West Ham (a) pre-match thread

[frothy]

Better get the team bus ready, heard the trains to London are fouled up again.

WTF?

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Better get the team bus ready, heard the trains to London are fouled up again.

Never appears to happen when the Rags play in London , dont the railways understand Rags fans are only a stones throw away to most of their games in the smoke , if the railways want to do repairs they should plan them when the Rags have an away game in capital, there would be far less disruption

 

[yerwot?]

pitch size is not as big a factor as it used to be, more pertinent is the length of the turf, how flat it is and how much it is watered. The old Wembley was max size and that was blamed for the number of players "cramping up", when in fact it was the "lush" turf i.e. too long., not my words but one of City's wingers. The old 'ighbury was about as small as any i can recall and it was a graveyard for City, who had a huge pitch. Think it was John Bond who narrowed Maine Rd to make it easier for us to defend(ffs). Should be a routine 3 points on saturday, imho, the blue juggernaut is fit and firing...

 

[lazerblue]

50 mph winds forecast. Will the London Stadium be able to cope with the conditions.?

will the dippers be able to cope with the conditions on friday, they dont like wind and rain

 

[Fordyboy46]

Shocking weather forecast for the first game of the season ffs. Could be off, who knows?

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

pitch size is not as big a factor as it used to be, more pertinent is the length of the turf, how flat it is and how much it is watered. The old Wembley was max size and that was blamed for the number of players "cramping up", when in fact it was the "lush" turf i.e. too long., not my words but one of City's wingers. The old 'ighbury was about as small as any i can recall and it was a graveyard for City, who had a huge pitch. Think it was John Bond who narrowed Maine Rd to make it easier for us to defend(ffs). Should be a routine 3 points on saturday, imho, the blue juggernaut is fit and firing...

Doesn't wind and snow come into the equation ?

 

[George Hannah]

Aymeric Laporte is fit and 100% available ahead of Manchester City’s Premier League opener against West Ham on Saturday. He will travel to London with the rest of the team tomorrow. [@10JoseAlvarez]

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[Alan Harper's Tash]

Jesus Christ! Will you argue black is white?
Not every pitch in the Premier League is the same size like you claimed. Despite you saying every pitch is identical in size, you then said Wolves had a smaller pitch because Molineux is small. I am merely pointing out that Hillsborough has a bigger pitch than Etihad, London Stadium, St James'Park, Old Trafford and all other PL clubs with a bigger stadium.

There is a standard size for PL pitches. They only way pitches are different sizes are if the stadium cannot fit the standard size.

If Sheffield Wednesday were promoted to the PL, then their pitch would conform to PL rules.

 

[NZBlue]

There is a standard size for PL pitches. They only way pitches are different sizes are if the stadium cannot fit the standard size.

If Sheffield Wednesday were promoted to the PL, then their pitch would conform to PL rules.

There are rules for pitch size but it is a window with maximum and minimum dimensions.
Ours is bigger than all the others in the PL.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

There are rules for pitch size but it is a window with maximum and minimum dimensions.
Ours is bigger than all the others in the PL.

Who is "ours"?