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  • Next season

    Submitted by alby foreverirons on Tue, 11/04/2023 - 03:22

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    I would definitely be looking at some of our youth, Mumbama for me should have been used a lot more plus it would have saved the club £15 million and £125 a week on Ings. What encouragement is it for a young lad that has scored 26 goals in 26 games in the youth team when Moyes preferred to bring in an injury prone 30 year old striker that can’t play on his own up front. If and I hope I’m wrong Moyes is still here next season I can’t see the board giving him much money as he proved to me on Saturday that even though he spent over £150 million he wasted a lot of money because he has no idea how to get the best out of them. To spend that much and not use them is ridiculous, we have a few players that’s contracts are up at the end of the season and a few new signings that will want out and I include Rice, Bowan and Benrahma in those the will go especially if the dinosaur is still here. Next season no matter which manager is here it will be a complete rebuild so it is not going to be pretty. Be interested on the views but for me he has to go.

  • Thinking ahead

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    Submitted by mcbikeman on Mon, 10/04/2023 - 08:37

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    Tempting fate a little i know but if we stay up i would like to know what as a fan your transfer strategy would be? do you go splurge obscene amounts of money on the exotic overseas players with exciting names or are you more pragmatic and stick to what you know?

    I ask this because like any fan of any club you always look and notice when certain "names" get linked with your club and then the mind goes into overdrive.....so as it would seem at our club they like to grab a headline about a transfer than seemingly have any thought or research gone into the player so is it to say look at us we can pay £££££'s for players....Ego for from the owners? looking to appease fans? or just hit n hope as long as they sell shirts?

    So like Rice gets linked here there and everywhere the same goes with that guy at Palace Zaha...yes i know as ever he's available on a free so of course we are linked so do Managers think hey he's a freebie so why not but everyone knows a free transfer is never that....do they look at his age his injury record will he fit in will he be a team player etc because all those factors surely have to come in to that and is the player worth thecost/risk.

    As an example if and take away your own prejudices about the player if he was available he wants to stay in London would you say take Zaha on a free or say no and bid for the Lad Jack Clarke at Sunderland who is raw but has a lot of potential and will be 23 this year will not demand big wages and will be chomping at the bit to prove himself in the prem.

    For me it is a know brainer you steer clear of Zaha and the Walcotts of this world and go looking for up and coming exciting talent.....now not having a dig at Scamacca here because given the chance he will come good but we are going to need a change of manager(may be several threads about that subject)if he is to thrive.

    so looking at our strikers...Ings not getting any younger....Antonio not a striker....Cornet not a striker....Scamacca injured out of form and clearly pissed off with the manager what would you do? go exotic overseas or do proper research and look at that proving ground that is the championship?

    Ings/Antonio for me should be let go in the summer regardless of the loss we will take on Ings forget the French market and promote from within and again for that to happen the current manager has to go.....but proper research has to be done...

    So what would your policy be? West Ham are massive 60thousand crowds so have to throw huge money at the market or more conservative and not go for the easy options?

  • Unparalleled Irons Click Bait!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Sun, 09/04/2023 - 22:58

    Hammers fans of all ages are well used to the club being a bit of a circus, but there are some media outlets that go above and beyond when it comes to 'driving' traffic to their websites with spurious 'Hammers News'! Some might say"more fool those who follow the bait", whereas others might allude to the fact that fans will look at virtually anything relating to their club, particularly during times of crisis.

    Well the club IS in crisis, the players are doing their very best to dig themselves out of the gaping hole Dino Moyes' outdated tactics have dropped them in and generally the spirit among ALL the players is positive with many publicly stating that they are up for the fight to avoid relegation.

    Indeed six points from three games is the sort of return required to maintain Hammers top flight status and that is what they have achieved, unfortunately there are some really difficult fixtures ahead and points will be hard to come by, especially in the fixtures against Arsenal, City, Liverpool and Man United.

    However just when everyone who supports the club should be doing their best to be positive, certain sites insist on click bait headlines regarding spurious and unfounded rumours regarding players irrespective of the damage they might cause and most definitely without one iota of truthfulness!

    Further investigation reveals these 'articles' actually have NO REAL content and appear to be written by students doing their course work! We have nothing against students but would ask site administrators to at least look at the content they are carrying on occasions.

    Now is the time for all good fans AND websites that claim to be for the fans to come to the aid of the club, there will be plenty of time for back biting, bickering and of course click baiting, once the club is safe!

    So if you ARE going to submit 'click bait' (they know who they are) at least attempt to have some degree of integrity within the process! - Ed

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  • Live Now Fulham v West Ham Line Ups

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Sat, 08/04/2023 - 14:00

    Fulham: Leno, Robinson, Cedric, Tosin, Ream, Palhinha, Reed, De Cordova-Reid, Pereira, Willian, Vinicius.
    Subs: Rodak, Tete, Duffy, Wilson, Cairney, Solomon, James, Lukic, Diop.
    West Ham:Fabianski, Coufal, Cresswell, Zouma, Ogbonna, Rice, Soucek, Fornals, Bowen, Ings, Antonio.
    Subs: Areola, Johnson, Lanzini, Downes, Cornet, Benrahma, Kehrer, Aguerd, Emerson.

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  • Mumbama .

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    Submitted by newburkie on Fri, 07/04/2023 - 23:38

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    Its not brain surgery ,reportedly there are 5 clubs sniffing around ,he has to start against Fulham .

  • Moyes Needs Divin(e) Inspiration

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Fri, 07/04/2023 - 08:14

    Playing an ageing forward on his own as part of a 4-2-3-1 line u is Dino Moyes' only option when he sets his team up apparently, either Michail "I can't stop falling over" Antonio or Danny "I look older than your Uncle" Ings are his 'go to' players. The Hammers manager has managed to absolutely destroy the confidence of Gianluca Scamacca, just as he did with Sebastien Haller, which has seen the £35 Million summer signing pick up a series of 'niggles' and viruses since his arrival.

    With Scamacca virtually unavailable ALL season Moyes has plodded on with his one up front Dinosaur tactics which other teams 'susssed' out ages ago, Dino's reluctance to change has impacted throughout the team, not just those who are supposed to attack!

    "Try playing two up front" occassionaly has been the cry of fans and pundits alike, their voices falling on deaf ears! "We don't have ANY more strikers available" is Dino's bulk standard reply, well what about Hammers youth prodigy Divin Mubama?

    The 'Drogbaesque' Mubama put Hammers ahead on 11 minutes with a clever finish at the near post for the first of his HAT TRICK in the U-18's 6-1 win over visitors Southampton in the Youth Cup semi final. The emphatic victory shows what a depth of talent there is just waiting to be unleashed, but will Moyes use the prolific Mubamba? Will he heck!

    Perhaps Dino should remember how old he was when he was given HIS senior debut? - Ed

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  • Smoke&Mirrors time

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    Submitted by mcbikeman on Fri, 07/04/2023 - 07:47

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    So seeing the various spleens being vented across the West Ham fanbase and a lot saying they will not renew season tickets if Moyes is still there after the Fulham game an alledged rumour now coming out of the club is that they are looking into managerial options! to little to late with our fixture list to come....and funny it is only with the possibility of fans no longer parting with there hard earned that this suddenly comes to the fore.......and i will say it again who would come with the mess we are in one of the boards own making i may add....unless they offer a kings ransom to keep us up on a short term contracr why would any manager worth there salt touch us with a barge pole.

  • Irons Must Pull Trigger To Have An Earthly!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Thu, 06/04/2023 - 12:01

    Hammers fans who are normally notoriously 'robust' when it comes to dealing with the fall out of under performing managers were in no laughing mood Yesterday evening, despite their usual gallows humour they were finding it very hard to laugh.

    Their journey back home was miserable and devoid of hope, only anger at Moyes for still being there and the Board for keeping him! Hammers were really poor and Toon really good, the visitors utilised the vastness of the ground completely to their advantage and played as if they were the home team who had just been given a new enlarged pitch!.

    At 2-0 to Newcastle there was a break in play and Howe was furious at his players for their mistakes! Home fans will have been thinking "should have got him when he was available!" and so the club should have! West Ham players will admit that many of them had a 'howler' and that the defence that was still relatively unscathed thus far this season got a real battering.

    It was a case of the Toon playing really well and Irons playing poorly, bereft of any real confidence. Coufal was made to sit on the bench and watch Kehrer have an absolute mare, he got more skinned than a Herring factory on a busy day and was culpable for one goal and a string of very poor decisions, constantly out of place and exposing gaps on the flanks that Newcastle fully exploited.

    When Zouma scored before half time there was a small amount of hope of a comeback, those hopes were quickly extinguished as the Toon cut Hammers apart within THREE minutes of the restart. From then on oit was essentially game over. Moyes's men huffed and puffed bit to no avail.

    Pushing for the game provided the visitors with even more opportunities to score, which they took with aplomb. Some would say the eventual 5-1 scoreline flattered the visitors, whereas others might suggest Hammers got what they deserved!

    To many of the thousands leaving Stratford in the rain last night, the only person who DIDN'T get what they deserved is David Moyes, who of course deserves the SACK! Surely the Board must pull the trigger ahead of Saturday's crunch game at Craven Cottage? Get Mark Noble in and Craig Levine along with Stuart Pearce, keep Chicken Kiev and then watch the team take off, without such actions the club doesn't stand an earthly- Ed

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