WHO Poll
Q: 2023/24 Hopes & aspirations for this season
a. As Champions of Europe there's no reason we shouldn't be pushing for a top 7 spot & a run in the Cups
24%
  
b. Last season was a trophy winning one and there's only one way to go after that, I expect a dull mid table bore fest of a season
17%
  
c. Buy some f***ing players or we're in a battle to stay up & that's as good as it gets
18%
  
d. Moyes out
38%
  
e. New season you say, woohoo time to get the new kit and wear it it to the pub for all the big games, the wags down there call me Mr West Ham
3%
  



arsegrapes 3:29 Fri Mar 30
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jack flash 11:16 Fri Mar 30

I agree with all of that. The worst for me is Antonio who was HOTY. We wouldn't be where we are if he was fit and on form.

Watching him in the flesh v Burnley he is a shadow of himself. I don't believe he is just unfit, he looks dejected as if he doesn't want to be here, also dropped for being late, maybe he has has been tapped up by one of the top six, although he would probably be a bench player, although many think they will improve with better players around them and many do. Bilic playing him at RB then striker, now Moyes playing him LW hasn't helped.

When he was HOTY x 2 if not for Payet at the Boleyn it was because he was played in his correct position as when we bought him RW, this his only position being right footed and that is where it should be insisted that he is played.

To many others like this Lanzini another, like they don't care if we go down as they will be off, these two will be the first with the transfer requests in. Can't see us winning another game unless there is a massive change of attitude sadly.

costahammer 2:43 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
............................HART.................................

...............RICE KOUYATE OGBONNA.........

...................ZABBA.......NOBLE....................

ANTONIO..........MARIO..............MASA.......

...............ARNIE.........HERNANDEZ............


I think lanzini injured no..?..so put Mario in there!...

Have to play Zabba and Noble as have no other defensive players to choose from!!

we cannot have Zabba and Cresswell playing in a back 3 ..EVER!!

For me kOUYATE a better center half as in midfield his positioning is awful at times but saying that so is Noble's but unfortunately we're down to the bare bones as Harry would say!!

Eerie Descent 2:41 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
Wouldn't disagree.

stepney hammer 2:40 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
You may as well have selected Irrelevant for the rest of the starting line up too.

Eerie Descent 2:35 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
Irrelevant

Zabaleta - Kouyate - Ogbonna - Masuaku

Rice - Noble

Antonio - Arnie - Lanzini

Hernandez



Some idiot will say 4 at the back didn't work when Moyes tried it months ago, but we have been complete and utter gash with 3 at the back for months now, so I'm at a loss as to why we have to stick with it, it makes no sens at all, and we don't have 3 fit centre halves. I know Masuaku can't defend, but he's in healthy company on that front with the rest of our defenders.

We need as many attacking players on the pitch as possible, because erring on the side of caution has led to us shipping goals anyway, so we need to outscore them. It's not the time to die wondering, we HAVE to go for it.

boleynkid 2:18 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
One thing which seems to be overlooked by some is they really aren't that great either. They have been given a bit of a boost with Hughes appointment but let's not make them out to be world beaters.

The players don't need telling how big a game this is so they should be bang up for it but obviously if Lanzini is out as being said then that's a big blow. Not had a good season but arguably our best player on his day.

Takashi Miike 12:41 Fri Mar 30
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Hernandez has to start. Arnie's wasted as an isolated front man, he needs a free role and its Mario who needs to be on the bench

Nick QQQ 12:33 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
I’d go 3-4- 3with the wingers tucking in when defending.

Adrian
Kouyate ogbonna cresswell

Zabaletta Noble rice masuaku

Antonio Arnie. Lanzini

stepney hammer 11:17 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
1-1?

If were conceding 3 and 4 against shit like Burnley and Swansea why do you assume this will be any different?

It doesn't matter who we stick out tomorrow, they're a gutless bunch of cunts who will crumble at the first sign of pressure.

jack flash 11:16 Fri Mar 30
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Sir Alf 4:55 ~

While I agree with you 100% about our midfield, you could say the same about all the other areas of the pitch now:-

Goalkeepers
Adrian - Pretty decent but ageing & often suffers from drops in form
Hart - Not worth commenting

Defence
RB (Not really a position that we bother with too much)
Zabaletta - Class in his time but sadly, past it
Byram - Not lived up to expectations & injury prone

LB
Cresswell - Can be good on his day, but not too many of those lately. Often caught way out of position
Masuaka - Can't defend & better as a makeshift midfielder

CH
Ogbonna - Our only half-decent one but his form has been patchy
Collins - Great servant to the club & never lets us down but age has caught up with his hamstrings now, so often out injured
Reid - Out of form & almost permanently injured now
Rice - Brilliant prospect but hugely inexperienced at this level. Once he is he'll be off to one of the big clubs no doubt
Burke etc - none of them are anywhere close yet

Forwards
Carroll - Slow, lumbering pisshead who has no reason to get fit while spongeing a living off us
Arnautovic - Very impressed with him since Moyes took over, but not a natural goalscorer
Antonio - Quick kick & run merchant with no left foot (yet often played on the left wing where he can't cross!!) Grossly overweight & unfit this season. Looks like he's crawled up his own arse
Hernandes - good player if he was playing in a better team who could create chances for him (which he certainly can't do on his own)
Lanzini - Our only class player but injured a lot this season which has resulted in a dip in form
Probably off in the summer
Jean-Mario - Looks too lightweight for the prem & gets knocked off the ball too easily. Just a temp

The whole team needs an overhaul. It's not going to happen though, even in the remote possibility of us staying up!

DocMarten 10:48 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
I’m in agreement with SirAlf...it doesn’t matter. We’re gone.

1-1 and more unrest, hopefully.

31pts will be our season total.

Keep dreaming 9:24 Fri Mar 30
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Agree

Gentile 12:51 Fri Mar 30
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Zabaleta Ogbonna Cresswell = relegation

boleynkid 12:47 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
That is ultra defeatist. It is still in our own hands of staying up but if we win on Saturday then of course we are in with a chance.

I'll agree with you if we lose on Saturday but you are throwing in the towel too early.

Sir Alf 12:42 Fri Mar 30
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
I am not getting too upset by who is available or not now. I am convinced, based on the fixtures left, that we are down thru the trap door with the Baggies. Its who the 3rd club is that is less certain.

We need a miracle like that MOTM display by the post last season in abt 4 of the remaining fixtures.

Jasnik 11:20 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
Seeing Lanzini sitting next to Messi watching his team get beat 6 -1 must be deja vue for him

stepney hammer 11:05 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
It'll turn out to be one of those 4-6 week jobs with Lanzini. Always is with him,

boleynkid 9:42 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
Yep it appears Collins has more chance of starting than Lanzini.

lab 9:30 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
I'll be surprised if lanzini starts.

Keep dreaming 9:27 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
Moyes will start with

Adrian
Zabaleta Ogbonna Cresswell
Rice Koyate Noble Lanzini Masuaku
Arnautovic
Antonio

boleynkid 6:59 Thu Mar 29
Re: WHU team Vs Southampton ?
I don't expect it to happen but on the basis of this being a must win game I would go with the following (assuming Collins is out but Lanzini ok) :

Adrian

Zabaleta
Kouyate
Ogbonna
Cresswell

Antonio
Noble
Lanzini
Masuaka

Arnautovic
Hernandez

Subs Hart, Evra, Rice, Mario, Fernandes, Hugill

Fernandes or Rice if Lanzini doesn't make it. We will miss Collins for his attitude apart from anything else but if Soton are not playing with a big man upfront then maybe it might not be the worse game for him to miss.

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