But now comes the news that Vaz Te and Faubert could be back for tomorrow's game. So that's that then. Faubert on the right, Cole down the middle and Vaz Te on the left - Allardyce's preferred "FRONT THREE". Cole can't score, Faubert can't score and Vaz Te isn't prolific, but what the hell?
Expect another night of frustration. No matter what the evidence, this man Allardyce is not for turning!
I would play Nolan a bit further upfield from now on - no matter what forwards are preferred and tell him to "Put himself about" and irritate the opposition - even he enjoys that!
ReplyDeleteMore goals will come!!!
I agree, Nolan further up and cole or maynard with him
DeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteNolan despite his ponderousness (i'll copyright that word) is the only consistent goal threat we have. Yet by common consent he can't play in a 4 4 2. So what do you do? Drop him tomorrow? Allardyce would deserve a kicking were he to do that in order to accommodate another one of our non-scoring strikers.
By instinct i've always preferred 4 4 2 - the classic West Ham formation, but which two of our numerous strikers can honestly say they have earned the right to play from the onset tomorrow? No, I can't think of two either. If Vaz Te, is fit I'd go with the 4 5 1 (4 3 3 if you like) formation. Cole seems more mobile and motivated coming on as a sub lately so I'd start initially with either Baldock or Maynard.
Btw HF- just saw a comment from you elsewhere where you said that Di Canio should be interviewed for the job forthwith. Yet when I asked you a direct question only last week you said we should stick with Allardyce this season. So Mr Consistency, what's it to be? In or out for Allardyce?
Got to win tomorrow- COY fecking I.
His blindness may cost us promotion, and cost him not only his job but his reputation. In many ways this was his "biggest" challenge, but one that should have easily been accomplished with the resources at his disposal. He also had the chance to do something about his image as a lump at all costs manager, an image he claimed was unfair.
ReplyDeleteIm as angry at him as I was at Grant.
Allardyce: "The title's gone now.
ReplyDelete"I can't see Southampton losing three or four on the trot for us to gain those points back.
"We've made life a little easier for them now. They must look back and say 'we never thought we would be this far ahead at this stage' because we were always on their heels.
"We've slipped up and Reading are closer to them now than we are.
"They must be delighted this morning, the position they're in."
???What an astonishing thing to say?
I'm hoping for Maynard and Baldock up front and just going for it. You're probably right though, and he's more likely to start with a 4-5-1.
ReplyDeleteSaturday was strange. We were much better when Maynard and Baldock came on and quickly scored 2 goals. Carew's entrance might have been BS going for it, but it didn't seem to help, as it heralded resumption of long ball to the big man.
Anony-mouse, that was before I read his article in the Standard which screamed unrepetentant arrogance. It's everybody else's fault except Allardyce's. I wouldn't want to play for him and I suspect there a few in the club who feel the same.
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteSo you do want him out then- just one week after saying he should stay. His articles are always arrogant, self promoting and self serving- this week's one was no different to previous ones, so sorry, but that's not much of an excuse for changing your mind HF.
Anyone want to tell me that Paolo would jack Swindon in now and join us tomorrow? I see Lambert and Rodgers are getting mentions on forums. Like they'd come. The have both done fantastic jobs, built decent sides and have fans who worship them. Why on earth would they leave all that for a team whose fans get like ours do when their unrealistic expectations are not instantly realised? A ridiculous amount of fans are in La La land- they might as well fly kites for Ferguson or Wenger.
If we truly are going to give a manager less than one year before the 'sack him' lynch-mobs go into full steam who in their right right mind would want the job?
So go ahead and join the lynch-mob at a crucial part of the season, when if, i said IF, we win our next two games we'd be second with an easier run-in than Reading to come. And even if we don't we'll be in the play-offs with a team that's hard to beat.
Yes my glass is still half full. I've been watching them long enough to know that whilst sh*t happens, promotions can be grasped in unlikely circumstances. And I prefer my attitude to those who see their half full glass as nine tenths empty.
Stani, dont worry about the stupid mind games of "the title is lost", im more concerned by the comment "if we keep 8 clean sheets" fcking unbelievable, that useless fat cnut still has not realised after all these years games of football are won with goals...
ReplyDeleteAnony-Mouse, see Beelzebub's comment below. You don't get it do you? There's a right way to do things, and if you miss out on promotion striving to do the right thing then fair enough; if you sacrifice everything in the name of expediency and then have to rely on others losing - which you have admitted - for your expediency to bear fruition, then that isn't fair enough.
ReplyDeleteYou missed the Burnley game on your stag weekend - hope you had a great time by the way and haven't come back with a weeping dick - but the team selection and tactics said it all. Allardyce only knows one way of playing and it is so one dimensional that even Championship teams can counter it.
We may yet get up IF we win tonight and IF we beat Reading on Saturday, but had Allardyce set up to win the games at home to Doncaster, Watford and Bristol City, there would be no IF about it. He didn't. He gave the opposition far too much respect. That's his mentality, forged as a manager of Bolton and Blackburn playing Arsenal and Man Utd. He really hasn't grasped that the boot is now on the other foot and that we should be kicking ass, not forever trying to cover our own ass!
Anony-moue says,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your concern but no I didn't come back from the stag with a weeping dick- you shouldn't confuse your weekends away with mine.
And thanks for the patronising 'I don't get it bit'. Just cos I don't agree with you doesn't mean I don't see what's going on. It's just I'm more consistent in my views and don't blow with the wind. What you got last week you no longer get.
Anyway, onwards and (maybe) upwards. There's a game tonight. I'll leave you to write your pre-written piece about how crap his team selection is. Laters.
You didn't pull then? Or couldn't afford the price?
ReplyDeleteLet's hope we are both happy tonight.