Is This Pellegrini's Team To Face Bournemouth?

I hope not. Rice and Noble are too slow and big question mark over Diop. Need Pedro in that midfield to win a tackle.

Wilshire and noble in the middle anderson behind arnie masauku on the left not rocket science masaku was lethal from the left side last season and has the abilty to win the ball back high up the pitch

Masaku? Lethal? Last season? God my memory must be getting bad. It has to be cresswell if he is fit as he is the only one of the two who has any defensive nous.

Sorry, but any team with Noble in it is not good enough, our best players should be in these positions, they also need to cover and go forward, a lot of work and Rice is not ready and Noble not good enough.

On the cards tomorrow

Is seventeen times better than Cresswell in any position

Also, I do not think Rice is a Premier League CM. Does anybody think he is? I guess Diop needs to play in order to adjust to EPL, but I'm tempted to have Rice in his place or Ogbonna's. I didn't see anything great from either Ogbonna or Diop last time out. I favour Masuaku over Cresswell just for the sake of the attacking options he brings, but I take the point that Cresswell is a better defender. Cresswell needs pushing, though, because at his best he CAN put in a good cross, but we haven't seen him at his best very much. Noble and Obiang in the middle can do a decent job for us. We need to find how best to use Anderson, though. He's our playmaker and the sooner we start getting him involved the better.

I do feel this is a potential banana skin. Bournemouth are not crap, and we were woeful (4-0 don't forget) in our first match. Let's hope we see a strong reaction.

People predicting this game is a banana skin have forgotten one thing. This is West Ham and therefore by default EVERY game is a banana skin. Ok we do have option this season and we did play poorly last time out, but we must refrain from reading too much into the Liverpool game. We are a project in the making. We can't get drawn into a knee jerk reaction, players need to settle, we have ALWAYS been unpredictable, in my life time we have always struggled badly at Anfield and Liverpool are on a real high at the moment. If pellegrini believes in something/someone then he should stick to it regardless of just one game.

65 I agree a lot of enjoyment has gone out of it. It would be silly to suggest the pressure isn't on for all the reasons you give. It isn't however silly to suggest it shouldn't be after one game away to Liverpool tho. Ashes says we played badly but how often have we played there and played well? I bet it less times than I can count on one hand since I was born in 1963! Part of the beauty of West Ham is the banana skins we can also lay a few down for other teams. Any realistic hammers fans could NEVER really predict any result. Catch us on our day and we will kick some arse. Trouble is those days aren't often enough. That's part of the enjoyment tho. We reflect life. My enjoyment comes from giving the big boys a real fright and playing football that gets me off my seat. If we can at least get back to those days I'd be happy. Our team has bi polar. Big ups AND downs. I can live with that (on medication ) if I believe we are doing things the right way. When you see the likes of city, Chelsea, and manure the fans often don't really cheer as they now have an attitude of not IF we are going to scored just WHEN. That's not for me. We have to go through the lows to appreciate the highs when or if they come.

Cant disagree with any of that

Draught beer is now available throughout the stadium...Well f*ck me thats solved everything then hasnt it!!!