Three matches ago we had the best defensive record in the league outside the top 4. Three successive 4-0 defeats is a record no team can be proud of. To lose 4-0 to a team 8 points below us is shameful. Today we read in a Sunday newspaper that the club will replace Alan Curbishley at the end of the season. There will no doubt be cries for that to happen now after this result. But let’s not forget what he achieved last season for us. Surely to God he can turn things round now. The players at his disposal are overall far superior in quality to those who won the last seven games last year. I reckon a riot act needs reading.
But when you drop your best player to the bench (Noble) and persist with the waste of space that calls himself Luis Boa Morte you can hardly blame people if they questions your judgement, can you?
Anyway, I wasn’t there and didn’t see the match. I’m told we attacked much better, but our defence played as if they had never met each other before. What did people think, who actually saw the game?
Even when things have been good this season, the football has been dire and unatractive. This is West Ham United ffs!
Curbs has to go!
i fink it is a disgrace that alan curbishly stills plays luis boa morte the effort is there but he doesent diserve to be wearing the west ham shirt. He has the likes of Mark Noble and Nolberto Solano on the bench sometimes i wonder if he knows what he is doing to lose 4-0 three times is absulute rubbish. Other than Mark Noble Scott Parker and Robert Green the passion just isnt there. We have the likes of BLACKBURN EVERTON AND SUNDERLAND NEXT if there is 3 more defeats there alan curbishly should be a worried man.
most of us are behind curbs and all want him to do well,but theres no way im gunna back him if he continues to play neil and boa morte, theres no manager in the world gunna make neil run faster and thers no manager in the world gunna make LBM do anything right…not a moaning yiddo!!!
you lose 4-0 against chelsea…ok, could happen to any1, bad day at the office
you then lose 4-0 a second time, you have to stick a rocket up your players and make some wholesale changes…we can’t go down and we have tottenham next
so what could have happened is we go to the spuds with some bright young players in the side (sears, noble etc etc – noble who has been proving himself all year) – we may or may not get a result but the manager would have proved a point to all the dead wood (lbm eg) that they’re not guaranteed a place in the team if they continues to play crap every single flippin week. those young players would have also definatley been up for the game/the fight/the battle that every fan wants to see from a person donning the c&b
but no, mr.mediocre himself insists on playing his little favourites in pursuit of rebuilding an entire ex charlton side. spector, lbm, cole blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. you can read him like a picture book, his subs wont be made until 20-25mins left and when he does bring players on its always too late.
his tictacs are from the same script no matter who we play…and we have been found out. simple as.
so what actually happens is is we lose 4-0 again – but without having learnt anything new about our team, which at this stage of the season with the young talent we have at our disposal could be vital for starting something new and improved next year
lets get a few bright young sparks who want to play for us out on the pitch – see what they’ve got to offer
before we say goodbye to alan completely, he team itself needs a huge shakeup – we have nothing to lose this year, so its a perfect opportunity..
drop lbm, spector (as CB), maybe mullins (but only cos i wanna see noble in), cole, maybe neill
get in noble straight away (particularly for london derbies curbs!), sears, tomkins pleyers from this breed
we have a lot of experience in our team and it has potential to fuse well
then sack curbs!
hi guys, bartman u wrote a niec peice and then reuned it right at the end. U say ex hammer is not the way foward and then the last think u say in your argument is billic in? im sorry is he not an ex hammer?
To be honest I feel that there are a number of points that need to be raised and raised quickly. Firstly excuse my rantings which no doubt will ramble on:
1) Rob Green – Seems disheartened and seems to be lacking a bit of concentration. It seems that when our goal was being bombarded last year he was outstanding. Not saying we or any one else has anything better though
2) Lucas Neill – Despite turning 30 he seems not to have improved and still makes silly mistakes that need to be addressed. Despite these though, we have more urgent things to look at
3) Anton Ferdinand – Yesturday he made a few mistakes that cost us goals. Specifically letting Berbatov in for those two headers. Had a good season though and working with Upson I feel he has a good future. One to keep me thinks
4) Matthew Upson – Has been amazing this year. A true rock. I think we have seen that without him we fall apart. This has been proven by the fact that as Iain say’s one minute we have the one of the best defences in the league, the next we are hitting relegation form.
5) George McArtney – Well in the battle of the Beatles it was Lennon that won. I will admit that I personally thought that LB was a position that we would struggle in but George has proved me wrong with a string of great performances. Would just like to see him get forward more. Abit like Evra, Bridge or Risse.
6) Other Defenders – It seems that we have a lot of squad players that need to be dumped Pantsil, Davenport. Spector to name just 3. Collins and Gabbidon can stay a) to show loyalty for bringing us back up and b) they are good defenders on thier day.
7) Lundjberg – Is it me or is this man past his best. A cry back to the old days of Radiciou, Futre and Dimitrescu. £80K per week (alledgedly). I would seriously think about cutting our losses and getting something new in. Faubert excites me but needs games.
On thier day we could have the best CM in the country what with Parker, Nobes and Mullins. Yes even Mullins who for me has done little wrong. Against teams below us play Parker and Nobes. For the harder teams play with Mullins.
9) Well this is where I start to get RAGE!!!!! IS CURBS BLIND!!! LBM is SHOCKING!!! Where is Etherington? Where is Reid? Where is Collinson all are better than this Tw*t. He sulks, he never passes and cant take on players. This is something that has been persistant all year yet Curbs continues to play him. WHY? It is descisions like this that will get him the sack!
10) Forwards – Dean Ashton for me is the best forward we have. Controversial I know! but hear me out. This man was at the start of the year valued at close to 15Mil. Now I understand he has put on weight but with persistance and the fact we have nobody better, he WILL regain the form that propelled him into the England squad. Still our top Goalscorer and has played a hatfull of games! Cole is great as a 4th Choice behind Zamora, Bellers and Ashton and the lad has a canny knack of being able to hold up the ball which should be used against the big boys. Fair play to Curbs for experimenting but each games tactics should be based on who you are playing and not the fact that you won your last game. Still with Bobby Z back we have hope of a bit of competition for the forward places.
11) The remainder of the squad. – Youth wise we are looking good again. Freddie Sears is on fire and needs games soon. Now we have nothing to fight for, what do we have to lose. The same goes with Collinson, Stanislas and Stech in goal.
How do I come to the above. Well I have watched EVERY GAME HOME AND AWAY and can see what the response of the crowd is. Although we are all ranting and raving lets look back 12 months! In the bottom 3 and lets admit it. We were doomed. Still Curbs (with a little help from an Argie) pulled us back from oblivion. So lets give him another 12 months. Relegation to Europe in 2 seasons aint bad. Especially with all of the injuries we have had. Thats another thing! Curbs give the injury excuse a rest and be honest! sometimes we are good and sometimes we are awful. That’s Football.
One final point. With the summer fast approaching we need to look at Transfer targets and we need to spend. Not big but sensibly. Giles Barnes for one is a good target. Left Mid is something we need to improve. Ethers is good but that is all we have? Perhaps a LB for cover/competition for George Mac. The rest of the team seems fine with good competitive competition all over.
Enough of my waffling. Constructive comments welcome. however please bear in mind that these are my opinons and not that of others.
I thankyou
Curbishley has to go,thats not the issue,the issue is lets get the right man to replace him.Slaven Bilic is that man.Hes clever,passionate and a winner,everything curbishley isn’t.We want entertainment,we lost tevez and yossi,where did he think the craft and brain of the team was going to come from? All these managers are the same,Mclaren,curbishley,allerdyce,the so called best of English,all haven’t a clue,all moved up a level and got badly found out.I know if i was the Chairman i would want the best man to take my club forward,someone that knows the foreign market,someone who knows how to play good football on the ground and someone whose not afraid to blood youngsters.Bilic in,sign him up before Croatia win the euros and he ends up in Italy or Spain.
I’m tired of Curbishley now. It’s taken a while to come as I’ve never forgotten the miracle at the end of last season, but he has proven his critics correct. He is predictable.
At the same time however, we have beaten Man United three times in a row under him and remain the only team to win at the Emirates.
He has to go though, because he doesn’t have the character to bring in the required players for next season if we are going to have any chance of pushing for Europe. That was shown when Bent decided to take a U-turn at the last minute (thank god he did though).
Bilic would be a great appointment, I just don’t know whether he’d take the job. Maybe if Croatia flop at the Euros, but then we wouldn’t want him because he’d be known as a bad manager.
I’d actually quite like to see Di Canio as someones number two. He’s got the passion to motivate the players, something that is non-existent at the moment. I just hope, if we do get someone new in, that they are allowed to make the transfer dealings themselves, rather than being told who to buy by the board.
You have to assess Curbishley on the season and not on 1 string of (very) poor results, this is still a season where we’ve beaten Man U and Liverpool at Upton Park, and have virtually guaranteed ourselves premiership football again next season, coming from where we were last year, this is a success and should be seen as one by all the fans.
It’s one thing for fans to say they want attractive football, but if we went back to playing like we did under Pardew sooner or later we’d end up in the same position we were under Pardew, Curbs’ approach gets us the points we need and those points get us the stability we need to really push on and try to become the next Everton or Pompey. Dont forget Evertons first shot at the Champions League (which they blew in spectacular fashion) came off the back of a season where they were 1-0 specialists, now they score for fun.
There is NO CHANCE, of West Ham ever becoming the club BG and the fans want if we sack managers because ‘all’ they do is get points on the board. Points have to come first, flair needs to take a back seat for now.
Iain, I can’t believe some of the rubbish written above against Curbishly, we would be playing in the Championship if he hadn’t arrived, his only crime is one or two bad signings!! (LBM and Quashie).
I seem to remember Harry making a good deal more without this criticism.
Give Alan a few seasons and he will build a good team, it is some of the players who need a wake up call for very average displays lately.
WHU is a club who have stuck by their managers in the past, and we need to stop this tabloid mentality of looking for the managers head every time we have a bad patch.
Lets get real, now isn’t the time for a change.
In answer to anyone that thinks Curbishley should be given more time because of the great job he done in saving us last season then lets remember some facts : Firstly – it was the fans constant singing and chanting for Tevez that finally got him the run in the team he deserved. Secondly, the other main factor was Mark Noble – and despite playing superbly whenever given a chance only finally got into the team because of injuries to others.
We owe Curbishley nothing for last season – get him out now before the damage is irreversable.
storm…slaven bilic is an ex hammer
Betfair.Bilic has said many times that he would love to be back at west ham oneday,so dont be surprised if at the end of the season to hear of him being our new manager
An observation:
Charlton, under Curbishley, were notorious for starting the season well but fading badly. It looks like the same thing is happening to the Hammers.
But what about last year, when you won 7 of your last 9 games to stay up? Curbishley wasn’t around for pre-season or the early games. So this is the first time you’ve seen his unique approach to team preparation and fitness at work.
Regarding yesterday’s game, I was there. Apart from the first 5 minutes you weren’t in it and a more astute manager would have had LBM off long before the ref took the decision out of his hands. Only Parker and Ashton can leave with their heads held high – both were exemplars of hard and selfless work.
As we seem to be in backwards gear let’s not bet against Curbs bringing back Quashie as he battles to keep our mid-table mediocrity safe: ‘yeah Nigel could do a nice little job for us..’
Has this Nani geezer been confirmed as our new sporting director yet or not?
I really really wanted curbs to succeed, was at his first game against man utd and thought we were sorted. Despite beatin the goons at the emirates and beating man utd another 2 times, I have given up on his abilities. Yes of course we dont wanna turn into a joke club that has a different manager every other season like spuds or the barcodes, but its frustrating and embarrasing. 4 nil three times in a row? That has to be a record in the premiership surely? Our 3 games previous to this dark dark week in our history, wigan, birmingham and fulham, should really have been 9 points, instead we just about managed 4 points. The signs were there. We knew a result like chelsea was coming, and when it did, most predicted the same against liverpool, when that happened it confirmed that yes we prob will get done 4nil again by the spuds. How are we not going to lose at least 4 nil to everton away in a fortnight? LBM WANTS to do well for the club but he can’t apart from with the reserves, wanting and actually doing something are not the same curbs. He is so poor and it really really shows, has done for a long time now. But of course curbs and LBM are not the only culprits. Motivation in my opinion is a key quality in a manager and curbs cant motivate! after chelsea we got told we have to sort it out. Nothing. After Liverpool, we have to sort it out. Nothing. Spuds. Nothing. YES we have injuries & YES he played his part in the miracle that kept us up last season. But he bought in the KNOWN injury plagued players. Can we not get refunds on bellamy, dyer, parker? (Parker played well yesterday but c’mon, he’ll get injured til the summer in our next game) Really not sure about Bilic, think he has potential but bit risky he’s never managed at club level! There are no realistic replacements that can take us to the next level at the moment we will prob have to wait til the summer, but this cant continue! I got sunderland away tickets today, I’m not sure why!?! 12 hour drive to play negatively and lose 4 nil. SORT IT OUT CURBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know this doesnt have alot to do with this section but Iain, i dont know if i feel very west ham till i die at the moment, i mean sure i love the club , and Curbishly has done a good job at West Ham but i think his time has come where every fan would be happy to see him resign dont you agree? and yeah maybe if we start playing like the decent premiership club we should be i may get that passion back which was taken away when West Ham continue to make fools of themselves
dear oh dear oh dear. what a boring season,lack of goalsl,lack of creativity,lack of effort from some.i have seen very little if any of the football traditions that make us support west ham.curbishley i dont really know.i never rated him before his appointment and still dont,but should we sack him?look at newcastle etc who chop and change without any improvement.at the same time his style of football is ugly has no style to it and is not good to watch.lets not forget that before all the money talk football is supposed to be entertainment and how many times can we honestly say we have been entertained this season?i pray things improve but curbishley has never been known for exciting good football has he?as for the recent results someone please tell me its all a bad dream.come on you irons……….
I have no sympathy for curbishley or his arrogance.Why did’t he replace lbm after the first yellow card.? With his dirty style of play red had to be on its way.
For me it was a stupid mistate,so out with curbishley.
In our local paper today,it says Curbishley won’t have to drop Boa Morte now that he is suspended.
He gave him marks out of ten as 1 point just because he turned up!!
Says it all really.
I was watching the game live yesterday with my two sons and we just couldn’t believe what was happening.One goal down from a set piece, ok it was a good header and we are thinking,come on you Hammers get em back.Then another set piece from the other side and we are all saying “for gods sake keep an eye on Berbatov”!! 2-0.LBM is on the field,gets a yellow and the three of us knowing the kind of player he is are screaming at the TV for Curbs to take him off before it’s too late!! 10 men!!!
Sorry Alan,but for me you failed terribly as a manager at that point.If LBM was a class player like say,Ronaldo,Rooney,Tevez,etc I could understand you keeping him on and taking a risk,but he isn’t,is he?!! Like someone else said,West Ham played better without him anyway.Lastly I would like to say that being a West Ham fan since I was about 8 and having Geoff Hurst live in the road at the back of ours in those magic days of 66 etc I really do feel sorry for the youngsters nowadays who pay alot of money to watch their favorite team only to be let down so much as they have been in the last 8 days.
i think its pathetic that we lose 4-0 times in a row, and all of a sudden he’s under pressure. whatever happened to the days when a manager was at a club for years. it seems now you get 4 poor results in the season, and your threatened to be sacked.
although i do think they shouldnt have chose curbs to begin with
I think a lot of posters fail to remember that we have spent very big money in the last 15-16 months and imho had a very poor return on it with Boa Morte as bad as i have ever seen in a claret and blue shirt and unbelievably he still gets picked! why?? this is Curbs downfall as i believe as he signed him he has to play him no matter how bad he is and he is awful.
I’ve read lots of comments posted on this board and others, as well as the Guardian article (which I think is a total fabrication) – as well as the recent statement on WHUFC.com.
But lets assess sensibly where Curbishley has taken us:
1) We are a much stronger league position that we were last year, still with possible 6th place finish
2) We have some exciting young talent coming through e.g. Noble, Sears, Collinson as well as Ashton, Green, Upson
3) With the injuries this season, huge pluses go to Carlton Cole, Matthew Upson and George MacCartney, not to mention Hayden Mullins. Definitely a good sign of good management
4) Signing of Scott Parker – very impressive player when fit
5) Better defensively (with the exception of last results) – our hallmark has always been dodgy defence
Negatives:
1) Boring dull brand of football – but suppose this has been constrained by our injury problem up front
2) Bought injury prone players – need better scout
3) Bought LBM – shoot him
Solution: get rid of LBM, trim squad down, hope that injuries clear up and buy a couple of decent foreign players and stop whinging – we could be in the Coco cola league – get behind the team
I’ve read lots of comments posted on this board and others, as well as the Guardian article (which I think is a total fabrication) – as well as the recent statement on WHUFC.com.
But lets assess sensibly where Curbishley has taken us:
1) We are a much stronger league position that we were last year, still with possible 6th place finish
2) We have some exciting young talent coming through e.g. Noble, Sears, Collinson as well as Ashton, Green, Upson
3) With the injuries this season, huge pluses go to Carlton Cole, Matthew Upson and George MacCartney, not to mention Hayden Mullins. Definitely a good sign of good management
4) Signing of Scott Parker – very impressive player when fit
5) Better defensively (with the exception of last results) – our hallmark has always been dodgy defence
Negatives:
1) Boring dull brand of football – but suppose this has been constrained by our injury problem up front
2) Bought injury prone players – need better scout
3) Bought LBM – shoot him
Solution: get rid of LBM, trim squad down, hope that injuries clear up and buy a couple of decent foreign players and stop whinging – we could be in the Coco cola league – get behind the team
Hello I’m Luis and the most positive thing that came out of the Tottenham game was that Curbs won’t be able to play me next week because I’m a complete nut who can only make sloppy tackles when they are needed.
By the way I would like to be known from now on as “Lose Boa Morte” .
I should have taken up Kickboxing as my father advised me!!!!!
I also wish I could pay BG my 5 million pound price tag back because I feel he needs to buy some strong coffee(preferably Douwe Eggerts) and for good measure some biscuits too.This could take some of the pain away from watching me fight, errrr whoops I mean play.
Its difficult to get behind the team when they are slaughtered like lambs 3 times in a row,plus bad tactics from curbs dont help.In saying that booing wont help us win,but this run of results has to change asap,and we are lacking goals,and this is worrying.Lets just hope that after ashton put in a better workrate,that he keeps it going and gets back to the ashton we know.Still think sears should get a run out in the games
What do we do when we’re down 4-0?
Have a laugh, get on with it and cheer for Wigan. Then sing Cheerio, Cheerio to all the Gunners fans as they file out the pub.
We may lose but we Hammers supporters are top notch.
I’m not the type to go baying for blood off of a couple of defeats but the thing that has got to me the most is seeing my passionate, gritty, and hard-working team turn into a defencive Charlton-esque nightmare. I just feel inclined to reply to the post above me as I see things slightly different…
1) We are in a stronger position this year and could push for Europe if we can string together a good run in the closing games. But I feel as if there are more teams doing worse this year overall too, I don’t remember an 8 point gap (at least it was the other day) between 10th and 11th last season. Many of our wins have been very slight and not convincing at all.
2) The exciting young talent we see has very little to do with Curbs, especially the academy players. They’ve been groomed by Merv, and probably should have received at least a 10 minute cameo by now in my opinion. Upson I will give you – good signing there and keeping him fit is a big key to our defence. Green and Ashton were brought in before Curb’s time, Green was largely neglected by Curbs last season too, and there are hints that Ashton is now (although he certainly doesn’t look up to par, but how can you get him match fit without playing him? They need to up his cardio on the training ground)
3)Injuries, yes we’ve had a lot and it has been hard, but it’s no good coming out and praising the players for their committment when they come out and beat Utd and the Pool one week, and then saying that we’re losing to teams like Birmingham next week because we have too many injuries – that’s my main problem with Curbs right now, he takes no personal responsibility, and while I agree that it is the players that ultimately decide the outcome of the game, a captain should always go down with his ship.
Cole has run his backside off and won many people’s respect, Linda has surprised a lot of people, Mullins is very underestimated, and Upson is a rock – they’ve all stepped up to the challenge. Good management though? Maybe more of a case of few options.
4) Excellent signing, gritty and determined, wish we had 11 of him.
5) Agree that we are better defencively and you can see that by the way we play the ball out of defence instead of just booting it up field. Midfield and attack are key though, we really have no player that follows in the footsteps of beneyoun, berkavic, cole, di canio, bishop genre – solano has shown glimpses but nothing consistent in that area this season. We desperately need a playmaker with a little trickery and invention out of the ordinary.
6) Boring football – quite a bit, don’t know how this came about, too negative going foward and we absorb way too much pressure. I mean in all honesty John Moncur wasn’t the best technically but he was at least exciting to watch going forward, he had drive and ambition on the ball, not seeing that at the moment from anyone but noble and parker. I hope our brand of football returns, it’s what we’re all about. I don’t mind getting the occassional kicking as long as we try to play the game the way it was intended.
7) Injury prone players – we do need a better scouting network, but everyone we bought minus Faubert was in the prem to begin with, not to mention Dyer had a track record of being injured. Plus Curbs must get one of the final signoffs on any deal that is made, he doesn’t give authority to the scouts to buy players on their own.
LBM might possibly be the worst player I have ever seen at west ham, not fit to wear the shirt, i’d suggest using him as a ball boy but i think he’d probably get tackled by the advertising signs.
Solution: well I certainly don’t have the answer, what I’d like to see though is a little flair back in our game, passion and grit, and a pride when they put on the claret and blue shirts. I don’t think Curbs out is necessarily the answer, I just think we need to rethink what we’re doing and get back to west ham football – raise the pace and intensity, play the players that will reward you for starting them, and for god’s sake let the young lads have a crack whilst we’re safe from going down. The best fans in the world will continue to be the best fans in the world, we don’t expect to win the league, we don’t expect to spend millions in the transfer windows, we just want players that will give there all for us, because saturday at 3 isn’t just a game to a west ham fan, its a war.
B—–ks! our squads well short of quality.
yesterday will be my last game 4 this season,ive been going 2 watch west ham since the 80′s and although there have been some awful times in those years (bond scheme,roeder,macari etc..) i still recall west ham sides trying 2 play football and even though the results were not always wot the fans wanted the football on the whole kept me entertained but this season the standard of football has been generally poor and tactically we look naive and sometimes bordering clueless!
speaking 2 fans of both west ham and tottenham on the train home i found it interesting that some fans not all but quite alot said playing in europe was more important than being entertained,now i for one found this a bit sad as although i wud gladly welcome european football to upton park and follow them to some freezing cold 2 bit stadium in the middle of hell (palermo last season) i still want to see entertaining football,i sometimes yearn for the days of rotherham,crewe,burnley etc.. just for a few moments then realise that things have moved on and i have aswell yet for some reason west ham’s style of football seems to have gone backwards.thinking about this more or less since i left the concrete jungle aka white hart lane i have come to the conclusion that the manager surely most carry the responsability for our poor run but more worryingly our inability to pass the ball,move off the ball,create space,create opportunities and defend set pieces.
sacking curbs is an option but only if we have a class replacement ready to come in with a proven track record and who has the ability to get results playing attractive football,i know there will be games where the players have to tough it out and scrap for points and i accept that but upton park was once a fortress and a place teams feared playing at now however it seems that the likes of wigan,bolton,reading can come and pick points up with relative ease,back to the manager situation i really dont know if there is anyone who is any better than curbs who we can realisitically attract,bilic has been touted for some while now but my arguement is national football is a big big difference from the hurly burly life of club football.
i do hope that perhaps i am being a bit to cynical and hope that things will improve once players return to fitness and the youngsters get there chance (which cant be far off now) but then who knows!!
on a positive note i thought the fans were outstanding yesterday and once again proved that we are the capitals and the worlds best supporters,totally out sung the home support and came up with a few of the funniest songs ive heard since the christian dailly song! i know its a bit sick but the song about tom huddlestone was hilarious.as for the tottenham steward who thought he was a comedian i hope you’re enjoying your new found freedom as im pretty sure there is already a p45 firmly in your hand!!!
we need to have clear out and bring in some quality introduce the young talent and look at weather curbs is up for it or just looking after himself hopeing for a long reign as manager. I dont think he has much ambition Bilic for me.
expat_iron wrapped it up in a nutshell really didn’t he!
OK we’ve had a bad run, I predict a 1-0 win at Everton, then we will all be happy again. (Mmmmm)
You heard it here 1st
Sorry, but Curbs is not the man to take us forward, yes he has done well overall but we have reached our limits under his style of management.This is no bad thing but we all want more – don’t we?
We need a top coach who can attract top players and the big fella needs to dip his hand in his pockets for top players to push us on
Must say I agree with most of you. I was never sure that Curbs was the right man for us But it did seem like the next step up for him to come to westham and try to progress as a manager and move onto the next level. But his tactic are simple and bland and I strongly believe he will never get us into Europe and if he did we would be out in worst style than last time we was there. Up until the last summer transfer window things were looking very promising then came our cripples from Newcastle. I will admit I was glad to see us get Parker even with his history as he is a great and determined player, Dyer though was different, he never really seemed like he could be all that bothered as long as he got his wages and to get him and Parker dint make sense to me because of injurys. Bellers well has looked ok when he’s been fit but at the time I think we should of been looking for striker from Europe and with the season he has had I still do. LBM has has been a thorn in the teams side all season, and with there being no chance of selling him with his performances should be left in the reserve team for good. Quashie was another one I dint understand at the time, I could understand strenghing the team for the relegation fight but the player was never gonna bring anything to the team and he never did. Ljungberg I thought would make a good back-up or impact player from the bench and thought this signing wasn’t to bad at the time but he hasn’t proved to be as effective as I thought he would be but there is sill time. then theres Neill who looked a good signing at the time and was great in the relegation fight but this season has been all over the place and should be left out of the team for a game or two to show him performances get first team places not the captain arm band. Out of all the signings Curbs made Upson, Faubert and Solano are the only ones Im happy with, Upson has been solid and consistant and I think Faubert looks very promising and once he has got a proper run of games will start to show his stuff. Solano I wasnt sure about to start off with because of the amount of players in the squad that could play in that position but he has been great for us. So in my eyes all these mistakes in the transfer window are enough alone to get Curbs the sack let alone the dull football that he has brought to our park. As for a replacement Bilic sounds good but international and club football are totaly different where as he would bring the attacking style off football back to the club can he find the right players to bring in to strenghen the team correctly I dont know. I’m not sure now but aint Martin Jol still without a job if so he proved at Spuds he has a good football mind and it would be great to go to th lane next season with him commanding us and give them a 4-0 thrasing.
Neil your slow
does anyone know the odds for us getting stuffed 4-0 on saturday v blackburn
Curbs cannot see the woods for the trees – why oh why not play the youngsters and give them a good blooding for next season – what have we got to lose
the PR from WHU is a joke – get it sorted or all the supporters will f*ck off for good.
Boa Morte cant tackle cant shoot cant pass what can he do West ham should sell him on ebay (NO RESERVE) .
Oh dear, happy Hammers aren’t we!
This season’s a write off,
I’ve tried all season to support Curbs, The last three games has made me sick of football and I am not looking forward to Saturdays game! Do I go or stay at home and get dragged shopping with her indoors?
I still think he should be given next season to see what we do.
Alan Curbishley is a good manager – we are on a bad run, thats all. we need to remember that we are not a top team – sad, regrettable…even fucking tragic for anyone who loves our history attractive football and heroic players, but we are not a top side like man u, arse and liverpool.
we are going to have bad runs (even the top sides do) but there is no need for ludicrous and utterly pointless reaction. we are lucky to have curbishley and if we stick by him we will get the reward as we did with our last successful manager john lyall (west ham got relegated in his first season), and as a much more spectacular example, alex ferguson was at man u 7 years before he won anything! he was on the brink of getting sacked when they started winning…virtually everything!!
forget about getting rid of curbs – think about supporting his effort to get us out of this mess.
I WAS there. i got in caus a friend is a Tottenham season ticket holder with two season tickets. anyway i got in on that ticket and had to sit quietly in with the tottenham season-ticket holders. it was a depressing experience being forced to bite my tongue when each bloody goal went in whilst all around me cheered like looneys. The team didn’t turn up, pure and simple. The defense was a shambles and there was no fighting spirit in the team. As to whether Curbs should go, who knows, but it was and better be the last time we lose like that.
Apparently if Curbs is still there in the summer, Eduardo will be at the top of his shopping list.
Fed up with it I just want to see some decent football being played by us bring in the youngsters !!!! give noble the captains arm band and give us (the fans) something to shout about.
COME ON YOU IRONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn’t see the last three games but heard the results. My, how quickly things change. Back to the negative goal average days. Boa Morte only ever played well in the Championship & it is too late to start his career now. Choosing him in front of Noble is beyond belief. I am like most others who have been here a while in that i think Curbs has done nothing dreadfully wrong up to this point. I think he deserves until the end of the season & then i am sure all & sundry will assess his future. The last three games have not done him any favours. It has reinforced the war crys of those who didn’t want him in the first place. There are still 27 points up for grabs & i would think we can take 15 or 16 of those as we only have Utd. to play out of the four. I still think 8th is possible but Europe is gone. Teams do have bad runs & you can’t start sacking people every time a bad cloud comes over, but it would be in his interests to stop the rot quickly, very quickly. Yes, read the riot act Iain, with a loud hailer.
I don’t think Curbs has fully appreciated our feelings towards the Spuds and our committmnet to entertaining football. I can live with drubbings against the new Chelski and Liverpool away, but the Spuds are a different kettle of fish. Any W Ham player that doesn’t perform against them should be dragged out and shot like a horse with a broken leg.
We stick with Curbs for the rest of the season and see what he comes up with, then we decide. I’m sure BG is thinking precisely that. It’s beyond me what he has to lose by not sicking in the youngsters and experimenting and it’s beyond me what he’s got to gain by dropping Noble and opting for LBM and the Swede in slippers, but it’s his own downfall.
Curb Your Enthusiasm everyone, the rest of the season’s a cakerun and we should enjoy ourselves as best we can. Come the summer if things don’t improve, off with his head!
Didn’t see the game but listened on the radio. Once again we couldn’t turn early pressure into goals and were ’sucker-punched’.