So briefly, here’s my post match interview with Spector

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To our new owners
Focus on the task at hand and the next 7 games. Hold those thoughts of the Olympic Stadium, hold back on laying off staff and threats of wage cuts.
Hold back on letting the world and his dog know of the state the club is in because lest we forget, “negativity breeds negativity”

To the manager
You have a talented squad from which to choose your XI players. Just keep it simple, play players in their favoured positions and let them show us why they should be pulling on the Claret and Blue of West Ham United.

To our players
Play like your livelihoods depended on winning every game until the end of the season because quite frankly, with SuGo in charge, THEY DO

To our captain
Play and SOUND like one. It seems clear to the supporters that you have not one, but both eyes on bigger goals. But unless you concentrate on the task at hand, like the rest of us over the summer you’ll have both eyes on the telly

To young master Tomkins
Get back on the pitch and put the Wolves game behind you. Show again what a talented and promising footballer you are.

To the ball boys on Saturday
Take along a large tub of vaseline and apply liberally each time you pass the ball, politely, to Mr Delap (he’s the one with satellite dishes in place of ears)

To the supporters
If the players had any doubts about the passion us supporters have for our club, they know now! We’ve said our piece, the players and owners have said theirs. Tuesday is now history.
Supporters; we know our job and no offence SuGo but we don’t need paper clappers or kids for a quid to play our part. If we do go a goal down, don’t get on the players’ backs, just crank up the volume ala Villa Park 1991 (younger supporters ask your Dad’s!)

See you all Saturday and COME ON YOU IRONS!!

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I’ve put together a slightly different comparison this time around, highlighting how we fared in the exact same fixtures played this year compared to last:

So from that, a quick few summary points:

- We have scored 9 more goals compared to last year
- But, conceded 6 more

- We earned 5 more points in the corresponding fixtures last year.
- We have seen the same results against Spurs, Blackburn, Liverpool, Man City and Everton
- Last year we beat Wigan, Fulham, Stoke and Sunderland, whereas this year we only managed 2 points from the same fixtures.
- We have improved on the Arsenal, Villa and Hull results compared to last year.

I produce these stats table to simply put the data out there and hopefully make it easier to interpret. My opinion on the whole lot is quite simply this…our urgency to secure the services of a new striker during the summer has clearly paid off. We’ve scored significantly more goals. However…it is obviously been at detriment to our defence (selling Collins was a massive mistake).

I am however confident that once our defence settles into the same four each week for the best part, we will soon see a climb up the table. Although our goal difference is actually better this year we are shipping goals like there’s no tomorrow. Sort that, and we’ve got the makings of a side that can still achieve something this year.

Love too know your comments

IRONS

Sam

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I’ve been battling with whether or not we should sell him and I’m sure many of you are still unsure. On one hand we have a top class goalscorer and it would seem silly to sell him considering that’s exactly what we are missing at the minute (the Sp*rs game made that all the more evident). On the other hand, he has never played a full season for us and is a liability on the injury front.

Stoke’s manager Tony Pulis has been reported of saying that Ashton’s injury record will not put him of signing him for £5m, the same article from the Daily Mail is saying that he is definitely leaving pending us finding a replacement. Make of that what you will. But it does beg the question, “why would Pulis be happy to resk forking out £5m, yet we seem happy to let him go”.

Essentially it’s a gamble on both teams parts and I for one do not want to get to the mid point of next season and find that our gamble of letting him go has severly backfired and that he his banging in the goals for Stoke.

Anyways, I figured a half decent way to get a rough idea of what everyone else is feeling is to roll out a poll…please vote below, and I’m also looking forward to reading your comments – Stoke fans, would you actually be happy with the risk of bringing Ashton’s injury record on board?

Even now I don’t know what I would vote.

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IRONS

Sam

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It seems like each week I am saying that it’s another massive game, but this is one of the games that we need to be looking at to take three points from. I’ve not been particularly good with my predictions this year, but I am going for a 1-0 West Ham win today, but it will be close!

IRONS

Sam

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