Give Sam time.

[bonzosbest74]

Oh dear, you're not digging up one of your own old threads and fishing for praise are you?


Someone's very pleased themselves.

[dorsetdano]

7 years hard labour in strangeways would be my vote

He is a one trick pony, who is nothing to help the club long term apart from keep us in the Premiership - which should be a given on:-
a. the amount he is paid
b. the amount he has wasted on transfers
c. the criminal way he ignores all the home grown talent apart from sending then out to be slaughtered when they were asked to play an alien system against Forest, the man is poison

[Whiskyman]

7 years hard labour in strangeways would be my vote

He is a one trick pony, who is nothing to help the club long term apart from keep us in the Premiership - which should be a given on:-
a. the amount he is paid
b. the amount he has wasted on transfers
c. the criminal way he ignores all the home grown talent apart from sending then out to be slaughtered when they were asked to play an alien system against Forest, the man is poison

Can't disagree with a or b mate, although I do give him credit for his dealings at the bargain counter, Adrian being the latest on the list.

But what "home grown talent" is being ignored? I'll quite happily eat my words if someone we've let go for nothing comes back to haunt us but in all the years of supporting the club the only one who's really made a decent career after being let go by us is Ray Houghton.

And the U18's did lose at home to f_ucking Accrington in the FAYC this season.

[TOWIE]

It really is annoying people saying he never plays local talent from youth team. For Christs sake if they are good enough they will get in.
Who left for Bolton in the summer? Flourishing isn't he? Ffs he that good I can't even remember his.
Hines -dagenham
Sears - Colchester
Montano - Oldham (now sacked match fixing)
If we stuck with that lot we would be struggling in chumpship!

[Whiskyman]

It really is annoying people saying he never plays local talent from youth team. For Christs sake if they are good enough they will get in.
Who left for Bolton in the summer? Flourishing isn't he? Ffs he that good I can't even remember his.
Hines -dagenham
Sears - Colchester
Montano - Oldham (now sacked match fixing)
If we stuck with that lot we would be struggling in chumpship!

Robert Hall's a good example. Looked great in the Dev Squad games I saw him in but is basically a bench warmer at a club currently 19th in the championship.

I feel sorry for the kids in the Devs because there's such a massive gulf between that level and the PL. So they go off on loan, do great a a lower blevel, think they're the dog's wotsits and then decide they deserve first team action.

I mustn't mention the idea of "B" teams but if our academy is to flourish like it used to we have to find some way of bridging the gap between Dev Squad and PL whil

[bonzosbest74]

I don't think Noble or Tomkins would have broken through under Sam, they are lucky they had played a significant number of games before he arrived.

[SwearryThierry53]

F.ucking hell bonz, are you turning ginger?

[Hammerman69]

7 years hard labour in strangeways would be my vote

He is a one trick pony, who is nothing to help the club long term apart from keep us in the Premiership - which should be a given on:-
a. the amount he is paid
b. the amount he has wasted on transfers
c. the criminal way he ignores all the home grown talent apart from sending then out to be slaughtered when they were asked to play an alien system against Forest, the man is poison

Absolutely the most ridiculous post I have read in my opinion.

I look at the league table and I think we all know we are not going to finish above Man City, Chelsea, Arse, Man Utd, Liverpool, Everton and Spuds given the financial situation at present.

That would put us 8th...we are currently 10th. So in essence the only 2 other clubs we could genuinely hope to compete with are Southampton and Newcastle (who are in free fall now Cabaye has gone).

I don't give a flying **** about transfers and re

[bonzosbest74]

69, I've noticed a lack of comprehension of other peoples opinions in quite a few of your posts mate.


You clearly attend loads of away games (your away reports are the stuff of legend) and have supported West Ham for many years yet your outlook is very much that of a modern premier lg era fan.


There seems to no understanding that some people might have supported the Hammers because of the style of football so any attempts at mentioning the lack of possession and siege defending is met with a pragmatic nudge toward the league table.

Allardyce apologists seem to expect that fans brought up on watching the likes of Brooking, Devonshire & DiCanio should just get over it and accept our lack of flair because 'The BFS way' is effective.

It is incomprehensible why anyone would yearn for more academy players in the team. . . . . that's just old fashioned isn't it? The academy argument is met with grunts of 'they ain't good enough' without really scratching below the surface to see why be

[SwearryThierry53]

What I don't understand is this: apart from two seasons under Redknapp and one under Pardew, the football at West Ham has been consistently gash for decades. Why then, less than three years since our last relegation and five since our near financial meltdown, are we expecting a sudden transformation?

Beats the f uck out of me