Why are West Ham so rubbish?

[New York Red]

I can't figure it out. They've got a decent manager. On paper they have a good team. Not world beaters, but not too shabby. No huge injury problems. Did well last year.

 

It's wierd. I would have thought they are a mid table team at least.

[Falconhoof]

Lack of stability.

 

The vibes coming from magnusson have been damaging from the start. From him sitting in the stand shaking his head and stamping his feet, to him backing a manager and then sacking him, panic buying players, never being out of the newspapers with his opinions.

Compare and contrast with our board.

[San Diego Red]

I think it's intimidation from their troll featured, dwarf looking, massive eared owner.

[lfc003]

never really rated curbs, he's a decent manager but i think he really struggles when the slightest bit of pressure is on.

[Bootle Buck]

Lack of heart and fight. They looked dead and buried from the off today. I think Pardew had a better personality and relationship with the players to keep them up than Curbishly.

[Spike]

aye, it was a shame that his relationships with their lasses were better though!

[Barnes' left foot]

They deserve all that's happening to them. Can't stand that club.

[CarraLegend]

Its a clique ridden s***pit by the look of it, most of their players are overrated anyway and s*** signings like Nigel Quashie, Boa Morte (Used to be good to be fair) arent going to help at all.

[R A Softlad]

Magnusson takes the biscuit.

[Euphrates]

I can't recall where I read it so it may be poppycock, but is it true that Eggert isn't the main financial backer of the deal and is just the chairman because the real man had a checkered past?

[psl]

Pathetic showing today. An absolutely vital game and they fly the white flag after the first goal. Gutless.

[Hulio]

I can't recall where I read it so it may be poppycock, but is it true that Eggert isn't the main financial backer of the deal and is just the chairman because the real man had a checkered past?

 

Is indeed.

 

Did time he did.

[Guest efcrmagic]

There manager is s****.

 

I wish he'd gone to your lot.

[Herbie von Smalls]

their owner is a ridsdale who thinks he's an abramovic. it'll all end in tears.

[stressederic]

their owner is a ridsdale who thinks he's an abramovic. it'll all end in tears.

 

Of laughter?

[Benitez]

Pathetic showing today. An absolutely vital game and they fly the white flag after the first goal. Gutless.

 

 

hardly surprising given the man in charge.

 

Charlton where always a real soft club when he was manager.

[richt71]

I can't figure it out. They've got a decent manager. On paper they have a good team. Not world beaters, but not too shabby. No huge injury problems. Did well last year.

 

It's wierd. I would have thought they are a mid table team at least.

Seemed to have gone from their roots into billy big boys without the talent. Shame when you thought about the players they developed and/or bought from lower leagues. Now it appears to be splash the cash. Looks like they're royally screwed. Oh well Neill and Upson will have spent today counting their wages....oh and double checking their get out clauses!

[Coyler]

They're cursed since Eastenders started crowbarring references to their results into Minty & what'shisface's scenes.

[Cam]

1) The Tevez & Mascherano deals - the shadiness of it all, making their bling players think they were about to become Chelsea II, putting the noses of good pro players out of joint and mainly because the manager seemed to have no say in the transfers.

 

2) The bling players - getting Bentleys and becoming big-time Charlies.

 

3) Sacking Pardew far too early.

 

4) Bringing in Curbishley - a good manager of a decent family club playing above their limits. He'll be ideal to take over from Gradi. He's no Red Adair though.

 

5) The players brought in to save them - having poor injury records, escape clauses and obviously only there for the huge money.

[fyds]

Because they're West Ham and yo-yoing between divisions is what they do best.

[John am Rhein]

Arf Garnett

[New York Red]

Arf Garnett

 

Very fair point...

[Nebraska Red]

the success they had last year in getting to the Cup Final went to their heads.

 

they have not realised that it takes a different kind of footy to survive in the PL.

 

they have no scrappers, their defence is lightweight and they still live in that mythical land of "West Ham play beautiful footy."

 

they need a couple of seasons in the lower leagues to get themselves straightened out and put together a balanced team.

 

the only problem will be if their owners go bonkers and then they risk doing a Nottingham Forest and skidding down even further.

[New York Red]

the success they had last year in getting to the Cup Final went to their heads.

 

they have not realised that it takes a different kind of footy to survive in the PL.

 

they have no scrappers, their defence is lightweight and they still live in that mythical land of "West Ham play beautiful footy."

 

they need a couple of seasons in the lower leagues to get themselves straightened out and put together a balanced team.

 

the only problem will be if their owners go bonkers and then they risk doing a Nottingham Forest and skidding down even further.

 

NR. Are you anywhere near Gothenburg? My mate lives there and has been on to me to come and see the golf course he built there. I'm thinking about doing it when I am at Sand Hills and Dismal River.

[Nebraska Red]

NR. Are you anywhere near Gothenburg? My mate lives there and has been on to me to come and see the golf course he built there. I'm thinking about doing it when I am at Sand Hills and Dismal River.

 

no, I live in Omaha about 242 miles east of Gothenburg.

 

we have passed through that place a few times when heading out west. their big claim to fame is the Pony Express Station and some decent places to eat.

 

i have heard there are some good golf courses out there, right now they are snowmobile trails.

Edited February 25, 2007 by nebraska red