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Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

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I think we're fucked.

only1billybonds wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 23:25 Given a choice between all  the razmatazz bollox on offer in the premier league or the more honesty and grit championship football, I know where I'd rather be. Owners want the financial rewards of the prem, football fans will stand by their club regardless of what level they're playing at. Relegation isn't to be feared, if and when it happens, its to be embraced

only1billybonds wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 01:44 nyc.

My point is,what is to fear about relegation? I know it sounds daft but really,what is so special about the premier league from a purely football fans point of view?  So many of us have for years belived that being in the top tier is everything but its all bollox. Sure, thats where the big money is but so what? Look at our club, supposedly in the top 20 of money makers in the game but that means nothing, the overriding feeling among fans is one of misery and its been this way for a while now. Maybe its me but I really don't care in what league we are playing, we'll still be West Ham and the fans love for the cub wont be diminished because we aren't up there with the so called elites. Fuck the elites and fuck the premier league!

nyc.

My point is,what is to fear about relegation? I know it sounds daft but really,what is so special about the premier league from a purely football fans point of view?  So many of us have for years belived that being in the top tier is everything but its all bollox. Sure, thats where the big money is but so what? Look at our club, supposedly in the top 20 of money makers in the game but that means nothing, the overriding feeling among fans is one of misery and its been this way for a while now. Maybe its me but I really don't care in what league we are playing, we'll still be West Ham and the fans love for the cub wont be diminished because we aren't up there with the so called elites. Fuck the elites and fuck the premier league!

only1billybonds wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 23:25 Given a choice between all  the razmatazz bollox on offer in the premier league or the more honesty and grit championship football, I know where I'd rather be. Owners want the financial rewards of the prem, football fans will stand by their club regardless of what level they're playing at. Relegation isn't to be feared, if and when it happens, its to be embraced

Given a choice between all  the razmatazz bollox on offer in the premier league or the more honesty and grit championship football, I know where I'd rather be. Owners want the financial rewards of the prem, football fans will stand by their club regardless of what level they're playing at. Relegation isn't to be feared, if and when it happens, its to be embraced

Sullivan's basically painted himself into a corner with no way out. He did this all by himself as he gave no authority to anyone else to sign the cheques.

If you fly by the seat of your pants, mortgaging your day-to-day operations against potential future earnings using payday loans, it's no surprise that those future earnings will never, ever materialise if you don't invest wisely in your core business at the appropriate time and hedge against a drop in the general economic situation.

Should have built a team (of equals) around Rice, not expect him to carry the other 10 on the pitch: equally, should have built a team around Payet, for exactly the same reason.

Sullivan wouldn't even consider doing so because it would have meant most transfers needed to build such a "next level" team would go through agents other than his mates.

However, I must confess that, should we drop into the fizzy pop league, I shall raise a sly smile should Sullivan not be able to find a buyer on account of the state he's got the club into.

Classic traits of relegation teams are shipping soft goals and not scoring at the other end.    At the moment I can't see this changing.  What hasn't helped at all is Nuno’s bonkers team selections.   All the more baffling after a half decent performance at Everton.

 

Basically a quarter of the season gone, so no

Yep, we are gone already it could be argued. Seems insane saying that after 9 games but has anyone seen any grounds, however small, for hope? 

No Southampton, no Ipswich this year and by the time January comes around when yet again we panic buy to get us out of trouble sadly I think this time it will be too late as we’ll be to many points adrift 

When we have gone down before bar under Roeder when there was no way that team should have gone down, we were always a few players short.  Even in 2010–11 there was still Parker, Noble, Reid, Gabbidon, problem was they were surrounded by crap.  This time around I just don't see much quaility bar Bowen.  From a few players short we are 8 or 9.  Don't think I've seen a worse centre back pairing in the clubs history and that's the big problem.

Nyc.  And Coventry.  They didn't own their stadium and as a result ended up absolutely fucked for years

Lock this thread please 

The side with the worst defence always gets relegation, so let's look at goal difference  okay bad starting point , we are -13, the worst in the whole division. Even worse than bottom club Wolves. We are fucked and no coming back

The only thing this club will be worth when it goes down is the TV parachute payments, a crap overpaid squad and whatever revenue the dwindling fan following generates

We don't own the Stadium
We wont fill the Stadium
After 2 years we lose the parachute payments - then we are really fucked
We will struggle to be a viable championship side and the fan base will shrink and die off

We become Charlton Athletic with a shitty empty stadium

THE ABOVE will come to pass if we cant get the current ownership out in the next 2 years and investors who can harness the potential and take us off the self destruction path Sullivan and Brady have our famous old club on now. 

I cant attend the protest but believe me I would if I could. If you can please GO, and everyone must sign the petition, there is no excuse for not doing that much.

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 17:31 Might as well give Igor from Young Frankenstein (Marty Feldman) a run out 

If anyone wanted a true guage of how far we've gone backwards in the past 2 years then the fact that Mavropanos' injury has now made us weaker defensively is really all you need

Igor will be a great fit for our team which is itself, due to lack of long term planning and switching managers and styles, the footballing equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster where none of the constituent parts fit together. 

Sir Alf" wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 17:28 The Brazilian geezer Igor is in the bottom 1% in Europes top leagues for aerial ability ( winning duels) but converself makes a lot of tackles and interceptions apparently?

Got to be worth a shot and tbh we have little choice if, as expected, Newcastle turn us over

 

Might as well give Igor from Young Frankenstein (Marty Feldman) a run out 

The Brazilian geezer Igor is in the bottom 1% in Europes top leagues for aerial ability ( winning duels) but converself makes a lot of tackles and interceptions apparently?

Got to be worth a shot and tbh we have little choice if, as expected, Newcastle turn us over

Hard to see us getting out of this. Sunderland V Chelsea were all we are not ...commited have two decent strikers strength etc. 
Think if Sullivan opens his wallet in Jan it confirms what we all said the PSR bollox was a lie and their one and only concern is to avoid relegation. Trouble is they miscalculated that the three teams  coming up would be crap and would go back down again.
Cunts ...

Drop that French geezer and Bring in that Brazilian shit house as center back 

Fuck the inverted full backs. Utter wank football.

Tommy as much as I love you, your on the bench.
Andy can take the high road.

Pottsy Ferendez have to start.

I think we we might have a chance at scrapping some points and start a run.

 

Not only are we nailed in going down. I dont see us coming back.

Fuck you sullivan you cսnt.

We came back up with better squads with both Pardew and Allerdyce