had solid games.

:^) 10:55 Sat Aug 16
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Chased down a lost cause showing some pace and strength to win a corner, but didn't get much else chance despite looking lively.

AKA ERNIE 10:50 Sat Aug 16
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Very lively did more in 10 seconds than cole did in 80 minutes

Buster 10:46 Sat Aug 16
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Had to work today so couldn't go. Surprised to see Enner on the bench, let alone getting game time. How did he do in the whole nine minutes he was on, did he get a touch?

:^) 10:41 Sat Aug 16
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Despite starting with Nolan and Carltwonk Cole, I thought we played quite well and deserved at least a point.

Our possession was an improvement and actually carved open a few decent attacks.

Kouyate was the best player on the the pitch. Cresswell, bar giving the ball away that lead to Collins 2nd yellow, had a pretty solid debut.

Shame Noble fucked the penalty up as I think we would have gone on to win.

Tomsdad 10:14 Sat Aug 16
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Nothing has changed much really, still can't create anything!

Oh we'll, maybe he will keep Valencia in for the Palace game.

AKA ERNIE 9:49 Sat Aug 16
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Kouyate class
Cresswell excelant
Cole fucking scum

Gutted we lost sam cost us the game at ht by not going for the win

bell 9:37 Sat Aug 16
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Did have anything to do?

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