West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[95 North - Let Yourself Go]

Just stuck a tenner on us to stay up - we are 6/4 on Bet365! Crystal Palace to get sucked in and hopefully Spurs.

[Manuel]

I have a feeling we might just do that 67.
I do love the Chelsea away fixture, looking forward to it. 

If your predictions were always correct we'd win the league and cup double every season, Mex fella.

[Manuel]

It's probably fair comment that we appear to be catching them at a good time, but, and yes football fans are fickle, last month this board was predicting we'd lose to the likes of Fulham, Forest, Wolves etc, but now we're going to win at Chelsea? You never know, but let's keep it real, it's pretty unlikely.

I predicted we'd beat Sunderland btw, before being accused of going all Sir Alf.

[Dick Shaftsbury]

I mean, we usually get fuck all there. But factor in their fixtures, the new manager, and the unrest around Cole Palmer, we could get something. 

[Westham67]

We have a chance of winning their fixture list; we play them between Napoli away and Arsenal in the EFL semi-final, and their new manager is another Moyes

[Mex Martillo]

I have a feeling we might just do that 67.
I do love the Chelsea away fixture, looking forward to it. 

[Westham67]

Getting something at Chelsea this weekend  would strengthen our great escape campaign 

Leeds v Arsenal 

Wolves v Bournemouth

Forrest v Palace

Spurs v City

[Eerie Decent]

I don't necessarily disagree, Rossal. I'd love us to be a club who identifies these managers that pop out of nowhere, but if we sacked him, it'd be more of the same.

Funny enough, if we somehow manage to stay up, I reckon he'd turn us into a top half team.

[Rossal]

Love the positivity. Of course hope you're all right. 

Just not seeing it myself, and we've got to play all of the top 6 teams in the league. So many variables are different compared to in the past for me, and the teams we've overtaken in the past have been proper pony, I don't see anyone like that who are just above us. But let's hope I'm very wrong on that.

 

When we were shit you were optimistic and wanted to give Nuno more time etc...... now we've won 3 in a row and looking the best all season you've gone full circle! 

 

When he very first came in, I wasn't calling for him to be sacked after 3 games, no. And I'm not now, to be honest. I always at least try to be optimistic, especially when managers first come in, and back then there was time to pull it around. I thought as well, given the situation, he was probably the best bet in terms of who our owner would employ, or at least on paper.

However, to then go into the Fulham game at home, absolute pivotal game, and play 4 centre mids with no striker, it done for us. That was the moment I was convinced we are going down, and the next 3 games that followed sealed it. In my opinion.

For the record, none of the things we do/have done as a club would be what I would do, but I try to judge everything on it's merits. I don't try to score points just by being negative all the time, or positive all the time, like some do, just for the sake of it.

As I say, desperate to be wrong on this one, let's hope so.

The Brentford and Leeds experiment will be just as much to blame as the 1 point from 12 if we were to go down in my opinion. There was justification for us to bin him after Leeds, and who knows we may have more points now. 

But i hear you regarding the other points, and yes lets hope you are wrong and we somehow shithouse our way out it. It feel like as soon as we consign ourselves to the championship the next few games then give us the most hope of staying up. 

[Eerie Decent]

A team that had our best keeper for 20 years in goal, a strong defence, the current best midfielder in the Premier League protecting them. We currently have the brainless AWB, Mavro, Todibo who can't head the football, and 2 young left backs.

Then why were we so shit over the first 23 games?

You can't have it all ways

Europe?

I wanted Moyes sacked that season, btw, as I thought he was under performing with the players at his disposal. That squad was much better than the current one.

[Eerie Decent]

Love the positivity. Of course hope you're all right. 

Just not seeing it myself, and we've got to play all of the top 6 teams in the league. So many variables are different compared to in the past for me, and the teams we've overtaken in the past have been proper pony, I don't see anyone like that who are just above us. But let's hope I'm very wrong on that.

 

When we were shit you were optimistic and wanted to give Nuno more time etc...... now we've won 3 in a row and looking the best all season you've gone full circle! 

 

 

When he very first came in, I wasn't calling for him to be sacked after 3 games, no. And I'm not now, to be honest. I always at least try to be optimistic, especially when managers first come in, and back then there was time to pull it around. I thought as well, given the situation, he was probably the best bet in terms of who our owner would employ, or at least on paper.

However, to then go into the Fulham game at home, absolute pivotal game, and play 4 centre mids with no striker, it done for us. That was the moment I was convinced we are going down, and the next 3 games that followed sealed it. In my opinion.

For the record, none of the things we do/have done as a club would be what I would do, but I try to judge everything on it's merits. I don't try to score points just by being negative all the time, or positive all the time, like some do, just for the sake of it.

As I say, desperate to be wrong on this one, let's hope so.

[onsideman]

A team that had our best keeper for 20 years in goal, a strong defence, the current best midfielder in the Premier League protecting them. We currently have the brainless AWB, Mavro, Todibo who can't head the football, and 2 young left backs.

Then why were we so shit over the first 23 games?

You can't have it all ways

[Massive Attack]

And a Team that had Rice as Captain at the heart of it.

[Rossal]

Love the positivity. Of course hope you're all right. 

Just not seeing it myself, and we've got to play all of the top 6 teams in the league. So many variables are different compared to in the past for me, and the teams we've overtaken in the past have been proper pony, I don't see anyone like that who are just above us. But let's hope I'm very wrong on that.

 

 

When we were shit you were optimistic and wanted to give Nuno more time etc...... now we've won 3 in a row and looking the best all season you've gone full circle! 

[Eerie Decent]

Here's Season 22/23:

After 23 Matches...

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And after 38 Matches,

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To compare to our current season, over the final 15 games we made up:

- 10 points over Leicester
- 11 points over Leeds
- 6 points over Forest
- 8 points over Chelsea

So these big point swings are more than possible (and actually not all that unusual).

A team that had our best keeper for 20 years in goal, a strong defence, the current best midfielder in the Premier League protecting them. We currently have the brainless AWB, Mavro, Todibo who can't head the football, and 2 young left backs.

But as I say, love the optimism. I can't jump on that train on the back of 2 good halfs of football.

[Eerie Decent]

Love the positivity. Of course hope you're all right. 

Just not seeing it myself, and we've got to play all of the top 6 teams in the league. So many variables are different compared to in the past for me, and the teams we've overtaken in the past have been proper pony, I don't see anyone like that who are just above us. But let's hope I'm very wrong on that.

[stubbo-admin]

Here's Season 22/23:

After 23 Matches...

And after 38 Matches,

To compare to our current season, over the final 15 games we made up:

- 10 points over Leicester
- 11 points over Leeds
- 6 points over Forest
- 8 points over Chelsea

So these big point swings are more than possible (and actually not all that unusual).

[onsideman]

 Mind you, the lockdown was probably our saviour that year

Agreed

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

We also had 19 points from 23 games in 13/14 under Allardyce. Finished in 14th.

We also only had 24 points from the first 27 games in the season Moyes took over from Pellegrini. Mind you, the lockdown was probably our saviour that year and I doubt there's another of those on the cards.

[onsideman]

Why are we so shit then? Why have we only got 20 points? Why can't we keep a clean sheet? Why can't we beat Fulham at home? Why did Wolves muller us 3-0?
 

We're no more shit than we were in 2002/03, 2006/07 and, as we now know, 2022/23 too.

Thats a statistical fact

Why were we mullered 3-0 by a shit Sheffield United in mid-April 2007?

[stubbo-admin]

Pretty sure we were in the same boat points wise in the 22/23 season, and ended up with 40 points.

Will 40 be enough? Who knows, but we lead in enough games that it's possible.

Just checked. 18th with 20 points from 23 games.

So we were in the exact same boat a few seasons back. Hang in there lads.

[Eerie Decent]

Why are we so shit then? Why have we only got 20 points? Why can't we keep a clean sheet? Why can't we beat Fulham at home? Why did Wolves muller us 3-0?

Still, always good to be optimistic. Let's hope history from 20 years ago repeats itself. Hopefully they start selling £3 pints at the stadium, really take us back in time.

[stubbo-admin]

Pretty sure we were in the same boat points wise in the 22/23 season, and ended up with 40 points.

Will 40 be enough? Who knows, but we lead in enough games that it's possible.

[onsideman]

While every season is different from another there are still 20 teams who play each other with 3 points at stake. Teams can still go on dreadful runs. I doubt most fans expect West Ham to get out the current fix but it’s only natural to hope they can or what’s the point. 

If the West Ham squad in 2006/7 was so great how come they had only 20 points after 29 games? At that point we were 10 points from safety. If there was a difference, it’s that more teams were involved in the relegation scrap. Fulham, for example, only got 11 points from their last 15 games and may well have been relegated in place of Sheffield United had Liverpool not fielded a weakened side before a European game. 

We were dead lucky at Blackburn. But those games can still happen today.

Absolutely. Of course they can

If it's so different,  why are Wolves rivalling worst ever seasons, why were Soton so shit last year. Everything is relative. If everyone has £30m players then the playing field remains as level as it ever was. 

I was at Brammall Lane for that 3-0 loss in 2007 and there wasn't a person in the stadium - at either end - who thought we weren't relegated... and Tevez was dreadful that day.  

If everything was predictable, we'd all be gambling millionaires 

[John Drake]

While every season is different from another there are still 20 teams who play each other with 3 points at stake. Teams can still go on dreadful runs. I doubt most fans expect West Ham to get out the current fix but it’s only natural to hope they can or what’s the point. 

If the West Ham squad in 2006/7 was so great how come they had only 20 points after 29 games? At that point we were 10 points from safety. If there was a difference, it’s that more teams were involved in the relegation scrap. Fulham, for example, only got 11 points from their last 15 games and may well have been relegated in place of Sheffield United had Liverpool not fielded a weakened side before a European game. 

We were dead lucky at Blackburn. But those games can still happen today.