Relegation anxiety

[F 129 Row66]

Is it better to know that your team is going to be relegated like we are. or to spend the rest of the season in an anxiety state worrying about it while hovering about in 16th or 17th. In my case I seem not to give a fuck about the outcomes of games this year, and even forget the games are on the telly (four times now).

[62Hammer]

In previous relegation fights the anxiety has been horrendous but it's different for me this time. For the first time, and I don't like saying it, I want us to go down, because that's the only thing that will really get to Sullivan. I'd enjoy watching some of our young players and have some bond with the team again.
But I can't see Sullivan selling while we're in the Championship, so it would be strange to go to games hoping to win but not really wanting to get promoted. And knowing our owners, we'll keep Nuno ( or replace him  someone equally as useless), sideline our young players, and bring in a load of players who "know the Championship".
I just want to enjoy football again, be entertained a bit, and it's hard to see that happening if we somehow stay up. I'm 72, though, so the prospect of a long stay in the Championship may not be as much of a problem for me as for younger supporters.

[Massive Attack]

The one potential huge positive (I hope!) this time from relegation is the end of the BS reign of terror once and for all. I see that pox of a Stadium being desolate for the most part and so it fucking should be. Reap what they sow and suffer the inevitable low attendances and permanent embarrassment of plonking it in the 2nd Division hosting the likes of Lincoln City and Stevenage. World Class Team in a World Class Stadium remember...Utter thick as fuck cunts.

[honky cat]

While ultimately gutting, during the relegation battle of 2003, I've never felt so engaged with west ham, it felt like it took over my whole life. Going from positive to anxious on a daily basis.That last game against Birmingham we had a house full, food drinks, music. Some nutty woman from work sent a claret and blue balloon arch to the house, and at the end we just released it over the Essex countryside. Everyone accepted it, but I really thought we'd stay up. Cest la vie. This time the energy has long been sucked out the season so I'm not anxious, I'm more looking forward to something different. A fresh start.

[stubbo-admin]

Take your point, but we are very close to knowing our fate now, but if the gap closes then yea it's going to be a fucking nightmare. I'm not one who buys into all this going down would be a good thing etc, playing in the Championship in a half empty bowel could well be the death nail for the club imo.

I'm not sure where the fun is losing 0-1 at home to Lincoln on a Tuesday night. I still have nightmares about that Stoke game.

That Stoke game! 100%

[Massive Attack]

Not anxious, just angry with how moronically this Club has been run for 15 long agonising years both on and off the pitch. 15 fucking years of the same dross bar the rare blip of decent spells which have been the exception rather than the rule.

What's galling is we have had an unbelievable opportunity when you think about it of not only 14 consecutive seasons of continual Prem/TV/Europe money but also a fuck off sized Stadium for next to fuck all and these cretins still manage to fuck it all up staring relegation in the face. No way at all should we even be contemplating the drop either in the shit hole or ideally still at Upton Park. We moved from our gaff to this predictable nightmare? Do fuck off GSB you Club killing wankers. This huge loyal fanbase deserve so much better. 

The anger phase is also moving in to apathy as none of it is fun anymore mainly caused by those clueless robbing bastards.

[Vexed]

I aint happy about it but pretty much resigned to championship football next season. However, I dont want us bouncing straight back with a load of these cunts still in the squad, I want a few seasons of full reset to shed all the cunts, financially depress the prick Sullivan and get our youths into the first team and playing proper football under a manager who isnt a horrendous negative cսnt.

What would be the point of staying up this season? We'd just be a fuckin mess next season and repeating the same mistakes. May as well try to rebuild from the ground up. It'd be nice to actually like the players playing for my club again. I dont like many of these cunts masquerading as experienced professionals we have. Maybe two. Tolerate another three perhaps. The rest can fuck off and optionally die, I dont care. 

Sorry we do not want a few seasons in the lower leagues. The fastest way to be rid of the cancer (Sullivan) is to come straight back and him sell.  He wont sell us in the Championship or League 1 and with the debt the club has, once the parachute payments cease we have one foot in administration, and I don't put it past that cսnt to fold us up and walk away.  That would be the most likely 'reset' 

Well I do, so shut your fucking hole. 

[Hammer I am]

not anxious at all, the last few years has cured me of West Ham being an important part of my life, missing a game used to be unthinkable 20 years ago, I can take it or leave it now. Sad but true, perhaps if we ever get owners and players that care as much as I used to, I'll repay them with my money and returned support








 

[Takashi Miike]

bigger things to worry about

[Manuel]

Take your point, but we are very close to knowing our fate now, but if the gap closes then yea it's going to be a fucking nightmare. I'm not one who buys into all this going down would be a good thing etc, playing in the Championship in a half empty bowel could well be the death nail for the club imo.

I'm not sure where the fun is losing 0-1 at home to Lincoln on a Tuesday night. I still have nightmares about that Stoke game.

[nychammer]

I aint happy about it but pretty much resigned to championship football next season. However, I dont want us bouncing straight back with a load of these cunts still in the squad, I want a few seasons of full reset to shed all the cunts, financially depress the prick Sullivan and get our youths into the first team and playing proper football under a manager who isnt a horrendous negative cսnt.

What would be the point of staying up this season? We'd just be a fuckin mess next season and repeating the same mistakes. May as well try to rebuild from the ground up. It'd be nice to actually like the players playing for my club again. I dont like many of these cunts masquerading as experienced professionals we have. Maybe two. Tolerate another three perhaps. The rest can fuck off and optionally die, I dont care. 

Sorry we do not want a few seasons in the lower leagues. The fastest way to be rid of the cancer (Sullivan) is to come straight back and him sell.  He wont sell us in the Championship or League 1 and with the debt the club has, once the parachute payments cease we have one foot in administration, and I don't put it past that cսnt to fold us up and walk away.  That would be the most likely 'reset' 

[Vexed]

I aint happy about it but pretty much resigned to championship football next season. However, I dont want us bouncing straight back with a load of these cunts still in the squad, I want a few seasons of full reset to shed all the cunts, financially depress the prick Sullivan and get our youths into the first team and playing proper football under a manager who isnt a horrendous negative cսnt.

What would be the point of staying up this season? We'd just be a fuckin mess next season and repeating the same mistakes. May as well try to rebuild from the ground up. It'd be nice to actually like the players playing for my club again. I dont like many of these cunts masquerading as experienced professionals we have. Maybe two. Tolerate another three perhaps. The rest can fuck off and optionally die, I dont care. 

[Steady]

I’ve accepted we’re down, gutted to be honest. I’m just surprised so many still hold hope and believe we have a slim chance of staying up. I can see us finishing more than 7 points adrift of safety at the end of the season. 

[Mad Ferret]

Not anxious in the slightest.

Looking forward to the Championship.