Terrible decision to field first, exacerbated by one of the worst attacks we’ve had for years. Anybody could see it was an excellent batting pitch. But the Baazballers get an easy ride from the press. India will get 650+ if they want to. 36-year-old Woakes, Carse and Bashir is a woeful “attack” on t...

Every time I saw KWP play for Southampton he was either poor or very poor.

There is a reason that club was so terrible last season: they had only a few decent players. Walker-Peters wasn’t one of them. He’s a Championship player.

We don’t need a squad full of poor freebies.

Genuinely, I think even Sullivan realises he might have come to the end of the road. The problem is that the big buyer/investor he and Brady planned for when they moved us to the soul-less bowl has not materialised. And, sadly, he lost his mate in the meantime. Sullivan, Gold and Brady gambled that ...

The likes of Chalobah, Colwill and (possibly) Madueke will probably go the way of Loftus-Cheek, Mason Mount and others. They’re all decent club players - sure. But are they really top-level England players? The best England have? If any of them had played for West Brom, it’s unlikely they’d have pla...

Many over-rated players in that England squad last night. This insistence on picking any living being who wanders through Chelsea’s building is becoming an embarrassment, as is the commitment to over-the-hill veterans whose best days pre-date Germany invading Poland. Tuchel is also making the mistak...

"The obvious solution is that no one should be allowed to have interests in multiple clubs." Spot on. Not more than one major holding, of course. You might get the odd football person/org who holds a few shares in smaller clubs after moving around the sector. But totally agree that nobody ...

Don't get me wrong - I don't think Areola is a great keeper or anything like that. He's an excellent shot-stopper, but I agree he's wonky on crosses and his distribution is often poor. It's just that some people assumed Kelleher is better because he's at Liverpool. But when he played a succession of...

Looks like Brentford will land Kelleher for around £12.5m, and a bunch of (mostly young) West Ham fans on social media are crying into their energy drinks. The fact that Liverpool initially wanted £20m+ for him, and not a single club bit at that price, should tell you a lot. Promising keeper, but no...

What a fucking relief that season is over. Dismal, from start to finish. Saved only by the fact that some of the worst teams ever to grace the top division   we’re even worse than us. Two absolutely clueless managers. In-fighting in the squad, which somehow also included a bunch of disinterested mup...

I'll be sorry to see Tom go, if he goes. Been an extremely effective player for us, even if he can't pass the ball 20 yards. His first couple of seasons alongside Rice in central midfield, it was like having the dogs of war on your side. All energy, effort and tackling. Less good with the ball, unl...

I want us to win big, obviously. Because it's West Ham and I always want us to win big. So, I'm going for a Ratched.

But what a shit season this has been on the pitch. Low-quality tedium - week in, week out. Put this season out of its misery. See you in Tenerife!

I'll be sorry to see Tom go, if he goes. Been an extremely effective player for us, even if he can't pass the ball 20 yards. His first couple of seasons alongside Rice in central midfield, it was like having the dogs of war on your side. All energy, effort and tackling. Less good with the ball, unle...

Fuck off, it looks the absolute bollocks compared to our fucking greyhound racing stadium. I still honestly think we have the best stadium in London. We don’t even have the best stadium in East London.  We don’t even have the best stadium in Stratford. The warm up track outside is better than the s...

“We don’t break quickly because our only outlet is the wing backs”. This is spot on, and there’s lots to say about it. Unfortunately, I missed yesterdays game due to work (was out of London), but caught up on it in full last night. Poor, yet again, as we all know. One of the many things that concern...

Inshalla Sullivan croaks, and Elon Musk is a fan of welcome to Wrecsam and wants to buy a club and it’s us.  There's a LOT of hope in there, Pub. Don't blame you - that's what this club and ownership has done to us! Chances of it happening? Less than Zero. But there's more to us than Wrexham's cheq...

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑14 May 2025, 16:50 Early skins schedule news......
Week One : Giants (H)
Week Two : Packers (A) Thursday Night Football
Week Eleven : Miami (A) Spain
Week Sixteen : Eagles (H) 
Week Seventeen : Cowboys (H) Christmas Day

 

Gank wrote: ↑14 May 2025, 16:50 What happened to Reason 5??

"One thing is clear: Tripp Smith didn’t buy into West Ham to sit quietly in the background." Yes, he did exactly that. He bought his current share in 2017 - eight years ago - and has done very little since, except (wisely) watch the value of his shareholding soar. I do wish these amateur b...

I'm not "yet" convinced by Kelleher. He hasn't played that many Premier League games at Liverpool (ten last season, ten the season before that) and, when he did, some analysts thought he was not physically dominant and a bit weak in the air for a Prem keeper. Good shot-stopper, of course. ...

It leaves us with 36 year-old Tyrod Taylor as back up to Justin Fields, although Tyrod is reliable. So we might need to pick up a QB in free agency, or trade for one (using late-round picks) before the deadline next season.

Jordan Travis, the Jets QB drafted in 2024, has retired after failing to recover from the horrible leg injury he suffered in his last game for Florida State. Big talent, and such a shame. Also a sharp reminder that your college or NFL career can end in an instant. He took a calculated risk by drafti...

I’ll never complain about a win, especially at Old Trafford. But that was probably the worst Man Utd team I’ve seen in my lifetime - and six of their starting line up won’t start the Europa League final. So, we basically turned over their stiffs. It’s a win, it’s three points. Fair play to Partridge...

Dunno whether a particular individual has inquired about the Gold family shares, and it might well be this gaming industry fella. But it’s well known that several US businessmen, and consortia, have been asking about Premier League clubs. Including a group around Woody Johnson, the owner of the New ...

Gank wrote: ↑28 Apr 2025, 09:02 The big plus to this signing is that we already know, rather than hope, that he is better than all our other centre backs.

For me Zola was probably the last manager/coach who actually improved a player through training ground coaching with Carlton. So he must get a few points for that     Nah - can't let that one pass. Much as I respect everybody's opinion on here - and much as I know all of our managers have had their...