steveiron64
3:37 Mon Oct 23
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A great question.
I used to see us as flowing football, play through midfield, notoriously suspect defending (especially away) but recently much better.
Now? Brighton summed us up, for me, for quite a while. No apparent strategy, very little movement, individuals not a team. Not the West Ham I used to know.
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Northern Sold
11:47 Mon Oct 23
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When they went from West Ham UNITED to West Ham LONDON... ta ta
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Swiss.
11:29 Mon Oct 23
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We're relatively shit as always. Only in the past we'd win the odd cup. 37 years ago now.
Problem is many on here were sold on the new stadium and how we'll be challenging for the CL in a few years. The new stadium is a joke.
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jayjones
11:18 Mon Oct 23
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Cunts
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Yarmouth
8:56 Sun Oct 22
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Alex V -
agree mate, we don't have an approach whatsoever. Sad times..
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bruuuno
8:43 Sun Oct 22
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Circus/comedy act
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icwhs
8:38 Sun Oct 22
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A cunt
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dicksie3
8:35 Sun Oct 22
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A change of ownership and a new board that wants to interact closely with the fans is what we desperately need.
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jim@chickenrun
8:23 Sun Oct 22
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We lost it forever when we left Upton park.
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master
7:38 Sun Oct 22
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we are the best team in the league
at passing it sideways and backwards and hoofing it to nobody and waiting forever for them to give it back to us before we pass it sideways and backwards and hooting it to.....
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Chip Shop Charlie
6:24 Sun Oct 22
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Far East: I've got an official merchandise jacket from a few years ago that proudly states...We Are East London...how times have changed (for the worse)
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Alex V
6:01 Sun Oct 22
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Yarmouth 5:12 Sun Oct 22
True. Just pointing it out they did do it. Agreed you can't really model a club on Leicester - Arsenal and Spurs much more relevant models to us. But really every club is different, and needs to find their own way to suit their own circumstance. We don't have an approach that even seems to be trying to build anything at all. It's just waving the chequebook at a few ageing names.
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nychammer
5:13 Sun Oct 22
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We’ve always been a yo-yo team. About to hit the downturn.
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Yarmouth
5:12 Sun Oct 22
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Alex V -
fair point bud but using Leicester as an example of non investment winning through?
Come on mate, that's stretching it to say the very least. One season wonders based upon an extraordinary set of circumstances that nobody believes will ever be repeated.
Not saying we're better than them, but they are no more a top 4 club than we are, we are most certainly not.
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Yarmouth
5:08 Sun Oct 22
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Far east hammer -
nailed it mate
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arsene york-hunt
4:08 Sun Oct 22
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We appear to have become a yoyo team
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Alex V
3:58 Sun Oct 22
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>>> I’m realistic enough to know that we are never going to be a top four club without massive investment.
Spurs did it. Leicester won the league. Wenger ran Arsenal on a shoestring really. I think it can be done.
On identity, it's been an issue for most of the period since the turn of the century. A succession of pragmatists in charge, very few with a blueprint for what the club could successfully be. No vision.
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13 Brentford Rd
3:53 Sun Oct 22
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Hipster FC.
More of them by the game, trying to be football lads but totally missing the point.
Where the owners and Brady really show their incompetence is that they think these Premier League type fans and day trippers will keep turning up regardless.
It's all dependant of the club staying in the league AND doing well. Performances like Brighton with the toxic atmosphere it creates will not entice them back or attract anymore.
If we do go down then they will then be relying on the proper fans to fill the place, many of whom have already jacked it in.
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Side of Ham
3:46 Sun Oct 22
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I think whatever is thought about the move it is CLOSER to the clubs ROOTS being Stratford.
You counties boys just need to study a map of East London a bit more before whining about identity..... an identity most of you doing this kind of whining have adopted by the way.
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Far East Hammer
3:44 Sun Oct 22
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I certainly always took pride in us being a working class club, the first "united" (i.e. non-sectarian) club in London and being rooted in a working class & migrant area, where stories could be told even if there wasn't a football cub there.
Add to that my own connections with that little patch of East 13. Those that know me off-line know about my "mongrel pedigree" with West Ham + the East End (one and the same to me) forming one of relatively few threads of consistency in my background.
But West Ham, London!? Give me a fucking break. We're East End. We're not from the poncey West End, nor the scummy outer west London (might have similar issues to our East End, but still different). And we ain't norf London and we're certainly not from sarf of the River. Once I saw that fucking badge I couldn't see myself buying another West Ham shirt or any thing else to be honest.
The dildomongers and Kaz-the-Gooner have badly fucked up on our identity, which to put it into Kaz-the-Gooner's Apprentice-speak, they've fucked up the very heart of the West Ham brand.
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BulphanIron
3:28 Sun Oct 22
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We are a dying club...
Plenty of bods don't go, the ones that do are mixed in with daytrippers & neutrals from other clubs.
Win, lose or draw the crowd empties out on 70 minutes despite "world class" transport links.
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