Monday, March 05, 2007
Gutted!
Can't put my feelings into words. Strange team selection - a good team, but so many changes it's a wonder we made a game of it. Gutted to see Upson and Davenport both injured AGAIN. Gutted for Noble, Green, Tevez, Zamora, and of course all the fans. What can you say?
Player ratings
Green 8 - excellent saves, not at fault for any of the goals.
Konchesky 4 - An absolute liability.
Upson (not enough time)
Davenport 6 - Decent
Ferdinand 6 - Good
Neill 6 - Decent
Etherington 5 - Practically absent and not helpful getting back.
Noble 8 - Covered every blade twice, got a goal, and got tons of ball. Made an error for one of the goals - but I'm loathe to criticise as he did his role and Quashie's as well. Must start next game.
Quashie 5 - Ineffective
Bowyer 6 - Silly penalty
Tevez 8 - Superb, loved seeing him get his first for West Ham
Harewood 6 - Poor touch
Blanco 6 - OK
Zamora 6 - Thought he'd won it
Player ratings
Green 8 - excellent saves, not at fault for any of the goals.
Konchesky 4 - An absolute liability.
Upson (not enough time)
Davenport 6 - Decent
Ferdinand 6 - Good
Neill 6 - Decent
Etherington 5 - Practically absent and not helpful getting back.
Noble 8 - Covered every blade twice, got a goal, and got tons of ball. Made an error for one of the goals - but I'm loathe to criticise as he did his role and Quashie's as well. Must start next game.
Quashie 5 - Ineffective
Bowyer 6 - Silly penalty
Tevez 8 - Superb, loved seeing him get his first for West Ham
Harewood 6 - Poor touch
Blanco 6 - OK
Zamora 6 - Thought he'd won it
Posted by whubris at 6:16 am
said...
I can't take this anymore. No more watching West Ham this season on the box for me, I'm in enough pain and don't need any more. See you in the Championship. Beex is finally beaten. That last punch has me nailed to the floor unable to get up. What a season. Rip it up and start again. They should give out free Prozac for West Ham fans 'cos we bloody need it.
Pleased for Tevez, kick out Kuntchesky for good. Dunno if I'l post anymore for a while, too upset.
Dave said...
Strange team selection? For once I thought Curbs made the right changes. Noble in, Bowyer in, Neill in Upson in (Although maybe he should've paid more attention to his fitness levels).
Quashie is poor and must be replaced. Noble & Tevez were fantastic although both gave the ball away to concede a goal. It was a spirited performance that I at least enjoyed watching - if anybody thought we had a chance of staying up if we won this then they are naive - the damage was done a long time ago.
TheRedRisky said...
To be fair to Zamora, I think everyone thought he had won it, Even the commentators. But then anton went and did a very silly thing by giving them a free kick in an even better position to the one carlos scored from. And did Lennon actually look like he got tripped by bowyer, cos i honestly thought at first that he'd been booked for diving.
Albeit Green kept us in that match in the first 10 minutes no less then 5 times! And i definitly feel that now, or at least next season if curbishley could see it, is when Mark Noble has to be allowed to play as an important first team member. He was absolutly everywhere as far as i could see.
Anyway im rambling again and i REALLY need some sleep.
said...
dave said,
"if anybody thought we had a chance of staying up if we won this then they are naive - the damage was done a long time ago"
Hi Dave, naive here.
I'm too tired and upset to argue with you. We all support our beloved team in different ways and I highly respect your opinion, you know that. But if I didn't have hope and faith until the very end I couldn't support West Ham - fullstop.
Dave said...
beex - I don't want to argue with you anyway mate - no need - we're both on the same side mate - I wasn't having ago at anybody here only trying to emphasise that our season wasn't won or lost today that we have been a let down for the whole season. In fact I wasn't let down at all this morning - it was one of the more honest performances I've seen this year and if it weren't for the ill fate that has already engulfed our season we would've had that game won.
Fact of the matter is it was an almost imposible task 3 games ago - before this morning we were already gone. Don't let West Ham break your heart mate - you need your spirit to get yourself better again - there are much more important things in life than football - it is hard to see that sometimes - West Ham have dictated my emotions for many years.
I very much respect your opinion too buddy - I've just been on this ride before (as you have) and I'm a little war weary right now.
said...
Dave, thanks mate. I wasn't arguing. As you say no need as we're on the same side. I just had 2 pieces of life changing news in a matter of days and I'm buckling a bit under the strain of it all.
The good news is that I have my Operation date - April 18th in Richmond.
The bad news is I've just had my MLC salary continuance claim rejected because I am not "incapacitated enough" I am gutted and very stressed by this right now and am sorry if you took my earlier comments the wrong way ;-)West Ham are the least of my worries right now.
Dave said...
Like I said Beexy - life is tough enough without stresssing about the Hammers. Hope you work through it mate - at least you have a date for the Op.
whubris said...
geez guys, get a room. :-)
Dave, what I meant with the team selection was more that there were so many changes. Yes it was an excellent team on paper but I was surprised that Curbs made so many changes all at once.
chin up Beex mate, we're with you all the way.
norven munky said...
why was Curbs so slow to react in the 2nd half. Unlike the 1st half where we steamed in and closed em down, we came out in the 2nd and relapsed to our normal m.o. this season and gave them time and space...Tevez was out of legs (though still trying) and everyone else had lost their sense of urgency as well...blind freddy could see that and yet Curbs didn't act until the 79th min..wtf?
And wtf is going on when Tevez has to resort to gesturing to the bench to work out where he's meant to be..i know we had just scored but that was a pretty important next 5-10 mins coming up in the context of the game...we had 4 attacking players on and its pretty easy to lose your shape in those cirumstances without ppl knowing who's meant to be where. Jebus. Sunday league stuff.
Tevez's goal...I hafta say I have not celebrated a goal that hard for a long time....he has my full and utter respect. In a season and a team that has gone to shit he has tried his tits off *every* single minute he has been on the field. If ever some committment and endeavour deserved to be rewarded, that was it right there. And I was mega happy that the goal when it finally came, was top shelf and not some scrambled tap in. And it was plain for everyone to see how much it meant to him personally.....he'll be off next season, guaranteed, but i wish there was some magic wand that could be waved to make him stay.
daniel said...
what can ya say?
west ham again showed they are a magical club
could watford or charlton provide such entertainment
we may be down
but yesterday I was fucking proud
beggers said...
lol, get a room, nice one.
There was some committment back in the side hallauya! Even saw Ethers come flying in!!
4th official indicated 4 mins of extra time but they played 6? Robbed of a point for sure and one panicked challenge from Anton and we gifted them a draw which well you know the rest.
Anyway, great to see Carlos get his goal and his celebration was superb. Booking for celebrating a goal, I know it's the rules, but FFS!
Noble was in tears at the end, Bobby was shattered as was Bowyer, they cared tonight that's for sure. The players were out on their feet. The players and Curbs could do no more.
Gutted about the loss but as one of my mates said it sums up our season really.
Totscum were lucky and they didn't deserve it so they can fuck right off!
Anyway if we play like that for the rest of the season we may surprise a couple of sides. It won't save us but at least we might be a pain in the balls to a couple of sides.
ALAN CURBISHLEYS CLARET AND BLUE ARMY....ALAN CURBSHLEYS....
said...
Pete Gill at F365
"
West Ham United
Alan Curbishley inherited a side plunging towards the Championship and his management has only accelerated that descent. History is repeating itself: It was an annual tradition at Charlton for Curbishley's sides to fall as fast as a sky diver after January and West Ham are nose-diving at the same rate. Except that this year is no parachute in the form of a hefty number of points already being in the bag.
Add together the points accumulated after January 1st in each of Curbishley's last five seasons at Charlton with the 17 that West Ham ended 2006 with and only once would the 40-point mark have been reached - in 2004, the season in which the Hammers were relegated with 42. "
said...
Anon,
Good to see you're still with me.
Cya at the weekly Brisbane Hammers Curbs Out meeting. You wanna come around to my place this week? If so let me know and I'll get some Delta Creams in for our tea.
PS - I still think we may need some more members ;-)
The rest of you,
regarding "geez guys, get a room. :-)"
Dave and I are both from Hampshire. It's just one of those local things that you lot wouldn't understand, right Dave? ;-P
said...
"You see there are always consequences from how you live your life. You can't escape them. Whether you east a vast amount of celery, or like Anton Ferdinand, you large it up in South Carolina for four days while your club is in peril, lie about it to your employers and manager and then play like a drain while sporting an arse so fat that it makes Robbie Fowler look anorexic. There are consequences to everything. In this case the consequence is relegation and the destruction of your professional reputation. "
Hammers Should Stick To Eating Celery
said...
Just a short post, to state the obvious, if we had only showed so much desire and fighting quality all year we wouldnt all be so gutted and disappointed. Bring on 2007/08 championship league.........ps thank god for broadband :)
whubris said...
lol @ anonymous. Anton's arse gets bigger every week. What a funny article - only a very slim connection to West Ham, but funny anyway.
In all seriousness though it's a right fucking shame. Anton had as much potential as Rio but seems to have thrown it away. It's a right damn shame. Who have we got from the Academy apart from him and Noble?
said...
Over the course of the season, the West Ham players have proven to be a bunch of fucking childish amateurs, so they have no right to complain about players being brought in on higher wages. Hell, if Reo-Chocker went to Arsenal, there’d be players on higher wages.
Wankers.
******
West Ham defender Anton Ferdinand faces a severe rap after defying club rules to celebrate his birthday in the US.
Manager Alan Curbishley revealed he only found out on Saturday that Ferdinand had lied and flown to the US with friends for his 22nd birthday during a recent two-week break. The England under-21 international told coaching staff he was going to be with his sick grandmother on the Isle of Wight.
CUNT!
"Oh, I've learned my lesson, blah, blah..."
CUNT!
whubris said...
Defoe wants Hammers to stay up. I still hate the little prick but I'll give him credit for this. "I'd like to see the club stay up. I have still got a lot of friends at West Ham. I played for the club, it is still in my heart," said Defoe. "They gave everything against us. Unfortunately they lost the game. That's what happens when you are struggling at the bottom. You get no luck. We needed the points as well but if they could stay up it would be excellent."
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said...I can't take this anymore. No more watching West Ham this season on the box for me, I'm in enough pain and don't need any more. See you in the Championship. Beex is finally beaten. That last punch has me nailed to the floor unable to get up. What a season. Rip it up and start again. They should give out free Prozac for West Ham fans 'cos we bloody need it.
Pleased for Tevez, kick out Kuntchesky for good. Dunno if I'l post anymore for a while, too upset.
Dave said...Strange team selection? For once I thought Curbs made the right changes. Noble in, Bowyer in, Neill in Upson in (Although maybe he should've paid more attention to his fitness levels).
Quashie is poor and must be replaced. Noble & Tevez were fantastic although both gave the ball away to concede a goal. It was a spirited performance that I at least enjoyed watching - if anybody thought we had a chance of staying up if we won this then they are naive - the damage was done a long time ago.
TheRedRisky said...To be fair to Zamora, I think everyone thought he had won it, Even the commentators. But then anton went and did a very silly thing by giving them a free kick in an even better position to the one carlos scored from. And did Lennon actually look like he got tripped by bowyer, cos i honestly thought at first that he'd been booked for diving.
Albeit Green kept us in that match in the first 10 minutes no less then 5 times! And i definitly feel that now, or at least next season if curbishley could see it, is when Mark Noble has to be allowed to play as an important first team member. He was absolutly everywhere as far as i could see.
Anyway im rambling again and i REALLY need some sleep.
said...dave said,
"if anybody thought we had a chance of staying up if we won this then they are naive - the damage was done a long time ago"
Hi Dave, naive here.
I'm too tired and upset to argue with you. We all support our beloved team in different ways and I highly respect your opinion, you know that. But if I didn't have hope and faith until the very end I couldn't support West Ham - fullstop.
Dave said...beex - I don't want to argue with you anyway mate - no need - we're both on the same side mate - I wasn't having ago at anybody here only trying to emphasise that our season wasn't won or lost today that we have been a let down for the whole season. In fact I wasn't let down at all this morning - it was one of the more honest performances I've seen this year and if it weren't for the ill fate that has already engulfed our season we would've had that game won.
Fact of the matter is it was an almost imposible task 3 games ago - before this morning we were already gone. Don't let West Ham break your heart mate - you need your spirit to get yourself better again - there are much more important things in life than football - it is hard to see that sometimes - West Ham have dictated my emotions for many years.
I very much respect your opinion too buddy - I've just been on this ride before (as you have) and I'm a little war weary right now.
said...Dave, thanks mate. I wasn't arguing. As you say no need as we're on the same side. I just had 2 pieces of life changing news in a matter of days and I'm buckling a bit under the strain of it all.
The good news is that I have my Operation date - April 18th in Richmond.
The bad news is I've just had my MLC salary continuance claim rejected because I am not "incapacitated enough" I am gutted and very stressed by this right now and am sorry if you took my earlier comments the wrong way ;-)West Ham are the least of my worries right now.
Dave said...Like I said Beexy - life is tough enough without stresssing about the Hammers. Hope you work through it mate - at least you have a date for the Op.
whubris said...geez guys, get a room. :-)
Dave, what I meant with the team selection was more that there were so many changes. Yes it was an excellent team on paper but I was surprised that Curbs made so many changes all at once.
chin up Beex mate, we're with you all the way.
norven munky said...why was Curbs so slow to react in the 2nd half. Unlike the 1st half where we steamed in and closed em down, we came out in the 2nd and relapsed to our normal m.o. this season and gave them time and space...Tevez was out of legs (though still trying) and everyone else had lost their sense of urgency as well...blind freddy could see that and yet Curbs didn't act until the 79th min..wtf?
And wtf is going on when Tevez has to resort to gesturing to the bench to work out where he's meant to be..i know we had just scored but that was a pretty important next 5-10 mins coming up in the context of the game...we had 4 attacking players on and its pretty easy to lose your shape in those cirumstances without ppl knowing who's meant to be where. Jebus. Sunday league stuff.
Tevez's goal...I hafta say I have not celebrated a goal that hard for a long time....he has my full and utter respect. In a season and a team that has gone to shit he has tried his tits off *every* single minute he has been on the field. If ever some committment and endeavour deserved to be rewarded, that was it right there. And I was mega happy that the goal when it finally came, was top shelf and not some scrambled tap in. And it was plain for everyone to see how much it meant to him personally.....he'll be off next season, guaranteed, but i wish there was some magic wand that could be waved to make him stay.
daniel said...what can ya say?
west ham again showed they are a magical club
could watford or charlton provide such entertainment
we may be down
but yesterday I was fucking proud
beggers said...lol, get a room, nice one.
There was some committment back in the side hallauya! Even saw Ethers come flying in!!
4th official indicated 4 mins of extra time but they played 6? Robbed of a point for sure and one panicked challenge from Anton and we gifted them a draw which well you know the rest.
Anyway, great to see Carlos get his goal and his celebration was superb. Booking for celebrating a goal, I know it's the rules, but FFS!
Noble was in tears at the end, Bobby was shattered as was Bowyer, they cared tonight that's for sure. The players were out on their feet. The players and Curbs could do no more.
Gutted about the loss but as one of my mates said it sums up our season really.
Totscum were lucky and they didn't deserve it so they can fuck right off!
Anyway if we play like that for the rest of the season we may surprise a couple of sides. It won't save us but at least we might be a pain in the balls to a couple of sides.
ALAN CURBISHLEYS CLARET AND BLUE ARMY....ALAN CURBSHLEYS....
said...Pete Gill at F365
"
West Ham United
Alan Curbishley inherited a side plunging towards the Championship and his management has only accelerated that descent. History is repeating itself: It was an annual tradition at Charlton for Curbishley's sides to fall as fast as a sky diver after January and West Ham are nose-diving at the same rate. Except that this year is no parachute in the form of a hefty number of points already being in the bag.
Add together the points accumulated after January 1st in each of Curbishley's last five seasons at Charlton with the 17 that West Ham ended 2006 with and only once would the 40-point mark have been reached - in 2004, the season in which the Hammers were relegated with 42. "
said...Anon,
Good to see you're still with me.
Cya at the weekly Brisbane Hammers Curbs Out meeting. You wanna come around to my place this week? If so let me know and I'll get some Delta Creams in for our tea.
PS - I still think we may need some more members ;-)
The rest of you,
regarding "geez guys, get a room. :-)"
Dave and I are both from Hampshire. It's just one of those local things that you lot wouldn't understand, right Dave? ;-P
said..."You see there are always consequences from how you live your life. You can't escape them. Whether you east a vast amount of celery, or like Anton Ferdinand, you large it up in South Carolina for four days while your club is in peril, lie about it to your employers and manager and then play like a drain while sporting an arse so fat that it makes Robbie Fowler look anorexic. There are consequences to everything. In this case the consequence is relegation and the destruction of your professional reputation. "
Hammers Should Stick To Eating Celery
said...Just a short post, to state the obvious, if we had only showed so much desire and fighting quality all year we wouldnt all be so gutted and disappointed. Bring on 2007/08 championship league.........ps thank god for broadband :)
whubris said...lol @ anonymous. Anton's arse gets bigger every week. What a funny article - only a very slim connection to West Ham, but funny anyway.
In all seriousness though it's a right fucking shame. Anton had as much potential as Rio but seems to have thrown it away. It's a right damn shame. Who have we got from the Academy apart from him and Noble?
said...Over the course of the season, the West Ham players have proven to be a bunch of fucking childish amateurs, so they have no right to complain about players being brought in on higher wages. Hell, if Reo-Chocker went to Arsenal, there’d be players on higher wages.
Wankers.
******
West Ham defender Anton Ferdinand faces a severe rap after defying club rules to celebrate his birthday in the US.
Manager Alan Curbishley revealed he only found out on Saturday that Ferdinand had lied and flown to the US with friends for his 22nd birthday during a recent two-week break. The England under-21 international told coaching staff he was going to be with his sick grandmother on the Isle of Wight.
CUNT!
"Oh, I've learned my lesson, blah, blah..."
CUNT!
whubris said...Defoe wants Hammers to stay up. I still hate the little prick but I'll give him credit for this. "I'd like to see the club stay up. I have still got a lot of friends at West Ham. I played for the club, it is still in my heart," said Defoe. "They gave everything against us. Unfortunately they lost the game. That's what happens when you are struggling at the bottom. You get no luck. We needed the points as well but if they could stay up it would be excellent."
