West Ham v Forest - 18 May - Match Thread

[honky cat]

The torture is almost over
The sun is shining here, its on TV
All good
Irving to be random midfielder starting this week. 
A massive win. Irons

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Match Centre:

Odds:
West Ham: 2/1
Draw: 12/5
Forest: 3/2

Pre-Match Press Conference:
Official Press Conference

Tactical Preview: 
Babbling Irons

Watch-along:
Hammers Chat

Streams:

SportHD 

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[zebthecat]

A fitting end to our home season.

[Massive Attack]

The highlight of my day other than watching Bowen's belter of a goal, was also seeing Fornals score a belter against Athletico Madrid as well. Enjoy...





We inextricably sold him for peanuts to when he wasn't a problem and added real value to our Squad. He loved the Club dearly. Also on course to win his 2nd Europa Conference Cup in just a few years as well....

We are run by proper fucking thicko's it's painful to see. 

[Massive Attack]

Potter was probably driving it too.  

[simons]

I wasn’t actually driving (bird was) and we were coming off the Loughton turn off when the coach went past. I don’t think she was too impressed with the wanker sign. 

[Any Old Iron]

I was driving home on the m11 and the Forest coach went past, and I promptly did a wanker sign. Small consolation for another woeful game (Bowen’s wonderful goal aside) but it made me feel a bit better. 

 

How slow must you drive to be overtaken by a coach!

[Texas Iron]

Disturbing that Potter couldn’t get  more of a performance on the last home game…

He’s not much of a motivator on the sidelines…

Worried for next season…

Where will the goals come from…???

The midfield is one paced…

strikers can’t score…

Relegation struggle awaits us…



Need at least 6 reinforcements…

[Gank]

I think you spoke for all of us there, Mr. S.

[simons]

I was driving home on the m11 and the Forest coach went past, and I promptly did a wanker sign. Small consolation for another woeful game (Bowen’s wonderful goal aside) but it made me feel a bit better. 
 

[honky cat]

I know its a small thing in the overall shitfest of today, but that ridiculous added time probably sent a large chunk of fans to the station rather than stay and pay tribute to fab, cress and coufal. 
What a rotter of a season, we've been relegated before and its been more exciting, and then theres the prospect  of a battle to come up again to get everyone interested. This year has just been plain shit. 




 

[Gank]

I lost a lot of respect for Forest today.

[Gary Strodders shank]

I would of loved it if we had got the equaliser today 

It would of been poetic justice against those time wasting c**ts 

I also dislike forest fans as most ive come across have been total bellends including a fella who had  Phsyco 3  inked on his arm by a dyslexic tattooist.


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PHYSCO 3 even

 

[Gary Strodders shank]

I would of loved it if we had got the equaliser today 

It would of been poetic justice against those time wasting c**ts 

I also dislike forest fans as most ive come across have been total bellends including a fella who had  Phsyco 3  inked on his arm by a dyslexic tattooist.


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[nerd2]

Williams no7 was an utter disgrace , should of had 3 yellows at least got none . Linesman was weak as piss next to him and missed 3 balls clearly go out 2 forest 1 ours . That was a disgrace officiating today and forest what an awful team ,made Bournemouth n Newcastle look reasonable. We were not great but there keeper made great saves and ours can't bloody kick was the difference . Shite ... good atmosphere for once though 145 ,146 and 142 boys providing as usual.
 

[bell]

Another bore fest. 
Cheers 

[Massive Attack]

Apology accepted!

[kinglewy]

Sorry top 

[kinglewy]

The strikers were on the bench for a home game, play Bowen on the right he will still pop up central and score. None of the managers have made us consistent at home in this stadium. We will go down next season unless the club changes from rip to bottom.

[Massive Attack]

 and went 11-0-0, because any forward is redundant playing under this cսnt

That's the formation I saw constantly behind the ball. When they said Potter was a great Coach, I didn't think they meant Coach Driver by the way he parks the bus so well.  

It's a fucking miracle wr score any goals at all thanks to the prolific exploits of just 2 men Bowen and Socuek. Imagine where we would have been without them 2 available to play for him to score....

[Massive Attack]

Other than Bowen's excellent goal, the other main highlight for me was the old school scrap between the players right at the death due to the Ref losing all control of the game. Even Bowen was taking on Milenkovic I think reminding him of the Cup he lost to him no doubt...  

And yes that is the bottom of the barrel you can all hear being scraped when watching the dregs of a Potter performance. 

[Pshyco scored all 4]

Gullermhe should be starting. Instead of the disinterested kudus . We Looked far better once he came on . We desperately need a change of ownership. And until that happens nothing will change.

[Takashi Miike]

we've gone from one forward permanently isolated in antonio, to now having two in bowen/kudus, in a system that should traditionally be allowing you to throw extra players forward. i'd have more respect for him if he just completely removed the wheels from the bus and went 6-4-0, because any forward is redundant playing under this cսnt

[nychammer]

I hope we see a serious revamp of the side. Unlike others I'm not screaming for youth team players. I dont see any of them being more than subs at best. We arent strong or athletic enough. 
The ref today was well out of his depth. Poor performance and nearly lost the game. 

 

 

We don't do full revamps or do them well. We need a manager with a vision and the know-how to implement it and a chairman with the ambition to make such an appointment.  Since we have neither, we have to hope we make the right signings that can keep us up because that squad without the right additions will take the club down. 

We dont need the moody one season wonder talented prima donna marquee signings that Sullivan seems to revel in followed by myriad of dross squad fillers. We need 4 or so real solid quality players and we should be going all out to secure

[Takashi Miike]

you could give this mediocre northern cսnt ten transfer windows and nothing would get better, he's clueless

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Sir Alf, Guilherme played 5 mins in the FA cup, none in the League cup.

With Fullkrug people keep going on about managing minutes because of his fitness, but Potter has played him for 80 mins in a couple of games (both ended 1-1) and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to when and why he gets to start. It's not even one week on, one week off. All this shit is no good for strikers. They need to be playing as much as possible to keep their confidence up in front of goal.

Also, you don't bung on a slow, ageing player like Fullkrug because the opposition has started to tire, as they can still beat him for pace. You might bung a player like him on near the end if you're desperate to score and want to go more direct and ping crosses in but Potter doesn't like playing like that anyway, so...

[threesixty]

Is anyone surprised?

Mistakes aside, we have no pattern of play. No drilled in way to score a goal. This is my main complaint with him. Half a season and no actual plan.

We cant say its a squad problem because the same squad used to score goals!
A decent transfer window would just cover over the fact he doesnt know what to do and soon as an injury to the star player happened we'd plummet again. 

I'd be stunned if he kept his job with this form. Palace sacked Viera for far less than this shit. If it wasnt for Spurs and Man U having such a bad season Potter would be gone.