West Ham 5/4 Build-Up & Match Thread

[Tredman]

And fuck getting ninja’d every time too. Fuck me.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Christ

 

[Jinky]

Vitinha next to Neves?

Donk, Coady, Saiss back three?

 

[AndyWolves]

Oh well, at least we might get to see Vitinha & RAN play

 

[YoungWolf]

Good chance Otasowie/Vitinha/MGW get some decent minutes

 

[Tredman]

So…

Rui
Saiss - Coady - Kilman
Semedo - Neves - Donk - RAN
Traore - Jose - Neto​

?

 

[prawnking]

Out of Darkness and all that...

 

[Kenny]

Moutinho and Boly missing too

FML

Aces.

Sooner this season is over the better

 

[darlowolf64]

Aces.

Sooner this season is over the better

You can’t say that...

 

[YoungWolf]

So…

Rui
Saiss - Coady - Kilman
Semedo - Neves - Donk - RAN
Traore - Jose - Neto​

?

This will probably be it, rather depressingly.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I hate this season. Stay up and fucking bin it to history.

 

[Tredman]

This will probably be it, rather depressingly.

Fair to say it’s not what I would play too.

 

[sycophantia]

Fucking hell...was quite confident till 10 minutes ago

 

[AndyWolves]

Explains why Lonwijk and Marques didn't play for the u23s recently

 

[YoungWolf]

Fair to say it’s not what I would play too.

Tbh, I don't blame him but I'd rather just play a back four with the available options and give one of the younger guys a go in midfield with Donck and Neves. Problem is previous results with Semedo-Coady-Saiss-RAN back four didn't go brilliantly

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Oh well, i guess it takes the pressure off a little.

 

[Tredman]

Problem is previous results with Semedo-Coady-Saiss-RAN back four didn't go brilliantly

Slight understatement.

 

[PuntsWolf]

ACL and MCL for Jonny from an “innocuous tackle”. Sounds like MGWs been putting in the two footers again and we won’t see him for 6-9 months either!

 

[Johnny75]

Obviously more severe a problem than the original but it shouldn’t be career ending.

The issue is what they use to graft the new ligament with. They’d have used his hamstring tendon for the original, but they wouldn’t be able to use more hamstring as it will already be about 80% weaker (from memory, might be wrong on that). They used to use patella tendon but this was always littered with problems so they stopped doing it, so this is an option, but what might be a better option is using the hamstring tendon from the other leg.

I’m not sure if there’s ability to use “artificial” graft as an alternative. But I assume not (or certainly not as successful) as they’d do this in the first instance

As far as I know it's hamstring for the first (BF) and nylon for the second. Still use the same fixings (unless they've failed).

 

[YoungWolf]

ACL and MCL for Jonny from an “innocuous tackle”. Sounds like MGWs been putting in the two footers again and we won’t see him for 6-9 months either!

No, MGW is why Boly has tested positive I reckon