West Ham United (H) - Sun 19th May, 16:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[ayrshire_blue]

It is a decent side but that line up lost 5-0 in their last away game against a hated rival.

The sole worry I have for this game is that the players want to put a top performance in for Moyes and manage to do that for his last game. If he was there next season and it was business as usual i'd have zero concerns based on their form. But you're right they do have a decent side and the Moyes situation is the other factor at play.

Suppose there's an argument that the players have failed to play for him plenty of times this season but we'll not know until Sunday how much they're wanting/capable of putting into one single game.

As I've said before, if both teams play their best we win this comfortably. If we're off it even to the extent we were on Wednesday night, it's touch and go. We've had some excellent displays of late (Fulham, Wolves, rags) but some perhaps questionable ones and if not meaning necessarily poor or without reason, at least below our usual standard (Spurs, Forest)

A big performance from us would be magic and see us over the line. Energy and smother them in and around their own area from the get go please.

 

[blueparsman]

Fook me all we here is what can WHU do to city and give title to arsenal no mention of fact toffees could beat arsenal to give city a four in a row

 

[tommy116]

He sounds as if he has a permanent cold and needs a packet of Tunes: ‘a first class ticket to Birmingham, please’.

Smith is that boring that you dont notice he is there, he is a nothing character

 

[MillisleBlue]

I hope the Hammers are on the beach at Margate on Sunday. Would do my nerves the world of good.

 

[mancityscot]

I hope the Hammers are on the beach at Margate on Sunday. Would do my nerves the world of good.

i cant see them being at the absolute top of their game, fighting like their lives depend on it, but it will be a stern test for sure. If our players and the crowd are on it, we should be ok. Should.

 

[Gremlin]

He sounds as if he has a permanent cold and needs a packet of Tunes: ‘a first class ticket to Birmingham, please’.

Nottingham (/pedant mode off)

 

[Gremlin]

Are we welcoming the lads arriving on the coach again? It was great against Villa

Fun though it was at the end, I'm hoping we're not using the Villa game as a template for this Sunday. Not unless you want to see random people in the stands sudden start to explode as their blood pressure rises to stratospheric levels (probably me included).

 

[RayCTID]

The sole worry I have for this game is that the players want to put a top performance in for Moyes and manage to do that for his last game. If he was there next season and it was business as usual i'd have zero concerns based on their form. But you're right they do have a decent side and the Moyes situation is the other factor at play.

Suppose there's an argument that the players have failed to play for him plenty of times this season but we'll not know until Sunday how much they're wanting/capable of putting into one single game.

As I've said before, if both teams play their best we win this comfortably. If we're off it even to the extent we were on Wednesday night, it's touch and go. We've had some excellent displays of late (Fulham, Wolves, rags) but some perhaps questionable ones and if not meaning necessarily poor or without reason, at least below our usual standard (Spurs, Forest)

A big performance from us would be magic and see us over the line. Energy and smother them in and around their own area from the get go please.

They didn't put in a top performance against Chelsea and their last win was at home against a side that got relegated. That game was his "send off". If he was sticking around I would have been feeling a lot more uneasy,

 

[Iassel]

Whatever dickheads are predicting we'll draw or get beat still don't understand this City side, do they?

We're the best there is. No stopping us.

I would guess they’re people who remember the last 2x City had to win on the last day to take the title going 1-0 down to Brighton and 2-0 down to Aston Villa

 

[St.Pauli support]

Don't understand why everyone is wondering about WH as we dominate nearly always anyway. We don't have to talk about WH and even less about ARS or EVT. The only team that can beat us are... Man City.

If the lads are nervous again (which I personally doubt as they just had that experience on Tuesday) I expect a full force Etihad to push the team to their normal free flowing brilliance.