[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

How much added time was that in the end?

Probably best to avoid MOTD and the sports pages for a few days. We've already been cast as bit-part players in the emotional tale of Liverpool's dramatic charge for... 4th place.

As I said, xxxx this league.

[derbybaggie]

I thought I’d tuned in to watch a football match but I must have mistakenly turned over to Love Island. I also thought the FA Cup final was on Saturday but the ogasmic excitement of Sky commenters on that second goal finding the net and subsequent jubilance for the following 45 minutes I’m now under the firm belief that we in fact got to the final and Liverpool won it. Either that or the Merseysiders single handedly won the Second World War, sorted third world debt and solved global warming all at the same time.

3 weeks before this was one of those greedy European super league teams that the same punters were shouting to have docked points, thrown into outer darkness or forced to join the nights watch.

I for one am looking forward to the Championship.

[valpayne]

So it seems VAR can be used as a way to find anything to help the greed leagues finest outfits secure a victory. I.e VaR are taking a look hmm that blokes offside. yes, but he’s not interfering. so what this is Liverpool’s chance to go to Europe. Good point ok rule it offside then wba are relegated anyway they won’t care? ?

[WBA-Josh]

Maitland-Niles in for Diangana.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Great to hear those cheers when the penalty hit the post. Actual fans in the stadium; the canned noise can't hold a candle to it.

[talkSAFT]

Not another added-time goal conceded!!

[Stairs]

Am I wrong. Didn’t that VAR show the toe of West Ham was offside?

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Am I wrong. Didn’t that VAR show the toe of West Ham was offside?

I refrained from commenting at half-time, but it looked suspicious to me. As I've argued previously, I'd happily give the green light to any player who's bodily onside, as theirs was, but from a point of view of consistency, I'm sure VAR has ruled goals offside on less evidence. Including some of ours.

Any road, it's all spilled milk now. Scoreline flattered West Ham, but if we keep making defensive lapses at corners and elsewhere then we're bound to get punished. Shame, as the players did put in a shift and clearly wanted to give the fans something to cheer about.

[bomberbrown1968]

https://www.wba.co.uk/news/club-statement-sam-allardyce

[Slick_Footwork]

Plenty of effort from the lads today. The quality just wasn't there.

It was a bit like the Wolves game in some ways, we did lots of huffing and puffing and had the territorial advantage for best part, but didn't have the quality to make it count.

Unfortunately West Ham had a bit more quality than Wolves going the other way and that told. We got away with a mistake earlier on with Ajayi's short backpass, but later mistakes were punished.

Strange old end to the season with fans coming back just to see us down. Almost surreal.

What today's game shows is the magnitude of the rebuild as there isn't a lot of quality, energy or battle in the side when you take out the ability of Pereira and the spirit and endeavour of Yokuslu and Gallagher. I'd be very surprised if any of them are here next season. And without Big Sam, I personally think that rebuild feels even bigger - he was at least getting the best out of the likes of Bartley, Townsend and the like.

But ultimately as I said in the other thread, it doesn't really matter who is in charge because we really need the owners to come good for this rebuild...

If they don't put their hands in their pockets - which I don't believe they will - we could struggle even in the Championship with the likes of Sawyers, Furlong, Phillips, Zohore and co as first choice.

I don't envy the job of whoever comes in, especially if we're financially screwed and selling our best assets.

But we live in hope they select the right man for the job and give them every penny generated from player sales.