West Ham away (PL) Match Reaction Thread

[Letters]

In brief there are some positive and some negative aspects of the result, the mood is so sour right now though that everyone obsesses about the latter, any mention of anything else is met with howls of derision. Meh.

QED, PnG, QED...

[Letters]

Fucking frog cunt needs to die.

You lose points for omitting the word 'slowly' at the end.

[Power n Glory]

I don't know about lucky but regardless of what happened on the opening day West Ham have been very solid at home this season. They lost 2 early games to Leicester and (bizarrely) Bournemouth and they haven't lost in the league since.
Going 2-0 up and then drawing is bad but on the other hand after collapsing to 3-2 we did at least get a point. Overall a draw there isn't a bad result.

In brief there are some positive and some negative aspects of the result, the mood is so sour right now though that everyone obsesses about the latter, any mention of anything else is met with howls of derision. Meh.

West Ham have done well. Bilic is having a good season. He's been taken names so Wenger has a point. But we threw away a two goal lead and all goals we conceded are problems, he himself admits, have been there all season. We should have come away with 3 points.

[Letters]

West Ham have done well. Bilic is having a good season. He's been taken names so Wenger has a point. But we threw away a two goal lead and all goals we conceded are problems, he himself admits, have been there all season. We should have come away with 3 points.

See? That's a nice balanced view. It's not that hard

[Marc Overmars]

This team lost the right to claim brownie points for resilience months ago. It's meaningless.

[Power n Glory]

See? That's a nice balanced view. It's not that hard

I have no problem giving credit to West Ham and Bilic. They prepared well against a bigger team and it's what they have been doing all season. Why weren't we prepared for them is a more important question.

[Niall_Quinn]

This team lost the right to claim brownie points for resilience months ago. It's meaningless.

I think you need to view results in isolation. If you pretend we haven't collapsed catastrophically and we really needed three points to keep our slim, slim title chances alive (remember the win every game message Wenger was talking about), just forget all that and a draw is a decent result.

But then there's the old problem of blowing leads. So what we need to do is take each half in isolation. If we ignore the first half I think we showed great resilience in coming from a goal behind to get the draw. A point there is a pretty good result. Ignoring the Leicester and spud results, every point is precious at this stage of the season.

So all in all plenty of positives to take from the game.

[Kano]

This team lost the right to claim brownie points for resilience months ago. It's meaningless.

Exactly. From a man who stated we were still in the title race, that we need to win every game and to watch his team blow a 2-0 lead against a good team at a difficult ground was just a joke. No change in plan, even at half-time. You overcome those obstacles and then screw up the remainder of the course. Coming back to get a point was the bare minimum expected in that game. You don't get a pat on the back for salvaging something you've absolutely fucked up by your own ineptitude.

[Letters]

So all in all plenty of positives to take from the game.

Well, no. But why are your building straw men again? Who said there are plenty of positives?

We haven't blown leads that often this season really by the way.

[Globalgunner]

Well, no. But why are your building straw men again? Who said there are plenty of positives?

We haven't blown leads that often this season really by the way.

Every draw to a good team is a good result. The same good result against Pool with minutes to go. You keep dropping 2 ppoints in games and wonder why Leicester are 10 points ahead of us. Lets pray we dont keep accumulating heroic draws between now and the end of the season. On the other hand we could claim we went on an unbeaten run, so there.