West Ham Thread

[aws]

This one is going to be hard work especially if Torres isn't fully fit. I hope we don't start believing all the hype like we seemed to do after our last pasting of the geordies.

 

I'd pick the same side as for newcastle with Riera dropping out for torres (assuming he starts).

[sh#t waffle]

A thread? About Liverpool? Can't see it catching on. Agree with your side, and am also ever so slightly shitting it about this one.

[Carra_is_legend]

Rafa said Torres was close last w/e so I would expect him to start.

 

Agree with your selection - Torres in place of Riera.

[Herp McDerp]

Going to be really tough, West Ham have been going about their business without creating too much of a fuss, unlike O'Neill and his bunch of gobshites, they're not in 7th for no reason, 2-1 win if Torres plays, not so sure otherwise.

[Carra_is_legend]

Aye. It is a tough place to go and I'm not that confident to be honest.

[The Tott]

Bit of a dilemma. I have an exam during the game but im definately not coming back to ucd next year so i mite give the test a miss:whistle:

[Brownie]

This is a massive game; if we don't win, then our season is over. We've got to treat is a cup final (a cliché, I know, but true nevertheless!). We play a day before the Mancs so we can go back to the top of the table with a win, and despite what people may say, that does put pressure on the Mancs going into a big derby.

 

The worry for me, is the fact that the Mancs seem to be playing well now and have come through their poor spell (where they continued winning, the jammy cunts).

 

We just have to hope that the breaks will start going against them and that we'll be there to take advantage. Nothing would be more frustrating than to see us drop points on Saturday, only for them to lose on Sunday.

 

Let's keep the pressure on and be able to look back and say that we won 10 out of our last 11 games and just came up short, (or gloriously nicked it if they slip up).

 

I'd go with this team:

 

------------Reina

 

Arbeloa--Carra--Agger--Aurelio

 

Kuyt--Alonso--Mascherano--Benayoun

 

----------Gerrard

 

----------Torres

[RedinSweden]

This one is going to be hard work especially if Torres isn't fully fit. I hope we don't start believing all the hype like we seemed to do after our last pasting of the geordies.

 

I'd pick the same side as for newcastle with Riera dropping out for torres (assuming he starts).

 

I am starting to feel the nerves. I deperately want us to win all our remaining matches. i would hate for United to slip up and us not take advantage. that would be the hardest thing to take. I would be delighted going into the last match of the season 3 points behind them (preferably level though of course). If Hull are still at risk then it could be a real thriller.

[The Tott]

 

------------Reina

 

Arbeloa--Carra--Agger--Aurelio

 

Kuyt--Alonso--Mascherano--Benayoun

 

----------Gerrard

 

----------Torres

 

Ditto

[Carra_is_legend]

I don't think there is even a slight chance of us winning the title. My biggest hope was that Arsenal will give 2 tough CL games but the cunts finished the tie in 100 mins without breaking sweat. And they look more sharper and fitter whoever they put into the pitch.

 

However, I badly want us to win the 3 games, starting with West ham and make sure we finish 2nd. We could do without the 2 big CL qualifiers, especially when we are touring the far east in the summer. Also we will earn more in the CL if we finish 2nd instead of 3rd. And, it will be our highest points total under Rafa. To be honest, I will be disgusted if we don't win any of the 3 remaining games.

[James H]

This match reminds me of Spurs away in 01/02. Game 36, away to a decent London, similar distance behind the leaders and not looking like closing the gap despite being on a great run...

 

Imperative we keep up the pressure. They've got City-Wigan-Arsenal in a week, anything can happen in those games.

[Lucky Pierre]

Brownie's team should be played if everyone is fit. A few weeks ago, looking into our run ins, it was the City and arse games where Utd could slip up, and this one where we could. The prospect of going top should be the players motivation, and we need to get behind them fully. Forever blowing bubbles? You will be when we're running rings around your defence! COME ON REDS!

[Chinandeler Bong]

West Ham Away ?

Tough fixture at the best of times , Im quietly confident tho - not that quiet obviously but I do believe we can get 3 points here and put some pressure on them cunts to fuck up against Citeh . . . .

[Rex Banner]

They may be in 7th but they're one point off being 11th. Last 6: D W L D L W

So they are hardly in scintillating form they also have a goal difference of only +1.

If Gerrard and Torres are fit we will win no question about it.

[Brownie]

They may be in 7th but they're one point off being 11th. Last 6: D W L D L W

So they are hardly in scintillating form they also have a goal difference of only +1.

If Gerrard and Torres are fit we will win no question about it.

 

They're a good side to be fair and hard to beat at Upton Park. We lost there last year didn't we?

[Anubis]

Zola has done a decent but not earth shattering job at West Ham. He has them playing football, and unlike earlier in the season when they needed points and played more defensively they've opened up a bit now. In a football game, and given the intensity of our current football, I believe we will win.

[Guest Dog Chaser]

We owe West Ham for the game at Upton Park last year.

[Carra_is_legend]

We owe West Ham for the game at Upton Park last year.

 

And the one at Anfield this year.

[rondeco]

What igves me some hope is that they do like to play and attack a little bit. It's those teams that we have found it.. least difficult.. to beat lately. No 11 behind the ball shit..

[Scott_M]

Looking forward to Saturday, even though I have the longest day ever planned.

 

Getting coach down at 7.20am. Get into London at 11.30am. Coach home isn't until 11.30pm, getting in at 5.30am.

 

If we lose, I'll be pissed off after that! Saying that, I'm planning on getting so drunk I won't remember half of it anyway.

 

Agree with the team posts - same as last week except Torres for Riera if fit.

 

I'm also nervous about it.

[The Golden Eel]

We should really beat West Ham. I expect us to do so with or without Torres. The worrying thing is that when Torres has returned from injuries this year he's either looked a) still injured or b) off the pace or c) worried about getting injured.

 

There are a few positives:

 

City are playing well at the minute.

Arsenal will want revenge for their CL humiliation.

 

However, i can't help thinking that those 2 goals against Villa were the killers. Changed everything...

[Thants]

This was always going to be the tough one out of the final fixtures. We need to win the league for Sami's domestic completion so going top of the table with 2 games to go for us is a start. And all I could have hoped for at the beginning of the season too.

[sh#t waffle]

This was always going to be the tough one out of the final fixtures. We need to win the league for Sami's domestic completion so going top of the table with 2 games to go for us is a start. And all I could have hoped for at the beginning of the season too.

 

Absolutely. With each passing week, the terrible draws earlier in the season anger me less and less. Of course they're still frustrating, and of course they're all the more frustrating now that we are so close. But regardless of how we've got there, the possibility of being top (albeit temporarily) in May, with the added possibility of 86 points come the end of the season (a total that I believe would have won an awful lot of titles in the last twenty years), was one I would have gladly have taken in August. Next year, we win it all.

[INTORRESTING]

going top on sat will put some pressure on them and we have done well this year. I would have not predicted we would have been in this position if you had told me in the summer that gerrard and torres would have only started 11 games together and in most of those been unfit.

 

Sat is very tough but we play before united and there are simply no excuses, we have beaten far better teams than west ham over the years, this is all about our bottle and coping with pressure.

 

They then have 3 games in a week knowing they can be champions in 10 days time, we need some divine intervention and robinho and arshavin to do us a massive favour

[sh#t waffle]

It all depends which Liverpool side turns up. (If Brownie's using clichés then so am I).

 

I reckon the rubbish one, but we scrape a win anyway. How does that fit in?