Just when you think that things couldn't get any worse....

[Legion]

The biggest mistake made was not buying an experienced CM and CB in January.

[LeeB]

The biggest mistake made was not buying an experienced CM and CB in January.

Time will tell.

[Legion]

There is still a glimmer of hope.

[Concrete John]

The biggest mistake made was not buying an experienced CM and CB in January.

Fully agree.  But was that his fault or Randy's?

[Legion]

I don't think we'll ever really know the full truth behind that.

[Concrete John]

I don't think we'll ever really know the full truth behind that.

If only someone on here had some ITK info about how much there was to spend.......

[Damo70]

Not much and certainly not enough to avoid being in the relegation battle right to the wire.

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There is still a glimmer of hope.

I think the past two and a half games have shown more than a glimmer. Three weeks ago, I could not see how we would win another game!


Now, despite the rally Reading have shown, events are back in our own hands and we have the best forward line by a country mile in the bottom half, with a system that is finally exploiting its potential.

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If the club gets relegated, the major influencing factor will be that the squad isn't strong enough - and it isn't, quite frankly.

The squad could, and should have been better if Lambert had spent the money available to him differently in the summer.  He assembled a squad that isn't good or experienced enough, and he's failed to coach/motivate them as well. 

I agree risso, he has spent more than many in this league and although some decent signings his failure to get better from the players has been a cause of concern.

I think that’s a duff point to be honest.

The squad Lambert inherited was only just good enough to stay in the top flight last season. He had £20 million to buy full backs, centre halves, central midfielders, attacking midfielders and forwards.

£20 million to re-build a squad and inside three months too.

When you put the money spent into context, then there are few other clubs in the league who have a similar set of circumstances. QPR are one and they will finish bottom.

[sendō WHU]

Bit of a rock and a hard place type choice for you lot.

Watching dull, boring, soul destroying football every week - or getting Allardyce in!

Seriously though, as I say to a lot of people who bang on about the "West Ham way", in the Premier League you have to earn the right to play - I'd rather we got the basics right and gave ourselves a platform to start playing nice attacking football from, rather than trying to go tappy tappy all the time and getting spanked every week anyway.

Grinding out dull 1-0 wins beats losing 8-0 at the west London rent boys any day of the week. As much as the football is dire at times, I have no doubts at all that Allardyce will keep us up.

Luckily for you lot this story is almost certainly a fabrication, created most likely by Allardyce's agent to pushed Gold & Sullivan into giving him a new contract sooner rather than later (his contract is up in the summer).

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Why do people bang on about the West Ham Way or conversely why are West Ham fans proud of the West Ham Way?

You’ve won 3 FA Cups in your entire history and are up and down nearly as often as Small Heath.

[pauliewalnuts]

Grinding out dull 1-0 wins beats losing 8-0 at the west London rent boys any day of the week. As much as the football is dire at times, I have no doubts at all that Allardyce will keep us up.

Hmm, not too sure about that Sendo, it's not a fair comparison.

For starters, the 8 goal pasting at Chelsea isn't something that's going to happen every week, whereas the dull, grinding, rugby style of Allardyce's management does happen pretty much every week.

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Grinding out dull 1-0 wins beats losing 8-0 at the west London rent boys any day of the week. As much as the football is dire at times, I have no doubts at all that Allardyce will keep us up.

Hmm, not too sure about that Sendo, it's not a fair comparison.

For starters, the 8 goal pasting at Chelsea isn't something that's going to happen every week, whereas the dull, grinding, rugby style of Allardyce's management does happen pretty much every week.

Especially as West Ham's fortunes take a nose dive and those tedious one nil wins become increasingly rare. As I said, they're right in the mix with Yanited and Spurs at home and their awful away form to take to the likes of Stamford Bridge.

[Risso]

Grinding out dull 1-0 wins beats losing 8-0 at the west London rent boys any day of the week. As much as the football is dire at times, I have no doubts at all that Allardyce will keep us up.

Hmm, not too sure about that Sendo, it's not a fair comparison.

For starters, the 8 goal pasting at Chelsea isn't something that's going to happen every week, whereas the dull, grinding, rugby style of Allardyce's management does happen pretty much every week.

The 8-0 doesn't happen every week, but playing badly and losing has happened more weeks than not.  You must watch a lot of West Ham games to know that West Ham play the same style every week. The fact that a decent player like Mark Noble has thrived there suggests that you're doing nothing more than repeating media sterotypes.

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Noble is a decent player?