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gooners ahead and more injury woe

Submitted by mcbikeman on

well it just does not get any better for us cressy/Antonio out for tomorrows game...arsenal fans will be rubbing there hands with glee.....if our players had all been fit I thought we would win but with those two out sakho as well payet seemingly lack lustre and no forwards to think of it is going to be an agonising watch...when will our luck change?

so who is to blame

Submitted by mcbikeman on

management/physio..medical staff/players/board....maybe us for believing? I just do not know.. we are so poor right now and it cannot be down to simply playing in a new stadium...we can blame the board for saving money in the summer the manager who must of had input into the players we got in.. the players who were already there just not performing or seemingly bothered.....or maybe us fans for not creating an awesome atmosphere in our state of the art blah blah blah stadium....inside a year to say the wheels have come off would be an understatement...last nights cup game saw us revert back to how we have been performing this season and why? Payet looked disinterested maybe because of the team picked to play or the formation maybe he has been tapped up who knows? but the way we started both halves was a smack in the face for the fans that travelled and gave great support....the team are lazy and waiting for someone to take responsibility but nobody is......and whats happening in the physio/medical room? we hear that players will not be allowed to play until they are 100% sure they are injury free and gone through rehabilitation course of training and prep getting them ready to be available for the first team....back for two games and sakho is out injured for 6 weeks the old thigh injury occurring once more if carroll ever laces his boots up again who is confident he will last the week let alone 6 months? not me....so again the question is how can so many things go so wrong in a year? you can blame bilic all you want and if they sacked him(which I doubt very very much)and got a new man in you are still stuck with the same underperforming squad that if you lost payet/cresswell/Antonio/kouyate would start to look very average indeed....major problems at west ham right now and to good to go down ha! we have been relegated with better teams and look at Newcastle last season they thought we'll be ok and see where they ended up....

Nightmare on Green st

Submitted by Burkie 1 on

Dont know if many have seen the pictures of our beloved uppers being torn down , i cant help thinking our current form is a kind of revenge for our owners greed ,its a fact that most thought one maybe two points from the current run of four matches compare this to our form last year the fact is if we dont get our finger out we will go down and if that happens i personally feel it will be the end of this great club ,imagine 12 to 15 thousand in a 60 thousand stadium
We will be a laughingstock sky will have a field day .
Looking at the match tonight only comfirms my doomsday theary ,our lack of coincidence linked with a few very average players ,one shot on target and heads going down early means we are defiantly back to the bad old days of the last decade when we were up and down like a fidelers elbow ,i can only hope and pray that i wake up from this nightmare and soon

Time to compete

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

lot of talk about getting nothing from Liverpool and Arsenal. IMO this is not what football is all about. We are in the premier league and we are there to compete against anyone in the league regardless, we're not just here to compete against the bottom halfers. Im sure Bilic doesnt take this attitude, at least i hope not! last season he showed that he was the opposite of the allardyce 'respect the draw' away from home as we went to big names and won. there is no reason in my view why this cannot continue. we have been poor yes yes its true but we have a good squad when all fit and this i agree would be the key argument as they aren't all fit. but we have to approach the games as equals not inferiors. i look at liverpool for instance and don't see anything to fear. they are flying at the moment yes but lets face it milner, henderson, lovren, can, firmino etc aren't players id be worrying about too much. yes mane is quality but we have quality too. lets be more positive in my view, lets not dwell on losses or performances in the past, its always about the game ahead and we kick off at 0-0. lets go to anfield and believe we can win, draw at worst. lets take on arsenal at home and get the crowd going for the london derby and lets have faith in bilic and the players. we have match winners in our team, we have payet, lanzini, antonio and even ayew who can all come up with big performances no matter who we face.

Bilic Out?

Submitted by moore2come on

According to the Telegraph WH's owners are looking at other managerial options. My message to them, CONCENTRATE ON WHAT WE HAVE!
Sacking the man is not the answer. This constant panicking and managerial merry go round is ludicrous.
I'm sure there are a few WH fans that think it's time for a new man but we're not the Spuds who change their manager every time the wind changes direction! This constant need for immediate success is a blight on the game. I hope G&S hold firm with Slaven. We'll climb the table soon enough, we're 12 games in FFS, not even putting up the xmas lights!

Nordtviet the new Nigel

Submitted by moore2come on

No not Reo-Coker, Quashie.
NRC could have gone onto, if not great, then very good things if he didn't have to carry that ego around.
Nigel Quashie on the other hand, wow what a total shite midfielder he was for us, but not just us. Here's a player that was bought in Alan Curbishley to add some grit to the midfield despite him having been relegated with 4 of his previous 5 clubs. Thankfully he was injured and played no part in our Great escape.
Nordtviet is reminding me of him. Not totally dis-similar players but practically identical in what they bring to the team. That being Sweet FA! I can't believe we're down to the bare bones that he's getting more game time after showing what he could offer us earlier in the season; nothing!
So here I am finding myself hoping for a season ending injury to him (harsh I know) just so we don't have to suffer his "talents" on the field again this season.
With just a few short weeks til Christmas we need to find some points and including this buffoon in the squad is not going to help. Surely we have enough young talent or existing squad numbers that he doesn't have to feature for us again?

Spurs match

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

after having a day to mull over the devastating loss personally I think we were just plain unlucky. Yes they could have had another penalty from ogbonna but then Jansen could have got a red too…so overall the decisions were probably even enough. i thought it was a definite penalty from nordveit, he was caught out by a good turn from Son. However the biggest error of the day was from Randolph. theres no way he should have lost sight of that cross and then of course Kane is in the right place at the right time to score. its a sad state of affairs because in my view we actually played a clever plan of a 5-4-1 which lets be honest spurs struggled with all game. for this i credit bilic as he did his homework and came up with something to thwart what is a good side on paper. he can't legislate or take blame for randolph mistake or for nordveit getting in a tangle late on. however i would say that he got the subs wrong. payet may be tiring but to bring on fernandez and nordveit at that time just allowed spurs to bring on the wave after wave ending that we could have avoided had we continued to stifle and press on the counter. so overall its a tough result to take…when kane put the penalty in i wanted to trash the house …this is the second time at WHL in what two seasons we concede a last min penalty for kane to run off fist raised at our expense. but we can take heart in that we are looking like a side that is able to compete against the better sides like spurs and chelsea again. we just have to cut out the mistakes.

banging the drum louder and louder

Submitted by mcbikeman on

forget sturridge and £28million price tag and wages to boot along with a suspect injury record......we can pay less money I reckon £7/8million and get Britt Assombalonga he scored twice at Ipswich today and I will not stop mentioning this players name until someone calls the club and points out how good he is..but can he do it in the prem they will say...they said that about deeney/lambert/ings/gray/Austin....they all have so can this lad....payet/lanzini providing the ammunition this player will score regular and if it helps sway the people responsible for transfers he does get injured!!