West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[nychammer]

The Crying shame is that we have the semblance of a squad more than capable of staying up. Jimmy eventually getting to his best, Bowen back at it, the new signings, Fernandez, Wilson - more than enough to stay up.

The problem is the manager. How many games we been ahead and we thrown it away with poor if not plain suicidal tactics.

To Sullivan and co:   If Nuno stays we WILL go down, we are heavily fucked. This old dog ain't learning any new tricks. If we get Harry (yes i know....) or someone else (and I dread to think who else Sullivan would sanction)  in NOW then we have a small chance because no other cսnt throws a game like we did yesterday after we've just played out best half of football in years

[Westham67]

Have said several times you don’t hold on to a lead by adding defenders
That just means you sit too deep and wait to get beaten as the defenders get in each others way
Put on ball winners like Magassa & Potts in midfield and try and get some control while breaking up play 
Basic stuff which hasn’t registered with Nuno after endless points thrown away again & again

That's what happened with their winning goal, the ball came through a crowd of players

[Fauxstralian]

Have said several times you don’t hold on to a lead by adding defenders
That just means you sit too deep and wait to get beaten as the defenders get in each others way
Put on ball winners like Magassa & Potts in midfield and try and get some control while breaking up play 
Basic stuff which hasn’t registered with Nuno after endless points thrown away again & again

[Manuel]

A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in  games over the past three months.

Absolutely spot on, in a nutshell. And what happened to his counter attacking football when sitting back?? We haven't seen it.

[Gary Strodders shank]

We get ourselves in winning positions and then self destruct as teams come at us.

We sit to deep and invite pressure 

The bottle goes basically and the manager is the biggest culprit with his defensive substitutions.and then we lose the outlet to relieve the pressure and get us up the pitch

The penny never seems to drop with Nuno and we don't have the characters on the pitch to break things up with some dark arts or the like when. teams are starting to overrun us.

A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in  games over the past three months.

We simply do not have the nous to get over the line in these games.

We need a leader on the pitch and a coach that knows the way to win games when ugly.

The recruitment is nowhere near good enough and the way we defend set pieces way short of the standard required.

We have to score three to win games as we always concede and once one goes in we invite the opposition to come at us with our negative tactics.

An absolute shambles of a club and an embarrassment.

Will they ever learn 







 

[Far Cough UKunt]

Golambeckis?

[nychammer]

Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.

YES  - exactly. Teams who survive relegation fights simply dont do this. Not Forest. Not Leeds.

We're fucked. 

[southbankbornnbred]

Despite a slight uplift in form since the very worst days of Pottertegui, I still think we’re going down - because, as others have said, we keep shooting ourselves in the foot and blowing decent positions.

Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.

It’s frustrating because this is not a great league this season - there are many bang average, or worse, sides. And more points have been there for the taking. But we’re now 5/6 points adrift of safety and we have just 14 games left.

Any more of this self-inflicted shite and our fate is sealed.

The worst thing about Todibo’s sending off is three more games with Kilman - a walking catastrophe of a defender. I’d be tempted to bin him off for the kid with the Scrabble-winning surname.

[Fauxstralian]

Another game like Forest & Villa at home where we should have taken something and ended up beaten
That will relegate you
Burnley away then Man U & Bournemouth at home … has to be 7pts at least
Burnley is an absolute must win obviously 
Think we have about a 20-25% chance of survival and that’s being optimistic 
Feb 1st & no centre half. Utter insanity & now Todibo missing 3.
Sullivan’s genius gets what it deserves again

Meanwhile the woman who almost destroyed Birmingham City and is finishing the job on West Ham is back on tv being presented as a business expert
Irony is dead

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

I'm genuinely impressed with some of the optimists..(yidfoot aside)
I used to be like that....
Its over ...we will  mixing it with the likes  of  the Preston North End once again.
And Wall , they're cocky now but they will bottle the play offs ...they always do.

 

[nychammer]

I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.

Since when has Nuno held his nerve. If we go one up at half time we’ll come out with some backs to the wall bollocks second half. When have we not ? 

[Mad Dog]

I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.

Id rather we played with 11.

But if that 11th is kilman, maybe not

[Westham67]

Many had the Man U match as a right off, and that will be the end of Todibos ban

[Westham67]

We have beaten Spurs and Sunderland and nearly got a result at Chelsea. The centre back position is the issue now; it will  do Kilman a favour playing away from home at Burnley

[twoleftfeet]

I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.

[nychammer]

We will destroy Burnley 

Don’t set yourself up. It’s not worth it. 

[twoleftfeet]

We will destroy Burnley 

[nychammer]

Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 

 

If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .

oh they're turning us over make no mistake.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 

 

 

If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February

we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic

Forest will batter palarse tomorrow..and Savile's mob will batter Forest on Friday night.

[Sir Alf]

Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 

[Westham67]

Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February

we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic

Relegation is only academic when it is mathematically impossible to stay up 

[nychammer]

If we we were going to stay up we had to find the fortitude and character to win that today given where we were at HT. Given where we are, just winning what look like the remaining winnable games is not enough, and we'll probably find a way to fuck some of those up too.

Today tells me its over. I don't see other teams collapsing. They will do what they need to do. 

The sooner we can just get it over with the better.

[Sir Alf]

As Stubbo says 18 points lost from winning positions but root cause = most goals conceded in the division. Although defence is a problem, you defend as a team. Nuno needed to refresh and crowd out midfield to stop the tide and crosses or source of their attacks.  Potts and Magassa no longer used. 

[nychammer]

Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February

we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic