WHY? 1) All the players that don't want to be at West Ham would leave 2) We would be less likely to move to the Olympic Stadium 3) Season tickets would be cheaper 4) We would not spend stupid amounts of money on pointless signings 5) Grant would be sacked 6) We get to play Millwall twice I don't want to be relegated but if it happens (which it will) It's not the end of the world.
The last time this happened we lost too many players ,a whole bunch of whom are internationals! James, Defoe, Lampard, Cole, Carrick etc,etc; if we'd kept most of the ones who left we'd be in the top 4! Add in Bellamy, Benayoun, Konchesky, Zamora, Etherington,Collins, and on and on, what a team the Hammers have provided to everyone else! It's sickening!
& look at the managers we lost, Pards, Curbs, Zola, Grant, Hughes..haha. If we do go down I'll feel sorry for Noble, to having to keep going through this up - down -up Reckon he'll be gone probably playing for Spurs.
Thought it might be the rduction in teams that's sending us down but the first reduction to 22 teams in 92/93 we were getting promoted and when the teams were further reduced to 20 in 95we were still up. So since 1995 W Ham have spent 13 years up and 2 down. Funny stats as the Irons went down in 91/92 then 02/03 so following that line next relegation should be 13/14. Technically we're safe this season.
To be fair though James, Defoe, Lampard, Cole etc were always probably going to leave if we didn't get relegted, unless we qualified for Europe, as they were, and are, brilliant players. They all went to top teams (apart from Spurs) so it's always going to be tough to keep hold of these types of players. Same with Benayoun and Bellamy, and maybe Collins. Plus we could have always done with the money. But at least we have something to brag about. West Ham is the academy of football. Now it's time to keep hold of these players and push on ourselves. Sullivan and Gold will keep the club afloat so maybe we will.
Really !??? I could have sworn I saw him come off the bench before we were relegated in 2003 but you're right he made his debt with the first team in 2004. Blimey, old age and all that. Ta for the correction.
No no no no no..........c'mon you can't be saying this. Relegation will kill the club financially. It would be going in the opposite direction. We want to go up, not down. It's always up with West Ham. Grant should stay not go. The players should stay and we should remove the dead wood (or snake as it were). We will survive this year and stay in the epl........you'll see. I have faith in Grant, Obinna, Pique, Parker, Green, and Upson.
His only 23 but Noble is, and has been for a while, a very important player on and off the pitch. He should be starting to have a look in, in the England IMO. Especially in a few years when Gerrard and Lampard start to play less and less for England. Players in central midfield could become a needed when they start to go. Although Milner should be getting one of the stating places. Anyway... sorry to go on about England lol.
I think relegation is a bad thing. I dont want to be relegated. I want to stay in the Premier League. Dammit! I want to win the Premier League I want to see West Ham marching forwards from the shadows of the slough of despond that is relegation and on to the sunlit uplands that is triumphant european competition. Because I am West Ham and I believe!
The Brady lady has stated that more money will be made available for the January transfer window, and that the club are not pressing the panic button just yet, hope she's right. http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-n...sive-brady-promises-january-spending-west-ham
Some of the past purchases I just don't get. Case in point is Winston Reid,. A couple of games then he vanishes. Why did they buy him where is he going ?
Classic Noble http://eurorivals.net/clip/west-ham-1-0-liverpool-mark-noble/131395.html I think the person holding the camera just came out of detox ! Well I'm away to the caribbean for a weeks vacation so hopefully there will be 6 extra points for us when returning. Fingers and appendix crossed.
I think he got injured and was out for a few weeks. He has been a regular in reserve games but i don't think he can get in the team with Gabbidon, Da Costa, Ben Haim and probably Tomkins ahead of him. Plus he has to get used to the Premier League but i suppose it's hard to give him a chance with players ahead of him. I very much doubt he'll leave, in fact he won't. Not this season anyway. He is a good player, it's just a typical case of players getting used to the Prem. But apart from Piqi and Hitz, and Ben Haim we didn't really buy players with Prem experience, which we need to do in Jan. Get players we know will do the job.
Talking about England, its a bloody shame Stephen Gerrard seems to have hurt his hamstring in the game against France. This'll probably mean he wont be able to start at the weekend.. I'm truly gutted.
God has smote you all for mocking Gerrard's injury ... http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=844112&sec=england&campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=5901
That will teach us lol. We haven't won at Anfield for like 40 years so Parker or no Parker we are bound to lose. Without Gerrard it's likely to be closer game. We are due a decent win against a club like Liverpool, and an away win, so i'm expecting a win.
Hubris is a bitch! Anyway we havent won at Anfield for 40 years so Parker or no Parker, Gerrard or no Gerrard, Torres or no Torres, its our turn. 2-0 to the Hammers, Dont you get it? ITS OUR TURN! The fact that the world and his wife knows that we are going to lose once more at Anfield only ensures our victory. As I said hubris is a bitch, and this smells like scouse hubris