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Eddie B 9:51 Mon Sep 1
BFS on Monday ('stern' words)
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Sam Allardyce will be sharing some stern words with his squad on Monday morning
Sam Allardyce will be expecting his players to 'clear their heads' at Chadwell Heath on Monday as the squad prepare for a two-week break from Barclays Premier League action.
The West Ham United manager pulled no punches in his post-match analysis of Saturday's 3-1 defeat to Southampton after he held a full and frank discussion with his players in the dressing room after the match. The Hammers visit Hull City on Monday 15 September and it is clear he is expecting the lessons from the Southampton match will have been learned.
"The players were down and out in the dressing room after the game," the manager said. "I always think it's best to get things said quickly, in the dressing room. Let's get it out the way. Let's tell the truth.
"Let's get back in on Monday, clear our heads and get going for the match against Hull City away. It was a poor performance, it wasn't what we expected. They have to remember as much as they have been praised for Crystal Palace and Tottenham, two huge, huge performances, in both of those games.
"They have to take the good with the bad. We're all in it together - I'll accept my part of it and take responsibility. It's a wake-up call.
"There are no excuses. I can pussyfoot around it like lots of us managers do, unlucky this and unlucky that, we passed the ball well and all that. But we haven't played well, I can only protect them to a certain degree. You lads [the press] are not daft, the supporters are certainly not daft. So I'm not going to try and cover up what has been a poor performance."
The international break should allow several key first-team players to return from injury, namely Matt Jarvis, Carl Jenkinson and James Collins. The trio could be joined by Alex Song, the loan signing from Barcelona that received such a rapturous welcome from the Boleyn Ground crowd before kick-off on Saturday.
"We will get a few players back from injury - Jarvis, Jenkinson and Collins - and Alex Song will be with us.
"Hopefully nobody gets injured over the international break and the squad that we can select for Hull City will be much bigger than the one we had. But in saying that the same team played against Southampton played against Crystal Palace brilliantly, but underperformed sadly in front of their own fans."
The Hull match is followed by a home game with Liverpool and then a trip to Manchester United, but the manager is more concerned about how his side perform rather than who they are lining up against.
"All of the games are tough, you got to be 100% at every game to get a result in the Barclays Premier League, whoever we play. Burnley did an unbelievable job against Manchester United on Saturday.
"Everybody thinks that when we go there or they come here, that they're going to be fodder, they won't. They're going to be tough. They're going to be hard to beat, like we were when we were in the first year in the Premier League.
"What worries me more than anything else is two home games, two defeats. It's really the one that kills me the most. We didn't deserve to get beat against Tottenham but we did. Realistically on Saturday we didn't deserve to get anything."
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Eerie Descent
11:44 Tue Sep 2
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It's Nicey FFS
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Baggins
11:40 Tue Sep 2
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That last post is a step too far. Its taken me a while but Sandstone or whatever his name is clearly on a wind up.
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HenryMc
11:25 Tue Sep 2
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Sam doesn't guarantee safety. He loses more matches than he wins.
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HairySpotter
11:23 Tue Sep 2
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id just raise my arm and say Zovirax anyone?
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whu
11:22 Tue Sep 2
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finally been backed in the transfer market? nearly £90mil total, nearly £40mil of late.
the best funded manager in the history of the club playing amongst the shitest football witnessed ffs
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Sandon SandIRON
11:09 Tue Sep 2
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Exactly! Finally some sense on this thread.
10th, 13th and 9 teams below us and not one with a manager that guarantees safety!
A lot of moaning going on but we have a manager who has shown how well he can get this team playing, has finally been backed in the transfer market and has a fantastic record of playing great football - don't forget Jay Jay Okacha. Who else could we attract that is better than Sam? We are very lucky to have him. There is a jests Swansea and Southampton to support, let's see where they are at the end of the season.
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,
3:01 Tue Sep 2
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I wonder how the nine teams below us in the table will get on this season?
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oneteaminlondon
2:44 Tue Sep 2
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Hammer and Pickle 7:44 Mon Sep 1
Totally agree.
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The Kronic
2:42 Tue Sep 2
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In that case he's got his stand up satirical Fat Sam supporter routine nailed.
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inconsistant fc
2:38 Tue Sep 2
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Especially given the matches we have coming up, the Hull match is massive already (for both sides). If we lose then I think it might be a long hard season.
Should we win, it will be the first time that I can remember thta we'd have started a league campaign with 2 home defeats and 2 away wins.
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The Kronic
2:37 Tue Sep 2
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We're safe forever and ever according to the 'realist'.
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Eerie Descent
2:36 Tue Sep 2
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Sandiron is Nicey, it was clocked ages ago, this is just his 'ironic' stand-up routine.
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appyhammer78
2:32 Tue Sep 2
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what if we get to the OS and then get relegated?
what then
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The Kronic
2:30 Tue Sep 2
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Dapablo what's wrong with direct football? Some of the best football I've seen us play under the lard arse was direct attacking football; passing the ball out to the flanks as quick as possible.
I'm not sure exactly which tactic fatso is trying to deploy now but it's certainly not attacking - more like bland upside down triangle passing in our own half.
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The Kronic
1:36 Tue Sep 2
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You're a realist are you Sandon SandIRON?
I've read some tripe on here but you take the fucking piss.
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whu
8:02 Mon Sep 1
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does anyone still listen to the huge ego dinosaur cunt? more fool them
he is what he is
a cuntosaurus
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DP
7:58 Mon Sep 1
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Sandon SandIRON 7:45 Mon Sep 1
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We have to guarantee safety before the move to the OS. If we were to get relegated we would probably not come back again so if we stay up and get to the OS in the premier league then we will be safe for ever more.
WTF - "if we get relegated we would probably not come back again" + "we will be safe for ever"
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Sandon SandIRON
7:45 Mon Sep 1
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We have to guarantee safety before the move to the OS. If we were to get relegated we would probably not come back again so if we stay up and get to the OS in the premier league then we will be safe for ever more.
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Hammer and Pickle
7:44 Mon Sep 1
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One of the commentators was going on about Rogers being a manager with a philosophy, which was a good thing because players could "buy into it".
So my thoughts turned to us in that Allardyce is also clearly a manager with a philosophy. Only problem is, it is a particularly static and dull one most players here have clearly rejected. As have apparently the Daves.
Unfortunately, there is little hope he is going to change his approach to the game, so I fully expect a relegation season unless he is sacked this month.
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peroni
7:31 Mon Sep 1
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Sandiron
So you would be happy with 40 points and scraping survival season after season? That's your realism is it?
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