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Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Buffy et al nobody ever seems to mention Noble. He is supposed to be director of football. If he’s not doing the job and Sullivan is, as you suggest, acting in the role then Nobes is getting money under false pretences and should resign. If he is doing the job then he’s not very good at it and should be fired and we get an experienced one in.
I think most of us don’t take Noble’s role that seriously. It always felt like more of an ambassador role to keep him involved in the club and to work with the academy, rather than one with much influence on the first team. -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Buffy et al nobody ever seems to mention Noble. He is supposed to be director of football. If he’s not doing the job and Sullivan is, as you suggest, acting in the role then Nobes is getting money under false pretences and should resign. If he is doing the job then he’s not very good at it and should be fired and we get an experienced one in.
Noble has a role, but it's not to guide the whole club in a chosen direction, I think it's more liasing with the different age groups within the club, looking for suitable loans for the players coming through, that sort of thing. He's definitely not been given the sort of power you're suggesting he has, to buy players and bring in managers, as far as I know. -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
I think it's wrong to pin the blame on any one person / group. The board are massively at fault, the players have been awful for a long term, previous managers and heads of recruitment have been allowed to waste a fortune on players that aren't good enough, and last night Nuno made some absolutely baffling calls. And whilst I understand the sentiment behind the protests and the silence in the stadium, it also doesn't help the situation on the pitch (not a dig at the fans at all).
The entire club is in an absolute state. -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Slacker, I think that’s exactly why we could blame Sullivan. It’s reactive action rather than a planned one. The manager who is available might not be the manager who suits the players. We keep rotating players, mangers and coaching staff regardless of the whether they are suited to each other. There’s never any continuity. -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
I didn’t post directly after the match because tbh I couldn’t find the words and I’m still pretty much the same now.
Where do you start after watching that performance? I can only think/ hope that last night was when we hit rock bottom and things will start to improve, at the time of writing I can’t honestly see it and Friday night could be a horror show but surely those players will have had a long look in the mirror and at least roll their sleeves up and fight -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
The squad has been badly assembled over a period of time. This is not something you can sort with a managerial change. Lop - Potter - Nuno. These don’t resolve the issues. They are firefighters as opposed to resolvers. Some of these players were battered under Moyes, battered under Lop & then battered under Potter.
We have spent £115m on our back four - it is pound for pound the worst defence in the PL. How have we managed to get into a situation where 3 of our CM options are Souček, Irving & Rodríguez? Fernandes & Magassa may be promising players with potential, but they are not to be relied upon, consistently, now. How do we still not have a striker, yet two players in their mid 30s? How do we still not have a reliable goalkeeper?
It is a mess of a squad, & beyond Nuno. That 30 minute period yesterday where we could not deal with even a physical challenge at 50%, was among the most disgraceful I have seen. It’s not about ability & quality (which we also don’t have), it is about the basics of football - winning your duals, being strong, wanting to head/tackle/mark/block. We are not doing any of those. But it’s not ‘fine margins’ or whatever other cliche you throw out; we are nowhere near doing any of those things. We are nowhere near competing.
It’s not a simple ‘switch to man for man marking’. It’s not a simple ‘change formation’. It’s not a simple ‘bring in Magassa’. This is an issue in the foundations of our side & a mentality ingrained into these players, add to that the signings we have made - & players we now have - are just not good enough. There is no personality, resilience, bite, aggression, desire or just general competitiveness. I have not known a West Ham side with so little about it. No players worth watching, no players worth liking, no players with magic, no players who take no prisoners. There is nothing about this side & when you add the sedated stadium, it’s just sleepwalking to relegation &, to be honest, I am not sure how far we can fall at this moment. -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Fair play to Nuno, he decides to leave Magassa out after starting him in both his games, he not only plays Scarles, but he plays him at RB. He plays KWP at LB. He plays Todibo who is arguably the worst CB I have ever seen play. Andy Irving?
Then the performance. Marshall as our reserve striker (after not playing one), he looks every inch a League Two player. Going to a back 3 at HT.
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Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
It’s my birthday today.
Apart from the dismal showing, I hope you had good things in your day. Wishing you better health over the next year :-)
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Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Giant Happy birthday my man .Hope your doing okay .Best not to watch us play to often -
Brentford(H) Monday 20th October 8pm (3pm in USA east coast)
Embarrassing display. By this showing we would do a Luton. Only one shot at goal, that is one in two games. Strange starting team, no centre-forward. Clueless in every department. No fire, passion, creativity, attack, game plan. Every time ball is arrived in our penalty area we looked so vulnerable. Changing managers hasn't done anything. Where is the next point going to come from?
