Aston Villa 1-4 West Ham Post match debacle.

[olaftab]

This is terribly similar to 2015/16 season. Not good I think we are in trouble.

[Allan C]

Utter garbage...

Nakamba 7/10

I know we all see games differently but I thought he was the worst player on the pitch by a long way.

Utter nonsense, he was easily our best player.

No chance 4/10 at the very best. AEG no better then 3/10. I’m not sure any of them were worth more than 5/10.

[RichardBatchelor]

When is the last time West Ham had such an emphatic result at VP?

More to the point is when has a team that’s always been a mid to lower echelon team like West Ham beaten Villa 4-1 at home. I’m struggling to recall.

But now they’re a top six team and a very good one (even if Bowen is a bit of a t***, to put it mildly).

[olaftab]

When is the last time West Ham had such an emphatic result at VP?

Never is the answer.

[RichardBatchelor]

No cohesion, no tactics, no urgency. Smith is hopelessly out of his depth. Stealing a living.

Zzzz. Glad you’re not my boss.

[malckennedy]

The worst bit was the foul on Nakamba and the game was brought back when we were in an excellent threatening position and just get a free kick in our own half and they got 2 yellows when it should have been a minimum of 1 red to a player who subsequently scored their third! At that point our 10 were comfortably the better team and unlucky not to be level when we hit the bar, that’s the fucking disgrace - but it won’t be described like that. Cockney kit stealing, ground embezzling twats!

[Jon Crofts]

When is the last time West Ham had such an emphatic result at VP?

More to the point is when has a team that’s always been a mid to lower echelon team like West Ham beaten Villa 4-1 at home. I’m struggling to recall.

But now they’re a top six team and a very good one (even if Bowen is a bit of a t***, to put it mildly).

They won’t finish there and we made them look decent.

[Rigadon]

Everything went wrong.  We looked every inch the relegation threatened team that we currently are.  Something has to change. 

[TonyD]

West Ham didn’t even have to get out of 2nd gear.
Truly embarrassing.
I will be mightily pissed off if he is still in charge at Southampton.
He has to go. 

[LukeJames]

Utter garbage...

Nakamba 7/10

I know we all see games differently but I thought he was the worst player on the pitch by a long way.

Utter nonsense, he was easily our best player.

Funny post.

[KevinGage]

Ref MOTM for the 'ammers.

After extra time midweek, they were starting to look jaded even though we were down to 10.  But playing advantage when on the attack is verboten now, according to that lemon.  And it's perfectly OK to throw opposing players to the ground. Absolute shit cxnt.

If Smith ultimately gets the bullet it would be nice to think Kavanagh does as well.

[edgysatsuma89]

Utter garbage...

Nakamba 7/10

I know we all see games differently but I thought he was the worst player on the pitch by a long way.

Utter nonsense, he was easily our best player.

Funny post.

How anyone gets above 5 is beyond me.

[brontebilly]

It's over for Deano I'm afraid. There is still a very good group of players there but they badly need a new direction. Targett and Hause both should have been sent off for me, WWF style tackles. Discipline has gone.

[Drummond]

Well whatever could go wrong, did.

Bailey didn't look great. Buendia's assist was good.

Not much else to add.

[pauliewalnuts]

West Ham are a good side, but right from the first kick, we made it so, so easy for them.

We spent the entire summer stressing the need for a CDM, but didn't get one.

Watching that today, us with the enthusiastic but not good enough Nakamba in that role, and them with two absolute top class players in that role, that was horrible.

Then to make things worse, Ramsey goes off and is replaced by Ashley Fucking Young playing centrally? What on earth was the thinking there?

He then compounds the mistake when Konsa gets sent off by not hooking Young, but taking Buendia off.

That is Smith in a nutshell there. Terrible game management - so bad, that his actual coaching standard would need to be excellent to make up for it, but it clearly is not, as we frequently do not look like we know what we are doing.

I get the OGS comparisons - Smith does the same. Strings together a run of awful results, then picks up a highly unlikely win which buys him more time that he doesn't really deserve/ I just don't see any way he is going to get out of that cycle.

He's got a squad with plenty of really excellent players, but he constantly makes them look less than the sum of the parts. I also thought there were some real signs today that the players don't believe in him (same at Arsenal).

Over a quarter of the season gone and we're 15th and on the back of four straight, utterly limp defeats, three of which featured truly disgraceful performances.

How many of us would have settled for that in August? None of us. Nice bloke, and he's no doubt got enough excuses for today, but we are just pissing another season down the drain the longer we persist with this.