Justice
Dangerous Idiot
The league is so tight a few wins gets you back up there it’s like the championship this season. Teams will come from nowhere maybe that will be us.
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[Albion] West Ham United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
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I’m sure B and B didn’t expect Fab to hit the ground running and for the good results to last all season. We are a young side with a young management team. Let’s be patient.
(Ps why couldn’t Henderson have been this crap against us last week?)
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 313
That 200m was spent
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,922
Ha ha, but we all know what will actually unfold. Abandon all hope, it’s easier!!
Fair comments from FH post match. We didn't deserve to win, we're not precise in the moments, we've lost that from the first games of this season. Will work together as a squad to get it back
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Kit Napper
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- Aug 25, 2024
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That spending spree wasn't designed for instant effect, it was a longer term investment.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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Really? Next season then? Season after? Or, as has been often the case in football, expectation and promise is unfilled?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Maybe although when you sign a £40m player you expect something more right? For £40m Rutter isn’t doing a lot or really showing any potential.
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 313
A huge chunk of that 200m was spent on players for the future. It was spent across 8 signings: Two are teenagers that have gone straight out on loan and another 2 are U21s with very little senior level experience. Even the other 4 are fairly young (aged 22-24), and of them, Ferdi and O’Riley have mostly been injured and Weiffer and Ritter have done ok.
Let’s give it some time. Most of our best signings over the years have been slow burners.
Silverhatch
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IMHO - there are very few sides that are much better than us. Even going through a bad spell we have fabulous talent in and out of the squad.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Ritter the Fritter
It strikes me that we don't play well for long periods. We raised our game on Sunday for 15 mins at the start of the 2nd half. We did the same for 15 minutes at the end of today's game. But it's patchy. You've got to perform much more consistently to win matches.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 313
Like Bissouma, Mac Allister, Caicedo, Mitoma, and JPVH, all of whom took a season or more, on loan or otherwise, before establishing themselves as regular starters.
- Oct 12, 2022
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What a lot of negative nellies we have.
We did fine, I’m amused by those describing West Ham as “a shit team” when they’ve won a European trophy within the last couple of seasons. There aren’t any completely shit teams in the PL, except perhaps Southampton.
Second half in particular we played a lot of really good attacking football, were unlucky to not get another goal, Velts was back and it felt like Ferguson was trying to put himself about a bit.
Loads to like in that performance, well done lads.
- note that my expression of appreciation is Paul Barber vetted and approved.
We did fine, I’m amused by those describing West Ham as “a shit team” when they’ve won a European trophy within the last couple of seasons. There aren’t any completely shit teams in the PL, except perhaps Southampton.
Second half in particular we played a lot of really good attacking football, were unlucky to not get another goal, Velts was back and it felt like Ferguson was trying to put himself about a bit.
Loads to like in that performance, well done lads.
- note that my expression of appreciation is Paul Barber vetted and approved.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Caicedo went on loan for a few months and tore it up immediately.
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,213
No need for that.
Me ‘leaving 5 mins from the end‘ was a reflection on the subs made by Lopetegui rather than a criticism of us and them changing to a back 5. I didn’t feel like watching what to me felt like a foregone conclusion ie that the last 10 minutes was going to be boringly predictable in that WHU was making a tactical change to play for the point and we’d spend 10 minutes looking close to breaking down their newly shored up defence but not actually succeeding because we rarely do in that situation.
When teams drop into a low block, it creates space for the oppo to advance and press higher but it more often than not creates a ‘false’ impression that the oppo has gained the upper hand - as I predicted, we battered them in the final minutes and continued to control the midfield (which WHU had gifted tons of space to us throughout) but had trouble breaking down the defence in the final passes.
We didn’t deserve more than the point today - it wasn’t a winning performance but it was a performance certainly good enough not to lose with some good individual play from most of the players, it just wasn’t consistently good from all of them.
I don’t feel overly negative or overly positive as some in here - and don’t feel the need to judge those that do. I just feel we are still a work in progress and having a pretty average season all things considered.
I feel this is actually kind of disrespectful of the teams around us tbh. There are plenty of teams in this league that are just as good as us right now and frankly the players we have aren’t looking significantly more talented than anyone else’s.
We really aren’t all that at the moment.
I think some of this is a bit of a legacy of what they used to watch. They also keep talking about our high possession football - overlooking the fact that we don't have this anymore to the degree we did (53% average this season, 61% last two seasons).