2016. Games so far.

comment by Sane (U19841)
posted 12 minutes ago
T_D_M

If I'm being honest, I doubt the Hammers will get top four, but it is nice to be crossing your fingers to achieve the positive rather than avoid the negative.

I just think it's great that teams like ours are really competing. I know some argue it means the quality of the league is diminishing but firstly I don't think that's true and secondly I wouldn't care of it was.

What most people want to see is genuine competition, with so called "smaller clubs" having a chance to improve and progress. Obviously I'm bloody happy West Ham are doing so well, buy I'd also be happy if it were say Swansea or Sunderland (not so much though) it's just great to see the apple cart turned over.
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I agree with Dunge. I got slated for rating West Ham and for suggesting they're better than Spurs and I did take some stick when you dropped off but that was well understandable.

As Dunge said though, you hung in there and now you're getting back to full strength, you're a serious threat to Spurs in my opinion. I like the way you play and you've got some really top players.

Payet would have been challenging Mahrez had he not got injured, he's class!! What a buy he was, surely one of the best of the season? I think Kante wins that but Payet isn't far behind. Also good to see Valencia playing and scoring, after what must have been a tough time for him.

Looking good, just need to stay fit and hope you're more consistent than Spurs 👍

Oh and I'd also say the league is stronger than ever. The top teams class is being matched by lesser quality but more desire.

West Ham, Palace, Stoke and Leicester have all improved significantly and each of those sides have several quality players, not just good players. Then there's Watford surprising everyone with their quality and workrate.

This is a close league because other teams have quality players with better work ethics and the hard work is paying off. Hard work and pace 😉

West ham to be in the same boat as us when it comes to Lawro's predictions too

Keep it up Lawro and in your next round please say something along the lines of "Villa will be lifted by their mid week win against palace and I just have a feeling that Villa might just nick this. 1-0"

comment by Top_of_the_fox (U17279)
posted 29 minutes ago
West ham to be in the same boat as us when it comes to Lawro's predictions too

Keep it up Lawro and in your next round please say something along the lines of "Villa will be lifted by their mid week win against palace and I just have a feeling that Villa might just nick this. 1-0"
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Do you write Lawro's predictions? That sounded very familiar 😂

They're easy to predict

He'll actually compliment us first and our win last night, might even mention how high our confidence will be before he actually goes on to say we'll lose - all on a gut instinct

When it comes around to Lawro predicting our score against West Ham, I'm convinced that he'll call us both to lose 0-0.

If Payet hadn't got injured I reckon they'd be in or around the top 3

Given what he produced against Bournemouth, they may well have been.

West ham dropped big points early on when they lost to us and Bournemouth at home

At the time they were 2 games they probably thought they'd get 4 - 6 points from

At least they made up for it by beating City and Arsenal away, two games they would expect to lose