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The Aftermath Of West Ham’s Defeat

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Fulham West HamSo it was another defeat for West Ham as they fell to a 3-1 loss to Fulham. I could sit here and slate the team and the manager all night long but the fact of the matter is I don’t want to. Sam Allardyce has done great things for West Ham leading us back to the Premier League at the first time of asking and although results are not going our way we do have a good squad.

 

 

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Personally I thought January was a good month for us to pick us some vital points and cement our place in the Premier League without being drawn into a battle. However it seems to have been one of our tougher months, having only picked up four points this month out of 15. This is especially poor when you consider we have played teams like QPR, Sunderland and Fulham and these are the teams that we should be getting results from.

 

 

We had a fantastic start to the season where results were coming in and players were looking good. But we have been hit with injuries losing the likes of Andy Carroll, Mohamed Diame, Joey O’Brien, George McCartney and Jack Collison and with Alou Diarra being out from the start of the season and this has hit the team hard and the effects are evident in results. These players are now coming back from injuries and will hopefully settle the team down again. When you get on a run like West Ham has been it knocks moral, which in turn knocks confidence and that is a noticeable factor in our current performances. Goals have been one of the main problems and the inability to score them! At West Ham we have three full international strikers out of the four we have with Andy Carroll, Carlton Cole, Marouane Chamakh and Wellington Paulista, excluding Paulista as he has not made a first team appearance we should have plenty of goals in our team the worrying fact is that Carroll, Cole and Chamakh don’t look like they are going to score which is a problem and a big one at that.

 

 

I have also heard a lot over social media networks after the Fulham game that fans are turning on Sam Allardyce and calling for him to be sacked. In my opinion this is crazy, Sam has done a fantastic job for us making us a more solid unit. Yes I do agree that he does have the worrying problem that he refuses to see the issues with the formation he is playing, the one up top has not been effective enough, so change it and try with two up front.

 

 

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With the players back from injury and some new faces in to the club. I just hope for some consistency now, a settled team will mean for a settled run of results. I still feel we have a good squad and a good manager who has just hit the blip in the season and the result against Fulham hasn’t help matters but it has to be onwards and upwards and get behind our team for a tough game against Swansea next.

 

 

Maybe the problem has been that we have become a victim of our early season success? We are West Ham and it wouldn’t be West Ham without some turbulence during the course of the season. This is our first season back in the Premier League so safety is first and foremost however frustrating that may be!

 

 

Carl Bateson

 

 

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  • ausie john says:

    firstly y does the manager think of goin for keeper last line of defenceno disregard to robinson but we have a very leaky defence ,a slow midfield slow as a snail and a top scorer in nolan and 2nd top scorer in collins 2 own goals thats the problem , do we all remember Avram Grant we were looking to sack him didnt and the rest wad history , l dont want the same . Very discruntled hammer , from down under

  • Dirk says:

    Agree totally about Sam and the blip in form, we are West Ham and if we’d been offered 14th in January at the beginning of the season then we’d probably all have said yes. We haven’t got the spending power or draw of most of our London rivals apart from QPR & Fulham. If we sack Sam, then who else would want to come? I know the claret and blue glasses suggest DiCanio but he is one for the future, not now. We have have the best manager for the club at the present time, a couple of goals for Andy Carroll will transform the guy, I’m convinced that, although it may well get intense, we’ll survive and then hopefully kick on next season

  • Hammersmad says:

    sorry dont agree. Sam got us promoted with the biggest budget in the championship (via the playoffs), he seems to have one style of play (big man up front) and even though we have a very good team IMO, he refuses to use the players in their best positions (why get Chamakh and play him as the big target man for example). Would have been happy with 14th at the start of the season.but we are on a slide now and we can all see the way this is going cant we? A relegation scrap akin to the Avram Grant debacle. Sorry guys but I see Sam now as a relic from the past trying to replicate his small amount of Bolton success. If you think thats nonsense, just look at the ex Bolton players he has signed. Hope I am wrong but think the Davids will need to act fast, PDC in

    • sibbo says:

      quite agree with you he has a one track mind all he wants is big man up front,wont play two up front he is a dynosaur stuck in his long ball game and keeps putting players in their wrong positions.

  • Helen Ludlow says:

    Injuries have hit us all season again which is a worry and looking at the game last night their offside first goal and 2 penalty appeals not given dont help. We have had too many decisions not given which have also cost us (Nolans disallowed goals etc). Keep the faith and hopefully Sam will keep us up. Get rid of those that dont want to be here and play for us we need a united team.

  • Alex says:

    Great article there and I totally agree with all the points you’ve raised.

  • Hugh Bevan says:

    Sam got us promoted with a big budget and by far the best squad in the league. Has Plan A nearly mucked it up for us too as we needed the playoffs and were the worse side in the final if I am being honest. I don’t see the miracles that others see. All I see is a manager who has his favourite system and his favourite players and no one else matters to him. He ruins players confidence, treats players like rubbish (Diarra is a prime example) and utilises our squad badly. We have a good squad and he is ruining it.

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