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Eddie B 9:51 Mon Sep 1
BFS on Monday ('stern' words)

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."

Marston Hammer 9:59 Mon Sep 1
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I detest that fat cunt with every single fibre of my being (not eddie)

Eddie B 10:01 Mon Sep 1
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You can hate both of us, I won't mind.

fivestar 10:02 Mon Sep 1
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I have some stern words for you Eddie on this fine Monday morning. Your general performance is poor do some work you lazy cunt

w4hammer 10:04 Mon Sep 1
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watched motd last night, every side, I mean every side, is buzzing around with x3 intensity, pressing and activity than we showed on saturday. And yet our players were "dead-on-their-feet "

Howsthatthen?

yngwies Cat 10:04 Mon Sep 1
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Anyone tell him we lost the spurs game.

Mate 10:14 Mon Sep 1
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'We didn't deserve to get beat against Tottenham but we did'

Eddie B 10:16 Mon Sep 1
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"I'll accept my part of it and take responsibility"

Really? Where and when has he ever done that?

JGW1 10:18 Mon Sep 1
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Spot on W4.

Interesting comments. Couple of options ....

The owners comments to him addressed the "we were robbed" approach to post match comments and he can't get away with it any more ...

Or he just happens to have realised himself that he's mugging everyone off with his usual "not my fault" stuff?

My money's on the former! How iron is though to hear these words from BFS!

stirlinghammer 10:39 Mon Sep 1
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agreed w4...

watching the spurs v liverpool match in particular it was quite shocking to see the speed of passes & movement.

in comparison, our primary strategy is for our central defenders to play a 5-10 yard pass to noble who then either loses it or he spends so much time on the ball that the opposition
just man mark our midfield. the lack of pace and movement just adds to the problem.

i don't believe every game will be placed at the pace of the spurs v liverpool game & only 5/6 teams can turn it on like that...but it is crystal clear that we are being led by a manager who cannot even dream of pace & movement. under bfs any hope of a more expansive game is a joke. we are better off just perfecting the bolton tactics - press, tackle, rely on mistakes, flick ons by a big lump with nolan scoring/doing a chicken dance. that is the height of ouir ambition.

a dinosaur cannot adapt...

joey5000 10:44 Mon Sep 1
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"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."


FMOB.

goose 10:46 Mon Sep 1
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how long do you think he will keep mentioning the palace game??

that game is this seasons spurs away. we wont hear the last of it.

Eddie B 10:47 Mon Sep 1
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"There are no excuses" - apart from you bleating about the ref giving them a corner for the embarrassing 2nd goal.

Steve P 10:48 Mon Sep 1
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fivestar 10:02 Mon Sep 1

ag ag ag ag

The Kronic 10:50 Mon Sep 1
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Did the League Cup embarrassment never happen then? It's clearly not even on his radar such is the man's contempt for cup competitions. I feel such a mug for going.

Sandon SandIRON 11:34 Mon Sep 1
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This is a good strong interview from a manager coming out fighting. I fully expect him to give the lads a good old fashioned bollocking and that will see them perk up.

It's good to see him fight his corner with this bit:

"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.

I think there are some on here that look up to losing managers who go on about how well they passed the ball. Our man knows how to set teams out to win in the Barclays premier league and I fully expect him to do that.

LeroysBoots 11:35 Mon Sep 1
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I'm not paying another penny to watch that dross after Saturdays performance, utterly shocking

What the duck do they do on the training ground all week ?

And the match day programme, "good start to the season", what !?!

The report of the Spurs game was practically all about as if we had won the match, fucking bizarre

Northern Sold 11:39 Mon Sep 1
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* round of applause for 5star *

LeroysBoots 11:39 Mon Sep 1
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BTW

how many left when that 3rd went in !?!, thousands

dicksie3 11:41 Mon Sep 1
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Blimey...

Not often that I agree with the arrogant one but he's been honest here and I totally agree...

After an okayish performance in the first-half; we were absolutely dog shit in the second-half and it could've been 4 or 5-1...

Dog shit...

Northern Sold 11:44 Mon Sep 1
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'They have to take the good with the bad. We're all in it together -'


Fucking hell is he auditioning for High School Musical 4 ??

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