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Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.
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Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

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Have said several times you don’t hold on to a lead by adding defenders
That just means you sit too deep and wait to get beaten as the defenders get in each others way
Put on ball winners like Magassa & Potts in midfield and try and get some control while breaking up play 
Basic stuff which hasn’t registered with Nuno after endless points thrown away again & again
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A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in  games over the past three months.













Absolutely spot on, in a nutshell. And what happened to his counter attacking football when sitting back?? We haven't seen it.
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We get ourselves in winning positions and then self destruct as teams come at us.

We sit to deep and invite pressure 

The bottle goes basically and the manager is the biggest culprit with his defensive substitutions.and then we lose the outlet to relieve the pressure and get us up the pitch

The penny never seems to drop with Nuno and we don't have the characters on the pitch to break things up with some dark arts or the like when. teams are starting to overrun us.

A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in  games over the past three months.

We simply do not have the nous to get over the line in these games.

We need a leader on the pitch and a coach that knows the way to win games when ugly.

The recruitment is nowhere near good enough and the way we defend set pieces way short of the standard required.

We have to score three to win games as we always concede and once one goes in we invite the opposition to come at us with our negative tactics.

An absolute shambles of a club and an embarrassment.

Will they ever learn 







 
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Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.

YES  - exactly. Teams who survive relegation fights simply dont do this. Not Forest. Not Leeds.

We're fucked. 
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Despite a slight uplift in form since the very worst days of Pottertegui, I still think we’re going down - because, as others have said, we keep shooting ourselves in the foot and blowing decent positions.

Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.

It’s frustrating because this is not a great league this season - there are many bang average, or worse, sides. And more points have been there for the taking. But we’re now 5/6 points adrift of safety and we have just 14 games left.

Any more of this self-inflicted shite and our fate is sealed.

The worst thing about Todibo’s sending off is three more games with Kilman - a walking catastrophe of a defender. I’d be tempted to bin him off for the kid with the Scrabble-winning surname.
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Another game like Forest & Villa at home where we should have taken something and ended up beaten
That will relegate you
Burnley away then Man U & Bournemouth at home … has to be 7pts at least
Burnley is an absolute must win obviously 
Think we have about a 20-25% chance of survival and that’s being optimistic 
Feb 1st & no centre half. Utter insanity & now Todibo missing 3.
Sullivan’s genius gets what it deserves again

Meanwhile the woman who almost destroyed Birmingham City and is finishing the job on West Ham is back on tv being presented as a business expert
Irony is dead
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I'm genuinely impressed with some of the optimists..(yidfoot aside)
I used to be like that....
Its over ...we will  mixing it with the likes  of  the Preston North End once again.
And Wall , they're cocky now but they will bottle the play offs ...they always do.

 
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twoleftfeet wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 22:43 I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
Since when has Nuno held his nerve. If we go one up at half time we’ll come out with some backs to the wall bollocks second half. When have we not ? 
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twoleftfeet wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 22:43 I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
Id rather we played with 11.

But if that 11th is kilman, maybe not
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Many had the Man U match as a right off, and that will be the end of Todibos ban
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We have beaten Spurs and Sunderland and nearly got a result at Chelsea. The centre back position is the issue now; it will  do Kilman a favour playing away from home at Burnley
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I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley 

4-1

As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
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twoleftfeet wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 22:26 We will destroy Burnley 
Don’t set yourself up. It’s not worth it. 
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We will destroy Burnley 
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Monsieur merde de cheval" wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 21:43
Sir Alf" wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 20:43 Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 
 
If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .
oh they're turning us over make no mistake.
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Sir Alf" wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 20:43 Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 
 
 
If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .
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nychammer wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 19:58
Westham67 wrote: 30 Jan 2026, 03:24 Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic
Forest will batter palarse tomorrow..and Savile's mob will batter Forest on Friday night.
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Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo.  We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs. 
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nychammer wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 19:58
Westham67 wrote: 30 Jan 2026, 03:24 Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic
Relegation is only academic when it is mathematically impossible to stay up 
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If we we were going to stay up we had to find the fortitude and character to win that today given where we were at HT. Given where we are, just winning what look like the remaining winnable games is not enough, and we'll probably find a way to fuck some of those up too.

Today tells me its over. I don't see other teams collapsing. They will do what they need to do. 

The sooner we can just get it over with the better.
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As Stubbo says 18 points lost from winning positions but root cause = most goals conceded in the division. Although defence is a problem, you defend as a team. Nuno needed to refresh and crowd out midfield to stop the tide and crosses or source of their attacks.  Potts and Magassa no longer used. 
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Westham67 wrote: 30 Jan 2026, 03:24 Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic
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18 points lost from winning positions. That is what will send us down. 
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Dick Shaftsbury" wrote: 31 Jan 2026, 17:25 Hopefully thats Leed's confidence blown to shit now.
they held their nerve when it mattered unlike us
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