West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Westham67]

My first game at the OS wll be Sunderland thanks to a MATE 

[yngwies Cat]

Who needs Mid table mediocrity and nothing to play for, when your still in the cup and scrapping in a relegation battle.

Bring it on. 

[Fauxstralian]

Our outside chance is some team collapsing
Bournemouth without Semenyo
Palace if Glasner leaves and they implode
Tottenham … IF THERE IS A GOD

[pdcwhu]

Believe 

[Fauxstralian]

17 points with 16 games left
Reckon might need high 30’s so probably need 6 wins
Sunderland at home has to be one of them
Would still have us as down but need to get back into the pack in the bottom half & only wins will do

[ragingbull]

Only chance we have and its a slim one is catching Forest,but they are still in Europe which could effect them slightly 
Palace are definitely in decline but have too many points already so will stay up no problem 

Problem is Forest are getting the rub of green that was a clear handball by Aina yesterday.

[threesixty]

Are we now one of the only teams in the PL that are essentially playing 4-4-2? 
I feel like having 2 mobile attackers although not the sharpest, ends up bringing more balance. With just 1 guy up there isolated it always looks easy for defenders to deal with unless they are workhorses like Antonio.  pressing also better with a front 2. 

I suppose we will know more against Sunderland as spurs and qpr may not be a good benchmark for us. 

 

[zico]

If nothing else the attitude, effort and fight was there yesterday although you have to question why it wasn't against the likes of Wolves. Still think we need more signings with quality as well as legs. Taty and Pablo at least run about a bit and fight for the ball but we need a bit more quality and another centre back even though Mav and Todibo did well yesterday.

[Vexed]

They've done the bit where they give us a tiny bit of hope, just as we were getting used to the idea of a championship clear out. Next comes the shit all over us again bit where we don't turn up and get pumelled at home to Sunderland.

We need signings, hopefully that cսnt Sullivan will get a few in before the weekend so we at least have an option off the bench. 

[Gary Strodders shank]

If we can beat Sunderland then I think the great escape is on

Before Tottenham I thought nine wins from seventeen games would keep us up and we have made a decent start.

It's best not to worry about the teams above and concentrate on getting our own points on the board.

We really aren't that bad a team and could easily of beat Forest Brighton and Villa in that run of games around Christmas but a lack of leadership confidence basic errors and VAR stuffed us 

Hopefully we have turned a corner and this isn't a false dawn.

Maybe we will slso start to get the rub of the green more now we are playing better as we certainly haven't had it thus far.

 

[El Scorchio]

The virtual acceptance of relegation has been disturbed by this reducing of two points on our deficit with Forest.

Now we have the stress of dealing with a scintilla of hope until the next league game.

We'll do enough to keep hope lingering for quite a while I should expect. Only to claw it back to a realistic chance in the last few weeks of the season only to then indeed go down but in a very cruel and unlucky way.

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The virtual acceptance of relegation has been disturbed by this reducing of two points on our deficit with Forest.

Now we have the stress of dealing with a scintilla of hope until the next league game.

[Westham67]

Fuck off Sir Alfs you sanctimonious cսnt calling other posters foolhardy because we think we may stay up..You made a fool of yourself on the Tottenham v West ham match thread 

[Sir Alf]

Far too early and foolhardy imo to read too much into a very welcome win yesterday. Improved attitude and battling was the main positive along with VAR and marginals going our way. 

Another CB needed but also another central midfielder with pace and strength. Soucek did well in this match and against this opposition. He will always be an asset in both boxes aerially.  But in many games against different teams, and especially those that employ fast counter attacking tactics, he can be very ineffective.  Thats the thing, every opposition is not the same and we tend to match up better with teams that are more open and not sitting deep. Thats why we struggle a lot at home.

We need another CB but more pace in centeal
midfield to handle counters and move the ball quicker. Ideally we would have got a quicker central striker but the 2 lads that have come in, while not quick, do compensate with a high work rate of pressing and give us more outlets going forward.

[honky cat]

There's still 16 games left. If we can get a CB in, maybe.
I'd fancy points against chelsea more than sunderland, it would be so west ham.
As long as we go down fighting and win the FA Cup, ill be happy

[Massive Attack]

They don't call them The Tricky Trees for nothing.





*No Cambodian children were harmed in this message 

[THUNDERCLINT]

Yesterday was brilliant, but the damage has been done sadly.

We needed to beat Fucking Fulham at home, as soon as we lost that, we were done.

Yep, too llittle, too late.

Yesterday was a hoot though, our situation made it even funnier.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Only chance we have and its a slim one is catching Forest,but they are still in Europe which could effect them slightly 
Palace are definitely in decline but have too many points already so will stay up no problem 

We've as much chance of catching Forest as an underage Cambodian raspberry has of escaping your hanging tree.

[Eerie Decent]

Yesterday was brilliant, but the damage has been done sadly.

We needed to beat Fucking Fulham at home, as soon as we lost that, we were done.

[Manuel]

Win in the early game next week and put some pressure on Forest, who then go to Brentford, who have a great home record, so it 'could' be down to 2 points. But then we go to Chelsea and Forest and are home to Palace. This is the problem when chasing.

[XKhammer]

Only chance we have and its a slim one is catching Forest,but they are still in Europe which could effect them slightly 
Palace are definitely in decline but have too many points already so will stay up no problem 

[Manuel]

Sadly, I don't see us getting out of it. That disasterous 1 point from 12 has fucked it for us. The biggest problem is we are chashing two capable outfits in Leeds and Forest,  so you're looking at a situation where we need to win and they need to slip up regularly, just cant see it.

And Palace ain't going down, you can forget about that.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Sorry about the lack of paragraphs, but I’ve just C&P it from Racing post. 

it summarises our chances of survival, what we need to do ( win some games) and assesses the teams around us. 

good read, if you can get past the absence of paragraphs. 

Is that you Mr Lairy ?..( my English teacher back in the day 81)

[stats]

You can get a tidy 28/1 at the moment on Palace to be relegated and remember chaps, you never see a bookie on a bike! 
 

[El Scorchio]

That Glasner meltdown was hilarious can they be dragged into it.

I really think they can. If we can win a couple of the next games and they lose, we'll be on their heels. Feels like unless Glasner now goes they'll be right in the shit.