When we beat Cardiff City at their place at the start of the month live on the Beeb, West Ham fans the world over believed automatic promotion was a mere formality.
Yet since that convincing win West Ham have been anything but convincing; drawing game after game against supposedly inferior opposition. March was always going to be a pivotal month given that 8 matches were to be contested. This was the month to sort the men from the boys, the contenders from the pretenders…and I guess it has.
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Whilst Southampton and Reading have gone from strength to strength West Ham have struggled and toiled; drawing at home against the likes of Doncaster Rovers and Watford. We now sit 4 points from Reading in 2nd.
We’re currently on a 10 match unbeaten run Sam will tell you and he’ll produce stats to prove ‘we’re dominating the opposition’ yet all of this is immaterial. The only statistics that matter are whether we’re winning, losing or drawing and at the moment we can’t get enough of the latter.
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Judgement on Sam Allardyce should be reserved till the end of the season; his remit at the start of the campaign was to get the club promoted at the first time of asking and he may still achieve this solitary objective. What is indisputable though is that Sam Allardyce has been given more than any manager to spend in this season’s Championship to build and mould a squad capable of finishing in the top two…and now at the crunch we’re flagging
and managers in Brian McDermott and Nigel Adkins who’ve had far less to spend, smaller squads and less quality to work with are producing better quality football and better results.
I just don’t know what’s gone wrong after that magnificent win at the Cardiff City stadium on 4th March; but as I write this 20 days later we sit four points off 2nd spot and our hopes of automatics ride almost solely on the two fixtures looming next week. Victory over Peterborough and Reading will see us back in the top 2…anything else and West Ham will be buying a Play-off lottery ticket after already looking like we’d won the jackpot.
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Ah! A phrase i agree with.
Supposedly inferior opposition.
Thats just it- either WHU fans cant see it,accept it, or have that “We belong up there” thing in there heads!
You are still in with a very good chance.
Dont be so negative!
PS – Does anybody smile or be happy in that part of town anymore or have you got like that BBC soap opera lot – always fighting and miserable all the time?
Come on – Cheer up – You might need Binoculars to watch your team in the future!!!
Get out of our blog u fukin knob head. Noone cares what u think. Go grow some forskin.
What’s changed? Kevin Nolan that’s what… No coincidence that our best run of form this season came when he wasn’t in the side….yrs he scores goals but offers nothing else. He slows the play, gets in the way, doesn’t tackle and can’t pass the ball. Take him out…
I can’t agree more it’s the Nolan factor we are set up around him ok 10 goals, but our midfield is our problem we
Can shut teams out but they have no protection as no one seems to know where they are playing with him in the team plus too many players out of position him Taylor collison shouldn’t be near the team we are carrying them have done all season long I’d try youngsters out wide I really would
Agree re: Nolan. Do yourself a Nolan-cam for 10-15 minutes in a game and see he does f-all.
Massive week ahead for us.
We lost to Cardiff. At least get your facts right first.
Trouble is “our problem Nolan” is our leading goal scorer – we would definitely be out of contention without the goals he has scored this season – one (well actually two cos I didn’t see anything wrong with his goal in the first half) being at Burnley on Sat – if we had lost that game we would have had to kiss goodbye our dreams of automatic promotion!
We need more pace and creativity in our midfield and need wide men. Ricardo Vaz Te has been a breath of fresh air since he came in but we have nobody on the right. They play Julien Faubert who shouldn;t be in the same league. How many Promotion contenders start with 4-5-1???? Intent is there from the off (we frightened to lose)
Jamie you have mugged yourself off good and proper. We beat Cardiff live on the beeb at the start of the month at their place. Get your facts right.