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06 Apr 2026 07:15:07
Was at the game. I don’t know why he put Bowen on the left and Traore on the right in the first half. When they switched second half, it was much better. Wilson was fit but not even in squad. We had an opportunity to go to Wembley and he bottled it 🤷

06 Apr 2026 09:08:03
Theme of the season, bottling it. How many games and points have been thrown away this season? I honestly think we don't have the manager, tactics, players, or character to stay up. I think Wolves is a much tougher game than the banker 3 points everyone thinks it is.

I think Spurs will improve under De Zerbi, not massively, but they don't need to, as we are serial capitulators and will do them favours before the end of the season anyway.

06 Apr 2026 09:34:51
You are right, he did bottle it yesterday. It almost seemed that he was prepared to forfeit the game yesterday, which isn't acceptable. But I don't think most people think it is a 3 point banker, as Wolves are one of the form teams and have had a nice long break between games, and they have beaten us twice this season.


I personally feel, unless Disasi is injured, and we get back Mavropanos JCT back, we will win. Obviously, he has to see that we have to start with the same set up as the second half. If you can take a positive from a bad result, we're Disasi, Traore and Kane's performance and KWP wasn't bad.

06 Apr 2026 12:41:52
To be honest, I think he will bottle it again and play for the point against Wolves, especially after they pumped us last time. No leadership in the team to take the game by scruff of the neck, so we will just be passive again. If Summerville isn't back, and Kilman plays, we will lose.

06 Apr 2026 12:52:33
Philosophical question, what is more important, staying up or a semi final at Wembley? Let me be clear, I don't think there is a right or wrong answer, by the way, but I guess the owners do .....
I've been a critic of Nuno, but it was quite clear yesterday that he was under orders to give priority to the league, as why would Wilson, AWB and Hermandsen not even be on the bench? If that were his orders, he delivered the perfect result.

We lost on penalties, a lottery, performed fairly well going forward and again showed fight. More importantly, we go into Friday's game with some momentum, not off the back of 2 defeats. The guy is working for megalomaniac owners and with a paper thin squad .....

06 Apr 2026 15:46:53
Why does it have to be one or the other? Nuno has thrown away a ton of points already this season without the FA Cup as an excuse. Remember that run of games where we didn't have a striker and he still wouldn't pick Wilson? But yesterday he was now saving him? He wouldn't pick him anyway.

If he was saving anyone, Taty wouldn't have played; he picked Bowen, Fernandes and Disasi. If he was resting people, he would have rested those.

06 Apr 2026 16:37:51
Personally, I think he was right not to play Summerville yesterday. Being an ex-Leeds player, he'd have been targeted.
Wolves, Palace, Brentford, Everton are far more important. We need a minimum of 6 from those.
Kilman didn't have a bad game yesterday, although he did give away the penalty.

Pedro was brought to score and is just not good enough. Overall, it was an exciting final 45 minutes yesterday, and we got beat.
On to Wolves now... a game we must win. I accept a dreary 1~0.

06 Apr 2026 16:50:43
That very question has come up on a few other West Ham sites.
As Robbo says, we should want both. But, I would say this is one of the only years that, if you ask my preference, I would choose prem survival over the cup. Let me make it clear that, normally, it wouldn’t be the case, because I don’t want to support a tedious side whose whole reason for being is premiership survival. Football is about entertainment and occasionally winning stuff, and, as we are unlikely to win the title and rely on cups, one sad benefit of being 60 is being able to remember and celebrate 2 of our 3 cup wins.

But this shower in the boardroom has got us into such a chronic financial situation that I fear if we drop we could end up like Sheffield Wednesday or, worse still, Bury!
Leader-wise, most agree it shouldn’t be Jarrod, and there is currently nobody to galvanise us, but I would put 2 candidates forward. Fernandez or Disasi.

06 Apr 2026 16:51:12
I quite agree with you, Robbo. I don't think Nuno was under any specific orders. That's exactly how he's been all season. We could have fielded a stronger starting Xi and played a positive 4-4-2 system from the start, but no, this bottle merchant stuck, true to form. Nuno is bloody clueless. It's not in his DNA to go for it. When it all goes tits up, as usual, we're left scrabbling around trying to get back in the game.

His team selection was all wrong; his tactics were all wrong; his substitutions were questionable. Leeds weren't that great, but our manager totally f***ed up and our brave fightback in the first part of the second half and in injury time should have not been necessary. We could have won that game, but for our manager. I fear for Friday and our survival.

06 Apr 2026 18:34:30
I can't argue with much of the second paragraph, Tin, but not sure about the subs being questionable. If you are referring to Magassa and Potts being hooked, then that was absolutely the right decision, as they were both absolutely useless. One thing you can't blame a manager for is putting in performances like they produced yesterday.

06 Apr 2026 19:56:24
I was thinking more of replacing Taty and bringing on Kante and Pablo. I think the latter is useless.

06 Apr 2026 20:40:35
Fair enough. 👍

05 Apr 2026 19:43:57
Couldn’t make it up. After 2-2, Pablo to take a penalty, must be joking. Bowen missing. It was not to be, despite the great comeback.

Now just concentrate on getting out of trouble Joyfull.

05 Apr 2026 20:24:12
Pablo will never score. He had a 'chance' in extra time, but got easily shoved off the ball. He doesn't want to score enough, and then took a two pace run-up. He works really hard, but his job is goals. Taty missed an easy header, but scored 2 outstanding goals which were disallowed. We need a 6 yard goal scorer.

05 Apr 2026 20:40:24
Too much to take on board there. Absolutely gutted. Horrendous player choices, and sadly Calamity Killman strikes again. He hadn't played that badly, but that tackle for their pen was ridiculous. And we were well on top then. I cannot see him wearing a West Ham shirt again. A lot of fans around me booing him, which I don't agree with, but it would be for the best for all concerned if he never plays again. At least they got back into it, and showed some fight. They will need that on Friday, and if they play 4.4.2 I still think they will beat Wolves.

Magassa and Potts, who I and a number of others on here had praised widely earlier in the season, have let us down with some disgraceful performances, think Wolves away and today.
The manager has to take the blame today for his team selection, but yet again the overall issue is the disgraceful board leaving the squad so threadbare that we can't cope with having 3 players injured if they actually were.

05 Apr 2026 20:42:00
Totally different games the first and second half.

What worries me is that we've now played Leeds twice and they've looked the better, more organised team, and we have them last game at home.

Dust ourselves off, brush ourselves down, and hope Nuno picks his best 11 on Friday for a season defining game v Wolves.



We've got to be on the front foot and go at them, and if we can win, put the pressure on spuds. This is West Ham however, and we never know what to expect.

06 Apr 2026 05:00:14
You're joking, right. On both occasions Nuno could not have picked a worse side. And, when he corrected it, we've played them off the park both times. We were ridiculously unlucky yesterday: 2 disallowed goals and we also hit the woodwork 3 times.

06 Apr 2026 09:48:56
Sometimes, it's not meant to be, no matter what you do. And that was the case yesterday.
Kiliman is a liability. How WH get rid of him, I don't know. Potts and Magassa, enough has been said.
The squad is very poor, and when five players are missing like yesterday, it just cannot be put right, no matter what formations are played.

05 Apr 2026 16:58:42
Potts not involved whatsoever. Need Soucek on.

05 Apr 2026 17:23:50
That bad, am thinking of going home now. Absolute rubbish.

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22 Mar 2026 16:14:36
Never turned up today.

23 Mar 2026 18:11:47
It happens too often. No consistency. Just look what happened at Wolves, and, if anything, it's the lack of consistency that will send us down.

A good opportunity to pick up points at Villa squandered.

On the plus side, if Spurs continue to play like that, I can't see how they will get any further points this season.

24 Mar 2026 00:35:36
Tbh had the Villa game down as a loss. We need 10 points from the next 4, ideally. Wolves, Palace, Everton, and Brentford. All beatable. Arsenal hopefully have won the league before we play them, and still be in the Champions League, so they may rest players against us.
Still all to play for.

24 Mar 2026 09:07:53
I think Sunday's game is best forgotten. That's not to say that it wasn't a worrying performance. As long as it is not backed up against Wolves, who are a team we have already lost twice to, and were in dire form. But I think we should win that one, and hopefully quite well.


I love your optimism, Chris, but I can't see us getting 10 points out of those 4. I would be very happy to be wrong, but I would think 6, 7 or 8. I think 39 points would mean safety.

24 Mar 2026 09:54:07
Sadly, it's not just our results. We are relying on Spurs and Forest doing badly. Spurs are the ones who could save us because they are in freefall, and we can only hope it continues, but all we can do is approach every game now as a cup final and do our best to win.

24 Mar 2026 13:10:36
If we get relegated it will be because of what has already happened, going into a season with a completely poor, disjointed squad, Nuno's baffling team selections early on, and then bottling it in games we could have won.



As Tin says, we are now relying on other teams losing. I like everyone's confidence for the Wolves game, but they are 2 from 2 against us this year and will have a real go at it. I can see us only getting a point if that.