Saint Pete

West Ham were truly atrocious in that match tonight, the stats tell the story of how dominant Brentford were in West Ham's home game. I think Hammers fans are getting what they deserve for their attitude towards David Moyes when he was in charge and doing a good job.

Forgot we also lost Ramsdale so 4 of the almost worst ever Prem team.

It's not been good so far obviously. But if you consider how abysmal we were last season (very nearly the worst ever in the Premier League to remind people if they need reminding) and that we were always going to lose our 3 best players from that almost worst ever Prem team (KWP, Fernandes, Dibling), I don't think it is that surprising we have not hit the ground running this season. Yes, we have signed some players who should be good at this level, but most of them were only signed very late in the window due to a couple of the above only leaving late on. We are in a lowly position but the points gap is not huge to the top end of the table and we have played 9 games out of a 46 game season. In my opinion, it would be stupidity to press the panic button at this point, but obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion.

It is a team in transition absolutely so we shouldn't be expecting it to look cohesive when there are a number of players making their debuts, bring introduced from the bench etc. The only thing I would add though as serious long term concern is whether it's gonna work with the likes of Archer up front when it seems clear we want to get crosses in with the attacking players we have brought in. I think we need an effective big man up top to make the plan work and not sure that we have one at this point.

Not great obviously but not the disaster that a defeat would have been for morale. I'm not that concerned at losing a little ground at this early stage, we are clearly a work in progress with quite a few new players coming in to bed into the team. But you would expect things to improve as they get more game time. My biggest concern is lack of presence up top for crosses coming in, which I think can happen more now with the new arrivals. We need one of our bigger forwards to come up trumps pretty soon.

Could be a big moment for Stewart if he scores the winner today? Here's hoping anyway!!

I think Aribo in particular we know can do a job in this league as he did the year before last. But obviously depends on his attitude to training etc.

Pretty happy with that. We needed to freshen things up with our attacking options and looks like we've done that. We've lost Dibling and Fernandes but that was always gonna happen and don't think Dibling is the finished article right now for this season anyway. Striker position still a worry though, as is central defence...

Yep, absolutely. This many years has supporting Saints has conditioned me to expecting the worst for the whole game and only feeling elated after the final whistle. (on the rare occasions we do actually win!) 🙁

12 players? That is optimistic! ☺️

... I have had a few beers though...

Boo! I feel a bit more optimistic, players will be keen to impress the new coach and will turn in a much more committed performance. A return to 1-3 away results!

A bit similar to his goal for us v Man City.

5 points from 15 games. How long can this go on, really?

What concerns the most is how on earth can VAR conclude that they should reverse the ref decision and give a foul their way for that? It's either corrupt or completely incompetent. The biggest problem with VAR is they seem determined to find a reason to disallow goals. I wish the refs had the balls to tell them to fuck off when asked to go to the monitor and review!