Not our Mark. Yes he is at that stage when his better days are behind him but he deserves better than being cast aside in the January window. Mark Noble should never leave our club and hopefully will be part of the coaching staff in the future and who knows, one day he may be our Manager.snooperpooper wrote:
Or a transfer out to Ipswich or Fulham in the January window.
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Spot on, neither Kouyate nor Obiang's passing is good enough to play together week in, week outmiles wrote:An average 68 percent pass completion rate like yesterday will lead to disaster sooner or later. Once things have calmed down a little he must be straight back in the side.
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miles wrote:An average 68 percent pass completion rate like yesterday will lead to disaster sooner or later. Once things have calmed down a little he must be straight back in the side.
Kendal Iron wrote:Spot on, neither Kouyate nor Obiang's passing is good enough to play together week in, week out
Why the obsession with passing stats?
Mark is a good passer, but its hardly helped our cause lately has it??
Pressing the opposition into making mistakes which leads to goals is far more important than all this pass completion nonsense.
Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
id rather 68 average completion of passes forward rather than marks completion of sideways and backwards passingmiles wrote:An average 68 percent pass completion rate like yesterday will lead to disaster sooner or later. Once things have calmed down a little he must be straight back in the side.
Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Without Noble, Rice and Lanzini (especially) watching us to try to pass the ball at times last night was frightening
At 'home' especially in games going forward, you would hope we'll be better on the ball
At 'home' especially in games going forward, you would hope we'll be better on the ball
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Because teams that don't keep possession tend to lose more than they win. As others had remarked on the match thread, we got away with it last night because Huddersfield were not good enough to take advantagewestham,eggyandchips wrote:
Why the obsession with passing stats?
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Confidence was/is low.
Lastnight was all about hard work and passion - we got it.
Hopefully with more confidence, simple things like passing will improve.
Lastnight was all about hard work and passion - we got it.
Hopefully with more confidence, simple things like passing will improve.
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So you don't want us to play any passing football then? Just give the opposition the ball and then hound them into mistakes?westham,eggyandchips wrote:Why the obsession with passing stats?
Mark is a good passer, but its hardly helped our cause lately has it??
Pressing the opposition into making mistakes which leads to goals is far more important than all this pass completion nonsense.
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Not that I really care that much about passing accuracy stats as I judge more on end product (i.e. are we creating more chances than the opposition), but Obiang's passing accuracy yesterday was 83%, about the same as Noble's usual percentage. Kouyate's was lower but we all know that Kouyate offers many other attributes.Kendal Iron wrote:
Spot on, neither Kouyate nor Obiang's passing is good enough to play together week in, week out
It's amazing what straws those who want Noble to play no matter what will keep clutching.
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Obiangs individual pass completion was much better than the team average. In fact it was the best out of all our players on the night. I'm not quite sure why he's being picked out to demonstrate our poor passing. There were much worse.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Who was hoofing it though? Certainly not Kouyate and Obiang. Was usually our defenders and full backs. If they are being told to go long that is not the fault of the central midfielders.fjthegrey wrote: So you don't want us to play any passing football then? Just give the opposition the ball and then hound them into mistakes?
We need to play a mixed game. Our best passer is Lanzini, not Noble. Get him on the pitch and suddenly we can go wide, pass through the middle or go long if necessary, which is a good mix of options.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Our best passer in central defence happens to be the one most criticised. Our best passer in central midfield suffers the same. As does our fullback with the best passing stats. Clearly, being a good passer doesn't do much to win the fans over. And yet we all wanted a record signing defensive midfielder that's more carrick than kante, and who's greatest strength was intelligent distribution from deep. Wouldn't have been long before he started to suffer the criticism too.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
I want us to win football matches. If a certain way doesn't work, then try another. We've had plenty of games where the pretty passes and high % were completed and still lost.fjthegrey wrote: So you don't want us to play any passing football then? Just give the opposition the ball and then hound them into mistakes?
I hate the term "must win" but last night was just that for Slav and he changed formation, tactics and personnel. It appeared to have worked. Who knows whether it'll work against better opponents......he may have to change it again.
But passing stats can do one, they're like possession stats, totally irrelevant and brought in like some NFL obsession.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Significantly many worse than Obiang last night, who was the only guy I felt confident would play with his head up and look for a pass to make at times.Burnley Hammer wrote:Obiangs individual pass completion was much better than the team average. In fact it was the best out of all our players on the night. I'm not quite sure why he's being picked out to demonstrate our poor passing. There were much worse.
The whole team were poor otherwise, but most notably Kouyate, Zabaleta, and Cresswell - we need better from those three players (or whoever plays in those positions) than averaging a 64-68% completion rate. Other, more savvy, midfields will snatch those loose passes and turn them into chances.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
miles wrote:An average 68 percent pass completion rate like yesterday will lead to disaster sooner or later. Once things have calmed down a little he must be straight back in the side.
Kendal Iron wrote:Spot on, neither Kouyate nor Obiang's passing is good enough to play together week in, week out
Very true eggy. Leicester won a title based on counter attacking.westham,eggyandchips wrote:Why the obsession with passing stats?
Mark is a good passer, but its hardly helped our cause lately has it??
Pressing the opposition into making mistakes which leads to goals is far more important than all this pass completion nonsense.
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You can't counter attack without being able to pass a ballAdam 'The Smudge' wrote: Very true eggy. Leicester won a title based on counter attacking.
Play like we did last night and we will lose far more games than we will win, plus it will be fairly pony to watch
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
You telling me with that attacking line up Noble would still be passing sideways?
That said I'm not convinced he's capable of covering the ground needed when we pressed high up.
That said I'm not convinced he's capable of covering the ground needed when we pressed high up.
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Re: Mark Noble - West Ham Legend
Exactly, he picks the right pass, more than he doesn't, and more than most, but if there's f**k all available in front of him he won't pass it forward for the sake of it or for the sake of forward pass stats.Andytheammer wrote:You telling me with that attacking line up Noble would still be passing sideways?
That said I'm not convinced he's capable of covering the ground needed when we pressed high up.
I still can't believe Noble got the flack for Snodgrass punting the ball against Fehgouli and then Chelsea countering to score, it's things like that that make me take most criticism of Noble with a pinch of salt.