Tuesday, 21 July 2009

A Tribute To Brooking Or More Mood Management?


So tell me, why now? Why in the middle of July have the club announced that Brooking will be honoured by having a stand named after him?

I have no problem with the tribute of course but I am suspicious of the motives. I don't know why, but I have this image of Duxbury sitting down in May and planning how to keep the fans happy through the summer by a series of staged events - none of which have any bearing on what is happening on the pitch. It is a familiar tactic of course when an organisation wants to divert attention away from bad news. Nothing happening on the transfer front? Let's tell them how we are honouring an old Academy Boy, a player raised through the ranks, a player made, not bought; that's the West Ham way isn't it?

Cynical, mois? Meanwhile, we read on the OS how well the latest batch of Academy boys are doing. Stanislas, Savio (I know he was bought but he is a kid) and Edgar have all been impressing in training apparently. That's alright then! We don't need to buy anybody then do we? In fact, Duxbury may be earmarking areas of the ground to be named after players to see us through the rest of the summer. The Faubert Substitute's Bench, the Dean Ashton Treatment Room and The Quashie Crapper are all obvious calls!
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34 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 13:35

    You REALLY are scum! You never have anything positive to say about West Ham! The club has anough problems without you slagging them off day in day out! Why don't you get a life?

    You're a Spuds fan aren't you!!!

    Tosser!

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  2. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 13:55

    You cannot possibly be a hammer

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  3. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 14:15

    Wow, thanks for that... I wish I'd omitted the subject matter from my last comment.

    So we honour an old boy and it's a conspiracy to cover up a lack of signings (as Nouble apparently under goes his medical) and bad news... and then you change tact and have another pop at the same article you dug out earlier.

    Nobody but you has said we're not signing anyone, the transfer window is still open, get a grip ffs, so we're not paying the earth for aging mercenaries anymore, I'd rather see Tomkins and Noble than Quashie and Davenport...

    When it shuts and we are in trouble then you can bleat on all you like about how evil Duxbury is, how BG and Straumur have screwed us and say your right with a no doubt big grin and posts of glee when we sink without a trace in the fizzy pop.

    Until then I'd prefer to wait until my dreams and actually faded and died before burying them.
    Oh and maybe support the team perhaps?

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  4. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 14:59

    LOL 1335, I quote, "The club has anough problems without you slagging them off day in day out!" I can't see how my comments damage the club, unless by asking questions I am exposing the truth of course.

    1415, I certainly would not have a BIG GRIN ON MY FACE IF WE WERE RELEGATED. You may not believe me but there are two things that determine my mood - the fortune of West Ham and of England (in both cricket and football). What do you know about this Nouble? There have been a few Chelsea players - like Sinclair, who were going to set the world alight but who haven't done it. The guy is only 17 so unless he is a Rooney, he isn't going to change our finishing position this season is he? We have kids coming out of our ears already. I'm beginning to wonder if Zola thinks he is still running an U21 team! I want to see two new strikers and a right back fast. If we land them, great, if not, we will struggle. You are trusting by nature obviously; I am not. I have supported West Ham for too long to trust the management (at board level) to do the right thing.

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  5. Deane21 July 2009 at 15:04

    I'll back you you up mate you're obviously a hammers fan of long standing and therefore cynical just like me
    I still believe Terry Brown killed West Ham whem he sold Rio proving that as a club (owners and directors) we're a selling club without ambition What did TB say about fans "they're just scum" I seem to recall and who is his prodigal, one Duxberry so it makes perfect sense to not believe a single thing that comes out that man's mouth either
    Nontheless I'll be there through thin and thin cos unlike the directors I love the club, not the revenue and I reserve my right to be totally cynical
    anybody want my seat number I'm not anonymous
    COYI

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  6. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 15:09

    Well said Deane, sadly. Either these 'fans' are "newbies" or they have very short memories or they are very stupid. The current situation is very worrying and yet the fans are carrying on blithely without a care in the world. God help us if Jimenez and Cole don't fire as a front pair!

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  7. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 15:40

    Hammersfan, if West Ham determine your mood as you say then judging from your posts you must be in a constant state of depression or paranoia or something... as this glass totally empty view completely incenses me, hence taking the time to have a discussion with you rather than resorting to calling you a dickhead or a Spurs supporter as it seems to me that you get very little joy out of the club and take it out on this blog.

    I know that Nouble is good enough to be offered a contract with Chelsea and is very much in the Carlton Cole style of striker, only we'll get him before he rots in the reserves so I for one have (and it's probably the difference between you and me) HOPE, not trust.
    Whatever goes on in the running of the club it's the football on the pitch that brings me joy (admittedly less so under Curbs!).

    Don't forget Cole and Rio broke into the team at 17.

    I appreciate Uncle Terry royally screwed us, but I'd rather Zola feather the team with up and coming prospects than have some multi billionaire buying toys for his fantasy football team - Collison, Stanislas, Tomkins where all crucial to us last season - Pardew's team was relatively youthful and got us to an FA Cup final and conversely I have seen us relegated with the best team I can remember...

    I guess it comes down to how you look at it - sure you are entitled to be cynical (although Deane I'm not sure I get what you mean by Duxbury being TB's 'prodigal') but having been the scapegoat in the press for the last couple of years, branded as cheats, sued etc it would more more productive if we rallied together a bit more like the family club we claim to be?

    Just a though.
    COYI...

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  8. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 15:45

    Don't write a blog for West Ham fans and then call them stupid for defending the club

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  9. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 15:53

    Sorry Hammersfan to comment once again but having taken the time to explain my position to you in a polite manner, I submit my comment to find in the interim I am branded a 'newbie', short on memory or 'very stupid'...

    I appreciate you take a lot of flak for your blog but when someone takes the time to try and engage you in a proper fashion you still meet out the same childishness that colours your posts.
    Poor show mate.

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  10. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 16:11

    1553, I wasn't including you. It is the one liners saying , "You can't be a hammer" that I object to!

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  11. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 16:18

    Fair do.
    Overly caffeinated and prone to over reacting today!
    Can't say I'd ever see things from your perspective, but would say that, no matter what your take on things, if you weren't a Hammer you are one sad man for having a West Ham blog!
    lol
    Once again COYI.

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  12. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 16:21

    Cheers. Why not contribute an article giving the positive perspective?

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  13. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 16:28

    Sure... I'll have a think on it and drop you an email.

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  14. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 18:31

    As a WHU fan for forty years, I'm afraid I also, have the same ingrained cynical attitude towards the club at 'board level' as Hammersfan and Deane and I was certainly not taken in by Duxbury's recent 'spinterviews'.

    15:40 Yes, it can be very depressing, especially at the weekends between August and May.

    Good response to Hammersfan though!!

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  15. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 18:33

    1831, you are of my era. What was your first game? How many games did you have to go to before you saw us win?

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  16. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:21

    You were bleating on like this the season before last we finished tenth. Again you bleated on last season we finished 9th. Give Zola a chance man and the rest of the directors/Straumer too and you are now condoning threats of violence, well done

    "Well said Deane" Now you want to hide behind his puffed out chest, you can hold the coats

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  17. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:23

    18:31 is me HF, SN6.
    Fan since '68 but first game was happily a 2 -1 win over Southampton at UP, must have been '71 or '72, I was a kid and boy, was my 'glass full to the brim'.

    I think we narrowly missed relegation that year (?). It seemed like we were always fighting relegation when I was a kid!

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  18. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:23

    "Either these 'fans' are "newbies" or they have very short memories or they are very stupid."

    PRICK with a capital P-R-I-C-k

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  19. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 19:35

    1921, I think you have got the wrong end of the stick. I didn't read that as a threat of violence, just as a statement that he was a season ticket holder and not hiding behind anonymity - unlike some!

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  20. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:42

    I'll meet up with you for a drink mate so that we can chat West Ham, we could meet in the Boleyn or the Hammers. Post your mobile number mate what do reckon nice little negative discussion on match day in an ICF stronghold we could both slag West Ham together I'd quite enjoy seeing the outcome of that. Who's hiding sonny?

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  21. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 19:47

    SN6, is your memory is playing tricks? Last game of 71-72 we beat the Saints 1-0. Was that the game? The team that day was Ferguson, Lampard, Clive Charles, Bonds, Stephenson, Taylor, Durrell, Best, Holland, Brooking, Robson with Boyce as sub. Pop Robson scored the only goal.

    In 1970 we drew 1-1 at home to Southampton, in 73 it was 4-3. Go back to 69 and it was 0-0.

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  22. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 19:50

    1942, I'm happy to meet for a drink.

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  23. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:53

    Brilliant ! Instead of all that talk from behind a computer screen we could chat in the Hammers I know a few of the fans that get in there, sounds good to me. What's your mobile number sonny?

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  24. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 20:05

    I am sure we can arrange without exchanging mobile numbers. I'm meeting for a drink, not a love in.

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  25. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 20:12

    the man's posting his memory of the match not asking you for your cu()t n paste wikiresults crap. COYI!

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  26. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 20:15

    Thought as much...

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  27. Deane21 July 2009 at 21:07

    I am amazed that people are threatening you with taking you down an "ICF" pub to see if you're brave enough to slag the hammers Boys if you knew any ICF crew you'd know they're our age and slag the club everytime they talk about it thats cos we're West Ham and we can 30 years of laying out the cash and suffering the hurt allows me and anyone else to slate the club whenever I want I still turn up I've had 2 failed marriages but the Hammers will always be mine Hell I immigrated to this icebox country so I could watch them I love this club and any useless overpaid primma donna that pulls on the shirt (well maybe not all of them)

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  28. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 21:10

    2012, our memories play tricks sometimes. I was sure I was at Upton Park on a Boxing Day to see us beat Spurs 2-0 (1972ish). Coker and Brooking scored. It turns out that the game was played on April 1. The Boxing Day game the following season ended up 2-2. As time passes, so certainties shift.

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  29. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 21:11

    2015, do you really think I am going to give you my mobile number. Which of the orgsters are you?

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  30. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 21:20

    Old School Pete

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  31. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 22:19

    yhjmticf

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  32. Hammersfan21 July 2009 at 23:53

    2120, no you are not. That I do know.

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  33. SN622 July 2009 at 11:53

    HF - Yeah you're right. We were in the old west stand and I could barely see. Had to climb onto my elder cousins shoulders. I remember it being a beautiful sunny day (which ties in with the end of season / spring weather) I loved the atmosphere and the colour, even as a little kid, I felt very 'at home' at the Boleyn. Unlike Highbury or the Lane (my local grounds at the time) where I watched my first football matches in '68.
    I do remember Robson scored the winner. Could have sworn it was more than one goal.
    Well it was over 35 years ago!!

    Deane 21:07 Same as that mate (apart from the marriages bit!).
    I too, have done my 'apprenticeship'. If I wanna slag off the people that run the club I love, for forty years of on / off hurt, no silly, deluded, f**ker on here or any other site is gonna stop me.

    HF - I see they still want to do you damage.

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  34. Hammersfan22 July 2009 at 12:19

    LOL SN6, Public Enemy Number 1 rather than Hammersfanno1!

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