Pezo

Downsy mk2

I prefer a flexible formation, just a single formation makes teams predictable.

49 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

We are nowhere near the top 2, or 4 for that matter.

Beyond that, we aren't a million miles off 5th-10th.

The problem with that is that there are probably 16 teams that aren't a million miles off 5th-10th and we are very much average in that group.

1 minute ago, Graham76 said:

I saw a Leeds fan being dragged out at the end screaming that he wasn’t a Leeds fan (even though he obviously was).  There were so many Leeds fans mixed in the home end tonight.  No one seemed to care. 

It's really strange that we as a fanbase seemed intent on not letting west ham come here and have a nice time but we seemed to let Leeds fans quite frankly take the piss tonight all night.

Leeds fans in the home end, Leeds fans along Ashton road after the game trying to pick fights with city fans.

How have we gone from one to the other?

I can almost guarantee that if we put the away fans up in the top tier of the Williams stand that people would say that's where we need to be because of the sloping down roof and the away fans making loads more noise up there than the rest of the stadium.

I can remember going in there first the first home game of the season 13/14 and there were piles of full bin bags just sat in the restaurant and fly's all over the ceiling - haven't ate there since.

Now I have a Clarks pie the other side of the ground and can say it's easily better in every way.

14 minutes ago, mattjb said:

Was walking up north st to get some grub before the game and bizarrely a load of West Ham fans the other side of the road started chanting ‘you’re shagging your sister’ at me.  Funnily enough I was with my sister, my nephew and my daughter ( and no I’m not!) My 12 year old girl found it baffling that grown men should be shouting that, and I must admit although I found it mildly amusing , aiming that sort of stuff at people with young kids shows the level of intelligence of these drunken muppets 

Preciously - going in pubs that are usually frequented by family orientated home fans that just want to spend some time together and getting abuse/banter from pissed up ********* is likely to attract attention from our own pissed up ********* that don't usually have anyone to aim there knobish behaviour at.

1 hour ago, Harry said:

I understand they closed the tobacco factory because West Ham fans were in there “singing”. 
Bit childish in my opinion. Nowt wrong with singing. 
 

Re other pubs. I understand there was an incident at the Rising Sun involving the doorman. You can guess who came out on top there

Plus an incident by Spanish Bar. I believe a few Hammers got a bit of a whacking, even after they had it on their toes. 
I did hear the comment “you’d think they’d be better at running away since they play at an athletics track”

Depends what they are singing, "stick your tractors up your arse" seemed to be the favourite of the evening. I would say that's slightly inflammatory.

2 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

The tickets are a mess currently and give mixed messages::

At the top it says 'The barcode only allows one entry per ticket' but actually you scan the QR code to get in, not the bar code.

Re: printing it actually says 'If you can, please print your ticket in A4 size or alternatively scan via your smart phone' so people have every right to scan tickets, and I would argue a lot of people don't have printers now, a lot of workplaces don't have them these days. 
 

It's well within the clubs remit to make the tickets better.

Or reduce the need for them, if the digital ticket system worked for cup games then we probably wouldn't have had the amount of problems and the stewards wouldn't have been so overwhelmed.

I used the barcode to enter last night, the stewards on the gate at the Dolman entrance were saying you could use either and that it didn't matter.

If you think most people have got use to tapping there card or phone but everything last night was a ticket (either printed or on phone).

Anicdotally there seemed to be people that had booked for there friends/family but hadn't printed so were trying to use there phone to scan each person in so everyone was waiting while they tried to load the tickets from there email in a crowded area where the cell towers are overloaded with other people trying to go through there emails to find there tickets. People just expect to be able to download wherever and whenever they want. The tickets do say to print them.

S23/24 was a mare, I was stood on the steps and moved to a different section when the paramedics needed to get in. 2 things - the club had sold tickets to anyone that wanted to go in there so the family beside me were usually in the Williams but wanted the 10 pound tickets so booked to go in there - I assume taking a spot from someone who would usually go in there that had to get a ticket for elsewhere but that's how people in there enjoy there football so just went in there. I was watching the stewards at half time and they were stopping everyone and checking tickets until one of them walked off just as west ham came out and then the other one just gave up and then it appeared that everyone that had been turned away just walked up at that point.

6 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Nobody with half a brain, thought we would be near the top 6 this season without or without Pearson. Most predicted mid table - 10-14th place which is where we are and where we will likely end up. Preston are a bogey team for us, and yes i agree - today was shite. I actually dozed off. The bottom line is the players are what they are - midtable. I dont see why we have to self flaggelate after every poor/average performance.

Except that's what we hear from everyone at the club and Lansdowns have already sacked a manager this season for not being in the top 6!

9 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Fixed it myself.

If you go on your Personal Details there is a section for Relationships. If your daughter is down as “Friends and Family” then you can’t get access to buy her tickets. I had to delete my kids relationships, then readd them as “Customer to Customer” - that then meant their seats were available to purchase.

See above

I saw this worked for others so gave it a go and now can't add my friend and my son back on to the list because apparently they are on another list .

Tried phoning the club when I finished work at 4 phone lines were closed, in work tomorrow at 8 until 4, I might be able to get to a phone at lunchtime but that will be after members have grabbed there lot, hope there are tickets left!

After:

• Engineering works overrun
• Flooding
• Broken door
• Canceled train
• Driver not allowed to drive anymore
• Electric issues between Reading and Paddington 
• Signalling faults

Managed to miss the first 10 minutes, so as far as I'm concerned we won 0-1 and I had my least expensive away day ever!

I was starting to worry that Nige got the best out of Vyner that we were going to see and that he was starting to let that standard slide again but last night he was back to that top quality seen under Nige.

I never understand the stick he gets but I don't think it's much, same as Orr used to get a bit of stick but was a dependable right back. It's only when these types of players are asked to do more than the defensive roles they were signed for do we see that they are not Beckham and Neville rolled into one and seemingly get upset about it.

1 hour ago, ralphindevon said:

The times I’ve been asked about tickets for matches where a group of lads, often who usually play but for whatever reason aren’t, want to go to a game but all that’s available are 2 seats here and there in the Dolman for £35.

In the South stand they could comfortably seat the whole team together on most match days in any section but there are none or few available .

Make it unreserved?

22 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

My solution to this is that if a STH fails to attend X amount of home games (without a good reason) then they forfeit their seat. 

I simply refuse to believe that we have 1000s buying adult season tickets and then not attending. 

These empty seats are kid STs..

What's the problem? We don't sell out, It's not like people are locked out is it?

13 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Nor have I Phants.

Wild suggestions like this never happen.

Anyway - what is there to protest about? and before anyone mentions the Lansdowns ownership, be careful what you wish for. We could be a lot worse off with some kind of huxter taking over. 

At least we know what to expect.

I used to think like this but there are now at least whole leagues worth of teams that are a similar size to us or smaller that have played in the prem.

That's not an individual managers fault.

So while we could be a lot worse off the chance of us having been a lot better off at some point over the last 25 years are highly likely.

1 hour ago, One Team said:

Brilliant Fevs!

I’ve not too dissimilar in that he reminds me of the android David in the Prometheus and Alien Covenant movies, both in looks and approach.

Oxford fans have said he’s slightly robotic and emotionless!

Even the note about David on Wikipedia could be taken almost literally [almost!].

David [Liam] is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man [Head Coach] and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation. While he assists his human companions [players] in their interstellar expedition [league and cup games] to meet their creators, the extraterrestrial Engineer [Brian Tinnion], David is obsessed with the concept of creating life of his own [beliefs, principles]. After Peter Weyland is killed [Nigel Pearson is sacked] David is freed from servitude [Oxford United] allowing him to conduct experiments to engineer his own variants of the Alien creature [front foot football]. The David line of androids would ultimately be succeeded by the Walter [who knows?!].

So no questions about where away fans should be placed, doesn't sound like the SC&T are in tune with what fans really want according to the latest fans forum .

7 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Quote from August 22 SL said “I would sell if it was the right deal, but I’m not actively looking to sell the club”.

That seems fairly conclusive, then (who knows if it is the case now) he would have sold if the price was right.

Thanks, so basically if someone makes a stupid offer then he will sell. Doesn't that apply to everything i.e. if someone offered me 4x market value for anything I had then I would likely sell it.

Just now, Leabrook said:

One swallow doesn’t make a summer. We’ve produced two players good enough for the premier league unless my memory has forgotten someone other than Reid and Scott.  And Scott was bought from another club.   

Semenyo, Kelly? Anyone else at Bournemouth ?

30 minutes ago, Robin101 said:

Every team seems to try and play it. The best chances every team creates each week seems to be when they nick it off the opposition centre back trying to play like Xavi.

Percentages.

28 minutes ago, Countryfile said:

I was involved in a brief discussion about enjoying football.

I didn’t enjoy the game today and the result had little to do with that.

The game today it seemed to me was all about possession and very little about entertainment.

I don’t pretend to know the answer, but if our football, and football in general doesn’t provide entertainment to spectators then what’s the point in going to a game?
 

If anyone who reads this did enjoy the game please tell me what you enjoyed?
The football from both sides was 99% flat and the crowd was 99% quite.

There's a part of me that thinks this thread doesn't get created if we win but you have a point.

Peps influence is something that gets blamed for the ticky tacka or what ever it is but Peps sides don't play like we did today they use the possession to probe and move opponents into positions to create gaps pulling opposition players out of position and then exploiting that space - we didn't do that we stood off and just passed it to each other with Norwich just stood Infront of us with no reason to move.

8 minutes ago, petehinton said:

4 points, 4 games, 4 goals scored, 5 conceded - all of which in the second half. 
 

About as ‘meh’ as can be

About as some destroying as can be.

What ever Manning is doing at half time clearly is having a negative affect on everything.