West Ham 09/10 Season
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You lot even cheated by starting your thread early!
Same time of the year that I started the last one (on which the second post after mine was simply 'sad'.
http://www.whufc.com/page/News/0,,12562~1670369,00.html
Spence 'imperious' in first qualifying game, apparently.
Spence 'imperious' in first qualifying game, apparently.
tommers
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http://www.whufc.com/page/News/0,,12562~1670369,00.html
Spence 'imperious' in first qualifying game, apparently.
Excellent. My only worry is that duxbury will use it as an excuse to sell tomkins.
kained&able
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more likely to be not replacing upson if he leaves. Tomkins wont be worth enough yet.
To be honest though i think spence will be out on loan again this season. championship rather then league 1 this time though.
Not really much point in having him at the club as a fouth/fifth choice centre back.
dave
To be honest though i think spence will be out on loan again this season. championship rather then league 1 this time though.
Not really much point in having him at the club as a fouth/fifth choice centre back.
dave
We would be absolutely NUTS to sell Upson. We paid 7m for him which people said was stupid at the time but it's looking like a very very good buy and probably Curb's best. He's 30 now, but that's pretty much the peak for a defender, he's pretty much an England regular (although if Rio and terry were both there, not sure he would be) and he's improved massively too, and seems to have got over his sicknote reputation thanks to our medical team). He'll be shit-hot for at least another 2-3 years.
Then agian, if Gabbidon comes back, and Spence lives up to his growing reputation, we'll have Upson-Gabbidon-Collins-Tomkins-Spence all very decent CBs. You can only keep so many players happy.
We need to wait to see if Spence does live up to that before even THINKIng about selling Matty though.
Then agian, if Gabbidon comes back, and Spence lives up to his growing reputation, we'll have Upson-Gabbidon-Collins-Tomkins-Spence all very decent CBs. You can only keep so many players happy.
We need to wait to see if Spence does live up to that before even THINKIng about selling Matty though.
kained&able
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I agree with everything you say.
I'm just convinced villa are going to nab him off us. Not sure why.
dave
I'm just convinced villa are going to nab him off us. Not sure why.
dave
Hopefully the fact he's a Birmingham former player will help stop that happening.
I've seen absolutely nothing to indicate he isn't happy at UP and I reckon we won't be far off Villa next season.
I've seen absolutely nothing to indicate he isn't happy at UP and I reckon we won't be far off Villa next season.
chieftain
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You will start well, go out of any cups before the quarters, falter in the league and then finish below Spurs right at the last.
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This time next year Rodders, we'll be bankrupted
You will start well, go out of any cups before the quarters, falter in the league and then finish below Spurs.
Again
This time next year Rodders, we'll be bankrupted
Nah, I reckon Zola's style is well suited to the FA Cup. If it hadn't been for Lionel Cunting Bastarding Scaloni we'd have won it in 2006.
I did think we'd win it this season, mind you, but that replay with Boro was an absolute embarrassment, one of the worst I've seen us play since the season we went down.
chieftain
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You might well be right there.
kained&able
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seen a couple of articles with him saying he might need to move to make sure he is in the england squad
but presume them to be bollocks.I think my theroy stems from o'neil seems to like buying british and upson is the best english centre back not at a team above villa.
dave
tommers
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You will start well, go out of any cups before the quarters, falter in the league and then finish below Spurs right at the last.
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That's strange, we got to the FA Cup quarters this year and finished above you last season (and had equal points this one.)
Hard to believe I know.
chieftain
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It might only be goal dfference but you finished a place behind us in the league
My bad on the FA exit
kained&able
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did we have a silly loss last season?
y'know the normal 5 goal loss to blackburn or everton or anything stupid?
dave
y'know the normal 5 goal loss to blackburn or everton or anything stupid?
dave
he won it a couple of times as a player. I just think that with little chance of league success, and probably should be just about safe, I hope we go for one of the cups. The league cup seems a relatively easy cup to win but we always seem to play dreadfully in it for some reason I can't quite fathom.
seen a couple of articles with him saying he might need to move to make sure he is in the england squad
I think my theroy stems from o'neil seems to like buying british and upson is the best english centre back not at a team above villa.
dave
You could be right. Fingers crossed. We need to really build a team instead of the constant coming and going we have...
Are you sure we got to the quarters? Wasn't the loss to Boro in the last 16?
It might only be goal dfference but you finished a place behind us in the league
My bad on the FA exit
He's talking about the season before the one just gone - we were 10th, you were 11th. And in fact I need to correct my post above. We lost in the quarters to everton last season, which I think is what Tommers means, and then in the last 16 to Boro this one.
tommers
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It might only be goal dfference but you finished a place behind us in the league
yeah we did, but not last year. You said "again."
We also finished above them in 98, 99, 2000, 2002. So much for their claim to 'always' finish above us...
tommers
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nah, I just got it wrong. I thought it was the quarters...
I do think that that game at Boro in the replay was by far the worst of the season...
tommers
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I dunno, I reckon the one at Upton Park was worse. I expected more from that than the replay.
I don't think I even saw the one at UP. But the replay was on national telly. that made it kind of humiliating. All the normal ingredients just seemed to go missing. If any team figured us out last season, it was Boro.
Is lemontop despondent?
I dread to think what kind of attendances they'll get in the Championship...
tommers
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Nah, she's not too bothered. Got bigger stuff to worry about at the moment!
Obviously this isn't the thread for it, but usually when someone says that it involves either job loss or the patter of tiny feet...
tommers
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Obviously this isn't the thread for it, but usually when someone says that it involves either job loss or the patter of tiny feet...
the second one. in 5 months time.
and a wedding in 2 months time.
It's a mixture of constant stress and joy. Quite heady.
Blimey, you kept that quiet. Congratulations mate.
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