West Ham (H) - Match Thread

[Vacamion]

 

People blaming Ruud for a selection they don't like two days into his tenure, with an injury crisis and during a woeful loss of form?

 

 

 

[STUHILL]

It is starting to feel like we have the worst squad in the league.  

[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, PaulW said:

You've got a season ticket and you can't be bothered to go along and support the team's first game under the new manager!? 

Correct. 

[Filbert Fireworks]

2 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Conor Coady and Jannick could be a solid experienced, no nonsense pairing up and until January. 
 

or it could be an absolute disaster caught out by pace consistently

Yeah suppose with okoli possibly not up to 90 and Faes needing a message its out of neccesity. Imagine either or with an okoli is the best balance. 

[Tommy Fresh]

Ings is bound to score but at least we don't have to watch Antonio bully our defence until later on

[jonny_wright]

1 minute ago, STUHILL said:

It is starting to feel like we have the worst squad in the league.  

It’s abysmal, Martyn Glover out for me! 

[JimJams]

5 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Conor Coady and Jannick could be a solid experienced, no nonsense pairing up and until January. 
 

or it could be an absolute disaster caught out by pace consistently

Fortunately they're only up against Ings. VK might have a hard time though. 

[J. James]

3 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Go and kiss Steve Cooper on the mouth if you love him so much

Nah, don't fancy him, also l don't rate him, never did, but l really dislike people being scapegoated and used to cover up very obvious faults, he had a bunch of second and third raters to work with, RvN has the same, lets see how much the results improve shall we.

[STEVIE B]

9 minutes ago, Molson Canadian said:

RVN would have destroyed our defence in his playing days.  Gosh. 

He would destroy it now ! 

[RumbleFox]

Has anyone mentioned 3 box 3?

[Royston.]

33 minutes ago, adam said:

Bloody terrible side again but we cant do much about the players we have. Not sure what is happening with Mavididi though. He should be starting.

super sub.

 

Either that or he asked Ruud how it felt to finally be in the saddle..

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 minute ago, J. James said:

Nah, don't fancy him, also l don't rate him, never did, but l really dislike people being scapegoated and used to cover up very obvious faults, he had a bunch of second and third raters to work with, RvN has the same, lets see how much the results improve shall we.

 

Ratioed

[whoareyaaa]

10 minutes ago, Mark said:

It probably is but not with the slowest centre back pairing known

Justin and Kristensen are terrible

[Samilktray]

1 minute ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Ratioed

L’s in the chat 

[FoxinNotts]

Just now, whoareyaaa said:

Justin and Kristensen are terrible

And yet both better at LB than Thomas

[FoxFossil]

We don't know how this team is going to line up yet. McAteer maybe on the right, so not in place of Mavididi at all?

Lets wait and see.

[PaulW]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

Justin and Kristensen are terrible

So who would you play?

[Samilktray]

All this coverage about Leicester, don’t they realise there’s another team playing? May as well be watching sky sports 

[Wink84]

23 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Don't Ruud favour 442 ?

 

So 442 defending and 424 attacking?

3 BOX 3!!!!!!

[whoareyaaa]

Just now, FoxinNotts said:

And yet both better at LB than Thomas

He looked better than both in the last game

 

[whoareyaaa]

Just now, PaulW said:

So who would you play?

3 atb

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Hope the 55,000 in there tonight sing their hearts out for the lads 💙

[jim5000]

Our midfield is a hot mess.

 

How are we still playing Soumare 2 years after we all realised he is utter bobbins

[Sly]

39 minutes ago, Staff said:

Haha wtf is that line up

Protecting that defence 

 

Its like when we played them with that Midfield two of Mendy and Ndidi

[HitchinFox]

Impressed by RVN's interview on Amazon just now.

 

Positive, relaxed, a man that is looking forward to the task at hand. 

 

That will no doubt be transmitted to the players. His pedigree will also mean he has players' respect. 

 

Wouldn't be surprised if we see some really positive signs in the performance tonight. Still think we'd do well to get anything out of the game, but I don't think we'll see the uninspiring turdball we saw under Cooper.