WBA (H) 4th Rnd FA Cup 3pm Saturday 25 Jan - the return of the beard
A brief respite from the woes of league football for both teams.
WBA may be top of the Championship but apart from beating Charlton in the cup they've not won since beating Birmingham away on 14th December, the same match that Grady Diangana first got injured. He's injured again (out for at least a month) and Matheus Pereira, joint top for assists in the Champo (10) is suspended for violent conduct.
This is going to be our best chance to get something positive out of this season, fingers crossed Antonio is fit enough to start.
WBA may be top of the Championship but apart from beating Charlton in the cup they've not won since beating Birmingham away on 14th December, the same match that Grady Diangana first got injured. He's injured again (out for at least a month) and Matheus Pereira, joint top for assists in the Champo (10) is suspended for violent conduct.
This is going to be our best chance to get something positive out of this season, fingers crossed Antonio is fit enough to start.
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I'd be tempted to go full strength, then give our key players a rest on Wednesday and have them fresh for Brighton. We're going to lose to Liverpool irrespective of what team we put out, so may as well go all out for West Brom and Brighton.
Fab
Zab Diop Oggy Cresswell
Fornals Rice Noble Masuaku
Haller Antonio
Martin, Reid, Cardoso, Ngakia, Sanchez, Lanzini, Ajeti
Just lose the game and try and put in a few better performances in the league before we go down. As we won’t get the players we need to save us in the transfer window .
This is one of the worst , unmotivated squads we have had for years and that is saying something.
COYI COYI COYI
Beating West Brom will do nothing for this team.
Confidence comes from having good players playing well and trying for each other and the supporters.
Unless we get a few new decent players in this window the confidence will not improve . A scrappy win against a West Brom side that has been struggling recently and have the league to think about will just hide how utterly rubbish and gutless this current West Ham side is and do nothing to improve our chances in the league.
Even if we did beat West Brom as soon as we come up against a decent side who put in a bit of effort we will be out so why prolong the agony.
I can't stand the owners, I can't stand the way we play football a lot of the time. But there hasn't been a game this season (or ever, actually) that I haven't thought to myself at least for a moment that we might nick something here.
West Ham have been rubbish for pretty much my whole life, pretty much all of our entire lives. The owners aren't what make me not want to log onto this forum or check the transfer rumours every day, it's the gloom among fans. Where's the gallows humour? Where's the support?
Sometimes it reads from some posters that people would rather we lost just so it proves their point that we are rubbish.
Might be a competition between the U23 and First team this week to see who concedes more U23s vs West Brom or First team vs Liverpool.
prove your point. Well said. :ok:
I actually prefer venting on here because it doesn't get overly aggressive or personal like other platforms, but if people are being driven away from the site maybe I'll vent elsewhere.
alderz, I think we generally have a very good history of gallows humour on here, but maybe even that has had the life sucked out of it for a lot of us for what's happening at the club.
One part of your post does intrigue me, where you said that you feel we could nick something from any game, Iv'e been a fan longer than you, I know that because I'm older than you..
I am pleased the way you feel, good for you, but if others want to post and it might be negative, that is their choice...You don't have to agree, you don't have to read it, moaning on here does not mean that posters who attend games moan when they are there, just my opinion, just like you have yours :ok:
and re the more important issue...COYI...I really hope we beat WBA ( even tho I'd prefer we had Bilic back as manager rather than Moyes !! )..
No I didn't say that unless you have access to my posts IH , do you??? I just couldn't agree with Alderz saying that he felt we could "nick something for every game he had ever seen"...that I can't get my head around....Is that OK with u Iron Herb?...
Common sense tells me that there is a real chance that Liverpool will knock up a cricket score against us, and yet after 10mins and it is still 0-0, I start thinking that we are holding our own here and could nick it.
I wonder what it is like to support a top team, I have never ever gone into a game thinking that there is a real chance that WE could knock up a cricket score, even against lowly opposition, it is a feeling that I have never had.
COYI
Anyway.
"One part of your post does intrigue me, where you said that you feel we could nick something from any game, Iv'e been a fan longer than you, I know that because I'm older than you..
So what are you saying?
Once we went 3-1 down I didn't.
The Under 5's? :biggrin:
Zabaleta - Balbuena - Diop - Cresswell
Snodgrass - Rice - Fornals - Lanzini
Antonio - Haller
Please, just this once
Randolph; Zabaleta Balbuena Diop Cresswell; Snodgrass Fornals Rice Antonio
Haller Ajeti
It is fine saying you think we can knick a point from games but watching West Ham play doesn’t often back that theory up.
There has not been a cohesion to the way West Ham play for a long time and we very rarely dominate teams unless like Bournemouth they are playing terribly. However that is only a couple of times a season.
If a team is half decent and works hard we will often be thumped or at best lose to a late goal.
How can anyone be positive about the current West Ham side?
We are rudderless from the top down and there does not seem to be a plan on or off the pitch to move things forward.
I like many others have supported West Ham through all the bad times and the occasional good times but what is going on at a club that is the 18 th richest in the world is depressing and shameful to owners who promised lots but have done absolutely nothing to back up those promises.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the players seemed to try in games but there is no team spirit or excitement watching West Ham play.
It is fine and easy to say let’s all be positive but what exactly is there to be positive about?
Especially as it looks with the games we have left and the poor squad we have that relegation is on the cards.
We really should as a club be doing far better and I myself would love to feel we were going to get something from games but i rarely think we are good enough to beat anyone.