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  • I know it's pre season but..

    Submitted by Chippy Dave on Sun, 26/07/2015 - 09:58

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    Other than the friendly at Southend we haven't performed. I know we can say 'it's only pre season, these results don't matter, it's all about getting fitness' but I'm feeling very underwhelmed, we already seem heavily reliant on Payet taking the Premier league by storm, let's hope he does, but surely at some point some of the rest of the team need to buck their ideas up, we have been playing competitive games in the Europa League qualifiers alongside the normal schedule of friendly games and in my opinion we've been poor. I think at the back we'll be ok, we've got reinforcements there but midfield and up front isn't performing, we've had glimpses of Payet and Samuelson, the rest have been the same old same old, if anything it just highlights that we still need to spend a shed load of money even after getting in 6 or 7 players, I can't believe that when the first game of the season starts it's going to be like flicking a switch and everybody suddenly starts performing, surely at some point we need to see a good pre season or Europa League performance from the team that will erase the shambles that was the second half of last season!

  • Song

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    Submitted by Florida Hammer on Sat, 25/07/2015 - 12:18

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    I first want to state this post was not my original thought but comes from comments on a news now post regarding Alex Songs successful surgery on his ankle. Apparently a floating bone was causing problems since Christmas. This might explain the drop in form. Comments included ' sign him now, and get the pre Christmas Song back on our team'. Thought I would bring this topic to our forum for more intelligent thoughts and comments. I tend to agree if this is a routine surgery with a high success rate, don't hang around, get him signed. He has made all the right moves to demonstrate that he wants West Ham.

  • Premier Fantasy Football

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    Submitted by Irons n Nappies on Sat, 25/07/2015 - 11:33

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  • How Pathetic Is This?

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    Submitted by Essexhammer on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 21:15

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    http://www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/west-ham/bilic_should_be_sa...

    Now I know the performance was poor yesterday especially the penetration and attacking play as Bilic stated in his post-match interview,but he doesn't deserve this negativity,for crying out loud he has only been in the job five minutes.He will come good ,all the teams he has managed have his trademark stamped on them,attacking play and goals ,he will get it right.I think fans in the main,expected a similar team selection to what Bilic put out, and he probably felt, as we all did, that there was enough quality in that side to finish the opposition off.But how wrong we were.He isn't going to make that mistake again especially with better opposition ahead.Bilic is still assessing the players ,especially the forwards to see whether they have what it takes to unlock packed defences,I'm not convinced ,I don't think he is either,but we will have to wait and see on that one.But I think the likes of Valencia,Sakho,Carroll,are your definites ,one more quality signing and a quality loan would put our minds at rest.The crossing yesterday was another area that was concerning,it was just hit and hope,no body was targeted,so many crosses wasted.Jarvis and Amalfitano,have quality there is no doubt but ,neither are floating my boat at the moment,but doesn't help matters playing in a side with less quality then they are used to.I'm sure even Payet's performance level would have suffered in that game.Hernandez,Mirallas,Halilvic,Milan Badelj ,Moussa Sow of Fenerbache, but the African Cup of Nations, January time, may be a big turn off signing more African players

  • Take a risk with Charlie

    Submitted by norniron on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 14:36

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    Ever growing hints that West Ham is Austin's preferred choice. Although the club seem to think that £15m is too high and would not be willing to pay more than £10m, I think the extra £5m would be well worth the risk given the value of each goal, particularly given what the coming season means and our perennial struggle to find goals. God forbid Sakho gets injured - we got an indication last night where that would leave us. Throw a couple of make-shifts in too.

  • Hernandez or Austin?

    Submitted by Brooking is a legend on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 13:59

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    The end of last season, and our European venture so far, have definitely confirmed that our missing piece fo the jigsaw is a striker of proven quality. Despite all new signings, up front we are simply the same as last season without Carlton Cole (unless you count Maiga coming back, which I don't). I'm also a bit nervous that all of our new signings are not proven in the Premiership. Up front, I'd now like to see a proven goalscorer in the Premiership join us. As the start of the season is fast approaching, that seems to be coming down to two people, Austin or Hernandez. In all honesty, I'll be happy with either as I think they are both just the sort of player that we need. What would be your preference?

  • Deja Vu?

    Submitted by edwindup on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 09:53

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    Last nights performance was pretty abysmal from what I saw of it. It looked very much like where we left off from last year. The good thing I hope is that Bilic now realizes how bad some of the players are and we will ship them out soon. Hopefully he will have some notion who he wants to play regularly and what system he can utilize although he didn't change much last night. So not a very auspicious start to far. We need a winger and another striker.

  • Naive Hammers Nearly Made To Pay!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Thu, 23/07/2015 - 23:33

    Despite losing 1-0 on the night, West Ham United reached the next round of the Europa League qualifiers where they will meet Astra Giurgiu courtesy of a 5-3 penalty shoot out against plucky FC Birkirkara, but they were made to pay. James Tomkins became the latest West Ham player to be red carded as the wheels nearly came of the club's 'European adventure' before it had started properly. Quite what Tomkins thought he was doing only he knows, but it plain to see that Hammer's are totally naive when it comes to European competition. Having been made to look like mugs in the previous round, and picking up a red card, it would have been assumed that lessons were going to be learned, apparently not! One 'lesson' that was plainly obvious was that Kevin Nolan needs to be shipped out and fast, the club need to move on, even if it means supplementing his wages at another club. Nolan has lost his legs, he was never that fast but has an agile brain that ensured he could be in the right place a lot of the time, unfortunately now that he has lost the yard that he never had in the first place, Nolan has become a snarling, frustrated and essentially inefficient player. He has had his day, four years in to his five year contract it is obvious why Newcastle were not prepared to offer him the five year deal he craved. He was a good player initially, and a great servant, but things have to move on, and also, Mark Noble needs to look in the mirror, at the same time as looking over his shoulder, better players are treading on his heels! -Ed

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