If someone can go watch the replays then you will see how many ball pass in the center for a number 9 to finished it. Jackson, Muedrick,… if we would have a real 9 in this team. Like Liverpool, man city, Bayern, Psg,…

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You just have to laugh really.

At this point, the best performing player we have signed from Brighton is Cucurella 🙂 

45 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

 

45 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

 

 

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Chilwell was not at best but why when 2-1 down did we replace an attacking player with a defensive midfielder

Our performance was fine. 

Losing carney really hurt Rd us because suddenly all of our between the line play were gone (poch could have probably moved Sterling to the left). 

Imo I don't think poch made the correct decision subbing Chilwell and Gallagher out. Those two are among our best goalgetter. I also want poch to push silva up high as st to add additional body in the box after the red card. 

47 minutes ago, Lang7 said:

West Ham penned in with 20% possession, down to 10 men and half an hour left to play. Poch decides to bring on Caicedo, whose strengths are launching counters and beating an opposition press. wtf was he thinking?

Now the boy’s confidence is shot for the next game. Dreadful management.

It was Bakayoko levels of an introduction 

Same sh*t, different day. Just embarrassing.

56 minutes ago, Faisal said:

Finally a sensible comment in the middle of all this negativity. The team is a working progress, and it’s the job of the supporters to back them. Let’s take this defeat as building  block for a comeback.

Spot on. It is a work in progress. That progress will only be seen over the next 2 years on this showing. Looking at some of these players you can already see those that have had a slap of reality.

I wonder what's been said to Sterling to get that level of performance out of him? Looked like a completely different player.

And it's the second week of the season, Give them a break, Nothing will be final in that short space of time.

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Shame! Shame! Shame!

Unwatchable. There is no motivation, no purpose. I cannot take it anymore.

33 minutes ago, Argo said:

If you think we can barely improve on last season then why did you want Potter sacked if he was (on that basis) achieving par?

People wanted Potter sacked because they play a lot of FIFA and haven't watched a lot of football.

 

In any case, we've now Pocchetino and he'll do us alright, but it's not going to be immediate.

Just now, sparrow6 said:

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Unwatchable. There is no motivation, no purpose. I cannot take it anymore.

Crikey. That's a hell of an opening post, that you can't take it anymore. 

I take it your time with us will be brief 

Chiesa scores in minute 1. Let's get him in. Swap deal for Mudryk. Oh no wait, that's Serie A. He'd be rubbish here no doubt as well

1 minute ago, Gonoir Beniashile said:

People wanted Potter sacked because they play a lot of FIFA and haven't watched a lot of football.

 

In any case, we've now Pocchetino and he'll do us alright, but it's not going to be immediate.

I wanted Potter sacked because he was absolutely sh*te. 

There's nobody here that wants Poch sacked though, not even the ones who didn't rate him. He's got a big task and he needs time to deliver, definitely not going to be an immediate thing but I think we'll see some good progress along the way. First half there were good signs, second half piss poor. But I'll judge my assessment halfway through the season. 

The one thing that is setting everything back is the injuries, we won't get anywhere with the number of injuries this team keeps having. Always appears to happen to players who are in form aswell. 

1 minute ago, Gonoir Beniashile said:

People wanted Potter sacked because they play a lot of FIFA and haven't watched a lot of football.

 

In any case, we've now Pocchetino and he'll do us alright, but it's not going to be immediate.

What a load of condescending sh*te. I've barely missed a game in over 20 years and I don't even play FIFA. Everybody could see that Potter is well out of his depth, and no matter what happens this season, that will still be the case. If he's so great, why aren't any top team in Europe after him?

There is no goal scorers from midfield or attack in this team and we are one injury away "Silva" from having a total defensive collapse. How did we blow 1 billion on this. There is no one except Silva with any balls and even he looks like he's pissed off and had enough playing with these bottlers

Very few positives to take from that for me. Complete collapse in the second half. All 3 of our major signings from the last 6 months were dreadful. Sterling, silva and Sanchez the only relatively good performances. 

This one is tough to find any positives for. We lost 3 1 to 10 men. We had an advantage for 35 minutes. That's the worst result we've had in the Bohely era.

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

We'll be down at the Amex tomorrow with a bagful of cash for Mitoma.

How long have we got Caceido for ?

🤣🤣🤣

Yes straight swap although sure club would want to pay £50m on top

On my way back home. f**king hell, that was painful to watch. What on earth did we play? Shocking, like being back to last season. 

28 minutes ago, sparrow6 said:

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Unwatchable. There is no motivation, no purpose. I cannot take it anymore.

Bye then 👍

38 minutes ago, Nibs said:

The penalty miss changed the game and gave West Ham and their supporters a lift. We go in 2-1 up and I honestly think we go on to win. Such fine margins. They are talking on Sky right now about why didn't Jackson take the penalty? Get him off the mark  - it's a no brainer. Strikers SHOULD take penalties - Drogba, Dixon, Kane, Fowler ....etc

Hurts to lose to a West Ham side who must be pinching themselves after the battering we gave them first 45, but "sigh - that's football................"

 

 

Agree with this.

As creative as Enzo is you can see he is never a goalscorer.  Jackson or I would have gone for Gallagher even.

I agree that the first half was better than the second, but the seeds were there in the first half.

Their goal was frustrating because it was so simple, and easy to prevent. Especially as they had tried it almost successfully not 3 minutes beforehand. 

I was lukewarm about the signing of Gusto and I have still seen nothing from him yet.

Disasi looks a unit but currently letting Chalobah leaving and getting Disasi in is a step backwards. Time will tell.

Chilwell. I do rate Chilwell, he is a top player. But I find his decision making and his touch when it really matters is generally poor.

Madueke, I still cannot see anything from this bloke. Again this guy is no better than CHO. Trust me I am not advocating CHO but we have to see an improvement in end product from Madueke.

Mudryk.  Haha. No , miles off ATM. The bench beckons for a long time. If we can get a Right sided midfielder that can play, then I can see Sterling on the left permanently on current performance. 

Sterling, excellent.  By far our best player. 

Jackson needs a goal and needs it soon. Works hard and is full of enthusiasm. But he needs to score and start owning the 9 position.

The formation against a team that we knew would defend their box made little sense to me. The tactics I often found one dimensional by just overhitting the pass to Jackson or Mudryk and just rely on them to make something happen, over and over again. It was easy to rumble and then defend against by West Ham.

Play like this and half of the mediocre teams in this division will give us a bloody nose.

5 minutes ago, RMH said:

On my way back home. f**king hell, that was painful to watch. What on earth did we play? Shocking, like being back to last season. 

That was the worst part for me. It was like last season. We have a period of dominance, failed to capitalise and came out in the 2nd half like we had forgotten how to play football and made defensive errors that cost us the game.

This is why I never really thought anything of the Liverpool game. We always perform well against them. Even when we were at our lowest last season, we still managed to play two good games against them.

23 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

What a load of condescending sh*te. I've barely missed a game in over 20 years and I don't even play FIFA. Everybody could see that Potter is well out of his depth, and no matter what happens this season, that will still be the case. If he's so great, why aren't any top team in Europe after him?

The good times then🙄 that's the trouble with our "support"

1 hour ago, ssur said:

lol...you really need to chill out.

I’m chilled out I just said he isn’t looking a 115 mil signing so far, enzo came in from another league you could see quality straight away, he came from the PL and played like he was lost, and to that I said “so far” not looking 115 mil signing and you couldn’t help jumping on the bandwagon brown nosing Valerie making a snarky comment, so yea as I said should have waited and you wouldn’t have looked so stupid when everybody else got on him a lot harder than I did and rightfully so