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Coffee 3:44 Mon Aug 24
There's a strange sort of negativity on here

Can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels like the uneasy stillness before a storm.

A win at Anfield might clear the air, though.

Of pigs.

Sir Alf 11:29 Wed Aug 26
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What always beggars belief is that despite evidence to the contrary and there is a stack of it, 46%, yes 46% think we will win at Liverpool.

Blind faith if there ever was. Admirable but bordering on insanity.

After8 7:54 Wed Aug 26
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Im happy Sam went,a great decision.

However, this summer has been a dogs breakfast.

Alex V 6:50 Wed Aug 26
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simon.s 6:34 Wed Aug 26

Agreed - been here many times before, and will be again. No need to panic.

Willtell 6:36 Wed Aug 26
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Curbkrawler 4:22 Wed Aug 26
Yes when you put it all together it does tend to ring alarm bells....

simon.s 6:34 Wed Aug 26
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We're still scrambling for a striker though, Alex, and the window will be shut soon. I think we've been here before with this.

Alex V 6:24 Wed Aug 26
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>>> The best run teams ...ie those with a plan would have their squads pretty much in place before a ball is kicked in anger.

I don't agree. As far as I can see almost every PL team is scrambling for players, as always happens towards the end of the window. That we bought players so early in the window is the exception rather than the rule imo.

Thames Ironworks 5:34 Wed Aug 26
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I wonder what the Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham fans are saying about their owners.

Bet they all want Neymar and Messi.

Willtell 5:07 Wed Aug 26
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Thames Ironworks 4:10 Wed Aug 26
"I wonder what the Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham fans are saying about their teams managers."

I haven't seen one criticism of our manager on here. It seems to me that all the criticism is directed at the owners....

Curbkrawler 4:22 Wed Aug 26
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For some reason and putting the last 2 piss poor results aside as well as our extremely thin squad. all doesn't seem well in the camp.

The disciplinary record with the number of red cards we've had so far and the sakho domestic issue.The fall out with amalfitano and valencia publicly moaning about the way he's been treated since his injury. The alarm bells are ringing for me already.

simon.s 4:14 Wed Aug 26
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Same points tally at this time last season, no panic on that front. But throw the poor EL campaign into it, and a new Manager finding his feet, in a new League, with key players injured, in a Season where relegation is not really an option, and I can see the concerns.

Thames Ironworks 4:10 Wed Aug 26
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I wonder what the Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham fans are saying about their teams managers.

Sure Jose will get the sack after their lacklustre start.

ted fenton 3:55 Wed Aug 26
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jimbo2. 3:50 Wed Aug 26
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So many posters on WHO are spouting negative bollocks. For god's sake, grow a spine!

Krap not Pu 3:48 Wed Aug 26
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The best run teams ...ie those with a plan would have their squads pretty much in place before a ball is kicked in anger. I'd say we still have at least 5 players to jettison and replacements/upgrades to bring in by transfer deadline day. By which time we would have played over 10% of the seasons league fixtures and already been knocked out of a European competition. As long as that is achieved then my only Negative would be was why the fcuk this was not addressed much earlier ?

Admiral Lard 3:47 Wed Aug 26
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all true One mac, they hardly encouraged him stay it has to be said....

I'm no allardyce apologist, glad he's gone in many ways. The perverse thing is this is one season in our whole history where the priority should be survival in the Prem above all else

icwhs 3:42 Wed Aug 26
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Admiral Lard 3:31 Wed Aug 26
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He wouldn't have stayed anyway, even if we offered him a contract... He was tired, he couldn't pull a decent game from after Christmas...

I personally think he needed the rest, its why he's not back yet

icwhs 3:39 Wed Aug 26
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Admiral Lard 3:31 Wed Aug 26
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To be honest, 3 wins in 21 games, shouldn't get you any kind of contract extension...anywhere, and there are no guarantees at all about Allardyce 100% keeping us up what so ever! Its all made up jargon, no one can read the future, as much as Allardyce as manager means safety.

Red cards in Europe....all play acting... Not worth mentioning, either is Adrians.. Was bolox as well
1 real red card ain't so bad

And we have all our strikers injured ALL, Miaga, who we finally got a buyer for (Sir Sam bought him iirc for 5-5millionn) we can't sell him to some Saudi mob, so he has to start at Liverpool!!

Ain't much rocket science in anything i said

Just all true

One McAvennieeeeee 3:33 Wed Aug 26
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Allardyce's contract run out and he said he didn't want to stay.

The owners did NOT get rid of him.

Oh, and we lost our first 2 home games last season.

You're welcome.

Admiral Lard 3:31 Wed Aug 26
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there is one single objective for this season that transcends all others.

We remain a Premiership club going into the O/S

Where we finish in the league, as long at it's 17th or above, is utterly immaterial by comparison.

On that basis i am at a loss to understand why the board got rid of Allardyce in favour of the untried (EPL) Billic

2 appalling home defeats, 5 sendings off and out of Europe to a team of lower league level.

As it goes there are worse teams than West Ham in this league but I struggle to see us much further on than lower mid table

Sir Alf 3:16 Wed Aug 26
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true Blagg which is why we need a strong squad for a new manager trying to play a new style too. Net addition of 1 player to a team that lost 3 in 21. Asking for trouble isnt it?

Billy Blagg 2:42 Wed Aug 26
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Mentioned this on another thread but WHU's injury issues are well beyind any normal type of reason. This has been going on for decades and there is no logical explanation.

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