What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

[riggi]

https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewWheat_/status/854767302755180544/video/1

 

[not_tenth-again]

Well they do have to have the biggest screen in Europe, because it's the only way 95% of the crowd will see who actually has the ball!

It's West Ham, the ball is in the air more than it's at any players feet

 

[mark87]

https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewWheat_/status/854767302755180544/video/1

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

 

[Ausp]

From the same onlinegooner forum:

I really hate to say this but I'm putting a tenner on that lot up the road doing the double.

I blame the media. For weeks they have been talking about Chelski as 'the champions elect' and I'm afraid I think they have started to believe it.
Their performance at the Mancs today was Arsenal like.

I pray my £10 is wasted and that Chelski win their first Premier League title (the others don't count as they were merely bought whereas at least the Guy in charge now has shown he can react to disasters - 3- nil at our place) rather than plodding on in the same way. ( Arsene take note).

Mid table for us for the next 2 years if the Gutless board endorse an extension to the Diluded one's contract.

Happy days!!!

can you imagine scum win the double and wenger signs for another 2 years

The double? THE FUCKING DOUBLE??
Jesus I never even thought about that!

The horror scenario is if we've got THFC in the Cup Final on the 27th, and they've already won the League.

Wenger has already signed for 2 years, Sanchez has refused to play for us again and Captain Fantastic Theo Walcott leads us out at Wembley.

BTW I got 20/1 . Tenner on.

I pray it is completely wasted.

Gooners taking the punt on us doing the double... What is happening?

 

[tony0379]

From the same onlinegooner forum:








Gooners taking the punt on us doing the double... What is happening?

Trying to jinx us, the shithouses.

 

[Roynie]

Accepted, sorry but many thanks for allowing me the opportunity to be a pedantic bastard, it's not often I get the chance

I knew you would, 'cause it takes one to know one!

 

[Col_M]

That West Ham article about closing the gap and the big screen. Did any of you see the next paragraph?

"However, we have closed the gap on the physical distance between the two clubs, West Ham is only 4.5 miles away from White Hart Lane compared to 6.4 miles away from the Boleyn ground."

 

[TaoistMonkey]

I heard a whispa there's a bounty on

I can almost hear the five knuckle shuffle through the cubicle door!

I love it when this site auto saves and you forget to delete it before replying to another post

 

[dagraham]

That West Ham article about closing the gap and the big screen. Did any of you see the next paragraph?

"However, we have closed the gap on the physical distance between the two clubs, West Ham is only 4.5 miles away from White Hart Lane compared to 6.4 miles away from the Boleyn ground."

Say what you like about West Ham fans, but they do have a good sense of humour.

I suppose over the years they've had to in order to cope with the crap served up to them. Much like us Spurs fans during the 90's.

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

I love it when this site auto saves and you forget to delete it before replying to another post

I hadn't even noticed until you quoted it!!!!

 

[E17yid]

"The horror scenario is if we've got THFC in the Cup Final on the 27th, and they've already won the League.

Wenger has already signed for 2 years, Sanchez has refused to play for us again and Captain Fantastic Theo Walcott leads us out at Wembley."

This is my new happy place.

 

[matthew.absurdum]

There are actually a couple of very good comments, praising how our club is run, from top to bottom.

Spurs don't seem to waste money on loan signings. Do they have any players on loan? Can anyone thing of a successful loan signing at West Ham? Not only is this a poor use of resources, but it stops young players from developing.

Pau Lopez, he is one of our own

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Speaking of Zaza, he did reasonably okay (not excellent) for Valencia and helped them to avoid relegation. It shows that he is not that bad, just not a 20m player and coached badly at West Ham.

They have the financial power to reach at least the level of Everton, but their transfer policy and coach is similar to the like of sunderland. Every season, they rely on Andy carroll, a good player (see his stat!) but very injury prone. They need to buy and give chances to young players like us, everton and soton, but they are too ambitious. As a result, they use lots of money to buy average players.

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Speaking of Zaza, he did reasonably okay (not excellent) for Valencia and helped them to avoid relegation. It shows that he is not that bad, just not a 20m player and coached badly at West Ham.

They have the financial power to reach at least the level of Everton, but their transfer policy and coach is similar to the like of sunderland. Every season, they rely on Andy carroll, a good player (see his stat!) but very injury prone. They need to buy and give chances to young players like us, everton and soton, but they are too ambitious. As a result, they use lots of money to buy average players.

As long as they remain in that soulless pit of a stadium - West Ham will be irrelevant.

 

[Tucker]

https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewWheat_/status/854767302755180544/video/1

I always loved Brad.

 

[spursfan77]

There are actually a couple of very good comments, praising how our club is run, from top to bottom.

"I honestly don;t know why some of us here are so obsessed with how they are doing. They act and think like a top 6 team. We are at the other end of the spectrum. We are now allegedly looking at John Terry, Jermaine Defoe, Sagna and Zabaletta from City. I don't want any of that to be true but thats the mentality of our board. Its a wonder our fans don't adopt Barbara Striesands "Second Hand Rose" as our theme song. It would certainly ring a bell with our board."

"Provocative Post.
The gap between Spurs and West Ham in my opinion has nothing to do with Finances. It has to do with the fact they are well managed and we are comparatively poorly managed, both as a business and as a a football team.
Many on here deride our owners for the lack of spending in the transfer market.
Over the last 5 year we have a net spend of 154m euros, ranking us 6th, just above Sunderland. Spurs on the other hand have spent £20m Euros, ranking them 19th in the Premier League.
Clearly that's not the reason why they are doing better than us.
The problem is that they have spent well and we have, generally wasted our money.
They have a policy of buying young players, where there is potential to sell on at a profit - pretty much the exact opposite of the way our transfer policy is developing.
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/pre...tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons
Spurs don't seem to waste money on loan signings. Do they have any players on loan? Can anyone thing of a successful loan signing at West Ham? Not only is this a poor use of resources, but it stops young players from developing.
Add to that they are actually bringing players through their youth team, such and Kane and Winks, and producing players they can sell to other premiership clubs.
Spurs are renowned for being a fit team. We on the other hand seemed to be one of the less fit teams in the league.
We on the other hand aren't even porducing players that can cut it in the Championship and League 1. Something has gone very seriously wrong with our youth set up.
Their manager is head and shoulders above ours. The team is fitter, he will trust young players to do a job and nurtures them. On balance he gets more out of the players he signs and increases their value. Ours generally become worse players when they join West Ham and lose value.
Spurs have one of the strongest defences in the League: we have one of the weakest. Responsibility for our poor defence lies fairly and squarely on the managers shoulders: he picks the team, all the coaches are his appointments, he is responsible for organising the team. He has signed a number of the defenders.
I am not sure why a West Ham fan site should focus exclusively on Spurs, as opposed to the many other teams in the league who are doing better than us.
What interests me is how West Ham fulfill its potential:
to me that means better use of the transfer market, Its not the price you player for a player that but the value of the player you sign. We want to get the best possible value for the least possible outlay. £20 for Simone Zaza would not have been money well spent. £65000 a week for Alvaro Arbeloa is not good value for money. I do not criticise the owners for the amount they have spent, but for the amount they have wasted. The solution is not to spend more, but to spend better.
Focusing on just one club, Spurs, who don't even regard us as a rival, is a mistake. It shoes a small mind mentality.
West Ham is a club with great potential and a terrific fan base. We have a great heritage. We can have a great future. We need to buy well, develop our own players and to sign and develop promising players.
They may have 63200 people on their season ticket waiting list, to our 55000. But we do have 52000 season ticket holders. So that comparison isn't really comparing like with like."
Are they a bigger club than us. I would say historically they pretty much always have been. They currently are.

£65000 a week for Alvaro Arbeloa

That can't be right surely? Only idiots would agree to paying someone so over the hill that amount of money.

 

[Gb160]

£65000 a week for Alvaro Arbeloa

That can't be right surely? Only idiots would agree to paying someone so over the hill that amount of money.

 

[TheTrader78]

What our opponents' fans are saying about me (but not 2016/17 season)

A Man United fan I used to play football with once accused me, a Tottenham Hotspur fan, of being a glory hunter....this was back in 2010.

 

[tommo84]

Spent yesterday evening with 2 Gooners, a Liverpool fan and an Ipswich fan.

The Gooners didn't want to talk about football, but the Ipswich fan was full of praise for Spurs. Said we're the best team to watch and our back 5 is the best in the league in every position (I presume he was omitting Dier and referring to Hugo, KW, TA, JV and Rose).

The Liverpool fan took issue with the comment that we're the best team to watch but the Gooners magnanimously pointed out that as the only neutral at the table, if the Ipswich fan thinks Spurs are the best team to watch then that carries a great deal more weight than the rest of our opinions.

As usual the Liverpool fan was loathe to offer anyone else any praise, resorting to only backhanded compliments which somehow made it sound inevitable that Liverpool will win the league next year and Spurs will drop off. He put all of Chelsea's success this season down to luck with injuries and said they'll be crap in Europe next season (he's unbelievably bitter, even by a Liverpool fan's standards).

Perhaps most notably, when I was brave enough (drunk enough) to float the idea of us winning the double this season I wasn't laughed at - and these fellas like to pick apart everything I ever say about anything!

 

[Kirito]

Isn't our screens at NWHL going to be even bigger?

Upsetting.