The Official West Ham United Thread.

[BrabusMog]

Nah sjc, you're wrong, it was definitely a penalty. Jenks came in late like an idiot. Even if it wasn't a en it was a stupid challenge to make when we had an early lead..

What a great time to be a Hammers fan though. Long may this purple patch continue.

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Yeah, to dust off that old cliche, Jelavich always put a shift in. I think he got a bit older and lost that little bit of pace he used to sometimes rely on, as he quite often makes a terrible first touch and the defender is on him and away with the ball before Jela has reacted. Good luck to him though, he was hungry to get on and play and didn't just sit on the bench for his £££.

Real shame about Jenks, horrific injury that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

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Crikey, that was some miss from Valencia!

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bad company said:

Amazing. Here we are in 6th place with an excellent chance of European football next season but we all focus on the total points required to stay up. That's what supporting WH does for you.

What is it that chicken farmers say? Don't count your chickens before your eggs have hatched!

Saying that, it would be painful to finsh below 6th after the way we have played quite often this season, and especially now we have Payet back.

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If we look at our remaining fixtures, I do agree with badcompany that we probably won't go down. We've got a tricky March and a tricky mid-April, but other than that it's looking like we could grab 24 more points if we win all our "winnable" games.

FYI, I class those winnable games as Southampton, Norwich, Sunderland, Watford, Palace, West Brom, Swansea and Stoke.

Everton and Man Utd I always get a bad feeling against. Leicester look very hard to beat and Arsenal would love to come and get 3 points.

Edited by BrabusMog on Thursday 4th February 14:06

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TCEvo said:

I'm not quite as confident as that but I do see circa 19 points out of that lot which would see us finish on 58 which is generally a 6-7th place league finish.

Just to clarify, it was a big "if" we win all our winnable games!

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RichB said:

including Andy Carroll or is he on permanent leave?

We should have got a temp in for him whilst he's signed off

Great opportunity to put a bit of daylight between us and Southampton today. So we will probably lose!

And as much as we are patting ourselves on the back, what about Leicester? I genuinely hope they win the League this year.

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He certainly knows how to set a team up! Must be the best manager in the Prem after Bilic!

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bad company said:

RichB said:

Apparently only 2 shots on target?

We had plenty of posession but just could not get thru. Payet & Valencia were just ineffective today.

That's what me and my dad said, we battered them everywhere but the final third. I have to admit I'd had quite a few beers yesterday but it looked like we were playing with a flat back 5 at first, we didn't seem to open up until about 20 minutes. Their goal was lucky, but you've got to be in it to win it and Valencia should not be pussying out of challenges like that in the box.

It's a mark of the quality of the season that I view that as an opportunity lost.

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Holy st, that's a lot of cake for someone his age!

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Yeah, no problem with with rengotiating, fair's fair and all that. What I am more confused about is how this can happen outside the transfer window?

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Who are the pundits? Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler?

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We shouldn't get too excited as it was only Liverpool, but this made me chuckle. I wonder what Lawro's predictions would have put the score at over the 4 games...

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TCEvo said:

bad company said:

Lawro has us down for a 0-2 defeat at Norwich. If his predections were right we would be below Aston Villa.

fk him & fk his opinion.

I'll probably regret saying this, but I have us down for a 0 2 victory at Norwich. He's such a bellend, he must just be on a wind up now.

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Hammer67 said:

sjc said:

bad company said:

BrabusMog said:

I'll probably regret saying this, but I have us down for a 0 2 victory at Norwich. He's such a bellend, he must just be on a wind up now.

I'm not so sure about the Norwich match. I'm just a bit worried about the injuries and Norwich will be fighting for their lives.

The three who went off on Tuesday are all out, so six out in total.
Seeing its West Ham, I'm only ever confident in our propensity to cock things up, but Norwich have been poor, and the open way they play will suit us down to the ground for our counter attacking style.

So I predict a 3-0 Norwich win...

That's SO last year. Brave New World has dawned, an era of sustained consistent success with Classic West Ham Farces consigned to history along with BFS and Lolton. Didn't you get the memo?

I confidently predict a 3 nil win for the Hammers.

You quite literally always predict a 3 0 win for the Hammers

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I think Friday spirits are getting the better of us

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That's a real shame, best of luck to him in the future.

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If he did write that, he's certainly got a good career ahead of him. Wonder what the Miami thing is, Beckhams MLS franchise?

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He scored **that** goal though