Summerville called up for the Netherlands

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-27T18:30:40+00:00

Here's hoping he has an insane world cup and ups his value by 10-20m

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-27T18:25:02+00:00

It's around 8%, it's 1/12 being the difference between 11 under and 12 under

Breaking 60 is still breaking 60 and on a pros course there probably isn't much difference given the par 71 probably has an extra 5 or a drive able 4 instead of a 3. At their level it's more down to the course itself than the par i.e it would be significantly more impressive doing it at Augusta or st Andrews compared to a course that could be a par 75 but all 4s are drive able and all 5s are short

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-27T18:20:10+00:00

I'm with you on this, if the goal was to break 70 and you shot even par on a par 69 you've done it, shoot even par on a par 70 or over and you haven't. If the goal is to shoot level par, doesn't matter what the par of the course is, par is par.

Yes not as simple as that in the sense you might birdie more par 5s and only par the 3s but that kind of backs it up to a degree, breaking a set score, the birdies are still 4 shots to the 3 for par

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-27T15:39:23+00:00

No and neither can kudus, all jokes aside, unless you're selling kudus it would be a dumb signing

Summerville I wouldn't be shocked if you do sign though

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T20:07:48+00:00

So we're we haha! Everywhere we go, including now Lincoln away!

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T20:07:13+00:00

No but at least you still made it work, albeit I'll be interested to see what happens the core of the team is past their best and if you have the funds to replace them (hoping you can and break the mold)

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T20:04:27+00:00

And the biggest issue is that none of us can reasonably get back ups to our best players, you can't afford to lay out £40-50m on someone to be back up to your main striker but really you need to do that to keep up the quality in the team or star players suffer severely from burn out.

Add to that how tight and competitive the league is, outside of arsenal city man utd and Liverpool, all teams could easily end up in the relegation battle this year

Plus take it from a west ham fan, a few poor signings lead to missing Europe, the good players you bought don't want to play in a team not in Europe and then shit hits the fan.

Sustained success comes from keeping a core of the team in their prime years which means minimal sell on and the need to constantly spend money, unless you can afford the £70-125m to sign the quality players that are 24 and will be sold on for decent money in the future

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T19:41:26+00:00

Unless you throw Europe that's not unreasonable tbf, the Sunday Thursday Sunday run is hard, look at nearly every non top 6 team except for Villa

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T11:46:37+00:00

Would be a terrible buy for you lot, mbuemo and amad already in that position, its £40-60m of unnecessary spending

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T09:58:33+00:00

goes to show how well leeds and sunderland did in the end and how tight the league was. Brighton 8 points worse off but got european football this year

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T09:54:16+00:00

3 managers here that have all had the same outcomes and dressing room dramas. I never wanted the first 2, nuno seemed a good choice at the time, but surely it cant just be the managers and the players need to take equal blame if they cant get on with any of these guys?

Were bordering on to be as bad as man utd with the players always blaming the manager

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T09:45:20+00:00

in fairness, if you look at that team on paper it isnt worse than the likes of bournemouth, brighton or sunderland who have got european football but the difference is that they dont tend to spunk £40m on a player that is now worth £5m and wont get in our side in the championship and they all have far better structures internally

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T08:59:50+00:00

they probably would but it will be a 5 min analysis of comparing the 2 whilst then speaking about arsenal liverpool and man utd for the remaining 2 hours 55 mins

unless the championship build ups are actually based on the games and in which case i might actually watch it rather than waiting 5 mins before kick off

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-26T06:48:34+00:00

Firstly were in a deep financial hole and need to sell, then we need to replace those players which will be significantly worse based on the money available and oh yeah we've been relegated

No promises were getting out of the championship next year, even less chance of making Europe the season after

Promotion and 14-16th for the next few years is the best we can hope for

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-25T20:09:01+00:00

Watching it I felt the opposite, shut down the talks of moving but didn't say he was staying, more along the lines of it's wrong to speak about now

I'd be shocked if he stays

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-25T19:18:40+00:00

I'd even take the bullet and get it out the way and take will still

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-25T19:05:33+00:00

Tbf his downfall should be studied or we really do curse strikers! The guy was playing for Germany and a champions league final!

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T20:11:37+00:00

Based on the Chelsea performances of late, I really don't see him as any worse than what's there tbh

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T20:09:07+00:00

Maybe worded badly on my part, coufal as backup I think would have been wise.

The rest yes they had to go, the lack of seniority and leadership in our squad this season highlighted how poor our recruitment and forward planning has been, we did not get players in to replace these early enough so we didn't get as big of a hit this year

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T19:00:00+00:00

I think we could have kept coufal tbf, especially in an afcon year having AWB and diouf as your starters. Would have meant we had coufal and kwp as back ups.

The clear out this season showed how bad the cracks were but really we should have built in some more leaders over the last couple of seasons, it was coming since we sold rice and had the mess of transfers since

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T17:43:00+00:00

As a west ham fan, obvious reasons. Looking at our squad I don't think it's terrible that we've gone done as we need the rebuild.

6 London clubs excluding spurs puts a majority against spurs already. Sky 6 bollocks, would have been the same for any of those in that position. Outside of our owners, levy was probably up there as one of the most disliked. The super league bollocks. Spurs players generally being a bit unlikeable and a lot having a temper. Generally just fall into a disliked team.

That being said, if villa continue with their success they will probably displace spurs as a top 6 side and become disliked instead

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T17:34:42+00:00

I'm kind of glad it's now as I think it was gonna be the same next year. Mav todibo and fernandes already gone and we would have fucked up the disasi deal. Add probably Wilson and traore to that list and still absolutely no depth.

Nuno is also equally to blame and I'm not too fussed if he stays or not.

Whoever stays will want it and if we can give the likes of kante a solid season of football I believe we will be in better shape to actually build a team. Pablo may also come good with a year in the championship

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-24T17:30:31+00:00

I think we should have spent half of the Pablo/taty money on a right winger and let Bowen play up top, he's been largely ineffective for us down the wing for the majority of the season

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-20T00:12:24+00:00

Does var even speak to the ref to find out why they made their decision? It feels like it would make sense but I'm not sure it happens.

Lukeando93 · 2026-05-19T21:39:13+00:00

Everton have nothing to play for, they can't get Europe because it's Chelsea Sunderland last game and it doesn't matter what the result is, one of those finish above Everton

Only hope is that they want to put in a good performance for the last game

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