The Official West Ham United Thread. Vol 3

[Hammer67]

Next 5 PL games.

West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur
Manchester City v West Ham United
West Ham United v Leeds United
Manchester United v West Ham United
West Ham United v Arsenal

Will be doing bloody well if we`re still hanging around the top 6 at the end of that lot.
8/9 points would see us right I reckon.

Will be interesting to see how Moyes goes about these fixtures.
Will he view the Manc games as free hits and juggle the side around or go full strength?

[Richtea1970]

Yeah, likewise, I'll be interested in his approach.

Personally I think he will go defensive for the majority of those, which will be disappointing for the fans but if we averaged a point a game, I think he'd be happy with that.

[sjc]

Everton have got City, Liverpool and Chelsea coming up
Arsenal gave City and Leicester
Chelsea have Man U and Everton
Spuds probably have the easiest immediate set of fixtures, bit the good thing about the above is they will obviously all take points off each other.

[TCEvo]

There also aren't currently teams with several games in hand around us.

WHU Squad depth & cittee aside we ought to be competitive in all of those fixtures - especially as the mancs & spuds have Euro footie to contend with.

Agree w/ Rich - Moyes defensive nature re 'top teams' will potentially have a significant bearing.

[bad company]

I thought Mike Dean might be finished, sadly not:-

Mike Dean: Referee returning to Premier League for Burnley v West Brom https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56091407

[sjc]

So tomorrow...
Perfectly set up for us or them to have egg on faces.
Usual Kane goal, Bale suddenly finds his form, and a high scoring draw.
Or we win.

Or they do

Or it’s a low scoring draw.

Or a nil nil.

I’m convinced it’ll be one of those.

[bad company]

I’d be more confident if Ogbonna was fit. There’s a late decision on Antonio apparently.

[TCEvo]

sjc said:

So tomorrow...
Perfectly set up for us or them to have egg on faces.
Usual Kane goal, Bale suddenly finds his form, and a high scoring draw.
Or we win.

Or they do

Or it’s a low scoring draw.

Or a nil nil.

I’m convinced it’ll be one of those.

Pretty much this

Think Kane might out. Agree on Bale, air or inevitabilty etc.

[TCEvo]

Antonio starts.

COYI!!!

[Hammer67]

TCEvo said:

Antonio starts.

COYI!!!

Let's hope he can finish.

The game and a couple of chances..

COYI.

[TCEvo]

Hammer67 said:

TCEvo said:

Antonio starts.

COYI!!!

Let's hope he can finish.

The game and a couple of chances..

COYI.

About time he got another goal - last one was vs. WBA.

[sjc]

No Og, no Fredericks,two keepers on the bench. A game that may depend on who’s the fittest between Kane and Ant.
They probably need a win more than us.

[BrabusMog]

sjc said:

No Og, no Fredericks,two keepers on the bench. A game that may depend on who’s the fittest between Kane and Ant.
They probably need a win more than us.

We need to get an early goal and actually make them attack us.

[Hammer67]

sjc said:

No Og, no Fredericks,two keepers on the bench. A game that may depend on who’s the fittest between Kane and Ant.
They probably need a win more than us.

HoseA gone all out attack looking at their front 4 of Son, Kane, Lamela and Moura.

Hopefully that might give us space through the midfield to counter attack.

We need to start this game properly, can`t afford to give them a head start like last time.

COYI.

[TCEvo]

BrabusMog said:

sjc said:

No Og, no Fredericks,two keepers on the bench. A game that may depend on who’s the fittest between Kane and Ant.
They probably need a win more than us.

We need to get an early goal and actually make them attack us.

Thought that we might've set up as per the villa game, but w/ Fredericks (presumably) injured that ruled that option out.

[sjc]

BrabusMog said:

We need to get an early goal and actually make them attack us.

We tried going at them early in the previous fixture and ended up 3 nothing down in 20 minutes getting done on the counter !
Would love to see it though .

[Leicester Loyal]

Please don't win.

You've got like 5 or 6 tough fixtures coming up in the next few weeks, I think this will be where your season either makes or beaks. Absolutely no reason you can't fight for a top 4 place if you win even half of them.

[BrabusMog]

Hammer67 said:

sjc said:

No Og, no Fredericks,two keepers on the bench. A game that may depend on who’s the fittest between Kane and Ant.
They probably need a win more than us.

HoseA gone all out attack looking at their front 4 of Son, Kane, Lamela and Moura.

Hopefully that might give us space through the midfield to counter attack.

We need to start this game properly, can`t afford to give them a head start like last time.

COYI.

Christ, didn’t see this

[sjc]

Leicester Loyal said:

Please don't win.

You've got like 5 or 6 tough fixtures coming up in the next few weeks, I think this will be where your season either makes or beaks. Absolutely no reason you can't fight for a top 4 place if you win even half of them.

In all honesty I don’t think any on here are realistically thinking that we won’t run out of steam eventually.I find I’m pretty much looking at the table every day simply because I don’t still believe it.
Anything above 8th will be a terrific season and a big step to hopefully build from. And it’s been a lot of fun being a Hammer and watching it unfold.

[BrabusMog]

sjc said:

Leicester Loyal said:

Please don't win.

You've got like 5 or 6 tough fixtures coming up in the next few weeks, I think this will be where your season either makes or beaks. Absolutely no reason you can't fight for a top 4 place if you win even half of them.

In all honesty I don’t think any on here are realistically thinking that we won’t run out of steam eventually.I find I’m pretty much looking at the table every day simply because I don’t still believe it.
Anything above 8th will be a terrific season and a big step to hopefully build from. And it’s been a lot of fun being a Hammer and watching it unfold.

A lot of us would have to eat humble pie if we ended up in a CL spot with G&S running the show