jonny1403

10 minutes ago, Smal said:

Games in which Murphy has started this season:

 

Premier League:

 

(h) vs Aston Villa - won 5-1

(h) vs Crystal Palace - won 4-0

(a) vs Aston Villa - won 1-3

(h) vs Luton - drawn 4-4

(h) vs Wolves - won 3-0

(h) vs West Ham - won 4-3

 

FA Cup:

 

(a) vs Fulham - won 0-2

(a) vs Blackburn - won on pens

(a) vs Man City - lost 0-2 (played as a RWB)

 

League Cup:

 

(h) vs Man City - won 1-0

 

Champions League:

 

(a) vs Milan - drawn 0-0

 

So the record is that he's started 11 games, of which we've won 8, drawn two, and lost one (away at Man City where he played RWB). 

 

 

 

Wow that’s pretty comprehensive 

1 hour ago, Jack27 said:

three? who's the third after Botman & Lascelles?

Tonali

I can’t believe we already have three players missing several months of NEXT season 

5 hours ago, STM said:

 

It was great. Like battling each other and laughing about it.

 

Any friend of Bruno is a friend of ours. Shame it would cost 80 odd million to get him out of West Ham.

It’ll be an honour to see them both reunited at City next season.

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

One match for two yellows surely ?

But he’s now on ten yellows triggering a two match ban? 

Is Gordon banned for 1 or three games?

6 hours ago, Matt West Ham said:

Jonny top man, can you send me a message with your email address mate and I will sned the questions over. Thanks

Just have mate!

20 hours ago, Matt West Ham said:

Afternoon Ladies and Gents.

West Ham fan here. We are introducing a "view from the Opposition" on one of our forum's. Done it before and it is nice to see the insight of an opposition fan. All light hearted fun, bit of p*** taking from our side and hopefully we get a bit back.
 

Looking for a fan to answer some questions before the game and just a few after. 

Anyone up for answering?

 

TIA 
Matt

I’d do that, half my mates are West Ham fans 

30 minutes ago, Sibierski said:

Tier 1: Pep / Klopp

Tier 2: Emery / Arteta 

Tier 3: Howe / Ange / De Zerbi / Iraola

Tier 4: ETH / Moyes / Pochettino / Frank / Silva

Tier 5: Nuno / Dyche / O’Neil / Edwards / Kompany

Tier 6: Wilder

 

Glasner - Unknown.

 

That’s what I would rank things currently based on what I’ve seen so far in English football, and having seen some of them elsewhere.

 

Tier 1 = Elite. Coaches that vastly improve players because of the system they coach, with top end results to back.

Tier 2 = Strong. Clear showings they are innovative, with recognition that can push the top guys.

Tier 3 = Very good. Good coaches, have their identity that can be seen, and got room to move upwards.

Tier 4 = Steady. What you’ve seen is what you get. Never going to get to Tier 2, only possibly considered higher due to managing in inferior leagues with superior squads to mask their fundamental errors.

Tier 5 = Bounce between 4 and 5. Not a great deal of appeal.

Tier 6 = Out of depth. 
 

Someone like Jose I would put in 4. The European success with Roma should mean a 2, but they were regular par at best in league, and should’ve been doing better. I’d shudder if he came to us. 

 

 

 

Agree with all of that except that seems incredibly generous for Iraola to rank him alongside De Zerbi and Howe. He's taken a lower mid table team and has them...lower mid table. It's early days and there's slight improvement but I wouldn't say he's earned Tier 3 yet.

1 hour ago, Dokko said:

 

3 times as many minutes last season than Barnes this season. Season before 10 times.

 

Sometimes something different is good. So many similar players now we can't change anything. 

Barnes has literally contributed more than ASM this season already in less than a third of the appearances 

And Burn

44 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

They've averaged over 50% win rate. 6 wins out of 11 gets them to 62 points.

 

We'll need to win 8 out of 11 to beat that. We've not shown that form all season.

 

To catch them - they'll have to be worse than they've been all season and we'll have to be better.

 

And we've never finished above them. And we play them away.

I'm not saying we'll catch them. You said Man U would need to collapse completely for us to catch them, which obviously isn't true. 

7 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

5th is gone. We needed to beat Luton & Bournemouth at home to stay in the running. Mid to high 60's would put us in the running for 5th. Low 60's is 6th/7th this season.

 

Most of our rivals for 7th have European football to contend with in March and probably beyond. We should finish above them.

 

It would take a bit of a collapse to even catch Man U unless we go on a super run.

We're four points behind Man U with easier fixtures in the run-in? Why would that need a collapse on their part?

11 hours ago, El Prontonise said:

 

I think this is a potential reason with him jumping on that loan to man utd was about maximising his income as he's probably not yet settled yet on a mile Ashley contract, probably got more on that loan then being here.

You don’t get paid more for going on loan. He’d still be under the original contract with us.

1 minute ago, TBG said:

Been told Hall might make the bench but unlikely to be involved.

NUFC.com says he was just rested for Blackburn and will be back for Wolves.

28 minutes ago, Andy said:

 

Do you want to take my words any more out of context?

 

I said if you take away the element of the game that we signed him for - pure end product - he doesn't offer much else and can look poor. My point (which I've clarified for you and you are still completely missing) is that the people who are being critical of him as a player need to understand that when he is off form in front of goal he WILL look like a poor player. We have signed him for that clinical edge in the final third that we were missing at times last season. 

 

I don't think it's that hard to grasp tbh, but hit me up if you need me to rephrase it for the 4th time.  

And you have missed my point completely as well - which is that saying he offers pure end product and not much else is an absolutely pointless comment when you haven't seen anywhere near enough of him to make that assessment. 

What are you basing that on? He started 3 or 4 games at the start of the season and that's it. Maybe actually give him some time to see what type of winger he can be when fully up to speed instead of trying to make any sort of analysis at this stage?

20 hours ago, Andy said:

 

One goal doesn't change the fact that in recent weeks he's missed some pretty good chances in general like, including in open play and from the spot yesterday. I'm sure he'd admit himself that he's not on his best form, considering at Leicester he had a reputation for being clinical for a winger. 

 

You've either deliberately or inadvertently mistook my comment as criticism for him as a player, when in fact I'm saying his bar for end product is usually extremely high. We bought him for that reason alone. I literally compared him to a wide version of Inzaghi, which is hardly a criticism. 

 

His game is almost entirely based around his movement and finishing, so when that is missing and his confidence in front of goal is low, which it certainly looked yesterday, he looks like a poor player as he doesn't offer a great deal else. 

Of course he's not at his best form - he's started one game since September and has come back from 6 months out. 

Saying he looks like a poor player and isn't in the best form every time he comes off the bench for 30 minutes is just an absolutely pointless comment at this stage.

1 hour ago, reefatoon said:

There’s just no patience at all  everything has to be instant or it isn’t good enough. Gordon got it last year.

 

The lad has just come back from being out for months but isn’t very good / bordering on useless because he hasn’t hit the ground running instantly.

 

The biggest downside to the takeover is a section of our supports massive impatience with everything.

 

 

 

Absolutely nailed it. You think people would have learned after Gordon but it doesn't stop people rehasing half-baked criticisms after the lad has played less than 10 games for us, most off the bench after a long term injury.

Sometimes I think our fanbase deserves everything we get.

2 hours ago, LFEE said:

Looking for a spare for this (ideally in the Gallowgate). Friend willing to pay extra for the inconvenience if someone can help.

Don't encourage touting man.

2 hours ago, Andy said:

Hasn't been as clinical as you'd expect in the last few matches, and that is basically his entire game and why we signed him. If he isn't clinical, he's borderline useless, as brutal as it sounds. He's the wing equivalent of an Inzaghi. 

 

Scores a crucial equaliser v Luton. 'Hasn't been as clinical as you'd expect' 

8 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

Barnes was poor. Still not been a good swap him for ASM. 

Already scored more goals than ASM last season in about 1/10th of the appearances man 

Just now, Sibierski said:

Dilemmas when the trigger clause is if we win a cup.

I’d pay £30 million for Luke O Nien let alone Lewis Hall if it meant we win a cup. 

Single-handedly took us through today. A lot of humble pie due again on this board. 

Just now, KaKa said:

Schar losing the ball out of bounds casually for no reason leads to that.

Eh? We got the ball back after that