Despite everything that we have been through the past couple of games/years (whatever way you want to look at it), it is vital that we get fully behind the team today.

Morale generally is at a pretty significant low…the players are down, the Manager is clearly down and I fear that unless things change we might be down by the end of the season too.

We will have no better opportunity to put everything to one side today and focus on supporting the team and fully ‘welcoming’ Paul Ince back.

I know it will be hard if we start the game playing the way we did against City but personally I will be there in my seat in the Centenary Lower putting my all in trying to bring the best out of our players.

I also think, before I go and get my shirt on, that our support for our club today will influence more than just the players…I believe it will influence the opinion of the press about our support and also other fans. If we give either of those groups of people the smallest opportunity to criticise us, they will.

“We are West Ham’s Claret and Blue Army”……….

The starting line up that you want to see (from this POST) reads as follows:

Rob Green
Behrami
Lucas Neill
Matthew Upson
George McCartney
Faubert
Bowyer
Parker
Etherington
Ashton
Bellamy

I have a funny feeling that this might just be how Curbs decides to play it today, especially after Bowyer’s goal midweek. ( I reckon though he might start with Cole and Bellamy may make an appearance later in the game…although Bellers is definitely the sort of player we need on the pitch today)

Sam

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