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Sorted for you mate!!!Het-Field wrote:Iv just realised that 1st January 2011 was the best New Years Day I have had in a long time ! West Ham won, I had a Burger King, and I kissed a bird I actually liked !
Best Day ever ! And if God was to stop things right now, not only would I be the happiest man alive, West Ham would be sitting pretty ouside the relegation places !
I think having so many CB's in the team helps a lot, yes.D C wrote: Or how about we looked solid because we start with 5 centre backs?
P.S. I'm including Kovac as a CB as hes played there alot before us.
Junior seems to have a real good football brain - he times his runs well, finds space pretty well and his movement when we have the ball is better than most experienced pros imo...problems I see though are that he seems to have no confidence in his left foot so hesitates massively on that side sometimes when he should be taking the ball in his stride....that can be coached though - or addressed with switching him to the right....his other problem seems to be bottle though - sears, tomkins and collison all fight for the 50:50's (even though sears seems to bounce off people) whereas junior disappeared from the game as soon as stearman clattered him....Caribiron wrote:Can someone please teach Junior how to cross the ball, in particualr how to beat the first man? He may have been off sick when that lesson came round.
-PrinceH wrote:Cole had a really good game, worked hard and kept the ball.
-PrinceH wrote:Credit to Grant to bring Sears back to Hammers and to a new influential role at R-mid.
-hammer1975 wrote:don't think he or obinna are the answer to our left side though
No complaints with any of that but it's unforgivable to take corners and regularly not get the ball beyond the first defender on the post or crossing from open play and not getting the ball to the target. I can't answer why that happens but it's poor.hammer1975 wrote: Junior seems to have a real good football brain - he times his runs well, finds space pretty well and his movement when we have the ball is better than most experienced pros imo...problems I see though are that he seems to have no confidence in his left foot so hesitates massively on that side sometimes when he should be taking the ball in his stride....that can be coached though - or addressed with switching him to the right....his other problem seems to be bottle though - sears, tomkins and collison all fight for the 50:50's (even though sears seems to bounce off people) whereas junior disappeared from the game as soon as stearman clattered him....
don't think he or obinna are the answer to our left side though - we look massively one dimensional on the left with no overlapping full back or natural left sided crosser...not to meniton an obvious defensive frailty down that side due to lack of midfielders tracking back to help out the full back....would like us to bring in a loan or left footed option for left mid personally but have a feeling grant will tend back to 4-3-3 or narrow midfield diamond with hitz on the left when fit
