Brighton (Home) Friday 20th 8pm (match thread)
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It isn’t the stadium.
Possibly time for a change but I can't see Bilic making it.
It's embarrassing when on Sky our performance is termed woeful and disgraceful. Arnie was singled out for particular criticism with Gary Nev saying he thinks he's a lot better than he is.
There have been some really awful performances this season and I no longer think Slav knows how to change things.
Everything about the club at the moment is contributing to an utter mess.
If this does happen there is a risk that the next goalkeeper may be a shambles and he may initially flop due to taking time getting used to the defence and the defence getting used to him.
I did not see the game but believe that these are good players, easily good enough to achieve upper mid table status - by all accounts we were terrible today against a team which only has spirit going for them, honestly, how many of Brightons squad would we take.
So how are we going to instil some spirit of our own, I always fancied Bilic as manager, he seemed right to me, but I am now thinking that a change has to happen.
ho hum
Slav might not get his tactics right & right now I'm unsure what I feel the board should do, but the players last night with the very odd exception should hold their heads down in shame, most international players who looked like they were playing with their legs tied together..
Of course I feel that the coaching/ management might be part of it all, but these last night were woeful..
Clueless, gutless & no fight...
;weep
We are real need of a Scott Parker type influence on the pitch
I said earlier in the thread that Bilic will not be offered a new deal so we should already be looking (or already have a replacement ready) to bring in someone else well before the Jan window.With a lot of tough games in the near future I am sure virtually all of us we expecting/hoping for 3 points from Brighton more than any other side in that run. ;weep
Sakhos contracts up at the end of the season so I hope we at least look for another one in January ( a sort of fit one that sometimes scores as well ;hmm )
They turned up last night determined not to get rolled over and even Hughton said he was more pleased with the clean sheet than the goals. We should have been at them from the first whistle and put them under so much pressure they'd either have buckled or determinedly kept us out for which we'd have praised them and said good on them. What actually happened was we strolled around passing it amongst ourselves with no impetus or ferocity and they sensed that we weren't really going to bother them and that's how it panned out. We had 2 shots on target both from way out and never troubled their keeper.
The Lanzini free kick from 25 yards out went so high over the bar Owen Farrell would have been delighted with it.
Our passing, unless it's within 5 yards is abysmal. The only longish pass I'm confident will reach a teammate is the one from a kick off and I'm guessing that's only because we've had to do so many of them this season they've become practice perfect.
What summed it all up was Hart over-hitting a free kick square to the right and it going out for a Brighton throw-in. Laughable. Reminded me of the panic and ineptitude England showed in that 2nd half vs Iceland. Zero confidence or self-belief leading to safe, non-threatening passing or crazy errors like this.
If Manzini is available get him in soon.
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Indvidual players sats, pass range, success rate, heat maps etc https://www.whufc.com/fixtures/first-team/fixtures-and-results/season-20172018/west-ham-united-vs-brighton-and-hove-0
It could be argued that this is a better squad than the one Pardew took to the FA cup final.
Yet we are very poor.
Before the season started, as with Brighton, how many Watford players wouldve been welcomed into our squad over our players?
If they played like that against us in the first half we'd have been overrun. I'm not saying that to be purposely negative or a doom/gloom merchant, its just worrying how inept and pedestrian we are with virtually no creativity.
Silvas stock keeps rising
Wrong thread sorry!
The problem we have imo is this, we are awful at movement and close control in tight areas, we don’t see or make runs like we should. Our crossing is woeful. Antonio last night looked like the player that Slav didn’t play when he first joined, bull in a china shop and with little end product, I really think he took a knock in the first half that affected him a knee to the ribs.
Barely saw a moan about the starting line up, can argue all day about whether Cresswell or Artur start, the only gripe I had was Martinez not being on the bench.
It’s hard to believe that side was almost the same 10 that played pretty well against Burnley, we’ve got little consistency in team or individual performances and a manager that is in a quite frankly ridiculous situation and the same that SA was in. You can’t spend 14m net in the summer and expect to get away with it, the owners are as much to blame. Slav cleared the decks for Carvalho and Sully thought he was on FM2017....the ground isn’t helping either imo, the atmosphere was still good at 0/1 but after that it’s toxic. The players are low on form and confidence and making basic mistakes, obiang was fantastic against burnley, apart from one offside through ball to Hernandez he was bang average last night, We’ve wasted big money on Arnie and Ayew (who has at least scored a few) either back the manager now (and with funds in Jan) or sack him, I’d actually prefer it if he walked with some dignity in tact. They probably won’t do either because they’re spineless individuals who’ll keep telling you what a great job they’re doing and to deflect any blame to whoever they can.
If i was him, with a heavy heart I’d resign, and if possible blow the whistle on this board.
Just my opinion
;ok
Clearly there will be various things going on in the background which we can only speculate at (transfers etc)
But slav should still have had more than enough quality available at his disposal to not be producing the horror shows like Newcastle and Brighton, etc