Josh Cullen

Really strange 

I think if you take off the green tinted specs, his best position is already filled at WH, and Soucek is a certainty in the team too. WH aren't shackling him, he could seek a transfer, and given the recent sale of Diangana, I cant imagine for a moment that he wouldn't be allowed.

I addressed that clearly above forget about Cullen Haller and a few others the other night were outstanding and yet Moyes went with the same players that pretty much disgraced him against Newcastle. He got what he deserved. 

I get what your saying in regards it’s probably his decision to stay. As for West Ham could see them struggling outside of Fulham and West Brom they are the front runners for relegation to my mind.

Totally agree in my position as a bar manager of 10 years I regularly watch games on tv and feel disappointed that more irish players are not in the Barca or Bayern Munich teams.  

Of course, but the inability to look at it from any other viewpoint but that is just idiotic. Posting he can feel hard done by is one thing, there are lads going off on rants about West Ham because Moyes didn't pick the Irish lad. As much as I despise the Essex racists, that's just silly.

I don't think its unfair to say that playing a League 1 side in a cup game is not a particularly good representation of a team. I accept that the value of the team on the pitch on Tuesday night supersedes the value of what Moyes has been using in league games. But last night was no disgrace, and there were some adjustments including playing Fredricks and Masuaku as wing backs. Also, Antonio did score, and Haller blows hot and cold. His return of seven goals last term was less than impressive when compared with Antonio outscoring him, and Snodgrass and Yarmolenko just falling short of scoring as many. All three combined didn't cost £45 Million.

In fairness though, I wasn't actually having a go at your comments, which have arguable merit. I was directing it at comments about WH '"getting what they deserved" because they are not involving him, and comments as though WH are shackling him.

Fair enough. I think essentially they played okayish typical Moyes will drilled and organised and remained compact against an Arsenal side who are the sort that would labour last night after such an impressive performance last week.. What good that does for West Ham I don’t know especially with their run coming up Moyes could be in trouble and he’s a capable manager (I say that as a Utd fan despite that disaster) 

 The Newcastle performance they were woeful and I think Moyes took a huge chance playing the same 11 again after that that’s what I mean by got what they deserved. Think you should alwaus change personnel up myself especially when the fringe players were so impressive during the week against I accept League 1 opposition.

I'm not sure excellent is the word. Most of his games have come against lower league opposition in domestic cups (2018) springs to mind, and the 2015 Europa League run. These games were pedestrian, and a lot of the players involved, serviceable, the results, more often than not, poor. He was in the midfield when it took WHU two games and extra time to beat Shrewsbury, and he was there when (IIRC) a third tier Wigan dominated West Ham. One of his appearances was a cameo at the end of a 3-0 defeat of Liverpool at Anfield, and another a cameo at the end of a 3-0 defeat of Southampton at the OS. The league cup game against Charlton was a very noticeable performance.

Thats not to say that he is not worth a look today, or that he shouldn't be promoted, but his historical appearances for WH wouldn't necessarily described as "excellent" throughout.