West Ham Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

WindmillWarrior · 12-08-2011 11:08am

djPSB wrote: »

All three strikers are very similar in the way they play. Could do with a bit more pace up front to replace Ba.

Yeah, very true. From what I've heard the plan is to sell Cole and bring in 2 new strikers, strikers with a bit more variety to their game. If we don't sell Cole it'll be just the one striker brought in...

12-08-2011 1:45pm

Delighted we have got ringo off the wages. Good first time around with us but should not have come back to us and never looked decent. Hope he does well for you and championship be prob his level now.

G.K. · 12-08-2011 9:10pm

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

Sure he hardly played for Sunderland! He played a good bit for Leeds last season and done ok by all accounts. He always played very well for West Ham. Most fans seem very glad to have him back, including me

You must have been reading the accounts of sarcastic opposition fans - he was good at the start but got very poor very quickly.

Hammer Archer · 13-08-2011 3:13pm

And we're off the mark. Nolan gets the first goal of the season.

Only change from last week is Collison for Sears. Sounds like a huge contigent made the trip to the Keepmoat.

Hammer Archer · 15-08-2011 11:15pm

Zavon Hines said to be gone to Burnley. Shame. Thought he would have stayed on.

Parkers not really doing himself any favours with his first two performances if he wants a move away. Really hope its sorted soon.

vicwatson · 16-08-2011 8:51pm

Super Hammers so far v Watford. O'Brien's goal sounded sweet.

Good to see defenders scoring goals, get Cole off the mark now for his confidence, and Taylor.

Come on Irons

vicwatson · 16-08-2011 9:19pm

Well done Cole !!

Yee har !!

Hammer Archer · 16-08-2011 9:32pm

Joey O'Brien looks like a quality signing. Nice to see our forwards finally getting in on the scoring act.
Tomkins off injured though.

vicwatson · 16-08-2011 9:40pm

Go Parker !! Woo hoo.

I'd say Tonka will be ok - he's has been so good thus far, he is solid in the back, can do without losing him.

Joey O'Brien looks like a quality signing

Yeh he has been excellent in fairness so far.

pjmn · 16-08-2011 10:36pm

Sounds like a strong all round performance tonight - would be a real coup if we can hold on to Parker....

Hammer Archer · 16-08-2011 11:15pm

pjmn wrote: »

Sounds like a strong all round performance tonight - would be a real coup if we can hold on to Parker....

Word has it though that we're pretty desperate to get rid of him as he's on something like £60k a week.
Delighted with the result. Same team and hopefully same result on Sunday against Leeds to get into the top 2. Nice to see an Irish player giving his all and doing well for us unlike a certain striker last season.

JokerD · 16-08-2011 11:26pm

We are Leeds;)

Jelle1880 · 17-08-2011 12:20am

Atmosphere sounded brilliant.
Great result, something to build on hopefully.

Hammer Archer · 17-08-2011 1:29am

Hamstring injury for Tomkins. Probably going to miss the weekend's game unfortunately. He's been immense this season. He's been a great attacking threat as well.
Supposedly Faye did well when he came on so no doubt him and Reid can do the business.

Het-Field · 17-08-2011 1:54am

Really delighted to hear of Joey O'Brien's continued development.

Without his injury problems Ireland would have had a cemented incumbent in the right-back slot, and I believe he would have been playing for a more exaulted team than Bolton, or (through gritted teeth

) West Ham.

If he continues in this vein, Trappatoni will have to stand up and take note.

WindmillWarrior · 17-08-2011 11:11am

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Atmosphere sounded brilliant.
Great result, something to build on hopefully.

Yeah, listened on bbc london radio, our away support is up there with the very best. Heard a couple of new songs I didn't recognise tho. One that got a few airings was something to the tune of "East Londons our home, East Londons our home, f*ck off Tottenham, East Londons our home" - anyone know the words?? I'm going over for the Leeds game on sunday so would like to be fully up to speed

WindmillWarrior · 17-08-2011 12:00pm

Got it!

"We're winning away,
we're winning away,
how sh*t must you be,
we're winning away"

Captain Havoc · 17-08-2011 1:46pm

Mirror is talking about Joey Barton again, one deal I hope never goes through.

Hammer Archer · 17-08-2011 6:18pm

Het-Field wrote: »

If he continues in this vein, Trappatoni will have to stand up and take note.

Pfff he should but he more than likely wont.

Really should be aiming to beat Leeds easily on Sunday.

G.K. · 17-08-2011 6:33pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Really should be aiming to beat Leeds easily on Sunday.

Why so? We ain't no pushovers. One of the only teams to beat QPR at Loftus Road last season...

Hammer Archer · 17-08-2011 9:21pm

G.K. wrote: »

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Really should be aiming to beat Leeds easily on Sunday.

Why so? We ain't no pushovers. One of the only teams to beat QPR at Loftus Road last season...

With all due respect, we're really beginning to motor now and on the form we showed yesterday away from home (we're usually sh!t away from home) we'd beat anyone in the championship easily.
Mind you this is West Ham we're talking about.

G.K. · 17-08-2011 9:27pm

We've beaten Man Utd at Old Trafford with a weaker squad than this and held Arsenal and Spurs to draws too in the last 2 years. We just need to be on our day.

Paully D · 17-08-2011 9:39pm

QPR make £4m bid for Parker!

pjmn · 17-08-2011 10:11pm

Paully D wrote: »

QPR make £4m bid for Parker!

Typical Tony Fernandes move - presumably we will tell them they can have Parker for that money on Thursday and Fridays...;)

Hammer Archer · 18-08-2011 2:31am

G.K. wrote: »

We've beaten Man Utd at Old Trafford with a weaker squad than this and held Arsenal and Spurs to draws too in the last 2 years. We just need to be on our day.

True. Though we beat Man Utd 4-0 at home last year with arguably a weaker team than now. Not saying ye have no chance, far from it, it's just if we play to our potential we should win.

Paully D wrote: »

QPR make £4m bid for Parker!

Ah Jaysus.
He really needs to leave ASAP. From reading reports of last night's game, he's still pulling out of tackles that he would have been flying into last season. Have a feeling he'll go to Spurs with at least one player going in the other direction.

Jelle1880 · 20-08-2011 11:40am

Can't believe I'm stuck at work instead of in the pub for the Leeds game.

Haven't had to do weekend work all summer, and now the football season starts I'm back in on Saturdays and Sundays :mad:

Hammer Archer · 20-08-2011 10:25pm

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Can't believe I'm stuck at work instead of in the pub for the Leeds game.

Haven't had to do weekend work all summer, and now the football season starts I'm back in on Saturdays and Sundays :mad:

Likewise

Captain Havoc · 20-08-2011 11:24pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Likewise

Me too.

Jelle1880 · 21-08-2011 1:28pm

1-0 Cole

Jelle1880 · 21-08-2011 3:20pm

2-2 FT.

No idea about the performance since I managed to see glimpses with some dodgy stream at work, but I'd take that.

Hammer Archer · 21-08-2011 4:36pm

I definitely would not take 2-2 at home. That's two points dropped. It looks as if our players still don't realise that a game lasts for 90+ minutes. Late goals cost us our PL status last year and after only 4 games they've already cost us 3 points. That could be very important come the end of the season.

vicwatson · 22-08-2011 10:16am

Dropping 5 points at home is not good enough in our first two home games in games we could have and should have won. They need to get the finger out and start stamping their mark on this league.

The poorer sides in this league will have a go at us at the Boleyn and we better be prepared otherwise dropping points will continue. Sadly.

Hammer Archer · 24-08-2011 10:21am

Aldershot tonight in the rearranged Carling Cup first round game. What should the team be? Will Linda and Carew start and will Stech or Boffin be in goal? Don't think we should risk many first teamers seeing as it's such a long season.
Hopefully some youngsters can get their debuts.

WindmillWarrior · 24-08-2011 1:51pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Aldershot tonight in the rearranged Carling Cup first round game. What should the team be? Will Linda and Carew start and will Stech or Boffin be in goal? Don't think we should risk many first teamers seeing as it's such a long season.
Hopefully some youngsters can get their debuts.

I'm sure that'll be the case. Plenty of fringe team players need a game, not least Barrera. He needs to be given more of a chance I feel. He might bring something different to our quite one dimensional midfield at the moment

Hammer Archer · 24-08-2011 9:39pm

Ah for fcuk sake. From the radio it sounds like another horror show from Illunga. What a pathetic performance. Boffin and Piquionne were pretty poor by the sounds of it too. Thought Stech should have been started instead. Even before the sending off supposedly they weren't in the game.

pjmn · 24-08-2011 10:05pm

42 years supporting this lot - why? I ask myself.....:mad:

WindmillWarrior · 25-08-2011 11:17am

Better to be out of this compo imo. Still doesn't make the nature of the exit any less pathetic though. Plenty for Big Sam to sort out, and he'd wanna be quick about it...

vicwatson · 27-08-2011 2:42pm

Yes, Sam needs to get the finger out or the fans will not support what he is doing.

Never easy following the hammers is it?

Parker will go, BUT PLEASE NOT TO SPUDS. Why should we do business with them after they sent a letter to the board saying if we drop the charges against them (re illegally obtaining personal WH data) then they would drop the high court challenge against our successful bid for the OS.

GET LOST SPUDS, if our board do business with them after this how the hell can we trust our board to do whats right for the club??

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 12:19pm

To be honest, if they're willing to pay the £8m, then let him go to Spurs. Though rumour has it they're still not moving from £4m plus players on loan. Feck that. It's win win for them if that goes through. Parker's out of the squad today.

On the OS point, I think Daniel Levy is really beginning to sweat on the police investigations. He knows there's no chance of them getting the decision overturned and there's a chance of custodial sentences if it's proven they've acted illegally.

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 1:18pm

Nott'm Forest
01 Camp

04 Chambers

05 Morgan

16 Gunter

06 Boateng

10 McGugan

14 Greening

15 Cohen

28 Majewski

09 Miller

24 Findley

Substitutes
21 Smith,

33 Lynch,

11 Reid,

08 Derbyshire,

18 Garner

West Ham
01 Green

02 Reid

03 McCartney

05 Tomkins

17 O'Brien

18 Faubert

04 Nolan

10 Collison

14 Taylor

16 Noble

09 Cole

Substitutes
31 Boffin,

15 Faye,

25 Stanislas,

11 Carew,

30 Piquionne

Good to see Tomkins back. Not liking our attacking options. Hopefully Baldock will be available for the next game.

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 1:45pm

OG and Nolan put us 2 up

Tomkins has been immense as an attacking force this season. Ref giving them pretty much everything and they've had some decent chances so we're not out of it just yet.

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 1:57pm

3 up. Why are we a completely different team away from home? 2.5 games and we've scored 8 and conceded none. Forest's defence is shocking so we should be looking at another 2 or 3.

Jelle1880 · 28-08-2011 2:03pm

Pissed that I can't see it, again.

pjmn · 28-08-2011 2:08pm

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Pissed that I can't see it, again.

http://www.venturetv.me/channel2.htm

Jelle1880 · 28-08-2011 2:44pm

pjmn wrote: »

http://www.venturetv.me/channel2.htm

The most basic website is blocked at work, so thanks but won't work I guess

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 2:47pm

1-3. Handball in the run up to it. :mad:
Only we could go 3-0 up and still be hanging on.

pjmn · 28-08-2011 2:50pm

,.... true.

pjmn · 28-08-2011 2:53pm

................yyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 2:54pm

4-1 and game over. Ref gave Forest every chance to get back into it. Green barged into the goal by a Forest player and no free given.

Hammer Archer · 28-08-2011 3:13pm

Decent performance, great result. Forest's defence was a joke though. Need to get our first win of the season at home to Pompey in two weeks.

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