The Official West Ham United Thread. Vol 2
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BrabusMog said:
sjc said:
Agreed. You just missed Oliver’s incompetence.
And he is usually one of the better refs... I'd like to see that booking for Diop again as to me it actually looked like Kane pushed him and somehow Diop ended up in the book?! BrabusMog said:
sjc said:
Agreed. You just missed Oliver’s incompetence.
And he is usually one of the better refs... I'd like to see that booking for Diop again as to me it actually looked like Kane pushed him and somehow Diop ended up in the book?! The issue I have is that it clearly affected Diops performance getting booked so early in the game, and barely made a challenge after that.
Edited by sjc on Sunday 24th November 22:31
TCEvo said:
BrabusMog said:
sjc said:
Agreed. You just missed Oliver’s incompetence.
And he is usually one of the better refs... I'd like to see that booking for Diop again as to me it actually looked like Kane pushed him and somehow Diop ended up in the book?! The ref got a few things wrong I think, I thought your guy was lucky to stay on the pitch after his tackle on son.
Ascayman said:
The ref got a few things wrong I think, I thought your guy was lucky to stay on the pitch after his tackle on son.
To be honest I thought Fredericks got the ball cleanly and the Spurs player (was it Son?) only got cleaned out in the follow through. That's ok isn't it? It was 31 years ago I last played 
BrabusMog said:
I don't think I've ever heard a single player get so hammered on Talksport quite like Roberto did today. Every pundit stuck the boot in on every show I heard. I set off at just after 9 and have just arrived at my destination, so I heard a lot today!
Rightly so, worst GK I've ever seen & IMO, the worst WH signing of all time (as we know competition for that title's strong 
)He'll start v. chelski at the weekend.
TCEvo said:
Rightly so, worst GK I've ever seen & IMO, the worst WH signing of all time (as we know competition for that title's strong )
He'll start v. chelski at the weekend.
Yes it will be another 451 line up which massively under utilises Haller isolates our attacking wingers and leaves our bang average fullbacks exposed...same tactics, same line up, same instructions - same outcome. Never seen a manager (well not since we persisted in thinking Antonio was a full back) be so utterly devoid of any idea on how to turn things around. We could be paying any old bloke to put out the same team each week and run some training a few hours a day.)He'll start v. chelski at the weekend.
TCEvo said:
pincher said:
TCEvo said:
the worst WH signing of all time
Boogers. Just saying
tness didn't cost us anything like this clown is & the stakes are much, much higher now. Plus I'm having to sit through this crap week in.
t.He’s the closest pro keeper I’ve ever seen to the five year old kid that dives about in the garden. It’s just embarrassing watching him, but the blame lies solely at the manager /recruitment head.It’s not only the fact that he dives for everything when he can just plant and catch it, or that he gets bullied and gives everyone jitters,but his basic technique with his hands/arms when diving is simply alarmingly wrong.
Any keeper is taught that when you dive, your hands/arms go out the the ball in a straight line,not in a circular loop. If you look at the first goal Saturday, see how his hands don’t go straight at the ball with stiff wrists,but they do a kind of up/down round loop.Many things went wrong leading to that goal but it was still saveable with straight,strong wrists.
Having said all that,there was so much wrong all over the pitch Saturday, wouldn’t have made much difference.... Anderson one on one with the keeper in the first half deciding to pass because he didn’t have the confidence to shoot ? He could have even have slowed down and waited for the defender to run in to the back of him and get a penalty as worst case scenario ( something that Kane is very good at).
Fredericks and Anderson’s lack of ability to trap a slow moving ball on spurs byeline gifting them goalkicks?
Hallers and Yarma’s body language, and especially the latters inability to play with his head up ? Fredericks hiding and not wanting the ball, because he panics with the ball at his feet when he’s closed down.
Diop not wanting to use his left foot for a pass back to the keeper resulting in his booking (rightly or wrongly) which meant he was scared to tackle for the rest of the game.
I could go on and on, something has to change,starting with Ant up with Haller against Chelsea.
sjc said:
TCEvo said:
pincher said:
TCEvo said:
the worst WH signing of all time
Boogers. Just saying
tness didn't cost us anything like this clown is & the stakes are much, much higher now. Plus I'm having to sit through this crap week in.
t.He’s the closest pro keeper I’ve ever seen to the five year old kid that dives about in the garden. It’s just embarrassing watching him, but the blame lies solely at the manager /recruitment head.It’s not only the fact that he dives for everything when he can just plant and catch it, or that he gets bullied and gives everyone jitters,but his basic technique with his hands/arms when diving is simply alarmingly wrong.
Any keeper is taught that when you dive, your hands/arms go out the the ball in a straight line,not in a circular loop. If you look at the first goal Saturday, see how his hands don’t go straight at the ball with stiff wrists,but they do a kind of up/down round loop.Many things went wrong leading to that goal but it was still saveable with straight,strong wrists.
Having said all that,there was so much wrong all over the pitch Saturday, wouldn’t have made much difference.... Anderson one on one with the keeper in the first half deciding to pass because he didn’t have the confidence to shoot ? He could have even have slowed down and waited for the defender to run in to the back of him and get a penalty as worst case scenario ( something that Kane is very good at).
Fredericks and Anderson’s lack of ability to trap a slow moving ball on spurs byeline gifting them goalkicks?
Hallers and Yarma’s body language, and especially the latters inability to play with his head up ? Fredericks hiding and not wanting the ball, because he panics with the ball at his feet when he’s closed down.
Diop not wanting to use his left foot for a pass back to the keeper resulting in his booking (rightly or wrongly) which meant he was scared to tackle for the rest of the game.
I could go on and on, something has to change,starting with Ant up with Haller against Chelsea.
Agree w/ summary (and the signing liability).
coldel said:
Still think we could do worse than calling Trott back - give him a go. He is sitting down in lower reaches of League One at the moment. Martin must be pretty bad if after all the mistakes by Roberto he still isnt getting a sniff.
Don't think that we're allowed to though - similar for Diangana. Think I read that somewhere. TCEvo said:
coldel said:
Still think we could do worse than calling Trott back - give him a go. He is sitting down in lower reaches of League One at the moment. Martin must be pretty bad if after all the mistakes by Roberto he still isnt getting a sniff.
Don't think that we're allowed to though - similar for Diangana. Think I read that somewhere. TCEvo said:
Virtual pint that we'll start one up on Sat...
Agree w/ summary (and the signing liability).
Yep, same team, same line up, nothing will change other than some forlorn hope by Pelle that somehow something will just work. Agree w/ summary (and the signing liability).
And yes the signings for keeper cover were shocking, but also the lack of any challenge to the positions in defence who are on the whole all sub premier division standard (I might have mentioned this once or twice before...
)coldel said:
TCEvo said:
coldel said:
Still think we could do worse than calling Trott back - give him a go. He is sitting down in lower reaches of League One at the moment. Martin must be pretty bad if after all the mistakes by Roberto he still isnt getting a sniff.
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