West Ham 2 - 1 Aston Villa Post Match

[Chico Hamilton III]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

[bilsim]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

[Chico Hamilton III]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

Thanks. Although these weren’t empty blocks but random empty seats around the ground.

[exigo]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

Thanks. Although these weren’t empty blocks but random empty seats around the ground.

That's how they've decided to do it, to stay within the capacity rules. Rather than have masses of empty space.
Got told by a West Ham fan that they're planning to bring the lower side stands in for next season as well. The gap between lower and upper tiers will be a bus ride apart – it was bad enough behind the goal.

[astonvilla82]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

Steven Gerrard is a mid table manager? Bloody hell give him a chance. We have no idea yet what he is capable of. Nobody does. All we can do is get behind him and hope for the best. He could turn out to be the next Alex Ferguson or he could turn out to be the next David "honest bunch of lads" O'leary. Let's give him the chance to show us what he's capable of. I see something in him that I like and I'm convinced that he knows what to do to push us up the league to where we all want to be.

my thoughts exactly

[supertom]

I think the big differences yesterday was that West Ham have figured exactly what they are. Moyes has been there a while now and really got them playing well. Gerrard's been here since November and we've figured things up to a point but perhaps not quite how to grind a result against a side above us.

I also think this has to be a reality check. I know we were three wins on the spin. But did fans really expect a god given right to get a result? Both sides played pretty well, but the reality is, West Ham are a top 6 side at home. We're mid-table playing away, and we looked leggy from Thursday. There were probably two players who were gonna make a difference in the game. Rice and Coutinho. Rice had the better of it.

We had chances. They did. A draw would have had no complaints. For me, Rice embodies the level of player in that 6 position that we're going to need to buy in the summer. For one, it's a key position in the way Gerrard sets up. Douglas had been doing well recently, but he run out of puff today, and coming up against a side a cut above what we've played in the last 3 games, showed that you can't fill a gap in this division if you're aspirations are top 6. So as Gerrard said, it's an indicator in some aspects of where we want to be and what we have to do.

On another note. We saw an issue harking back to O Neill's days. A lack of rotation. You go on a run, good results. A first 11 that looks very good but in a short space of time has probably packed in too much. I understand why Gerrard would have been reluctant to rest players, we could have benefited from a bit of rotation to freshen things up. He's been trumpeting the notion at times that we will need to, but as yet, Gerrard has been reluctant. Our pressing wasn't quite where it could have been, and perhaps our speed on the counter. We did play okay but I don't think we have 5th gear, which might have given us a little more threat.

In terms of their goals. The second was poor. The first, as great a moment for football as it was, was more well taken than anything. The way Yarmalenko took it so quickly didn't give the defense the opportunity to get in position to block effectively.

[eamonn]

Our bench option now are ten times better than the crock of shit O'Neill had to call upon (no offence to Marlon, Zat, Nicky Shorey or the Scottish Buendia, Seán Maloney).

[john e]

Our bench option now are ten times better than the crock of shit O'Neill had to call upon (no offence to Marlon, Zat, Nicky Shorey or the Scottish Buendia, Seán Maloney).

Strongest bench we’ve had for well over 20 years

[LukeJames]

I was kind of relaxed after the game to be fair. But just seeing that 2nd goal back has done my head in. We need to be smarter in play, utter shite from Bailey to kick start it off, then SJM must take a cheap yellow card to stop Rice. Fornals has ran 40 yards with nobody tracking him and Martinez saves that if Mings hasnt positioned himself directly infront of him. I hope Gerrard has got them sitting and watching re-runs of that.

[Brazilian Villain]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

A friend of mine bought an apartment in Stratford to use as a base when he's on business in London. He has 2 season tickets at West Ham despite being a rugby fan from Brtisol and only getting to 4 or 5 games year. I'd imagine he's not the only one which explains some of the empty seats.

[Mister E]

I was kind of relaxed after the game to be fair. But just seeing that 2nd goal back has done my head in. We need to be smarter in play, utter shite from Bailey to kick start it off, then SJM must take a cheap yellow card to stop Rice. Fornals has ran 40 yards with nobody tracking him and Martinez saves that if Mings hasnt positioned himself directly infront of him. I hope Gerrard has got them sitting and watching re-runs of that.

the 2nd goal wasn't great, but the first was very avoidable too. Mings lost Yarmalenko badly.

[eamonn]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

A friend of mine bought an apartment in Stratford to use as a base when he's on business in London. He has 2 season tickets at West Ham despite being a rugby fan from Brtisol and only getting to 4 or 5 games year. I'd imagine he's not the only one which explains some of the empty seats.

Money to burn by the sounds of it! Hope he looks after his friends, they helped him get where he is after all, rite?

[Pat McMahon]

https://www.hammers.news/news/what-bbc-commentator-jonathan-pearce-spotted-aston-villa-fans-do-at-west-ham-is-just-sheer-class/?

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well done to everyone who did this.
Class.

Agreed, classy gesture. Well done all!

I was there but I genuinely didn’t notice or hear  this. I think I was trying to work out how the goal had happened as it seemed like a shot in slow motion. Wasn’t sure who had scored until the announcement

[Pat McMahon]

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

A friend of mine bought an apartment in Stratford to use as a base when he's on business in London. He has 2 season tickets at West Ham despite being a rugby fan from Brtisol and only getting to 4 or 5 games year. I'd imagine he's not the only one which explains some of the empty seats.

What’s the capacity at West Ham? Official attendance yesterday was a handful short of 60k but there were a fair few empty seats around the place.

There's 66k but the club are only allowed to sell 60k tickets, so there is always empty seats.

A friend of mine bought an apartment in Stratford to use as a base when he's on business in London. He has 2 season tickets at West Ham despite being a rugby fan from Brtisol and only getting to 4 or 5 games year. I'd imagine he's not the only one which explains some of the empty seats.

Seat prices may explain it. A bloke I know pays £250 for his season ticket and £99 for his son - good value. You could pick 6-7 games a season and still pay £35 a ticket.

[Brazilian Villain]

A friend of mine bought an apartment in Stratford to use as a base when he's on business in London. He has 2 season tickets at West Ham despite being a rugby fan from Bristol and only getting to 4 or 5 games year. I'd imagine he's not the only one which explains some of the empty seats.

Seat prices may explain it. A bloke I know pays £250 for his season ticket and £99 for his son - good value. You could pick 6-7 games a season and still pay £35 a ticket.

He's not short of a few bob as he's set up and sold a couple of successful insurance brokerages but that's definitely a reason. He got a season ticket when they moved there and then 3 years ago they emailed him an offer on getting a second one. Can't recall how much it was but it seemed pretty cheap at the time.