Ikon

How bout waking the fuck up!!

COM ON!!

Will be good to have Mbiwa's pace at the back today.

I said a couple of months ago that i thought West Ham would be one of the relegated sides. Or at least could.

He's better than Ba in 'general' play. But not as good as a striker. Fits like a glove for us.

Aye. He destroyed the player's confidence through s**** football, which resulted in our poor results. The injuries weren't to blame, at all. I mean, it's not as if results have picked up since we've had better players in the team, is it? Yeeah you're right, his stubborness with the 4-4-2 had nothing to do with.... :lol: The injuries weren't to blame at all? Who said this? They very much did so, especially the last 1-2 months before the new year. But before that we didn't have THAT many injuries. Did i say that results haven't got better? The new signings have given us more quality and most of all some new belief in the team on a whole. And im very fucking happy about it. I think Pardew is doing a good job right now, but no one can convince me otherwise that he couldn't/shouldn't have got more out of the players available to him earlier in the season. And i don't mean during our very very worst period when we had an silly amount of injuries. You seem to want/imply that people on here should give Pardew credit now and not just the players, surely people should be able to point out negatively on his 4-4-2 earlier in the season and not just blaming it on injuries and players being poor back then? Personally i think Pardew AND the team earns praise for the last few weeks, hopefully we'll get even better, i do think our team will outgrow Pardew as a manager in the near future though, where we'll reach a level when we'll need a new manager to take it to an even higher level, but i really do hope Pardew can reach those heights even if i find it hard to see right now.

Why should Pardew be given credit for starting to play 4-2-3-1/4-3-3? I can give him credit for many other things, but that is certainly not one of them!! Am i happy about it? Yes. His stubborness with the 4-4-2 earlier in the season is the biggest reason for us playing poorly before and the players losing most of their confidence left in them, and the injuries were the icing on the cake later on.

We can play very well, but we're also very inconsistent in our play during the games. We've done much better lately, and hopefully we can find som consistent fluidity in the near future. Which might very well happen as the team gels and HBA comes back and puts us up on another level

HBA is a player that can't be replaced by anyone in the world imo, and i don't mean quality wise. He's just such a special player and person in many ways for us in our eyes. Not just that, but the whole HBA saga has been a lovely story. Proud to have him at our club and long may it continue.

Terminator

New 6 year deal please

Brilliant quotes

Has good timing and a nice leap on him.

And best of all is that there's still a lot to come from him as he will get muuuuch more space down that flank than he's ever got before.

He's gonna be unplayable with the others around him, can't stop drooling thinking about it. How well is Debuchy playing even without HBA there

This dude will get so much more space when Ben Arfa's trolling around with 3-4 players of the opposition. And so will Sissoko, Cisse and Debuchy as well to name a few

Ben Arfa coming back will be the icing on the cake for us.

Would like to see them stay up, and im pretty sure they will.

His game against Chelsea was his best yet for us, imo. Absolutely brilliant in every way.

Very happy with this win, i still think we should up our tempo a bit though.

Yet some people questioned his ability after just a game or two Some.. Well done today!

Looked fit for the first time in ages, he's a yard or two quicker now and it makes such a difference. Hopefully he can keep it up.

I hope so! Would be criminal not to.

Intelligent.

I agree, but Taylor should have done better.