Mick

Did he have any shots on target today?

He can't lose.

Now if you think the last one wasn't up to scratch.

36 years old, terrible. RIP.

I'm guessing that by saying "criticise him in the Summer" you're meaning after the transfer window.

At the start of the season when Tevez and Mascherno arrived, West Ham had their worst run of results in over half a century.

It's weird that we're only ever allowed to judge on our next transfer window and only at the end of it.

Replace him with better and leave him where you think he does his best work and we'll both be happy.

To be fair to Best, our midfielders are shit at playing an early ball into space.

Yeah, it's a fine art, and obviously if you have the acceleration of Messi you don't need as much of a head start to get in. Offsides like Best's today, where one foot happens to be ahead of the defender, I just don't have a problem with. A lot of the time they won't be spotted and you'll score. When the margin is as tight as that a lot of it is luck. Yes, he could be a better player and always bend his runs exactly right though, can't argue with that. If it was purely down to luck then he'd be offside a lot less than he is, it's not luck, it's either laziness or ignorance.

I hate how often he's offside, it just shows how thick he is and he constantly gives away possession because of it.

He was a massive miss today, not quite as missed as Tiote is when not playing but close.

In the 2nd half the closest player to Nolan was Harper for most of the time.

Probably back in Newcastle having played at Boro.

I would have kept Jonas on and not brought Taylor on.

I would have done what I said in the post you replied to once we were down to 10 men, before that I would have brought Ranger on at half time.

He could still have gone 3 at the back without taking off Jonas, he could have taken Lovenkrands off for Ranger and told Simpson to push up on the right.

Our front two were poor today and he did nothing about it and it was obvious that when we played the ball up front it was coming straight back at us. Lovenkrands was poor but Best hasn't a clue about how to stay on-side yet he had a full 90 minutes. Also, I didn't see any need to take off Jonas when he looked the most likely to open something up going forward.

Tiote gave too much away today, Coloccini didn't do anything wrong.

No, two dropped.

Once again, the best player in a black and white shirt.

Why did he wait so long before bringing Ranger on? And, why take off Jonas who looked more likely than most to create something up front?

I thought that he was well below his best today but it's a one-off.