A win would be nice. A draw would be satisfactory. A defeat would be disappointing. But whatever happens, there'll still be 35 games left to play after Saturday - so way too early to start drawing conclusions about how the season is going to go
As soon as we attack them and push players forward, we will get done on the counter by the pace & trickery of Haller, Antonio and Anderson.
Looking forward to this one, first visit of the season to Vic for me, weather looks good, shirtless and wild in the Rookery. We need someone to do the 'Colombian Birdman'. Watford 0 -2 West Ham.
Maybe Jonno could put in a good word with his Aussie mate .. Hope the guy has a good day and isn't focused on the Ashes !
complete change of formation and some personnel Foster Janmaat Cathcart, Dawson, Holebas Doucoure, Cleverley, Capoue Sarr, Grey, Welbeck Much more pace up front, less likely to hoof it, the two lazy show ponies reduced to the bench, along with captain lump a lot. More protection for the full backs, a midfielder who can move the ball around and do the simple things, more ability to push and press. Basically an improvement on the shower of Sh** we have watched so far
If only the team could match the standard of this season’s match threads. I’m herring from the West Ham camp that they think they’ll easily roll mop us over. Watford 1 Jellied eels 4
Ha! So that'll be our top scorer last season and the bloke who led that stat. for the first half of it. I bet you do play football, or did play it, as a defender. Because you're singularly unappreciative of a bit of skill and class. It isn't all about going flying into crunching tackles.
In my day top, top coaches had to learn the correct way to say these classic phrases Get it in the mixer. Whip it up the line. Put it in the onion bag. Get rid, get rid! ‘E don’ wan’ it Not there, not there Come on lads, 0-0
An OK rite up (I gave it a lycke) but ffs get off the fence fence fence fence fence fence fence and tell us wot U reely reely reely think ...
It was out of character but he did, only a couple days ago. But HB1 is such a bad lad, who brings out the worst in people.
yep the bloke who hasn't performed since 2018 and the bloke who hasn't contributed since Huddlesfield away. It doesn't matter how creative you are if you fail to contribute
This is my first game of the season. Win, lose, draw, 1 thing is certain, things will start to become clearer after the game about our early season form.
I th I think I identify as every one of those groups at some point. Does that make me a schizophornet? Seriously though, a great and genuinely unique style of match preview than the usual. Brilliant.
Took a look on one of West Ham’s forums. They are all very complimentary about Doucouré & Capoue and say if they don’t play 3 in the middle then those two will dominate the game. The other name many of them mention is Deulofeu. They also seem very aware of our bad form stretching over from the end of last season. All very sensible and pretty knowledgeable from what I read.
A most excellent preview thanks! If I think we'll get a draw does that almost qualify me as a happy clapper, or just a fence sitter?
This thread is now discussing a thread that was created to accuse me of saying something entirely different to what I actually said in a third thread. It’s like a reverse game of Chinese whispers. Let’s move on shall we? 2-0 win to us. Faith restored. Javi is our king. Mawson with both goals.
Short memory. The bloke who hasn't contributed since Huddersfield away (and just prior to that contributed the outstanding moments of the entire season) has in fact contributed to our last two goals by intercepting two back-passes and scoring one himself and providing the assist for the other. But he's obviously not contributing enough. Oh well ...
Yep. Their "Knees Up Mother Brown" forum has some mature and genuine fans. Tbh, apart from @toffeeblue9 and @Filbert , we hardly ever ger apposing fans discuss games with us. I don't know if anyone else is a closet member of another teams forum? Just something I wish we saw more of. Minus the fights of course
We did wonder if there was going to be some sort of second half involving the abuse of a VAR official.
Ah but I'm sure you said that before. A few months back. Give me an hour and I'll find the relevant posts.
