bexhill reds

Let’s hope Conway enjoys the experience of tonight so much that he signs a new contract.

Bit of a naughty one.. got to learn to deal with that type of shirt holding. Got a bit tasty between them

When we get the team all playing at at 7 or 8s then we are very very good. Our problem is doing that enough

Great game, VAR would have killed it. Love the little edge, need to bottle that nastiness for the league.

You call all **** off and blow your bubbles now…

With VAR the game would have been abandoned

Ran Zouma ragged for 60 mins, Wells needs to do the same.

No more than WH players slapping the floor every time they go down. I want to win, not please the neutrals

How many players is Williams going to get sent off? Got right under their skin

Might be time to substitute him…

Very bored with WH players lying on the floor and the ref falling for it. If the player is out for the count then stop play but if he’s thumping the floor then play on. Benrama is a manual manipulator

Mark Chapman doing a very good sales pitch on TC….

Do Prem players have a special training session to cover slapping the floor to make out the tackle was worse than it was. West Ham seem really proficient at it.

That drone shot of the ground

Cornet looks like he’d struggle to hit a barn door right now, he’ll probably go and score

Wondered where the cat got to ..

Keith Floyd? he’s thin now, practically all bones..

The people of Bexhill have come out in their crowds to watch the game tonight. Other than the landlord and me I’ve drunk more pints so far than people in the pub. Can’t wait for the bantz with the West Ham fans…

I’m part of the “we”, uninspiring football, not scoring goals or even creating a huge number of clear cut chances, plus we seem to have found our previous propensity for conceding soft goals, none of that smacks of a run that’s likely to get us into a play off position. Aside from Watford on Boxing Day, there been little to suggest all season that we are anything other than a lower-mid championship team. The utter toss that was our Preston performance has extinguished whatever was left about optimistic flame I had, and believe me I had one as my pre-season optimism will cost me a £300+ meal after a bet with a couple of mates.

Bit of a silly comment really. A large proportion of the posts on this thread welcome the idea of signing Twine, but merely questioning the wisdom or otherwise of a pure loan deal when we are not going to get relegated and very unlikely to be promoted, it just seems to be a pointless outlay of cash and a wage for little or no outcome. If seriously pushing for a playoff position and by that I mean regularly in the top 6, then fair enough, it’s a punt to get you up there. If this had been a TGH type loan with a buy option at the end then I suspect this thread would be a lot shorter. If the fee Burnley wanted was too high now, what would happen if he were to be a success, he’d go even further out of our price range and we’ve just done Burnley’s marketing for them, arguably the alternative could be true in that if he tanks no one would justify his £5m price. Why not develop someone into the role from the academy or bring in a player we could develop from lower down the leagues, if our list of options exist.

Loved his little chipped goal against Hull in the last match of the season a couple of years ago. Very classy finisher at times. A great pro and seemingly a great human being, to coin a phrase often used in this parish a while ago. Wish him all the best.

Having watched the Birmingham, Millwall and Preston games of late that level of optimism can only come from some decent class A.. I have whatever you’re having

Best you stay off the forum, it clearly won’t do your blood pressure any good. Thankfully this place is not a church with people singing off the same hymn sheet as that frankly would be very dull. Other than a bit of stirring from the usual accounts most of the debate on this thread has been reasoned even if you don’t agree with it.

I’ll raise you Tony Dinning…

I’ve got no problem with the speculation behind the motives behind the loan. Depending on your view of previous decisions on management changes the hierarchy have made you can argue why the current owners need make their recruitment decision work and will move away from the academy pathway and essentially cover another club’s wage bill. I’m disappointed that there is not seemingly some sort of clause behind the scenes to at least provide an option at the end of the season, on pure loans, I’m more aligned with Pearson’s view about them in that all we are doing is developing another team’s youngster to the detriment of others we might have in the building. For all his coaching reputation our new head coach does not seem overly interested in our academy other than to fill the bench. On the other hand I’m also more than happy to be entertained and get a modicum of enjoyment from the rest of the season so perhaps our new man might be the catalyst for that.