WHUFC vs Crystal Palace (rystalnacht)

judas priest, this is a horrible game.

who'd have thought we'd be looking at this game as a potential tonking...

People hated Stoke as mch as they hate BFSA... but look at what Pulis has done to Palace...

We really do need those extra three points to make us safe and it's looking like we'll be lucky to hang onto 14th or 15th rather than challenging for 10th like we could/should have been.

We'll be lucky to get anything out of this game considering how we pissed it all up the wall against Arsenal on tuesday.


Remember to lay a flag for Dylan if you're going.

I must admit for a long time I saw this game as a good opportunity for 3 much needed points. Considering just how shite palace were at the beginning I'd like to see 3 points here and a job well done.


Too much to ask?

way too much to ask unfortunately... even when they were totally shit they still beat us 0-1 earlier this season.

now they're on a roll it's almost too frightening to contemplate unless we seriously up our game

Be interesting to see what the crowds like today. I'd like to think for 90 mins it can be a really good atmosphere as it does help the team when UP is buzzing behind the team.

I'm going today and want to see us pick up 3 most needed points.

Problem is Palace are playing well, doing very well in midfield where we have a major problem.

I fear we could lose today and finish up just above the bottom 3 at the end of season.

We don't really deserve better with our squad.

I'm a South West London boy and one of my best pals part owns Crystal Palace and I've been to plenty of games at Selhurst park over the years, they are a proper community club with cracking fans and I just wanna say hats of to Tony Pulis and all at Palace for an incredible second half of the season and securing their premiership status, saying that I hope we beat the feck out of them today !!!
WHTID !!!
COYI's

Our fixture at Selhurst Park, was Pulis' first home game as manager.  Hopefully BFS has done his homework on the new revived Crystal Palace side.


The team are mourning the death of one of their own and need more than ever our support.  I hope they get that today in bucket loads and that as a club together, we can win this one for Dylan.


COYI

piss poor display from us...

in the first half we were bossing the possession stats 69-31

but unsurprisingly we had the same number of shots on target as Palace did - so the writing was on the wall at half time

of course... we then did what we've done in too many games this season... we completely forgot to come out for the 2nd half.

i've no idea why... there's no good reason for it...

Then we give away a ridiculous penalty when there was absolutely no danger to us at all. A single Palace player on his own on the edge of the penalty area, heading back towards his own end because he didn't even have anyone to pass to.. so Armero kicks his standing leg away as he enters the box... penalty... game over.

we could have played all day and we'd never have scored.

Palace have now won five on the spin for the first time in who knows how long... they've done the double over us this season... and they've won at Upton Park for the first time in god knows how many years.

Complete shower of shite today from all concerned.

oh and to add to our glorious stats... we've not lost 6 out of 8

Good first half shit second half , nuff said

Well that is a result I am deeply unhappy about, and I'm not in the best of moods. And as a west ham fan I rarely let a west ham result piss me off or ruin my weekend but this result is in danger of that.


I am also withdrawing my unwavering support of Big Sam and moving firmly into the unimpressed with the state of the union camp. I would not, now, feel that sad if he was sacked. Thanks for a lot big Sam, but your time seems to be running out

same as the game against Arsenal... 6 points pissed up the wall

Only Hull City has been a worse home performance than that load of hoofball rubbish served up today - and that is only because Hull only had 10 men for most of the game

Palace are a team of Championship players with a journeyman striker who has scored 2 goals since he joined Palace last year. What they do have is pace, a good work ethic, organisation and a manager who gets the best out of them

We have a squad of highly paid primadonnas who cannot string two passes together and lumber around the pitch looking mostly disinterested. Whose fault is that?

Answers on a postcard

"You don't know what you're doing", sung to SAM when he made his first substitute.

Supported West Ham for 50 years and have never heard that before.

Gutless performance by us.

If others below us catch us and we end up in the bottom 3 then we can't complain with the manager and squad we have.
Can't see us getting another point this season and expect us to end up just above bottom 3.
We really are crap.

what was the atmosphere like generally yesterday then?

alfiehammer wrote:what was the atmosphere like generally yesterday then?

Much the same as it's been all year.
Nothing to get excited about.
Looked like Palace wanted it more then our lot.
Nothing to cheer, we just sat there hoping for a bit of luck.
SAM just does what SAM wants to do with substitution and usually cocks it up.
After that most were fed up. Very quite on the way out along Green Street.

Charlie Ham wrote:

alfiehammer wrote:what was the atmosphere like generally yesterday then?

Much the same as it's been all year.
Nothing to get excited about.
Looked like Palace wanted it more then our lot.
Nothing to cheer, we just sat there hoping for a bit of luck.
SAM just does what SAM wants to do with substitution and usually cocks it up.
After that most were fed up. Very quite on the way out along Green Street.

apart from impressively blinding loyalty, it does make you ender why people do it. I've only managed 1 game this season.

managed Palarse away this year and that was enough for me despite being offered cheap tickets

saw us beat cardiff at home, good day that was, nice and sunny, sat with sue and sire, lots of people in the sups everything was rosy and looking good apart from no Carroll for a few months (ahem).

all seemed to go tits up after that

Been away over Easter, didn't see the game, read the posts on here and reviews in the papers, you all know my feelings about the dinosaur who manages us and the end of  the  season can't come quick enough and I just hope and pray that the owners and board realise that we are not moving forward under Fat Sham, are not attractive to new fans or quality players and need a change of direction under a new manager with a new vision and mission and with a fair few new players which is going to mean splashing the porno cash which "as fans" the Dave's must know and see needs to happen.
WHTID
Irons In The Soul
Ps How about Moyes ?

My faceBook post from Saturday...  I have calmed down now but I still feel the same.

Right, that's it. I've had enough.

I appreciate and respect all Sam has done for us, but for me the time has come. He is a clueless tactician unless we keep a clean sheet or go 1-0 up. When we go behind or it's 0-0, he can't solve the problems. Substitutions all season have been baffling, game-plan has been baffling and he got the selection all wrong today, IMO.

Start planning for next season and looking for a replacement.

I wouldn't be adverse to moyes. Very good manager at the right club.

I think Moyes will retire on his big pay-off, besides we can't have another 'Dave' on board, there are enough of us already ......  

alfiehammer wrote:I wouldn't be adverse to moyes. Very good manager at the right club.

Or if you look at it another way he kept Everton as a mid-table team and now look at them under Roberto Martínez

"West Ham fans would surely take him"
Barney Ronay in today's Observer