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HairyHammer 6:57 Sun Dec 28
Has big Sam damaged the flow and confidence of the team ?.

I remember so many who were watching the brilliant confident flowing attacking football with disbelief at the start of the season well a few games in to the season, and saying that when Nolan and Carroll return Big Sam was bound to return back to his bad old ways.
So do you all think that bringing back Nolan and Carroll may have rocked the boat slightly regarding how West ham play and the results they are now getting.

The White Horse 8:13 Tue Jan 6
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Yep.

It started on June 1st 2011

The White Horse 7:38 Tue Jan 6
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Does a bear crap in the woods? (Notice I did'nt say shit)

ILOVEPAOLODICANIO 4:51 Tue Jan 6
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I think we need to give him another defensive minded midfielder and tell him to play him over Nolan.


Allardyce hasn't gotten in anyones way this year and we are having a good season. We can part ways with him on a high. He can probably get us something from our team being destroyed by the acon.


Sam or no Sam we are going to have to spend more money to be a proper club after this year its not like we own our best player in Song.

Eddie B 11:26 Mon Jan 5
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AOI, not for a while I'm afraid.

Any Old Iron 10:36 Mon Jan 5
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Surely it's self evident that Carrolls presence in the team results in us pretty much reverting to the hoof and hope that we had to endure last season. It seemed that Allardyce couldn't wait to bring his two favourite sons back into the side at the first opportunity.
I'll happily admit to not ever wanting Carroll here. He's a clumsy lump of a player, who is injured too often, scores nowhere enough goals and is an unprofessional piss artist.
The sooner we can have Sakho and Valencia back together the better.

After8 9:57 Mon Jan 5
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Sir Alf and spiner are spot on for me.

Hammerhermit 9:56 Mon Jan 5
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Yes we look shit since we stopped the flowing football.

Hammer and Pickle 9:26 Mon Jan 5
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I'd go along with that Sir Alf only his favoured system leads him to select less skilled players and play the more skilled ones ineffectively when selected.

But when he plays the system he doesn't like it really is like watching Real Madrid at times.

It really is a bit of a drag.

Sniper 9:26 Mon Jan 5
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Id love allardyce to get the some illness that keeps him out for a couple of games and see what another manager could do.

Imagine brooking in charge with this lot - we'd be champions league for sure

*please not I am not suggesting that I want BFS to have a stroke. Just a bad reaction to some rancid fish heads or something

crapnotshit 9:21 Mon Jan 5
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Bollocks!

Sir Alf 9:11 Mon Jan 5
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I do not think that he really has favourite players but, and perhaps I am splitting hairs on this, he has favourites systems or tactics and that, by implication, means he picks certain players like Carroll and to a lesser extent Nolan. He is more comfortable with a more direct system that has kept teams in the Prem for 20 years.

Nolan is an issue now simply because age has caught up. Picking him to start in most games should no longer be an option IMHO.

Carroll should not have been picked for the WBA game simply because he needed a rest. That was clear after 2 games in 4 days for a player who has not completed a full season in years.

Valencia and Sakho should have started against WBA and Noble should have been alongside SOng who we now find out was carrying a knock which is probably why he has not been quite at his best recently?

The frustration with BFS is that what he says is not what he does. He talks about players getting tired over the Xmas periods and the risk of injury and the need for rotation but did not really do any of that except, arguably, in the first game against the Chelsea where his selections were not a good match for the opposition especially in midfield.

Hammer and Pickle 8:01 Mon Jan 5
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Even playing Nolan and Carroll as much as he has, the failure to support Song with Noble, playing Sakho out wide and not in partnership with Valencia are the glaring issues. Nothing wrong with replacing Sakho if he was injured, but that replacement should have been Carroll, not Valencia, who should have been on the pitch. There was also the failure to build on the attacking full-back approach and going long against WBA who were there to be given a proper seeing to.

Oh and let's draw a veil over the Zarate loan (which the Allardyce apologists find really hard accepting has even happened).

Willtell 7:50 Mon Jan 5
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Which ones? Dropping Nolan? Replacing injured Sakho with Carroll?

wanstead_hammer 7:49 Mon Jan 5
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Yeh, he has.

cuzoftheeast 7:44 Mon Jan 5
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Yes

Hammer and Pickle 7:37 Mon Jan 5
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Yes, I do.

His recent selections have been controversial to put it mildly.

Willtell 7:34 Mon Jan 5
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I think it's far too early to accuse SA of favouritism. AC scored twice against Swansea and another against Leicester. Most people would expect AC to start against WBA.

Was SA showing favouritism when he left Nolan out of the starting line up against WBA. And the fact the team struggled will have Nolan bending SA's ear that he should have started. One indifferent game doesn't usually mean that our star player gets dropped either....

What I see is people being daft by looking for ways to slag off SA because they don't like him. I don't like him either but do you really think that a man paid £3m a year has favourites and picks them purely on personal preferences?

Hammer and Pickle 6:52 Mon Jan 5
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I see it like Eddie B.

Just like to add it doesn't take a lot of favouritism like this for, in a highly competitive environment, the wheels to fall off the dressing room as I suspect they have yet again.

Allardyce's whole approach to the game depends on delivering results - but when he picks his favoured side, takes one point in 9 and there is a noticeable drop in form whatever the opposition, he is bound to be left woefully exposed and only of his own doing.

If he was more ambitious and sought to gain points by playing to his players' strengths, then it would be a different matter. But he is the manager he is and he's going to have to deal with getting slated for doing what he does.

Eddie B 1:56 Mon Jan 5
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Our goal against WBA could never be scored by Carroll. He was standing on the halfway line when the attack started and had barely moved forward when it went in the net.

Russ of the BML 1:53 Mon Jan 5
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As much as I love Carroll I do not believe he should be first choice. Our first choice strikers should be Sakho and Valencia with Carroll looking to come off the bench to act as an outlet if we are holding a lead or to act as the slege-hammer if we are looking to get back into a game.

I do love Carroll but I do think we have gone backwards slightly with him in the side. We have lost that element of suprise which we got by sheer pace.

And for me, if Carroll goes, Nolan goes. I fear Sam see's Carroll and Nolan as one part and can't see one without the other.

Eddie B 1:38 Mon Jan 5
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PD, maybe after watching the WBA game, they have a point?

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