West Ham Banter 2

12 Sep 2026 07:39:02
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11 Sep 2026 23:15:21
As good as it gets.

11 Sep 2026 23:57:05
Not bad, not bad. Mavropanos worries me as he is so careless but 6-0 and it could easily have been 9-0, cant grumble

The gulf in class is clear and if we dont win this league something is wrong.

12 Sep 2026 08:05:39
For me there has been a gell set. Between the players, the inter passing was as good as it gets, we could have got a few more

40 games to go no complacency please,every game won't be like that one, but the players know what they can do now.

12 Sep 2026 09:22:02
My mate is a QPR fan. He thinks this season could be the one he sees the Hoops get back to the top tier. This morning he said that West Ham is the team everyone has to beat and if we don't get promoted, we need shooting. After that master class last night, I find it difficult to fault his observation.

Today's fixture between West Brom and QPR should give us a clear indication of the standard of two of our main rivals. Fulham in the Carabao cup up next, and they aren't having a great start to their season. Then it's Millwall.

12 Sep 2026 13:40:12
Mac3, phew bit scathing on Mav, bloody hell he'd be in my team every time, look at the goals he scores, Scarles worries me more than Mav with his reckless tackles near the area, what defenders or players don't make mistakes, the game can be won or lost on mistakes thats the game! I certainly know I made mistakes in my working life like everybody has! ⚒⚒⚒⚒.

11 Sep 2026 22:34:23
I'd Just like to say Wrexham taught us a lesson as promised lmfao. if anybody has a twitter account please let Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney know they are out of their depth.

Let's play them every week please.

11 Sep 2026 22:04:29
Last week I said Kante wasn't a forward! What a finish great reverse pass from soloman who deserved mom.

The team more relaxed Now, mavropanis on the line clearance was the moment, it went our way

Outstanding display all round.

11 Sep 2026 22:01:06
The perfect performance that one ! COYI ! 😁😁.

11 Sep 2026 22:08:06
Really enjoyable performance that, easy on the eye some great goals and never looked like losing thoroughly enjoyable.

11 Sep 2026 22:49:16
Superb performance from an attacking side. Had s bit of everything. Mavropanos was simply majestic and Bowen back to his old self. That sets the benchmark. Congrats all round!

11 Sep 2026 23:29:40
Of all the games I had to miss physically at the game and on telly it had to be this one! What a result. Well done lads.

12 Sep 2026 11:42:59
Hammer D can you miss a few more?

12 Sep 2026 17:43:51
Don't worry Corby even tho I'm a ST holder I'm not the most partisan fan. So should be able to help the team with my non attendance 😂.

11 Sep 2026 20:54:18
Well, that was an enjoyable first half.

11 Sep 2026 21:56:09
Even better second half.

11 Sep 2026 21:59:31
Not bad second either.

12 Sep 2026 08:01:30
WOW🎉🎉Super duper performance & win, never heard of our new signings but gelling in brilliant, outstanding goal from Kanye!
There's wins & super wins, that was simply a thrashing🎉👍COYI ⚒⚒⚒⚒.

11 Sep 2026 18:29:39
God I hope stavely comes back in with a bid to that little dwarf perv, higher than the value so we can get shut if him and get some investment in the project.

11 Sep 2026 15:39:31
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11 Sep 2026 14:17:29
My team for tonight:

Hermansen

Veltman
Mavro
Kilman
Boiro

Orford
Engels
Mukasa

Bowen
Piroe
Soloman.

11 Sep 2026 16:01:22
I like that, but I bet Taty starts. Possibly Kante and scarles.

11 Sep 2026 16:18:38
I think it's a decent side but i reckon he persists with Pablo. On form your team should be the team._.

11 Sep 2026 14:11:41
Apparently Wrexham are going to give us a proper introduction to life in the Championship tonight !!! Should be interesting and i hope our lot are up for it ?

09 Sep 2026 22:19:42
Well WBA are now in top spot! Doesn’t matter, stats in recent years prove 1.9 points a game gets you promoted, or should do, we are on course, good enough

Have too see how things evolve, very early days.

10 Sep 2026 15:35:57
Long, long way to go, yet joyful. Marathon, not a sprint. I think, as the season goes on, we will get stronger.

10 Sep 2026 19:03:54
I'm a tad happier than I was after the first 3 games.

09 Sep 2026 12:54:23
I hear a lot of talk about Hermansen's height and how he is too small? He is 6ft 2. Raya for Arsenal is 6ft and is one of the best keepers in the world. I don't think Hermansen is the issue.

I solely blame Kilman. He is not good enough. Mavro is only good when a more technical person is next to him, or a leader. Defence will be our undoing.

09 Sep 2026 14:59:12
Defence is the problem. Hermansen just looks small. He's a decent keeper, I just prefer bigger keepers.

09 Sep 2026 16:10:30
Should've got Nick Pope lol. 😆 Agreed, over Kilman.

09 Sep 2026 17:54:56
Maybe it's not his height. He is rather cruelly called by some supporters the T Rex keeper. As some think, he has short arms! The defence doesn't help, but nobody should be able to be lobbed whilst about 2 feet away from his goal line.

09 Sep 2026 18:35:56
Nuno has cast out Areola, a poor idea.

09 Sep 2026 21:03:37
Areola is 6ft 5ins, but looks like he towers over Hermansen.

10 Sep 2026 09:33:51
Cast out because of comments made by his wife? I think Areola is a much better keeper than the Dane. Strange decision.

10 Sep 2026 12:35:28
I hadn't heard that. If true, another reason we should get shot of Nuno.

10 Sep 2026 16:37:44
Yep, Norwegian is correct. If I'm correct, she slagged off Nuno for dropping him in favour of Mads. The moral of the story is, don't slag him off, call him baldy, or date his daughter, and you should be fine.

11 Sep 2026 05:59:10
Surely, by the nature of what you've just recalled, Nuno dropped Areola before his wife slagged Nuno off then?

11 Sep 2026 10:02:34
I thought that's what I said? Phraseology not my strong point.

11 Sep 2026 14:23:58
Talking of Keepers, Did anyone ever see Ernie Gregory or " Big Ern” in goal for us, I saw him numerous times as a kid at the Boleyn, in very early ‘50's, opposition didn't mess about with Big Ern & no protection for Keepers in those days!
Fantastic servant, stayed with us for 51 years as Keeper & Coach, wow! Passed away aged 90 in 2012! ⚒⚒⚒.

11 Sep 2026 16:22:22
Bit before my time Chems. My earliest keeper memories are Bobby Ferguson followed by Merve the swerve! 😀.

12 Sep 2026 05:39:49
My first goalie was the great Jim Standen He was also a first class cricketer who won the County Championship with Worcestershire in 1964. A medium pace bowler, he stood at 6ft and is 91 years old at time of writing.

09 Sep 2026 09:35:14
Looking back, what did we learn from last night?

We stuck it out, made the game very difficult for ourselves, managed to turn it round to get the win.

Kante is a good player but he’s not a forward.

Austbo has much to learn at this level.

Bowen has different class passages of play.

Mavrapanos blows hot and cold, but easily best defender.

Kwp, big question marks on him.

Engels showing his touch now.

Scarles shaky moments but done well.

Kilman average ok but very slow in defence.



Soloman needs to keep it simple, get more direct.

Piroe cannot make the Premier League.

Hermansen is a good gk but his height is a worry; he’s just too small.

Mukassa needs to play in his correct position.

Orford decent, reliable, steady.

Veltman did ok, as did Morata.

Pablo, are you kidding, must be blackmailing Nuno; shockingingly bad player, must be dropped.

Did I miss anybody? Overall we did well to get the win but we must control games better from the off.

09 Sep 2026 16:54:08
Great summary, joyful, and demonstrates that there are a lot of changes that need to be made if and when we go up.

Defence always looks shaky, and worries me whenever teams have a go at us, so we gotta start there.

09 Sep 2026 17:51:39
Nuno needs to sort this defence out.

09 Sep 2026 08:39:51
Ok, a win's a win and I'll take it every time, but there were clearly issues.

For me the biggest problem that we had was playing Kante ahead of Mukasa (Saturday's goal must have gone to his head). Playing them that way round nullifies the best of both. There were huge gaps in central midfield for Bolton to enjoy because Kante was too far up. Mukasa is not a crunching machine who breaks up play - that's more Kante's forte: Kante is not an inventive attacking midfielder who makes the right decisions - that's Mukasa's forte.

We looked so much better when Orford came on. Calm head, right place at the right time, looks up to make the right pass.

Opposition left wingers have caused us problems all season. Nino needs to work on that.

With those concerns out of the way. Well done the lads for coming through a tough game with all three points.

09 Sep 2026 10:34:10
I'll say again... this was not a 'tough' game. Bolton Wanderers have now lost 4 games on the trot. It's the sort of game we should be coasting through if we are to get promoted. Our defence showed weakness in several areas. The Bolton attack was not especially good. It was average at best.

09 Sep 2026 10:35:26
Good point Re Kante / Makassa. 👍

09 Sep 2026 10:57:21
I agree with that.

09 Sep 2026 14:33:56
Disagree, Tin.

Our positional choices made the game tougher than it should have been and turned it from an expected win into a tough one.

Should it have been a tough game? Maybe not. Was it one? Yup.

09 Sep 2026 18:43:27
Your answer seems to agree with me! It wasn't approached as a tough game, which it wasn't, but the way we played made hard work of it. Not a tough game (where the opposition is expected to give us a hard time), but it developed into one that wasn't easy as a result of our performance. That's not a game with the expectation of being tough.

09 Sep 2026 19:19:49
...And I said, "Well done the lads for coming through a tough game with all three points."

I didn't say that it was expected to be a tough game. I said that it was a tough game.

Hey, ho.

09 Sep 2026 21:30:35
I think the difference is that I'm describing the fixture and you are describing the performance. 😬

09 Sep 2026 08:19:30
Hammer-D just about summed this up nicely. Just to add that teams who win this league find a way to win fixtures on wet Tuesday nights at teams like Bolton. Not great performance but a win is a win. A lot does have to change if we get promoted.



Last night our full backs were poor. KWP and Scarles need to be replaced and show that they are not even decent backups.



I don't know how Pablo is still lacing up his boots. He is shocking.

It's clear in January that Alvarez, Cornet and Mugassa should go if we don't cancel their contracts beforehand and then we will need to look at full backs.

09 Sep 2026 10:44:15
Hi Mac, I know you aren't keen on those 2 players, and I have to agree they have been troublesome. But, unlike Fulkrug, Cornet, or JWP, they are decent players who are not constantly injured, so I think they could be useful, and, taking last night's game, either would have helped sure up the midfield, and, hopefully, would have prevented many attacks on our goal.

Maybe they don't deserve a chance the way they have acted, but just a thought.

09 Sep 2026 16:57:48
Oh I agree, but I think the way they've behaved doesn't warrant them being part of this foundation anymore.

They come to our club, where we pay decent salary, so at least perform and give your best, and act like a professional whether you wanna be here or not.

Same goes for Fulkrug, Tobido, Awb etc.

09 Sep 2026 17:57:24
Yeah, valid point. 👍