At Home to Crystal Palace Saturday 14th Jan 3pm Kick off - London Stadium - Bring ya gum

Vorselaarhammer

For me Lanzini is now the main man that we look to build our football around.

Play him as CM / AM in the middle of the pitch with Pace on either side.

OldCastleSwift

Let’s try the diamond:

Randy
Nordtveit Reid Ogbonna Cresswell
Obiang
Noble Fernandes
Lanzini
Carroll Antonio

brookingsirons

Why couldn't nordtveit refuse to play
;whistle

TwistandShout

Randy
Byram, Reid, Collins, Cresswell
Obiang, Noble, Oxford
Browne, Lanzini
Carroll

Subs:
Adrian, Ogbonna, Nordtveit, Fernandes, Quina, Fletcher, Martinez

Get the heart back into the team.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Randy
Nordtveit - Reid - Ogbonna - Cresswell
-- Noble - Obiang -- Lanzini --
- Feghouli - Carroll - Antonio

Sub: Adrian, Collins, Oxford, Arbeloa, Fernandes, Martinez, Fletcher

Bit of a weak bench but feel Fernandes isn't physical enough for this game but if Antonio is ill and our he should come in and would like to see Browne to come in

The Payet thing was that gonna help a all but would've liked to have Kouyate and Ayew available to make up for his loss

IronHerb

The only physical players in your team are Reid, Ogbonna, Obiang and Carroll so not sure how Fernandes is considered lightweight. ;hmm

baracks_a_hammer

Luckily for us Feghouli is not considered good enough to make Algeria's ACON squad ;lol

IronHerb

;hmm

Well he's been injured for most of the season so not altogether surprising.

Lukerz

Randolph
Antonio - Collins - Reid - Cresswell
Feghouli - Noble - Obiang - Lanzini
Fletcher - Carroll

Moojor

brookingsirons said:

Why couldn't nordtveit refuse to play
;whistle

Because you wouldn't notice the difference.

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

brookingsirons said:

Why couldn't nordtveit refuse to play
;whistle

Harsh.....

Especially when you could've also included....

Zaza, Tore, Arbeloa and Feg.

brookingsirons

not really none of the others play anyway izzy ;wink

brookingsirons

I can hear big sam's team talk now " attack there right side the RB is rubbish "

ASLEFshrugged

TwistAndShout said:

Randy
Byram, Reid, Collins, Cresswell
Obiang, Noble, Oxford
Browne, Lanzini
Carroll

Subs:
Adrian, Ogbonna, Nordtveit, Fernandes, Quina, Fletcher, Martinez

Get the heart back into the team.

Terry Westley said there were about 50 scouts from lower league sides watching Browne at the U23 match on Monday, apparently Northampton Town have made an offer and if its settled today he can play against Bristol City on Saturday. Coventry are also after him.

tomkinsworldclass

-------------------RANDOLPH----------------------
--------OXFORD-----REID----OGBONNA--------------
-ANTONIO--OBIANG---NOBLE----LANZINI---CRESSWELL--
----------------CARROLL---FLETCHER----------------

Subs:- Adrian, Collins, Fernandes, Nordvedt, Feghoui, Browne, Martinez

;scarf ;scarf ;scarf ;scarf ;scarf ;scarf

jay_in_cpt

If Collins, Oxford & Byram are fit to play, start all 3 IMO

Lukerz

Randolph
Collins - Reid - Ogbonna
Byram - Noble - Obiang - Cresswell
Antonio - Carroll - Lanzini

Could be possible

NEoldiron

Looking at that back 3 (Luke's and TWC's) just hits home even more that we should have tried to keep Tomkins. Ogbonna, as I and others have already said, has been woeful lately. ;hmm

baracks_a_hammer

Oddly I am now more optimistic of a positive result on Saturday after today's payet revelations... ;hmm

thornburyiron

That is odd. ;biggrin

MrsGrey

Made me ;lol


from here https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2016/dec/28/david-squires-on-football-in-2016

(The Hodgson/Iceland one also made me ;biggrin )

alderz

baracks - it has me too, tbh. I feel like I've been waiting for Payet to be brilliant all season and been regularly let down, whereas now I feel like we'll have 11 players working hard for each other.

TheMadcapLaughs

Funny but I like Ogbonna, thought he was immense last season, and no worse than most this season. And the "penalty" against Man City was probably a worse decision than Feghuolis sending off. On saying that, I also think we were mad to let Tomkins go. I am just hoping that Slav discovers a system (that doesn`t include Payet) pretty darn quick and sticks to it. I think 3 at the back, if you can make it work, is a very versatile system, and after the Nordveit Experiment (sounds like a quatermass story) I`m hoping not to see him in a back 4 again. If Big Andy plays I hope he has someone playing off him as most of his flick ons and lay offs are pretty much wasted otherwise. I like the look of TWC`s team. I do hope we beat Palace and get a bit of our pride back. I am also hoping that Bilic gets a rousing reception and a song or three. Going for a season changing/defining 3--1 victory. ;champagne ;scarf

IronHerb

I'm not sure our defence will be able to achieve a -1 ;biggrin

;yercoat

Expat_Hammer

IH, I've got the door .............. off you go ;biggrin

IronHerb

Thankyou

MIAHammer

This Payet thing is a bait and switch by SB. Big Sam will be planning for a WHU team without Payet and then boom at the last minute we'll name Payet as playing.
;pray

steve

;biggrin

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

The squad will come together

Andy to batter a big Sam side

Here we go!

Come on you IRONS!!!

Ravel49

SCHLUPP'S PALACE MEDICAL

Sky Sources: Jeffrey Schlupp ishaving medical today in central London ahead of a move to Crystal Palace from Leicester.

We understand every attempt is being made to get him registered in time to play for Palace at West Ham tomorrow – but player and club are “up against the clock.”