Relegation anxiety

[F 129 Row66]

Is it better to know that your team is going to be relegated like we are. or to spend the rest of the season in an anxiety state worrying about it while hovering about in 16th or 17th. In my case I seem not to give a fuck about the outcomes of games this year, and even forget the games are on the telly (four times now).

[GreenStreetPlayer]

Relegation acceptance, but still hoping for a miracle, and it will be a miracle.

[Manuel]

Well that's a worry.

Let's just have a bit of pride, Mex. Trust me, going down into that league would be a disaster for many reasons, particularly in that stadium. You will scratching around for shit streams too when we go to Lincoln and Hull City

Every game in the Championship is on Sky mate.

Maybe so, but Mex is an expat. Always easier getting PL games in terms of quality overseas (if you pay a bit). 

[Mad Ferret]

Well that's a worry.

Let's just have a bit of pride, Mex. Trust me, going down into that league would be a disaster for many reasons, particularly in that stadium. You will scratching around for shit streams too when we go to Lincoln and Hull City

Every game in the Championship is on Sky mate.

[Manuel]

Well that's a worry.

Let's just have a bit of pride, Mex. Trust me, going down into that league would be a disaster for many reasons, particularly in that stadium. You will scratching around for shit streams too when we go to Lincoln and Hull City

[Sydney_Iron]

I’m not sure there is anything to look forward to if we go down, yes I enjoy championship football but that doesn’t mean I will be pleased about it if we are in it

im more apathetic and resigned to the fact it looks like happening, just pissed off at the owners and board who I think shoulder the brunt of it, not watching games anymore as it’s just so frustrating, even highlights I skip, not looked at the table for months now, keep abreast of things but a lot of the passion has gone, in bad times in the past you hang on every result, but these days I just don’t give the same kind of fuck!

Will probably perk up if we do well, avoid the drop or bounce straight back up if we do go down, maybe just a symptom of how fickle the game is these days, or maybe always has been??

 

[Mex Martillo]

Well that's a worry.

[Manuel]

 I certainly am not bothered if we go down. I think the championship could be entertaining.

 

So you don't have any pride?? That is the same as saying you don't care if we win or not, as it goes hand in hand. Going down is fucking embarrassing for us as a club and a fanbase, but since you live in the arse end of nowhere in Spain somewhere assume you won't be coming into contact with many Spuds, Chels scum, Gooners etc taking the piss. 

The Championship isn't 'entertaining', it's fucking shit. What is wrong with you.

[Mex Martillo]

I think most of us old cunts on here are not going to get anxious about West Ham results and relegation. I cannot wait for the games and always want us to win, but really am not too bothered if we don't. I certainly am not bothered if we go down. I think the championship could be entertaining.
What is it with anxiety? Seems like the new disease that all the young people have.

[Manuel]

The Yankification of it all has also played a big part in pushing me away from the game. From Touchdown Refs now being micc'd up to tell everyone who's losing the will to live for the umpteenth break in play to announce a shit VAR decision that no one can agree with, to KO times being royally cunted up at the last minute, Wembley used in Sem-I Finals or fucking off Replays which were a staple of the British game. Just sick of the constant shit changes for the worse and the enjoyment of it all has evaporated. Chuck in the shambolic way we are managed as a Club just gives you even more reason to long it off.

What a load of old twaddle that is. Why not just admit you don't want to go anymore instead of coming out with a load of daft, lame excuses? Football has always been about the day out, maybe you don't have any mates?

[Massive Attack]

The Yankification of it all has also played a big part in pushing me away from the game. From Touchdown Refs now being micc'd up to tell everyone who's losing the will to live for the umpteenth break in play to announce a shit VAR decision that no one can agree with, to KO times being royally cunted up at the last minute, Wembley used in Sem-I Finals or fucking off Replays which were a staple of the British game. Just sick of the constant shit changes for the worse and the enjoyment of it all has evaporated. Chuck in the shambolic way we are managed as a Club just gives you even more reason to long it off.

[honky cat]

I haven't enjoyed the premier league for years. The recent good times have all been in Europe. Aside from being pretty dire ourselves, the spark's gone from the premier league. I often used to put a game on that wasn't west ham, now I'm more inclined to stick a film or some music on if I'm bored. So yes we've got our problems with atmosphere etc but it doesn't seem like a barrel of fun elsewhere. 

[stubbo-admin]

It feels a bit like this David Sullivan thing has been a bit of a cycle since they took over....and maybe relegation will bring us closer to the end of that and whatever the next West Ham cycle is.

We only have to remember that teams like Man City have been two divisions down. That Birmingham and their new stadium design are on their uppers, and Sunderland too have been down a couple and come back....it happens, and will no doubt feel pretty rubbish, but even a double relegation isn't death of everything. 

We have a fantastic academy producing a great crop of talented kids. Those kids are ready en masse to step in at Championship level....they've played together a long time, and it might take a couple of seasons and the odd senior pro alongside, but it will be great to follow a team with a real home grown contingent and less 'passing through mercenaries'...because let's face it, it you're not at the top table, you feeding on foreign scraps or players that are just en route to where they want to be.

We could do with a young, vibrant side that gives a fuck, whose career is on and upward trajectory, and to give them a collective platform tomgo.ahow what they can do.

The worst thing about going down is the risk and the potential for Sullivan to have done such a bad job that we end up in real financial shit. But we've got some good saleable assets, and are underpinned by the your talent, so it might be a slog but I reckon we'll be fine long term (and maybe better off).

 

[Massive Attack]

Doubt he’d take a Championship valuation.

He won't have much of a choice once the true stark reality sets in.

[southbankbornnbred]

Genuinely, I don’t think Sullivan and Brady have a “plan” as such. They’ve been winging everything since the day they realised there was no big queue of buyers lining up bids once they could sell the club without incurring government penalties. Gold was part of that, too.

I think Sullivan would take an offer that’s anywhere near his valuation - which is preposterously high for a club that doesn’t own a ground.

They have no idea of whether somebody/a consortium will now come in and try to buy the club. But that looks unlikely if we drop out of the Premier League - because Sullivan (and the rest of the board) will preferably want to sell for more “when” we get back into the PL. Doubt he’d take a Championship valuation.

[smartypants]

I remember being at brum away when we got relegated, it was a brilliant day out and I was looking forward to following west ham in the championship, so not in the slightest bit sad. Very different feeling now though, just a disconnect from it all and have no real desire to revist the likes of Rotherham and Bolton. The sole positive in this sorry mess is the embarrassment and financial loss to the egomaniacs in charge, they’ll be fucking hating this, although I suspect they won’t have any intention of selling for a few more years.

[Massive Attack]

The one potential huge positive (I hope!) this time from relegation is the end of the BS reign of terror once and for all. I see that pox of a Stadium being desolate for the most part and so it fucking should be. Reap what they sow and suffer the inevitable low attendances and permanent embarrassment of plonking it in the 2nd Division hosting the likes of Lincoln City and Stevenage. World Class Team in a World Class Stadium remember...Utter thick as fuck cunts.

 

They will reap everything they deserve. They will be all but wiped out, and they may even be forced to put their own money into the club. But they will not be gone, good luck with that happening. They will hang on and try to 'fix' the problem they created, probably just making it worse. 

Then good luck BS filling the cunthole out. Not a fucking chance do fans come running back in to that disaster zone. They are seriously fucked if we do go down. Very bittersweet feeling if it did happen but I'll cling to the satisfaction of seeing their world crumble inside it. Fans will not want to go there after this.

[nychammer]

The one potential huge positive (I hope!) this time from relegation is the end of the BS reign of terror once and for all. I see that pox of a Stadium being desolate for the most part and so it fucking should be. Reap what they sow and suffer the inevitable low attendances and permanent embarrassment of plonking it in the 2nd Division hosting the likes of Lincoln City and Stevenage. World Class Team in a World Class Stadium remember...Utter thick as fuck cunts.

 

They will reap everything they deserve. They will be all but wiped out, and they may even be forced to put their own money into the club. But they will not be gone, good luck with that happening. They will hang on and try to 'fix' the problem they created, probably just making it worse. 

[62Hammer]

In previous relegation fights the anxiety has been horrendous but it's different for me this time. For the first time, and I don't like saying it, I want us to go down, because that's the only thing that will really get to Sullivan. I'd enjoy watching some of our young players and have some bond with the team again.
But I can't see Sullivan selling while we're in the Championship, so it would be strange to go to games hoping to win but not really wanting to get promoted. And knowing our owners, we'll keep Nuno ( or replace him  someone equally as useless), sideline our young players, and bring in a load of players who "know the Championship".
I just want to enjoy football again, be entertained a bit, and it's hard to see that happening if we somehow stay up. I'm 72, though, so the prospect of a long stay in the Championship may not be as much of a problem for me as for younger supporters.

[Massive Attack]

The one potential huge positive (I hope!) this time from relegation is the end of the BS reign of terror once and for all. I see that pox of a Stadium being desolate for the most part and so it fucking should be. Reap what they sow and suffer the inevitable low attendances and permanent embarrassment of plonking it in the 2nd Division hosting the likes of Lincoln City and Stevenage. World Class Team in a World Class Stadium remember...Utter thick as fuck cunts.

[honky cat]

While ultimately gutting, during the relegation battle of 2003, I've never felt so engaged with west ham, it felt like it took over my whole life. Going from positive to anxious on a daily basis.That last game against Birmingham we had a house full, food drinks, music. Some nutty woman from work sent a claret and blue balloon arch to the house, and at the end we just released it over the Essex countryside. Everyone accepted it, but I really thought we'd stay up. Cest la vie. This time the energy has long been sucked out the season so I'm not anxious, I'm more looking forward to something different. A fresh start.

[stubbo-admin]

Take your point, but we are very close to knowing our fate now, but if the gap closes then yea it's going to be a fucking nightmare. I'm not one who buys into all this going down would be a good thing etc, playing in the Championship in a half empty bowel could well be the death nail for the club imo.

I'm not sure where the fun is losing 0-1 at home to Lincoln on a Tuesday night. I still have nightmares about that Stoke game.

That Stoke game! 100%

[Massive Attack]

Not anxious, just angry with how moronically this Club has been run for 15 long agonising years both on and off the pitch. 15 fucking years of the same dross bar the rare blip of decent spells which have been the exception rather than the rule.

What's galling is we have had an unbelievable opportunity when you think about it of not only 14 consecutive seasons of continual Prem/TV/Europe money but also a fuck off sized Stadium for next to fuck all and these cretins still manage to fuck it all up staring relegation in the face. No way at all should we even be contemplating the drop either in the shit hole or ideally still at Upton Park. We moved from our gaff to this predictable nightmare? Do fuck off GSB you Club killing wankers. This huge loyal fanbase deserve so much better. 

The anger phase is also moving in to apathy as none of it is fun anymore mainly caused by those clueless robbing bastards.

[Vexed]

I aint happy about it but pretty much resigned to championship football next season. However, I dont want us bouncing straight back with a load of these cunts still in the squad, I want a few seasons of full reset to shed all the cunts, financially depress the prick Sullivan and get our youths into the first team and playing proper football under a manager who isnt a horrendous negative cսnt.

What would be the point of staying up this season? We'd just be a fuckin mess next season and repeating the same mistakes. May as well try to rebuild from the ground up. It'd be nice to actually like the players playing for my club again. I dont like many of these cunts masquerading as experienced professionals we have. Maybe two. Tolerate another three perhaps. The rest can fuck off and optionally die, I dont care. 

Sorry we do not want a few seasons in the lower leagues. The fastest way to be rid of the cancer (Sullivan) is to come straight back and him sell.  He wont sell us in the Championship or League 1 and with the debt the club has, once the parachute payments cease we have one foot in administration, and I don't put it past that cսnt to fold us up and walk away.  That would be the most likely 'reset' 

Well I do, so shut your fucking hole. 

[Hammer I am]

not anxious at all, the last few years has cured me of West Ham being an important part of my life, missing a game used to be unthinkable 20 years ago, I can take it or leave it now. Sad but true, perhaps if we ever get owners and players that care as much as I used to, I'll repay them with my money and returned support








 

[Takashi Miike]

bigger things to worry about