I have felt really down all week when it comes to football, which is why I haven’t blogged in a while! Was planning on a blog for the Ipswich game, but the loss in the closing minutes was a killer for me and I have felt down and out about it all week!
Anyway, I was cheered up today with the news that we may have made a loan bid for Carlos Tevez. I don’t think refusing to play for your own club is a good thing, and I don’t think he should have acted that way, but if it means that this could mean in any way that he could once again become a WHU player, then keep on doing it Carlos! His 6 months of consistent play with us was some of the most exciting I have ever seen, and we all remember that goal at Old Trafford, and his apology to us when he scored against us for Man City, and when he made the hammers arm sign on his return to UP with United, and that’s why I love Carlos Tevez. Carlos, por favor vuelve al West Ham!
The thing that reminded me to write this blog is the ‘emergency loan’ signing of Manuel Almunia. What a signing that is! I wouldn’t choose him over Greeno, but realistically he is the best replacement we could have asked for? An experienced, half decently proven Premiership goalkeeper, for whom im keeping my fingers crossed that he can do the business so quickly with him going straight into the starting line up tomorrow. He also has a very simple song which I think we can all pick up nicely if he makes a few good stops.
After these two bits of exciting news, I am definitely happier in footballing terms than I was last night, so now I am looking forward to the game tomorrow. Hopefully the sunshine can help make the game a better one, and would like to see some goals banged in by our lot again! Back to scoring ways please west ham. I think that we will win tomorrow, and I hope by a nice margin, and that they all play well as a team.
Prediction 3-0 – Scorers: Lansbury, Cole and Tomkins (not necessarily in that order)
Also want to rant about Adrian Durham. I know his job is to wind us up as fans so we pay ridiculous money to moan at him on his radio show, but do any of you readers follow him on Twitter?? He is a first class idiot and anything we do he makes such an issue out of, this is his latest tweet following the news of Almunia:
talkSPORTDrive
Almunia: 3 issues: 1) proves whu panicking and in deep troub if they don't go up; 2) why have a squad?; 3) are whu paying his £50k a week?
Whats his obsession with us?!? Winds me right up – but no!!! I will not ring your poxy radio show.
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Friday 30 September 2011
Monday 19 September 2011
Its that time of the week again.....
Episode 5 of Moore Than Just a Podcast, hot off the press, available to listen NOW below
Subscribers on iTunes can listen now, or search 'Moore Than Just a Podcast' on the iTunes store!!
Enjoy and thanks for your questions
Subscribers on iTunes can listen now, or search 'Moore Than Just a Podcast' on the iTunes store!!
Enjoy and thanks for your questions
Friday 16 September 2011
Avram Grant was a nice man!
So we won our last game out against Pompey, was a decent result but not a great performance. If you want to hear more in depth analysis of that game, then listen to Moore Than Just a Podcast where we go over it many times, and I constantly reiterate my admiration for our new Henri Lansbury who has sadly just signed a contract extension with L’Arse L. Anyway, we got the win and now let’s move on, big game tomorrow!!
Im not going to the den, but I will try and find some dodgy stream somewhere and watch it. The one thing im hoping will come out of Saturdays early kick off (except 3 points), is a debut for Sam Baldock, as im reading this morning that he is well up for showing us what he can do and that there is no better stage for him to do it. I would love him to get a debut goal as I am still keeping my fingers crossed that he is the missing pacey finisher that we so dearly need.
Team will hopefully look like this (it wont but this is what I would choose)
Green
O’Brien Tomkins Faye McCartney
Bentley Lansbury Nolan Taylor
Cole Baldock
But realistically, it will be Lansbury Nolan and Noble, and Cole up front on his own. Prediction: 1-2 With Millwall scoring first and Cole and Baldock scorers!!!
Yesterday saw a fan forum taking place, which again, I didn’t attend. However I am being cheeky, and have c+p’d a summary from a fan on West Ham Online so thanks to the contributor for this!
A brief run down of what was discussed:
• For me DG is a lovely, lovely bloke. Seriously. He is passionate, enthusiastic and down to earth.
• But he said alot without actually telling us much. A polished performance and he is very personable. DS is probably the one to get the gossip from!!
• The evening started with the inevtiable OS questions.
• In a nut shell he is 99.99999% we will get it. Hearn is only after cash and Levy wasnt spoken about in very fond terms. He couldnt say much about the legal action other than I got the impression Spurs may have a problem to deal with.
• The stadium will be named (he mentioned as an example The Sony Olympic Stadium) but West Ham will not change nor the badge (he feels KB was misquoted here)
• The worst seats will be given to the community and we will get the best seats. All options are being looked at for seats including retractable and a Dutch lego idea where we build sections for football over the track and dismantle in closed season.
• Parker wanted to go to spurs, other offers came in but he was only interested in going there.
• Bentley happened after and wasnt part of the Parker deal.
• Cole had offers, and wants PL football but not at any price. Instead he stayed with us. DG was very complimentary about Cole and spoke with warmth about how much he gives on the pitch for the club.
• Green will be offered contract but as per Parker in reality Contracts are worthless anyway if a player wants to go.
• He wont be driving his Rolls to Millwall!!
• BFS let Hines and Junior go as felt hadnt developed. DG felt Junior may still make the grade, nothing said about Hines.
• Huge hopes for current U18 team - especially Elliot Lee.
• Succession plans are in place should worst happen or either of the daves have enough.
• Debt down to £75m from £110m
• The Stech story is true about payments but he wont go on loan to prove his worth
• He loves BFS.
• Tried to manage Avram out in Dec/Jan. Offered MONeill the job but he was indecisive, then story leaked (still dont know by who) and so stuck with Avram once Feb came as no other manage wanted job if they couldnt bring in own players. All done in secret even DGs girlfriend didnt know they had gone in for MONeill.
• Said Avram was a lovely bloke, was excellent in interview and was best candidate at the time. Crap manager though!!
• Defended Brady and her Sun articles and said she was excellent at her job.
• The Icelandics "rape and pillaged" our club and some of the deals were a joke.
• DG said we could have got Freddie L for £1m rather than £3.5m if only they had waited 2 days!
• There is no transfer kitty just the two Daves pockets. They are prepared to dig deep to invest in BFS.
• BFS ambitious wants to manage in PL and then England football team.
• Disgusted with 5 sub rule (blamed small clubs like Peterborough!) and the UEFA financial rules need tweaking.
• Will look into comments on catering.
• Will look to take as much to the OS from UP as we can (like gates etc) and looking to do replica world cup winners statue
• We have to get OS otherwise Spurs will nick all our corporate. He can see OS from the Boardroom and doesn't want to see Spurs flag flying over it.
• Potential is massive as is income stream.
• Also said he hoped Lansbury would sign for us if we got promoted and if Arsenal still only offered bench football.
• Said all Henri wants is to play and is a top bloke.
• Also very complimentary on new little Sam and had high hopes for him also.
• Rough figures to buy into club and 30% stake are £30m to bank and £20m to club as a gift.
• Fernandes wanted to do the above figures at 51% and so become majority shareholder.
• DG and DS adamant that they want 3 equalish partners.
• Terry Brown wont invest any more into club. Lovely bloke, mad fan but dull!!
• DG mentioned 30% as stake left as from memory didnt Brown and someone else buy 3%?!
• Banks etc all aware we want a new partner in club.
• Said last year too many injuries, and this year none. Speaks volumes about BFS regime.
Very interesting read I think you would agree? Overall a real positive feel about our club at the moment. Loving it.
COYI Lets beat that Millwall scum!
IRONS
Im not going to the den, but I will try and find some dodgy stream somewhere and watch it. The one thing im hoping will come out of Saturdays early kick off (except 3 points), is a debut for Sam Baldock, as im reading this morning that he is well up for showing us what he can do and that there is no better stage for him to do it. I would love him to get a debut goal as I am still keeping my fingers crossed that he is the missing pacey finisher that we so dearly need.
Team will hopefully look like this (it wont but this is what I would choose)
Green
O’Brien Tomkins Faye McCartney
Bentley Lansbury Nolan Taylor
Cole Baldock
But realistically, it will be Lansbury Nolan and Noble, and Cole up front on his own. Prediction: 1-2 With Millwall scoring first and Cole and Baldock scorers!!!
Yesterday saw a fan forum taking place, which again, I didn’t attend. However I am being cheeky, and have c+p’d a summary from a fan on West Ham Online so thanks to the contributor for this!
A brief run down of what was discussed:
• For me DG is a lovely, lovely bloke. Seriously. He is passionate, enthusiastic and down to earth.
• But he said alot without actually telling us much. A polished performance and he is very personable. DS is probably the one to get the gossip from!!
• The evening started with the inevtiable OS questions.
• In a nut shell he is 99.99999% we will get it. Hearn is only after cash and Levy wasnt spoken about in very fond terms. He couldnt say much about the legal action other than I got the impression Spurs may have a problem to deal with.
• The stadium will be named (he mentioned as an example The Sony Olympic Stadium) but West Ham will not change nor the badge (he feels KB was misquoted here)
• The worst seats will be given to the community and we will get the best seats. All options are being looked at for seats including retractable and a Dutch lego idea where we build sections for football over the track and dismantle in closed season.
• Parker wanted to go to spurs, other offers came in but he was only interested in going there.
• Bentley happened after and wasnt part of the Parker deal.
• Cole had offers, and wants PL football but not at any price. Instead he stayed with us. DG was very complimentary about Cole and spoke with warmth about how much he gives on the pitch for the club.
• Green will be offered contract but as per Parker in reality Contracts are worthless anyway if a player wants to go.
• He wont be driving his Rolls to Millwall!!
• BFS let Hines and Junior go as felt hadnt developed. DG felt Junior may still make the grade, nothing said about Hines.
• Huge hopes for current U18 team - especially Elliot Lee.
• Succession plans are in place should worst happen or either of the daves have enough.
• Debt down to £75m from £110m
• The Stech story is true about payments but he wont go on loan to prove his worth
• He loves BFS.
• Tried to manage Avram out in Dec/Jan. Offered MONeill the job but he was indecisive, then story leaked (still dont know by who) and so stuck with Avram once Feb came as no other manage wanted job if they couldnt bring in own players. All done in secret even DGs girlfriend didnt know they had gone in for MONeill.
• Said Avram was a lovely bloke, was excellent in interview and was best candidate at the time. Crap manager though!!
• Defended Brady and her Sun articles and said she was excellent at her job.
• The Icelandics "rape and pillaged" our club and some of the deals were a joke.
• DG said we could have got Freddie L for £1m rather than £3.5m if only they had waited 2 days!
• There is no transfer kitty just the two Daves pockets. They are prepared to dig deep to invest in BFS.
• BFS ambitious wants to manage in PL and then England football team.
• Disgusted with 5 sub rule (blamed small clubs like Peterborough!) and the UEFA financial rules need tweaking.
• Will look into comments on catering.
• Will look to take as much to the OS from UP as we can (like gates etc) and looking to do replica world cup winners statue
• We have to get OS otherwise Spurs will nick all our corporate. He can see OS from the Boardroom and doesn't want to see Spurs flag flying over it.
• Potential is massive as is income stream.
• Also said he hoped Lansbury would sign for us if we got promoted and if Arsenal still only offered bench football.
• Said all Henri wants is to play and is a top bloke.
• Also very complimentary on new little Sam and had high hopes for him also.
• Rough figures to buy into club and 30% stake are £30m to bank and £20m to club as a gift.
• Fernandes wanted to do the above figures at 51% and so become majority shareholder.
• DG and DS adamant that they want 3 equalish partners.
• Terry Brown wont invest any more into club. Lovely bloke, mad fan but dull!!
• DG mentioned 30% as stake left as from memory didnt Brown and someone else buy 3%?!
• Banks etc all aware we want a new partner in club.
• Said last year too many injuries, and this year none. Speaks volumes about BFS regime.
Very interesting read I think you would agree? Overall a real positive feel about our club at the moment. Loving it.
COYI Lets beat that Millwall scum!
IRONS
Monday 12 September 2011
Episode 4 - Moore Than Just a Podcast
Now live on itunes to subscribers, or listen here:
Thanks for all your questions and comments!!
Thanks for all your questions and comments!!
Monday 5 September 2011
Moore Than Just a Podcast - Transfer Special
The transfer special podcast is now up on podbean, on itunes or subscribers now... non subscribers probably tomorrow, or listen below!!
Friday 2 September 2011
Carlton Cole is leaving
Galatasary have made an undisclosed bid for him...
Shame as he has been doing well so far at this level but not that bothered as it is Carlton Cole (Cant Control)
COYI
Shame as he has been doing well so far at this level but not that bothered as it is Carlton Cole (Cant Control)
COYI
Thursday 1 September 2011
We're gonna break league records
We’re gonna break records
Wow. Congratulations to the two Daves and BFS, the signings we have made this transfer window have been immense. The best transfer window for us since we signed Dean Ashton (IMO).
I was so so happy at the news Henri Lansbury has joined is on loan for the year. Having seen him play quite often last year for Norwich and England U21’s, I honestly think this lad is a great signing to help us in this league. And then this was made even better with the news of David Bentley. I know he has his critics and that he has been walking around loving himself whilst not playing and bringing in his wages, and performing no better than averagely when he has played…… However, I honestly think the fact that he has come on loan shows that he wants to play as much as he can, and at Championship level we may have a real gem on our hands this season. He offers us great vision, passing, delivery into the box, and also his set pieces and scoring of free kicks is something he is known for. I don’t know much about Guy Demel, but when the signing came through on SSN, Iain Dowie was saying ‘ Wow, this kid can play football’ and went on to say how he should be playing in Premiership and how he will be a ‘revelation’ for us in the Championship, so I take it he’s good Iain?
Put these 3 alongside the decent signings of Nolan, McCartney, Baldock etc. and I think we will be the strongest team in this league. If BFS can get them working together as a team, which should be an achievable feat looking at how many British players we have which always helps increase the team spirit, then in my opinion, the bookies were right to put us favourites to win the Championship. We could break records with this squad!
Hope anyone who has listened to the Moore Than Just a Podcast has enjoyed it, thank you for listening! And for those who haven’t… its available in my last post and also on iTunes!
Listen here on podbean http://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/
Subscribe on Itunes here itpc://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/feed
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COYI
Wow. Congratulations to the two Daves and BFS, the signings we have made this transfer window have been immense. The best transfer window for us since we signed Dean Ashton (IMO).
I was so so happy at the news Henri Lansbury has joined is on loan for the year. Having seen him play quite often last year for Norwich and England U21’s, I honestly think this lad is a great signing to help us in this league. And then this was made even better with the news of David Bentley. I know he has his critics and that he has been walking around loving himself whilst not playing and bringing in his wages, and performing no better than averagely when he has played…… However, I honestly think the fact that he has come on loan shows that he wants to play as much as he can, and at Championship level we may have a real gem on our hands this season. He offers us great vision, passing, delivery into the box, and also his set pieces and scoring of free kicks is something he is known for. I don’t know much about Guy Demel, but when the signing came through on SSN, Iain Dowie was saying ‘ Wow, this kid can play football’ and went on to say how he should be playing in Premiership and how he will be a ‘revelation’ for us in the Championship, so I take it he’s good Iain?
Put these 3 alongside the decent signings of Nolan, McCartney, Baldock etc. and I think we will be the strongest team in this league. If BFS can get them working together as a team, which should be an achievable feat looking at how many British players we have which always helps increase the team spirit, then in my opinion, the bookies were right to put us favourites to win the Championship. We could break records with this squad!
Hope anyone who has listened to the Moore Than Just a Podcast has enjoyed it, thank you for listening! And for those who haven’t… its available in my last post and also on iTunes!
Listen here on podbean http://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/
Subscribe on Itunes here itpc://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/feed
RSS Feed http://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/feed/
Download MP3 here http://moorethanjustapodcast.podbean.com/mf/web/zpk2ab
COYI
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