Disagree, don't think it was the defenders that was the problem yesterday. Thought our main players (Benteke/Townsend) had off days and the other midfielders / forward players also. Spam had our game plan sussed and we struggled to change our play to get around it. If the penalty had been scored I think we would have won it as Spam would have collapsed as they have been doing. Yes, Delaney's long punts are frustrating but his defending in recent games as well as yesterday have been as good as ever. We shall see soon if Dann and Tomkins are good enough to play together rather than with Delaney? If they can the passing out of defence may be better? It will still mean those in front of them need to play better than yesterday. It may be Leicester and Liverpool will not crowd out Townsend and Zaha as Wspam did and we will get a couple of results in our favour - we shall see?

We badly missed a creative spark through the middle yesterday. Something we've been missing for a long while. Yet again a team stop our wingers and we've lost.

On the evidence of our last four pnalties it doesn't look as though anyone's actually practising this particular skill.

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I said that at the game but the response I got was ..."why ain't it affecting West Ham then?" In retrospect I think we were just $hite.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Ah, the old hair shirt excuse

West Ham are a classy side that have suffered several injuries to key players. Two key defenders who have been out injured returned for this game with one of them being named Man of the Match.

West Ham were bound to come good when their injury list subsided and it was just a shame that we playerd them now and not two weeks ago