West Ham Fans

4-0 three times in a row is not acceptable. this just says loud and clear that the players are not up for it. I know people have been calling for Curbs to be sacked no end and these voices will just get all the more louder and perhaps now with justification. However, West Ham have never been a sacking club..we usually (Roeder & Pardew apart) stick with a manager and let him turn things round. Personally I dont think Curbs deserves the sack yet. If nothing else the astonishing feat he performed to keep us up last year should give him time. Lets face it we were doomed when he took over and he has saved us in no small way financially ...we would be in the Championship with players like Chadwick right now dreaming of being 10th in the premierleague. at the end of the day 3 defeats at 4-0 is not good enough at all but the players are to blame more than Curbs. obviously they feel the season is done and cant be bothered anymore. doesnt matter how much ranting and raving Curbs dishes out to them..if they dont put in they dont put in. yes ultimately this is the manager's responsibility but all in all i say if we sack Curbs who's coming in? Mourinho would certainly improve the club..but Di Canio? he would be fine if things got off to a good start..but as soon as the wheels fell off what then? Bilic? correct me if I am wrong great player for us...but his loyalty extended to him saying he's leaving us for a 'bigger' club and went off to Everton after a year and a half. He's no club management experience too. Do we really want Allardyce in for Curbs? no thanks. For all those doom mongers...i say look at the season overall not just the last 3 games. We've had some good performances even with the squad being bereft of our best players.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2263705,00.html read this sais something about us appointing a technical director, has any one herd anything else. ??

What an embarrassment our last two results were, I was well of the mark, might as well played the reserves. I'm 50/50 about Alan Curbishley staying on, we are boring to watch now but do have some stabillity and no threat of relegation. Saying that West Ham fans expect entertainment and drama and Upton Park has always been a soap opera with relegation and promotion every few seasons, but there doesn't seem to be anything to cheer about these days, I almost miss last season with Tevez and those 10 remaining games. Basically I want Paulo Di Canio to become our next manager and bring back the good old days, change my mind like the weather!

Some hammers fans I know were jumping up & down cheering that first chelsea didn't win carling cup & then that they & man U were knocked out of the cup. The reality is that now 2 uefa cup places have gone & we have no chance of getting in europe. They were 2 games we perhaps hoped that chelsea may have got through.

We are all talking about signing this player getting in this manager, what we need to do first is make sure all our good young talent such as Noble, want to remain with us and not chase glory with one of the so called bigger clubs. I agree we need to start blooding some of our young talent for the rest of this year. This will have effect of both giving new excitement and energy to the team and it will also hopefully fire a rocket up some of our bigger named players if they know what sought of players are coming through the ranks.We only need a couple of quality players next year, mixed with our bit of experience and some young energy and we can improve. The only thing i ask of West Ham is keep our good youngsters

I wasn't going to bother watching MOTD tonight (saturday) but I've just got to see a re-run of chelscum losing at Barnsley! and hearing Fergie's ridiculous rant because they lost to Pompey (at home) .... the man has lost his marbles - too much whine! lol .... and last week I tipped the Barcodes for relegation, and they "got done" (as Curbs would put it) at Anfield, and after tomorrow's matches, they could be deep in the brown stuff! I don't think they would have been in this trouble if they hadn't sacked Fat Sam, lol. Anyway, can we please have a fighting display against the spuds tomorrow ???? I'm off to my local pub (Hastings) where I will be joined by about 20 other locals who will be wearing the C&B with pride as usual. I'm a lot more chirpy after today's results - lets not forget that Reading beat Man Citeh 2-0 !!! We MUST NOT let the spuds do us tomorrow - we need what Curbs last year called a 3 pointer !!!! Iron Man since 1974 - come on you IRONS !!!

Does anyone else think the Barnsley centre forward Odejani (not sure if spelling is correct) is like Dean Ashton USED TO BE! I hope Dean is watching because that is how strong he used to be on the ball, wining headers, holding the ball up and bringing others into the game. Chelsea can not handle him and Dean used to do that for us - but not this season. Don't get me wrong, i love Ashton but at the moment he couldn't even beat Razor Ruddock in a race! and we all know what DiCanio (correctly) stated - that Ruddock had .. the pace of a pig! Come on Dean, get back to your best and help us do the Spuds tomorrow ..... PLEASE.

LIVERPOOL 3 NEWCASTLE 0 ......oh dear KEEGAN ,relegation looms.

To all those people saying bilic wouldn't come here and we've got no chance of getting anyone like that I completely disagree. I think after the euro's he will be itching to get into a club side and we all know how much he loves the irons. The only problem is it will be too late at the end of the summer. IF the board decide to make a change it will have to be soon for a new man to get acquainted with the side & the club before next year & have the opportunity to have a real go in the market. Having said that I don't think curbs is going anywhere. He deserves a chance after last year & lets face it for this year as well. We've never really been in any trouble all year - have we. As for Mourinhio, I have a feelking he would love to manage us - but I don't see it happening. Can you imagine the thrill he would get beating chelsea in the premiership in claret & blue - also I think he will adore the passion we have for our team, which is lets face it, better than the chelski boys.

Just read Neill's Blog on the OS. He's calling on all of us to get behind the team for this match, and he pledges every ounce of energy and wit from the players. Made me feel terrible for griping about the last two matches. It's clear to me now that it hurt the players more than it hurt us. OK, then, Lucas--I'm laying down my grudge and getting behind you, the captain, and the manager and everybody for this big match. Get out there and do us Aussies proud, mate. COYI!!!

Whilst this is a fans Forum and everybody is entitled to their opinion, who exactly are we going to attract as a manager if we oust Curbs?I can't see the likes of Ericsson, Trappatoni, Mancini, Rijkaard or any one else of that calibre coming can you? Unless of course they are just here for the money and what good is that? The same applies to players - can you see the likes of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Shevchenko fighting over who is going to get to pull the Claret & Blue shirt on first? I don't think so!! I have never been a fan of Alan Curbishley, as a player or a manager, but nobody on this site can say that he hasn't improved our position on last year - he might not have improved the football but he has improved our position with limited resources i.e. injuries and players that were available to be bought. The last two results were more than disappointing but to build a team takes time - look at David Moyes at Everton, he has taken quite a few years to build a good solid team but even then they don't win every game. Some of the people on the site whilst entitled to their opinion really do need to wake up and smell the roses becuase we have acheived far more than last season. Again, i don't believe Curbs is the person to take us to Champions League football but sacking him now or in the summer to replace him with someone else who won't deliver that seems stupid; if the right manager becomes available then that is a different matter - Bilic would be my best bet for someone to take over from Curbs but a) that won't happen until after the Euro Championships and b) there is still no guarantee it will be any better than it is now under Curbs - he might bring in more foreign talent but anybody who knows anything about English Premiership football knows that it can take a foreigner anything up to a year to get used to the Premiership. Whilst i agree with some of the points on here about the way we are playing, i ask you is there really anything better out there that will come to West Ham? Di Canio? Good idea - the man was a god to me as a player but let's be realistic, a) he didn't travel North of Watford, b) he had more fallouts than Bellamy - we wouldn't have any players to play as he would have suspended them all, and finally c) he hasn't got a scrap of management experience at any level let alone Premiership. Let's me honest but the best players don't always make the best managers. My final point is that no matter what is said on here, nothing is going to change anyway unless the players do it; you can say the managers got it wrong as much as you like but unless all 11 players go out on that pitch with the passion and desire to win, it ain't gonna happen, and that is what we've lacked recently - PRIDE AND PASSION!! Get that back and we can beat anyone as we proved against the Gooners and Manure. PRIDE & PASSION!!COYI

Put it this way guys ,say BG handed Curbs 50 million what do u think he will buy? and would u feel confident him spending it?.Personally i think Curbs is quite lazy when it comes 2 buying players,even now rumours are that we want 2 sign Sidwell and Bent ,now i would be hugely disapointed by these players as lets be honest they are perceived as not good enough at their current clubs ,y do we want them then.I want 2 see quality scouting i mean look at Benayoun he was a steal.West ham should be playing bloody exciting football and im afraid that is not what Curbs can offer us.I want 2 see quality full backs charging forward with pace and supporting the attack,i am incredibly impatient and i want glory 2morrow like everybody else ,but like ive said before i think we can only judge Curbs on next season but unfortunatly we might be in for more transfer mistakes and more boring boring football.

We keep on saying oh once Curbishly has got his attack minded players back we will sort things out, but i watched our game against Wigan at the start of the season, that gamw saw bellamy, dyer and zamora play. We hit the target about twice and our link up play was absolute rubbish. I have know seen curbishly play ljunberg and faubert as well as ashton for a few games and still we have been shiit going forward. Face it no matter how much time you give the man he will not be able to deploy an attackive west ham side who will grab goals. He didnt do it at charlton and he wont do it here. ill be at totthnam on Sunday and it will be another one of curbs boring displays, the only thing that will happen if curbs is given time is that our top players (and im talking about our midfielders and forwards) will leave from frustration and probally boredom

How can any one say give curbishley time. Will you say that next season when we are 3rd from bottom " oh just give him more time". He has been in charge for 49 league games and he has won 19. That is a very poor record. Explain to me what his proper 11 should be cos who would you add only bellamy thats it. He has wasted big money on crap players. Bellamy is the only person you could add to the 11 but I dont think bellamy will play again for the rest of the season. I wouldnt be surprised if bellamy, ashton, dyer, boa morte, and neill are gone. Why are we allowing players to be on big wage packets and not perform for us week in week out or else sit on the bench. I cant wait for the season to end cos its appaling to watch every week. we have been 10th from the start and thats where we will end up unless S***s catch us.

love to hear a new song about the noble one!!! coyi

The Boxing Match Round 1: West Ham hit by hard left jab (Chelsea 4-West Ham 0). Round 2: West Ham hit by hard right hook (Liverpool 4-West Ham 0). Round 3: Will West Ham be hit by the uppercut? KO'd, laid out, done and dusted, finished??? Our Lad West Ham has been stunned. He's in the corner, cut and bloodied. One eye is swelled shut. The other is going around in circles. He can't seem to land a punch! -- What will the manager say to him before he sends him back into the ring? Will he say, "keep your hands up and guard your face, maybe if you can go the distance we can get a split decision"? Or will he say, "Get out there you no good sonvabich and show me what got ya here, or else die tryin". There's still some claret and blue in our fighter's veins, he's a 'Noble' lad after all. Let him lead the charge Sunday, and may we win at last, or die trying.