The hammers came from behind against Coventry tonight in a fairly laclustre performance and had to concede before we even began to participate according to reports. But what's important is we are in the hat for the quarter finals after Carlton F Cole scored a 93rd minute winner after some good work from Boa Morte.

Now lets hope some big teams get knocked out and we get a reasonable home tie in the last 8.

I'm sure most of the Aussie Hammers would agree that the venerable website KUMB has been the best website to get your Hammers news for some years now, especially since the media have practically starved us of news pretty much since we got relegated.

So now the noose tightens a little more since KUMB writers have been banned from official media activities including match day interviews - see this link.

To many Aussie fans, KUMB provides what BBC/SKY won't, and what WHU-AU can't - detailed, up to date and reasonably accurate news. KUMB serve the West Ham internet community at large, filling the gaps where the paid media services just aren't interested. BBC in particular have been very slack in providing updates.

Of course most commercial media outlets are either so "neutral" that they are dull as ditchwater, or sensationalise every tidbit - usually negatively - so that you have no idea what's going on. And the official site will try to put a positive spin on everything, even to the point of restricting what type of news they will print. KUMB provides the balance for that without flaying the club, manager, or players unnecessarily, and is pretty much the only source of good old honest and reliable opinions from genuine fans. There have been times when otherwise seemingly disastrous scandals were put to rest by the truth printed on KUMB! In particular KUMB was the only site that would print interviews in full without editing. This had the benefit of seeing what managers really said without the Sunday rag spin on things.

Where will we get all of that now?

Shame on you, West Ham United PLC.

SBS video highlights of Portsmouth v West Ham

Solano - On yer 'ead, son! Astonishing misses, but won't hold it against him.

Carlton Cole - Fantastic shot, as someone here said, he had absolutely no right to get that shot off but he nearly scored an absolute pearler, excellent!

Green - What an incredible goalkeeper! And I've said it before, but you gotta dig this dude's 'tude...

Table after gameweek 11

Congrats to Dickster for being the October Manager of the Month.

Honourable mention to "WHU Past & Present" who came 2nd despite having to cope with a self imposed rule of only picking players who have played for West Ham in some capacity.

Pos/Team/Manager/This Week/Grand Total

1 Ham West Graham Drummond 59 613
2 Brisbane Hammers Dave Rhodes 71 563
3 Rsk Hammers Richard Kemp 67 544
4 Gunnadoos Craig Baldwin 66 542
5 winning11 Joe Cobley 52 518
6 Mickys Oz Hammers Micky Palmer 44 518
7 Rapid Earlwood FC Nicholas Xanthis 50 511
8 Fleet Street Folex Folex 44 505
9 Boys from the Boleyn Stuart Robinson 63 501
10 Demons Blake Keough 66 499


October Manager of the Month Running Points

Pos/Team/Manager/This Week/Oct Total

1 Dicksters Devils richard bishop 74 227
2 WHU Past & Present Ben McEvoy 79 202
3 Rsk Hammers Richard Kemp 67 182
4 MarcoBoogersIsMad FC Mark Thomas 60 170
5 Demons Blake Keough 66 164
6 Brisbane Hammers Dave Rhodes 71 163
7 Mickys Oz Hammers Micky Palmer 44 161
8 Thames Ironworkers Kenton Presland 65 157
9 winning11 Joe Cobley 52 155
10 Noof Utd Josh Parsons 49 154

The Brisbane Hammers League is ranked 3,683rd out of 102,574 leagues.

Previous Manager's of the Month.

August - Dave Rhodes (Brisbane Hammers) 185 pts.
September - Graham Drummond (Ham West) 288 pts
October - Richard Bishop (Dickster's Devils) 227 pts

League details http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ Code is 187088-40824 League is called Brisbane Hammers but all whu-au readers welcome.

Craig Bellamy has been ruled out of Tuesday night's cup clash with his former club Coventry after limping off at half time vs Portsmouth at the weekend. He is troubled by the same injury that has blighted his season since it started and it is not known how long he'll be sidelined for but could be out for weeks.

So looks like it'll be Carlton & LBM up front for November.

Well deserved point which could've and maybe should've been 3!

Firstly, how the Ref can award a penalty is a disgrace. It was ball to hand for sure and looked to be outside the box! Given that the game was effectively over, it was marginal as to whether Gabbs was in the box and it was unintentional, I find it woeful that any ref would give a penalty. There wasn't even much of a reaction from the Portsmouth players when the incident occured and everyone, including Portsmouth looked surprised. Terrible decision.


Robert Green, how goood is he! Saved us again, he is the man. Not only saved the penalty but made a couple of tasty saves early on. So glad he plays for us, world class.

CFC, will now be known as CC. I'm dropping the F 'cause he deserves it. Thought he had a great game, worked his arse off and was immense in the lone striker role. Had no right to get that shot off that hit the bar but he managed it. Well done my son. Oh and anyone who boo's him should have their arseholes removed, wankers!

Linda was also awesome. Week in week out he's consistent. Him and Green are the best we've got at the moment.

Good to see Lucas back in form and Upson did OK an'all but Gabbs, what are you doing son! He looks shakier than Mohammad Ali carrying a try of Waterford Crystal. He looks a shadow of the player that won Hammer of the year not so long ago. He's a real worry. Suspect Anton will be back at CB after that performance.

Bellamy needs to worry about his football more and stop muck'n about. FFS!

They bossed us around in the midfield, we had heaps of trouble passing the ball out of our own half without having to resort to a long ball. Unfortunately Noble and Mullins are not the answer, both look pretty average and may find it hard to hold down a regular place if we ever get enough players back. Honestly, sometimes you wouldn't know either of'em were on the pitch. To Anonymous for my liking.

Solano missed a couple of sitters. Not sure how he did it? Seemed harder to miss than score? Anyway, he and LBM did add some much needed width.

All in all, yet another patched up side managed to get something from a pretty good side. Well done Curbs and the lads.

So daylight saving is meant to start this Sunday at 2am at which time people in NSW, VIC, SA, ACT turn their clocks forward 1 hour. If that is the case how can Foxtel have our game scheduled for 2:15am - 4:30am?

As soon as it gets to 2am it magically becomes 3am doesn't it? 2:15 should never occur..

Daylight saving time in the UK doesn't start until 1am Sunday morning UK time so it won't have started when our game kicks off on Saturday arvo.

I'm down the coast for the weekend but I'm gonna drive home to watch the game then go back down again...

Does anyone understand this stuff....what time in QLD is our game actually on?

I'm down the coast for the weekend but I'm gonna drive home to watch the game then go back down again...

Sorry for the lack of embedding but it's on the SBS video site

I know that all games are 'must win' really but this upcoming game against Sunderland is a massive one methinks. Will be very interesting to see what team Curbs puts out with all our injuries, looks like he will have to give some of the youngsters a run-out? If we lose, it's 4 on the trot (sorry for the reminder) with a difficult game at Pompey to come. However, a win would see us clawing back to the top half of the table and be a huge confidence booster. These games leading up to the Spuds clash are pivotal I think and will shape our season.