We may not have heard of Mendes but he wasn't a WTF signing because we needed a forward at the time we signed him. Kermorgant certainly didn't look like a 17 goal a season striker at the start of last season and our other options were Rakels and Samuel. Mendes offered the promise of strength and pac...

I was commenting more in relation to a suggestion that his track record as a manager was trashed as that wasn't what the West Ham fans were objecting to. I appreciate I didn't make that entirely clear. I actually think he's a good appointment for West Ham. However, in the light of the sexism row, I ...

To be fair, the West Ham fans' issue seems to be less about his management and more about his attitude towards women.

Mendes only started 2 league games last season. Guess what he did in both of them.

His issue would appear to be staying fit rather than a lack of ability.

I think it's his edgy intrnet persona.

SDR was kind of funny in his own way.

LordCKS thinks calling someone a pcunt is the height of critical sophistication.

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Worse than SDR?

SDR is negative in an almost parodic and playful way... CKS is negative in a malicious way

I have yet to encounter CKS. Should I count myself fortunate?

Imagine strap after a barrel of beer only worse.

It's easy to forget, Stam inherited a piss awful squad in piss awful form. That's absolutely not the circumstances to be using academy players. His dealings last summer were all about getting bodies into the squad and by and large he did ok (Weiser being the only wtf signing). I think Meite was a pu...

The young wingers should have been getting the minutes we've given to the likes of Hurtado, John, Harriott and Popa. Stacey could also have played wing-back when we were improvising with the likes of McCleary and Williams there. Tanner could potentially have got some of Grabban's minutes too. That'...

The young wingers should have been getting the minutes we've given to the likes of Hurtado, John, Harriott and Popa. Stacey could also have played wing-back when we were improvising with the likes of McCleary and Williams there. Tanner could potentially have got some of Grabban's minutes too. That'...

...and not forgetting Fosu had 2 years of underwhelming loan spells in League 2 under his belt. Maybe, just maybe playing in League 1 with more realistic expectations is what he needs to take his career forward. It's no different to Swift taking a step down to play for us. Just because he's doing we...

Seems we've pushed out a load of youth that were always seemingly a year or two away for a group a similar distance, but much younger and arguably with more potential when they reach the same age. Which makes absolute sense. No point holding on to a player and stifling their career when there's pot...

They will be by far the biggest ever team that would play in league 1. What capacity is their stadium? They will be lucky to get 10,000 there is they get in L1 Bigger than Man City and Leeds? Yes. Man city at the time were never a big team, only until about 7 years ago Which is why, they hold the E...

:D Thanks a bloody lot ref you were so blind to reading fouling our player 2 pentleys to good ones yet looked away and if you blew on reading players they went down like flys freaking joke. In fairness he's been called out on that multiple times. Tbf I was expecting more.. ok so there is the standa...

We did warn them but they thought it was sour grapes.

That's 7 wins in our last 11 trips to Pride Park and the 4th time in those 11 games we've scored 3 or more.

Today's result was not entirely surprising.

CountryRoyal What a lovely, lovely goal. 4? When was the last time we scored 4 in a match? Chartlon away under McD?

Burton, last day of last season

Anyone able to comment on how Richards is doing?

Derby obviously have to press now so hopefully we can hit them on the counter.

Evra's always been a stroppy twat.

I reckon this has been the plan all along. Sign a one year contract in the summer knowing that the operation was imminent and pretty much make it break but also knowing that a one year extension was on the table pending a full recovery from the operation. Also, he didn't play professionally until he...