now the new season has begun in earnest here is the new current season link
I just cannot decide if its Boogers/Bikey/Burkie/Dartford/Essex/Deluded/Mrmoore/Louis,and so on but you sure do have the moves lol
It's come to this. We look at fixtures like Liverpool away, arsenal away, man c away....and every season we write them off before we kick a ball.
It's reality, we can't compete. Like a lot of others.
But why? How did these clubs get to be the chosen elite? When did we get left behind? Newcastle, with the richest owners...can't compete.
The rules about finances have been rigged to suit the elite. Even if we got rid of the owners, got a flash cash billionaire we'd still end up only like forest.
Premierleague is rotten. The football is dire. We need la liga to become the new premier league and start taking the best players. Let the Premier league crumble like serie A did.
Maybe then we'd see something that the fans deserve to see.
We are not cooked yet despite the death of a thousand cuts this season has been for us i was just daydreaming about what happens if we get relegated?.
So we go down and without a doubt Bowen goes say for £70million along with the Sky parachute payment do you think if the board were bold enough they then tell Summerville and Fernandes Mav(mmm those legs)Todibo that they will not be sold but there wages will not be halved because of the relegation but will stay the same as in the Premier League.This will of course stop the need to find replacements and help immensely in getting us promoted back quick smart and what money we then have for transfers can be spent wisely(since when i no)on a few players who can help us gain promotion at the first time of asking.
I realise like many that the club most likely will want to cash in on what players they can in order to pay the enormous debt that thy have somehow accrued due to the extraordinary mismanagement of the clubs finances but by doing that they create a new problem and one i am sure may of crossed a few minds in here and that is if we go down the route of selling up the best we have and then by some miracle we get promoted back up to the Prem you will then have to be spending silly money to get players who may MAY i add just be good enough to keep you up and if not the whole cycle will begin again and we will forever be a Yoyo club and we do not deserve that.
You can barely go a day now without a live game being on somewhere so i just thought i'd ask how much do you watch and what do you watch? with the illegal streams etc being available the world really is your oyster.
For me i will watch West Ham games on the firestick home and away and if a get the chance of a ticket away days only i will go see us play.
Live games on sky i do not always watch and tend to avoid the overly hyped big games and when there are three games in a day i may watch one but not always.
Champions league games not for me until maybe the quarter/semi final/final.
i do keep an eye on the lower leagues and if we are not playing thanks to the firestick and if there is a particular fixture that catches my eye i will watch that.
Internationals not interested but of course the world cup is a different matter but otherwise i enjoy the break from football when the Internationals are being played.
MOTD no i normally catch the highlights on you tube
So how much/often do you watch?
Is that all ?? Are we that bad? I usually have a cheeky punt on cup upsets, especially when I think that the top team won't be fielding anywhere near a full strength side but I still want more than 7/1
Or is it that simple? Quite frankly, neither goalkeeper are Premier League standard, both having serious flaws to their game. Much excitement has been made about how well Areola has been lately whereas my opinion is that he has at last been doing things you'd expect a goalkeeper to do during a game.
Hermansen on the other hand was dumped in at the deep end under a seriously flawed Potter system so I guess we've not really seen what he can do but unfortunately he DOES have a height issue.
I'm pretty much on the fence on this one but given that only one of those keepers has managed clean sheets this season I suppose it gives one the slight edge.
That is my opinion because i think it will take 40/41 points this time around to stay up so where do they come from?
home games against Wolves/Bournemouth/Everton are must wins...Arsenal/Citeh/Manure(revitalised)will be tough to get points out of those fixtures but maybe we could squeak two points leaving us to find ten more points from Palace/Brentford/Villa/Chelski/Barcodes/Bindippers/Fulham/Burnley away.....not easy but we have to beat Palace/Brentford/Burnley/Fulham to secure our future.
So three home wins and four away a very tough ask but that is for me what will be required...will the games pan out that way well common sense tells you it never does but i still say we need 21 more points to be safe and considering we only have 20 now well it will be the greatest escape ever considering thew board!
As for who we send down it would be lovely to see the spuds go but i have a sneaking feeling Palace are wobbling big time and it will be them not us COYI.
I'm a big fan of Hammers United and the BS Out campaign.
However, on Saturday, as part of the protest, they are asking for supporters to boycott the first 15 minutes and enter the stadium with a Red Card. It should have an effect given its live on TV.
I'm normally a BIG fan of the protests however, I spent £53 on a pretty decent seat so missing around 15%ish (any maths experts out there?) of the game, upsetting anyone that was seated and not interested in the protest (could be tourists?) is not an easy decision... My life!
Thoughts appreciated.
I will go with the majority opinion on the Org... democracy rules!!!