West Ham build up

3 wins

3 clean sheets

On to West Ham with confidence and against a team who are struggling in their new stadium.

I predict a 3-1 win

COYR

Wet Spam lost their last 2 league and barely won today. We should be good on this one.

If West Brom can score 4, I don't see why we cant.

We're playing the best football so far this season and West Ham are at their lowest point.

So we'll probably lose

I'm pretty optimistic that we'll win. If our strikers can finish properly, we should get a good result.

Is this sold out? Can't seem to get any details on the website (most likely having a senior moment).

Is this sold out? Can't seem to get any details on the website (most likely having a senior moment).

Yes long time ago

We're on a great run....which is why Wet Spam will beat us ....sorry but you just know it

This is from the opening post of the match thread on KUMB

Personally, after our meetings in the Championship, I have taken a huge disliking to this lot. I thought they were really going to struggle this season, and still think they will

Can't wait to smash them

Wet Spam lost their last 2 league and barely won today. We should be good on this one.

If West Brom can score 4, I don't see why we cant.

Err. Maybe because West Brom have strikers who can actually score.

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Err. Maybe because West Brom have strikers who can actually score.

 

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Have you missed the last week of your life?

Anyone remember the dig the west ham chairman had at Austin? I know Charlie does

Good.

Forster

Cedric

Fonte

Virgil

Bertrand

Romeu

Hojbjerg

Davis

Tadic

Redmond

Austin

Subs: McCarthy, Martina/Targett, Yoshida, JWP/Clasie/Reed, Hesketh, Long, JRod

Have you missed the last week of your life?

OK. Our first choice strikers have scored three open play goals in three games. How many chances have they missed?

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Anyone remember the dig the west ham chairman had at Austin? I know Charlie does

Nothing would please me more than for Austin to score the winner up there.

I'm not sure why they are struggling this season, but I've been curious to see how the diamond works against a lesser team away. (Lesser, meaning not Man Utd or Arsenal).

Surprised Austin started last night with this game in mind - but he must start against Wet Spam.

Seems a shame to drop Long who, finishing apart, has been getting better and better every game.

Forster

Cedric Fonte VVD Bertrand

Romeu

Hojberg Davis

Tadic

Austin Redmond

OK. Our first choice strikers have scored three open play goals in three games. How many chances have they missed?

 

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If they created fewer, would that make them better?

If they created fewer, would that make them better?

My point is that chances are being created, which is good, but the conversion rate could be better.

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Nothing would please me more than for Austin to score the winner up there.

 

I'm not sure why they are struggling this season, but I've been curious to see how the diamond works against a lesser team away. (Lesser, meaning not Man Utd or Arsenal).

Good to see them struggling after the stadium debacle, and I think they may have overstretched and overachieved. You just know the Porn Barons will press the button on Bilic if the losing streak continues, and then we may have a Villa scenario on our hands. Agree that seeing the diamond against lesser opposition will be interesting, and hope we pass the sh*t out of them!

So... I found myself in the docklands and kicking my heals with 'nowt to do, so I thought I'd pop along to the West Ham - Accrington match....

So for the benefit of those going on Sunday...

Getting to the stadium is a piece of ****... its a 10 min walk from Stratford and there are signs and stewards pointing the way..

Getting in was "ok"... there seemed to be issues with tickets and there were large queues... I just pushed in near the front and I was in...

Inside there are loads of food outlets and toilets... getting to your seat is incredible easy...

But the food!! The pie I had in the first half was pretty good... but oh my god... the "Alsatian" hot dog... mind blowing!!! £5 well spent!

So, into the stadium proper....

It's a superb stadium.... for Coldplay... it's uttter dog **** for football.... one of the worst football stadiums I've ever been to.

It's the whole design. The seating is so flat and so far away from the pitch that you might as well be watching it from a pub next door.

Spurs must be ****ing themselves...

There was no atmosphere as there didn't seem to be a bank of noisy supporters, I think mainly due to the design... getting into your seats that easily means more walkways... which means the blocks of supporters are broken up into small segments...

Onto the team... obviously this wasn't their strongest team, but they just didn't look like they gave a ****... there was no shape, no passion and no skill...

Things changed "slightly" when Payet came on, he was more direct than the others and would run at Acringtons defence and constantly swapped sides... apart from his goal looks low on confidence

Zaza was hilariously bad.... all the West Ham fans spent pretty much the whole game shouting and having a go at him... looked overweight and unfit...

And here is "The Alsatian"!!!

But one!!

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That looks like a "Boerie" roll.

They're due a win and we've won 3 in a row. Only one result happening here....

I reckon my Missus would love one of those 'Alsatians'

They're due a win and we've won 3 in a row. Only one result happening here....

I didn't want to say that..... ???

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One thing for sure is we can't go given cheap free kicks away any where in shooting range for Payet.

Hope we continue their New Ground agony.

Is that Man Bunned Pussy injured or playing. Him and Niggly Whinging Noble are amongst my most hated players in The Prem.

It's a given that Antonio will score against us, so we need to be scoring a few ourselves.

Get an early goal, get the natives moody and they'll just about do our job for us

COYS

Antonio look gash (and overweight) yesterday....

Top Prem Goal Scorer - Antonio

Top Prem Assist - Dimitri Payet

WHU 18th Position and GD -6 after 5 games

Antonio look gash (and overweight) yesterday....

And yet surprisingly the PL top scorer, so far, this season....

This is from the opening post of the match thread on KUMB

 

"Personally, after our meetings in the Championship, I have taken a huge disliking to this lot. I thought they were really going to struggle this season, and still think they will"

 

Can't wait to smash them

Somebody should remind Mr KNUMB-nuts that most of the rest of country take a similar view of arrogant, mouthy cockney waankaaaahs

We paid for your stadium, we paid for your stadium, we paid for your stadium and we paid for your stadium....repeat.

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Nothing would please me more than for Austin to score the winner up there.

 

I'm not sure why they are struggling this season, but I've been curious to see how the diamond works against a lesser team away. (Lesser, meaning not Man Utd or Arsenal).

They have brought in about 8 players over the summer which is a lot and they seem to use a scatter gun approach to recruitment as they didn't get cover for their weak positions. Combined with a new home ground and injuries or delayed return of essential players have all made an impact.

Used to like them as a club, but they just annoy me now, annoying fans, annoying chairmen, annoying chairman's son, annoying players like Carroll and an utter joke about their stadium being gifted to them so would love to win there. Not to mention their haphazard throw money at everything transfer policy, it's like Harry Redknapp is their director of football out making transfer deals in car parks leaning out of his range rover.

But they have a talented squad and they can't keep losing so a worry we'll come away with nothing probably with a piece of bad luck or bad referee decisions.

Only thing I like about West Ham is Bilic, seems a good honest manager, doesn't make excuses most of the time, at the Euros he was one of the few pundits that actually seemed to know what he was talking about and talked with passion about the game.

Are we to assume Andy Carroll will play and score like he always seems to do no matter how injured/dead he seems to be the week before?

If they created fewer, would that make them better?

Apparently we had over shots on 50% on target last night, which may not seem a lot but it was a heck of a lot better than in previous games. So they are heading in the right direction. All we need to do is play Hesketh more often.

OK. Our first choice strikers have scored three open play goals in three games. How many chances have they missed?

Based on that logic they're overdue a return to the statistical mean, so they'll go on a run of scoring lots goals from very few chances.

Strikers don't score every time. Whats important is that they continue making the runs keep getting chances, and put most of them on the goal. After that is the law of averages. Sure on easier shots the percentages go up, but on harder chances they go down. Our strikers continue to put pressure on the other team, making runs and firing away. This is how you score. You need to worry when the chances are coming.

We paid for your stadium, we paid for your stadium, we paid for your stadium and we paid for your stadium....repeat.

 

 

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This.

Absolutely cracking 'banta'...

Yeah, because repeatedly telling everyone that we, as the taxpayer, actively contributed to the cost of their stadium, that they are doing very well out of financially, makes whom look stupid exactly?

So dense.

I see Lawro has us down to lose 2-1 based on the 'West Ham have to start improving some time' argument.

His guest, a Dutch darts player has gone for 1-0 to West Ham.

Looking forward to disappointing both of them.

Talking to a bloke at work who went last night as a neutral, his opinion was;

- West Ham looked like a side with no confidence, fans around him just moaning.

- stewarding at the ground seemed unorganised, with no one seeming to know how to manage a crowd. That's a particularly interesting point with this in the news http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37348308

Hard to tell how this game will go, would be fantastic to keep the good run going but West Ham are bound to turn it around at some point. I'll predict 1-1.

they look shyte.

however, what ever the score, Antonio is bound to score and/or Payet with a free kick

at least Carroll is not playing as he always seems to score against us.

they look shyte.

however, what ever the score, Antonio is bound to score and/or Payet with a free kick

 

at least Carroll is not playing as he always seems to score against us.

I make it twice he's scored against us.

I make it twice he's scored against us.

Given how often he is injured that is akin to "always".

Given how often he is injured that is akin to "always".

Ha, true.

Given how often he is injured that is akin to "always".

Much like Sturridge, he seems to briefly become fit for a couple of weeks to play and score against us, before getting crocked again and retreating to the treatment room for another 4 months.

Yeah, because repeatedly telling everyone that we, as the taxpayer, actively contributed to the cost of their stadium, that they are doing very well out of financially, makes whom look stupid exactly?

 

So dense.

It was all part of a capitalistic plot!!!!

Got a feeling they're gonna decide to turn up big time and we'll have done well to get a draw.....Hope I'm wrong

Last season was one of the most one sided games we've had against them. We absolutely battered them and lost 2-1. Even Bilic said afterwards that he didn't know how they won that game.

Hopefully they batter us, then we sub on Billy Sharp who takes a dive in their box to win a pen in the last minute and Austin scores it to win. Then Austin pulls out some of the supposed 100k a week he's on and starts chucking it towards their chairman whilst laughing.

Forster

 

Cedric

Fonte

Virgil

Bertrand

 

Romeu

Hojbjerg

Davis

Tadic

 

Redmond

Austin

 

Subs: McCarthy, Martina/Targett, Yoshida, JWP/Clasie/Reed, Hesketh, Long, JRod

Martina has to play given his form surely? Plus you just know West Ham are gonna at some point resort to the hoof ball!

Jrod will be out (apparently)

That's a shock!!!! Read the "Rodriguez" thread and you will see varying reports between "He's fine" and "He's in Germany having possible groin/hernia operation - out for a couple of weeks". About time someone came up with the truth. Why can't the medical team make an announcement to stop the speculation?

That's a shock!!!! Read the "Rodriguez" thread and you will see varying reports between "He's fine" and "He's in Germany having possible groin/hernia operation - out for a couple of weeks". About time someone came up with the truth. Why can't the medical team make an announcement to stop the speculation?

Because it's not their place to. When do you ever see a clubs medical personnel making comments in the media about a players availability? That's the managers decision.