Quote from: SoccerHQ on March 14, 2022, 12:05:04 AMNot sure if Sendo has answered this but seems at least the fans seem closer to the pitch since you moved although could be just a change in camera angle?Yeah it's basically like us going and playing near the NEC. Could build a 60k stadium there with all the transport connections in the world but it just wouldn't feel right.If West Ham are in bottom half of table in future then the protests will start up again. Think there was a story thar GSB were planning to sell up soon especially as the Czech guy took out a decent stake a few months ago.Yeah the bits behind the goal have been re-positioned so that they're closer to the pitch.GSB have to remain owners until ten years after the original deal, or else they have to pay up a fair percentage of the sale price to LLDC who sold the ground, which obviously they wont do. Rumour is that Kretinsky has invested into the club on the agreement that he gets to buy Sullivan out next year once that clause expires.
Not sure if Sendo has answered this but seems at least the fans seem closer to the pitch since you moved although could be just a change in camera angle?Yeah it's basically like us going and playing near the NEC. Could build a 60k stadium there with all the transport connections in the world but it just wouldn't feel right.If West Ham are in bottom half of table in future then the protests will start up again. Think there was a story thar GSB were planning to sell up soon especially as the Czech guy took out a decent stake a few months ago.
The difference between the two teams today was the midfields. Soucek and Rice really are excellent and make all the rest of their players look better.
That windbag Jonathan Pearce on MOTD2 trotted out the stat about the recent three wins in a row being our best run since MON in 2009. Were our four consecutive league wins at the start of last season discounted cos there were no crowds to witness it?
Is it really the case that our players were rolling on the floor/time wasting/cheating from the off? It's all I'm seeing in comments from West Ham fans on twitter.I can't say I really noticed due to the drabness of our general play, which in turn led to me losing focus on the game itself.We were far too passive, and subs were far too delayed.
Quote from: Axl Rose on March 14, 2022, 05:13:29 AMIs it really the case that our players were rolling on the floor/time wasting/cheating from the off? It's all I'm seeing in comments from West Ham fans on twitter.I can't say I really noticed due to the drabness of our general play, which in turn led to me losing focus on the game itself.We were far too passive, and subs were far too delayed.I agree with the West Ham fans on this, sorry to say. Some of the injuries - thinking Doug’s and Cash’s - were clearly genuine but others were exaggerated.
Quote from: sendô WHU on March 13, 2022, 10:13:41 PMQuote from: brontebilly on March 13, 2022, 09:54:52 PMHow good were Rice and Soucek really? Rice did brilliantly for the second goal but that aside I thought both teams were poor. How many times did WHU pass the ball out of play under little pressure? What I thought Rice did really well throughout was sit in front of both centre backs. So whenever we went direct to Watkins, which was far too much, Watkins risible first touch meant Rice picked up some amount of handy ball. I thought Cresswell was very good until injury. Yarmolenko made a huge impact, that aside it was dreadful fare. That guy Johnson at left back was pub league standard. Well they controlled the tempo and the Villa midfielders didn't stop them. Both are excellent at running around a lot and closing down play, covering the angles for passes and winning battles. To be honest quite often when we have games where these two dominate you can look at it and think "yeah, but they didn't do much, the other team made it easy" but the reality is when they're not doing these things or one of them is missing, we really notice the difference. That seems to be one of the things Villa have lacked in midfield for a while, that energy and aggression that can win you the key battles in attritional games when other players perhaps aren't at their best.Soucek has been off the boil for a while now with his game, but of late he's looked a lot better and closer to the player that was banging the goals in last season. Rice is excellent at what he does but for me he needs to find a way to score and assist more goals. Otherwise he's liable to be forever labelled as a "defensive midfielder".Re Ben Johnson, he's still a young RB and has been in and out of the team with some good games and some not so good. Against Seville midweek he was excellent. Probably his best game for us so far in his career. Today he was poor and nothing seemed to come off for him. Such is football I guess.The best you've been in 40 years, it's approaching the weekend, you're excited. Champions League an outside possibility, European football should be secured at some level. You're at home. Then you realise you have to walk through a wanky shopping centre, queue like a twat for an age with a load of tourists before you can get close to the external perimeter, go into some bland tarmac floored concourse, walk a couple hundred yards into shallow temporary (white?!) seating and still be miles from the pitch and sit or stand in an atmosphere reminiscent of the moon. Watch the spectacle, totally divorced from it, no matter how much you shout or sing. Then trudge back, hereded here and there by some Squid Games Go/Stop game wankers. You should be lynching the dildo squad for the cultural destruction of your club. West Ham fans must dream of away games. I've been to some shit holes over here. The mens at Ninian being an empty room with a gulley to have a leak in. Piss quite literally flooding out the old Railway End at the Sty. I drove past Kenilworth Road today and that is proper shite. Still ranks higher than that excuse of a football today, as do all the others. Honest to Christ, its the worst ground I've ever been in.
Quote from: brontebilly on March 13, 2022, 09:54:52 PMHow good were Rice and Soucek really? Rice did brilliantly for the second goal but that aside I thought both teams were poor. How many times did WHU pass the ball out of play under little pressure? What I thought Rice did really well throughout was sit in front of both centre backs. So whenever we went direct to Watkins, which was far too much, Watkins risible first touch meant Rice picked up some amount of handy ball. I thought Cresswell was very good until injury. Yarmolenko made a huge impact, that aside it was dreadful fare. That guy Johnson at left back was pub league standard. Well they controlled the tempo and the Villa midfielders didn't stop them. Both are excellent at running around a lot and closing down play, covering the angles for passes and winning battles. To be honest quite often when we have games where these two dominate you can look at it and think "yeah, but they didn't do much, the other team made it easy" but the reality is when they're not doing these things or one of them is missing, we really notice the difference. That seems to be one of the things Villa have lacked in midfield for a while, that energy and aggression that can win you the key battles in attritional games when other players perhaps aren't at their best.Soucek has been off the boil for a while now with his game, but of late he's looked a lot better and closer to the player that was banging the goals in last season. Rice is excellent at what he does but for me he needs to find a way to score and assist more goals. Otherwise he's liable to be forever labelled as a "defensive midfielder".Re Ben Johnson, he's still a young RB and has been in and out of the team with some good games and some not so good. Against Seville midweek he was excellent. Probably his best game for us so far in his career. Today he was poor and nothing seemed to come off for him. Such is football I guess.
How good were Rice and Soucek really? Rice did brilliantly for the second goal but that aside I thought both teams were poor. How many times did WHU pass the ball out of play under little pressure? What I thought Rice did really well throughout was sit in front of both centre backs. So whenever we went direct to Watkins, which was far too much, Watkins risible first touch meant Rice picked up some amount of handy ball. I thought Cresswell was very good until injury. Yarmolenko made a huge impact, that aside it was dreadful fare. That guy Johnson at left back was pub league standard.
Quote from: RichardBatchelor on March 14, 2022, 07:27:27 AMQuote from: Axl Rose on March 14, 2022, 05:13:29 AMIs it really the case that our players were rolling on the floor/time wasting/cheating from the off? It's all I'm seeing in comments from West Ham fans on twitter.I can't say I really noticed due to the drabness of our general play, which in turn led to me losing focus on the game itself.We were far too passive, and subs were far too delayed.I agree with the West Ham fans on this, sorry to say. Some of the injuries - thinking Doug’s and Cash’s - were clearly genuine but others were exaggerated. I must admit it tickles me ever so slightly when people sat around me at VP moan about the opposition time wasting. Have they not watched us playing away lately?
Replace Luiz with Soucek and we're top 6
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