West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Come On You Irons]

Yesterday was depressing and confidence shattering, but it didn't really change our league relegation position much.
We remain 4 points behind Forest and 2 points ahead of Burnley. We are 6 points ahead of Wolves.

We are effectively 5 points behind Forest with our woeful goal difference which took another pounding yesterday.

Fail to beat Forest on Tuesday and we can forget about staying up.

[Mex Martillo]

Yesterday was depressing and confidence shattering, but it didn't really change our league relegation position much.
We remain 4 points behind Forest and 2 points ahead of Burnley. We are 6 points ahead of Wolves.

[kinglewy]

Nuno should take a couple of the suoporters who travelled up to Wolves into the changing room before the Forest game. They can tell the bunch of overpaid, don’t care useless tossers what they really think of them.

[Sir Alf]

Bless you all. Its over, let it go fir ur mental healths sake.

We will imo almost certainly lose to Forest based on watching their game with Villa yesterday. They have pace with the likes of Gibbs White in midfield Hudson Odoi out wide etc and were very very hard to break down with10 behind the ball. It took a great Watkins shot from distance and then Forest had to come out and play.    We cannot break anyone down who sits deep and are highly vulnerable to pace. Forest had a lad leading the line who caused Konsa and Villa defence problems in the air and deck.

No way they dont score with Kilman playing. Hes completely fallen apart.  Our midfield is relying on Fernandes, Potts and Magassa being very good every game just to compete and yesterday they left big holes by not being quick enough to get across and track or just not aware. Against teams that break fast in numbers as Wolves did we are goimg to concede chances and goals.

Nuno is another “paint by numbers” manager who uses a limited number of formations and tactics based on defence first. At home he will use a back 4 which with our CBs is highly vulnerable and 4 in midfield which usually competes ok and Paqueta might help but only if played on the left. Hes a liability centrally. 

Only very small hope is that the new signings miraculously instantly click and have nonissue with the increase in pace and intensity of the PL.  Highly unlikely. 

Miracle would be a new CB and. pacy/strong centre mid before Forest, Todibo back, and aforementioned players already signed also hitting the ground running.  

Far too many issues and we are 2nd or 3rd worse team at home.  

Like I say, admire those that still hope but prefer realism. We are going down


 

[El Scorchio]

We're not quite done yet.
Lose to Forest and we definitely are.
We are rapidly catching up Wolves in negative goal difference.
The only hope is if Forest completely fall to bits for the rest of the season, I cannot see any of the other teams being remotely in touch.

The only saving graces at the moment are everyone else down there is losing as often as us - Wolves are the only team in the bottom 4 showing any upward trend in performance and now results - we have four starters to come back in, and the transfer window is open. 

Yesterday's team is definitely going down.  Upgrade a few of them with returners and signings and then hope we're four points better than Forest from the last 17/18 games.

 

 

I agree. It’s barmy we are not cut adrift properly yet. We keep getting lifelines, as bad as we are. Even after all this all it takes is a win on Tuesday and we are back with something tangible to chase. As they say it’s the hope that kills you. Unless Todibo is back I see no way we don’t ship at least 2-3 goals. Our defence isn’t even championship standard. It’s THAT bad what Moyes, Lop and Potter and SULLIVAN assembled. I cannot believe how bad Max Kilman is as a defender, just absolute shit. I couldn’t see a pub side buying him off us at the moment. The bloke is dreadful. 40 million quid…. We’ve signed some absolute shit over the years but he is the very worst of the worst. 

[stubbo-admin]

As was stated in the match thread by Mex, we have three remaining targets for the season:

- Get 5 pts more than Forest over the next 18 games
- Get 1 pt LESS than Burnley
- Get 7 pts LESS than Wolves.

Those are the only targets now.  Shows just how important the game against Forest is on Tuesday.  Win that, and it's outperform them by 2 pts over 17 games. Lose that, and it's 8 pts over 17 games.

Huge huge game. Everyone pretty much still has to play everyone. So it's a pretty level playing field if somehow we shithouse a win against Forest on Tuesday. 

[Sweep]

We're not quite done yet.
Lose to Forest and we definitely are.
We are rapidly catching up Wolves in negative goal difference.
The only hope is if Forest completely fall to bits for the rest of the season, I cannot see any of the other teams being remotely in touch.

The only saving graces at the moment are everyone else down there is losing as often as us - Wolves are the only team in the bottom 4 showing any upward trend in performance and now results - we have four starters to come back in, and the transfer window is open. 

Yesterday's team is definitely going down.  Upgrade a few of them with returners and signings and then hope we're four points better than Forest from the last 17/18 games.

[Sarge]

Latest odds
wolves 1/200
Burnley 1/33
West ham 1/3

Forest 4/1
Leeds 8/1

Bournemouth 25/1
Man City 25/1

Ignoring the overound, 75% chance we go down.
4% chance we get saved by a man city points deduction. 



 

[Far Cough UKunt]

No fucking leaders

No fucking fighters

Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles would be better in defence than Mavro and Kilman and Ray Charles is dead.

FUCK OFF!

[southbankbornnbred]

We’re down. It’s just a case of what the fuck we do about that in May.

Nothing about this club will change until Sullivan goes.  Somehow, relegation needs to be the catalyst for his exit.

[Fauxstralian]

I have not seen a single team that I would have any confidence in us beating 
We’ve just lost 3-0 to the last team you thought we MIGHT beat
Every chance we will do a Wolves and not win in half a season
Done? Obviously 
And we will continue to sink until Sullivan & Brady go

[ragingbull]

The Titanic has got a better chance to get out of this.

[Takashi Miike]

an owner that loves shit negative managers, another manager that hates forwards, and a team/squad that clearly couldn't give a shit. what happened to the cunts that judge people to be fit and proper owners? did they forget to do the test in 2010?

[Mad Dog]

When we were targeting these 6 "easier" games it was obvious they were targeting us.  Because we are truly shit 

[boleyn8420]

Not quite done yet. Are you kidding, 1 point from Fulham, Brighton and Wolves and you don't think we're done, how many points do you think we will get from Arsenal, Liverpool  Man City etc. Done

[RBshorty]

Even if we got out of this. (Which we won’t.) We would be back here again in 365 days time. The only question left. Will relegation be confirmed before Easter.?

[smartypants]

Dyche will be bang up for this game now, this is exactly the type of match he’s made for. We really lacked a leader today and the only 2 players (and maybe Bowen) who might be able to drag us over the line are Paqueta and Soucek and I’m far from confident either will. It’s a sorry state of affairs with a team made up from about 4 different managers. Today was sadly predictable, the only bit I got wrong was that Larson didn’t score. My poor (autistic) 11 year old son really couldn’t understand what was happening today or why I’d made him watch it in what is easily the worst away end I’ve ever been in. 

 

[Massive Attack]

We're not quite done yet.
Lose to Forest and we definitely are.
We are rapidly catching up Wolves in negative goal difference.
The only hope is if Forest completely fall to bits for the rest of the season, I cannot see any of the other teams being remotely in touch.

That is what's frustrating me so much because if we act sooner we could give ourselves a better chsnce of staying up but this Club when it needs to act quicker drags it heels and when it needs to give it more time they act too hastily. Classic BS regime. 

[Come On You Irons]

If we do get relegated this season it will be our sixth relegation from the top flight since World War Two.

Chelsea has been relegated from the top flight four times since World War Two, while Tottenham has only been relegated once and Arsenal hasn't been relegated at all.

We really are a joke compared to those three clubs. Held back by successive incompetent, unambitious and useless owners.

[zebthecat]

We're not quite done yet.
Lose to Forest and we definitely are.
We are rapidly catching up Wolves in negative goal difference.
The only hope is if Forest completely fall to bits for the rest of the season, I cannot see any of the other teams being remotely in touch.

[Massive Attack]

Points needed to stay up is dropping like a stone because none of the teams down there can buy a win, except Wolves against us.

We just wasted a great opportunity to get someone else in before Fulham after the Man City defeat and had 3 very winnable games against Fulham and Brighton at Home and also against 1 of the worst Teams in Prem history without a win until today. Opportunity chucked in the bin for thinking this tit would actually somehow miraculously turn it all around that resulted in just 1 measily point. 3 winnable games now gone and I wouldn't put it past these divs blindly keeping him in charge of a disaster fixture next against Forest his former Club that dumped him on us.

[Sweep]

Points needed to stay up is dropping like a stone because none of the teams down there can buy a win, except Wolves against us.

[nychammer]

i think we just need to approach every game like we cant be arsed now and get it over with. 

Please no hope or rally in form. At this stage hope would be worse than just accepting our fate and having it confirmed sooner than later so we can plan for the Championship. 

The one consolation will be seeing that puerile cսnt sullivan getting what he deserves and laughing at the 10K that will show up and rattle around n that next level bowl we play in 

[muskie]

We are dead and buried.

Nuno truly is a clueless cսnt.

[Mad Dog]

Put this on the match thread, but its probably more appropriate here

What annoys me about all this is these cunts still get paid whether they bother or not.   And not just paid they get paid per week double what a lot of fans make in a fucking year. And thats every fucking week. And if we go down, they'll just get a transfer elsewhere and keep makig a fortune.   WE will be the ones left watching the club crumble in a half empty stadium in the championship as were in this for the long haul.  I fucking hate professional footballers