Ronald_antly
1:05 Sat Aug 29
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Sage words, Huggie.
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Hugh Monteith
12:42 Sat Aug 29
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FFS.
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David L
8:10 Fri Aug 28
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Well said Nigel. Fuck the game and fuck Sky!
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Chopper Toshack
7:03 Fri Aug 28
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I'm with you mate. Onwards and upwards.
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Sir Alf
5:55 Fri Aug 28
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Its about having a balanced squad. We probably have better players in some positions than some of our closer rivals but we have no wide men, little pace and no creativity for the squad. The striker situation is more about injuries but width we need. Not Kevin Nolan waistband width either.
In both home games Bilic has had to push men out wide to compensate for the narrowness of the set up and team he put out in the first half. Against Leicester, Zarate was pushed out wide and against B'Mouth Jarvis came on and Kouyate was asked to hug the touchline. We will struggle especially at home.
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Nigel Khazi
5:01 Fri Aug 28
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Obviously huge credit to Sullivan and Gold for addressing the debt. I have my issues with them as many West Ham fans do (No class, Jack Sullivan tweeting club business, dodgy Russian coats); but they have run the club well from a business perspective. Fair play to them.
Bilic is yet to demonstrate that he is an improvement on Allardyce. Hopefully he will do so in time, but at the moment nobody could fairly make that claim.
Equally, the current squad needs to prove that it's the best we've had in years. Long way to go before that claim can be justified as well. We've just lost back to back home games to Leicester and Bournemouth, so let's not start pretending we're that fantastic.
Personally I'd sooner have seen us stay at Upton Park than move to the OS. In a few years our club is going to be completely unrecognisable from that which we've all grown to love. I'm not sure that necessarily constitutes progress. To be honest though, I am a cynical bastard who finds many aspects of modern football utterly abhorrent. I think the OS and related saga has brought us attention for all the wrong reasons, and the move itself will lead to us becoming another Manchester City, i.e. a great club with a fantastic set of fans, which gets bought out by some corrupt magnate or other, enjoys some on-pitch success but at the loss of what made the club great in the first place. We'll be a prawn sandwich club before long, so whatever happens in the meantime is academic really. We'll have thousands of Tarquins and Ruperts and Quentins, who'll leave their seats empty for entire seasons, preferring to enjoy oysters and champagne in the corporate bars of the OS, discuss the markets and suck each others' cocks. I'm not sure I'd consider that the right track. Not West Ham's fault though; it's just the game. Fuck the game.
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Keep dreaming
4:33 Fri Aug 28
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JFK, fluke, sum etc
Loads of good posts. Let's just give the new WestHamUtd a chance. We know it won't be easy to adjust from hoof to football.
Better late than never. OK with being mediocre as long as we stand United!
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Fluke
4:18 Fri Aug 28
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I agree with the original post. I sometimes feel we as a club attract negative on ourselves, the fans in particular, i love bubbles but even that is pure negative. We need to get behind the team even when it's going badly and this group of players and bilic will surpass what we all think is possible
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Hermit Road
3:40 Fri Aug 28
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RBshorty 1:12 Fri Aug 28
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SUM A DING WONG
3:38 Fri Aug 28
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Before anyone points it out..., yes..., Newcastle were even more badly managed than us!
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SUM A DING WONG
3:30 Fri Aug 28
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You can chuck Newcastle in there, too!!
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SUM A DING WONG
3:29 Fri Aug 28
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RBshorty 1:12 Fri Aug 28
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You just know we are fucked when someone says Crystal Palace have a better squad than us. And thinks it's OK.!
Do you know something, I don't actually think Palace, Swansea, Southampton or Stoke have a better squad than us - they've just been managed better.
I thoughtt I'd say that they have a better squad than us, so as that I didn't come across as being too confident - But fuck it, I don';t think that they all do have a better squad than us!! ;-)
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jfk
2:18 Fri Aug 28
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Keep dreaming its good to see a bit of optimismi at the Start of a new season I've always had the same feeling..
It's a crying shame some who post on here are fucking bilic off after three games.West ham fans boasting about not going to games slagging off a gift of a brand spanking new stadium.
You don't need a maths degree to realise that in this day and age money buys success in football
Support us and our young enthused young manager or fuck off.
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COOL HAND LUKE
2:08 Fri Aug 28
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SUM A DING WONG
He knew at Xmas that he was on his way out.
In fact, he knew before the end of the previous season, but he thought he would be able to blag it.
The issues with Tony Henry did it... Sam could see Sulli was starting to shoehorn his fingers off the club's neck
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SUM A DING WONG
1:58 Fri Aug 28
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Sir Alf 1:22 Fri Aug 28
With regards to the very poor form we've shown from the second half of last season, I would put a lot of that down to Allardyce just going through the motions and not giving a fuck.
That was probably due to him having an inklin that he wasn't going to be the manager this season..
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SUM A DING WONG
1:41 Fri Aug 28
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Sir Alf 1:22 Fri Aug 28
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As I say, I can understand your pessimism. But come on, and you would know a lot more than me, how much worse things were during the latter part of the cearns era, & the whole of the Brown era! Hand on heart, is it as bad as those days?
The David’s lack class, and go about things in an arse about face way – we all know that. However, I do believe (fingers crossed) they are guiding us forward.
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COOL HAND LUKE
1:35 Fri Aug 28
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My priority was to get rid of Allardyce. The main reason was not just 'him' per se - it is that everywhere he goes, he creates a malevolent all embracing culture that puts his grubby fat fingers around that club's throat.
Sacking him in itself is just the first step to removing his influence... there are a good few examples of how quickly he can strangle the mojo of a club, and what happens if you don't move quickly to address those issues once he's gone...
Whatever you say about Sulli, he found himself stuck with Sam contractually, a good 18 months before he could legitimately oust him, is my guess. At the first clear oppo, he shot him - that took a good deal of courage, knowing what history tells us about 'rescuing a club's soul' post Allardyce.
NOW we are busy with the removal tool, but of course we've got to try and keep dancing whilst we change the record... not easy, but it can't be left half cocked.
Cynics are saying Nolan etc should've gone immediately on Bilic's arrival... THAT would have made it Sulli & Co's decision; instead of which it appears (fact or otherwise) that Slav came to his own decision soon enough.
The old saying is it's not just about the destination, you should try to enjoy the journey. I suspect it might be the other way about at WHU for a while...
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bovard
1:28 Fri Aug 28
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I think the biggest problem is the quality of the players. I think we have a lot of second rate players who are fine when you play hoof ball and will dig out results, but if you are trying to play football then we just don't have the quality there. Sure we have some, but no where near enough.
Realistically how many current players would get in the Spurs side which I think is not that great either.
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Sir Alf
1:24 Fri Aug 28
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chim chim cha boo 1:17 Fri Aug 28
That is true. Nolan just had no legs left for the Prem and it was like a man down.
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Sir Alf
1:22 Fri Aug 28
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SUM A DING WONG 12:52 Fri Aug 28
fair play to you mate. I will try to get me chin up but having lived through 4 relegations since 1978 and most seasons either worrying about relegation or bouncing down and up a division, I saw signs in the last 2 games of the same.
Only winning 4 games from 24 is probably what has me worried. We need to break out of that pattern or we will struggle big time.
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Willtell
1:20 Fri Aug 28
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We're on the right track all right. Trouble is they keep putting out the retractable seating and we trip over it time after time...
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