West Ham Utd 3 Birmingham City 3 (09/04/12)

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Up the Junction wrote:...still nailed to the wall in the home dressing room.
Appropriate choice of words...
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hammersam wrote:Maybe because all the plastic fans who booed at half time left? Strange how we seem to need that siege mentality to cause a threat at goal.
3 fans (season ticket holders) sitting in front of me left together when it became 0-2. When was that, 30 minutes?
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Harlow Hammer wrote:Maybe we need to go back to Pardews Positive Mental Attitude ways. Pride, Passion and Belief.
i prefer Deplete. Punish. Destroy. 8-)
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If the season ticket holder who threw his card onto the pitch in the STBL when Birmingham scored their second, would like to let me have his card so I can give it to a fan that will actually support the team for 90 minutes, that would be much appreciated.

BFS is right, football fans do talk b*llocks, an absolute load of it.

2 individual errors and a good finish gave us a mountain to climb. Well done to BFS and the lads for climbing it. Birmingham are no mugs, yet we controlled the game. The hoofing in the second half was the only way we were going to break them down, they had 10 men behind the ball. The onslaught was relentless, and I know for a fact, a West Ham team of the last couple of seasons would have lost that game last night 4-1 or 5-2.

I was absolutely buzzing after the game, yes we dropped two points, but look at the manner in which we gained one.

Roll on Saturday, 3 points will put the pressure back on.

:crest: Keep the bloody faith.
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I remember a few years ago when a fan threw his old style season ticket book onto the pitch in disgust from the chicken run

Bish picked it up and put it in his sock :D No idea if the bloke got it back.

Thought it was pretty laughable when I saw people leaving at half time yesterday. Missed a cracking 45 mins after that!!
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hammer wrote: i prefer Deplete. Punish. Destroy.
sounds like a typical barbarian answer :D
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Paulo Wanchope wrote:
3 fans (season ticket holders) sitting in front of me left together when it became 0-2. When was that, 30 minutes?
I got up to go the the toilet as soon as the second went in.

There were a few surprised faces when i came back up the stairs to be honest. :lol:

Why would anyone leave a football match after 30 mins ?
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Harlow Hammer wrote:I remember a few years ago when a fan threw his old style season ticket book onto the pitch in disgust from the chicken run

Bish picked it up and put it in his sock :D No idea if the bloke got it back.

Thought it was pretty laughable when I saw people leaving at half time yesterday. Missed a cracking 45 mins after that!!
Probably went down the pub and watched it on the telly.
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Just watched the highlights from the game.

The three goals conceded were mistakes made by Cole and Faye. Two players reinstated to a winning team after the first clean sheet in ages. BFS talked about 6 clean sheets in the run in manages to achieve this then changes the back four. :shock:

Would it be fair to say changes to the back four and up top cost us two points yesterday? thoughts please *thumbs up*
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Jigga wrote:Would it be fair to say changes to the back four and up top cost us two points yesterday?
Not in my opinion, Jigs. You'd have been a lone voice had you suggested keeping a fit Faye out of the team, I think.

Three individual yet very costly mistakes. That's all.
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We have been at our best when we have used Reid/Tomkins as a partnership.

Mistakes could have been avoided if we had kept the same back four...

BFS is starting to tinker more than old Uncle Fester!
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Jigga wrote:Just watched the highlights from the game.

The three goals conceded were mistakes made by Cole and Faye. Two players reinstated to a winning team after the first clean sheet in ages. BFS talked about 6 clean sheets in the run in manages to achieve this then changes the back four. :shock:

Would it be fair to say changes to the back four and up top cost us two points yesterday? thoughts please *thumbs up*
Not for me, silly errors cost us the goals, by players who should really have done better. Cole was the only option upfront who has the muscle to compete with the Brum centre halfs and I thought Faye did very well in the second half, had the composure that I thought Reid, who I'm a big fan of, lacked.
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Jigga wrote:Just watched the highlights from the game.

The three goals conceded were mistakes made by Cole and Faye. Two players reinstated to a winning team after the first clean sheet in ages.
Not at all.

The first one was a hospital ball by Macca that Birmingham's midfield quickly pounced on and exploited well.
The second one was Cole coming deep to offer an option to a defence with no-one to pass to and three Birmingham midfielders quickly crowding him out.
The third one was farcical defending all round really.
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The second one was Cole not being able to control a football properly
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sendô wrote: The first one was a hospital ball by Macca that Birmingham's midfield quickly pounced on and exploited well. Brum goalscorer waltzed past Faye like he wasnt even there. Seen statues move quicker on the back foot.
The second one was Cole coming deep to offer an option to a defence with no-one to pass to and three Birmingham midfielders quickly crowding him out. Better first touch and he turns defence into attack unfortunately he failed to control and lost possession.
The third one was farcical defending all round really.CFC never cleared his lines and should have got his head to the ball
Neither should have been in the starting XI after the Barnsley performance.
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midfielders did not crowd Cole out, his attempt at control just bounced 10 yards away :)
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Am i the only person who believes in not changing a winning team ?
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b*llocks and Swahili, Multi lingual Now are we?, Cannot wait for some of the chants on Sat, The boyfriend knows i am going by the way :wink:
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Jigga wrote:Neither should have been in the starting XI after the Barnsley performance.
So let me get this right.
1. Faye's mistake is not being quick enough on the back foot when an attacking midfielder has had space to build up speed and is running at him, selling him dummies whilst Marlon King ghosts behind him making dummy runs.
2. Cole's problem is he can't trap the ball and turn on a six-pence turning defence into attack whilst being pressured by three players?
3. Cole wasn't tall enough?

Your opinion is they shouldn't have started - I daresay the idea was to rotate and keep us fresh against a tired Brum team, but nonetheless you are being overly harsh singling out a couple of players and blaming them for the fact that, tactically, we were set up to fail first half.

As it was Cole was excellent second half and fully justified his selection.
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Romford wrote:Am i the only person who believes in not changing a winning team ?

No
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