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After two back to back away games, I have to say how amazing we are as fans. We took over West Brom last weekend and sang our hearts out (well at least till the 4th goal and sending off). Yesterday we out sang and out supported at WHL, and I can't remember Spurs being quieter. I don't know if it came across on the box, but we just were a constant noise. There must be some poll to decide the best fans in the league? It would have to be a club that is mainly supported locally. I mean Man U or Liverpool taking 5000 to a southern ground is no mean feat as they all live in Guildford anyway. As for the game, we were fantastic and surely the Nolan penny has dropped!? The Cole substitution was bizarre and where I think Allardyce is so stubborn, is that he fills his bench with all the players we would probably get rid of, out of his loyalty to them. Forget the substitution for a minute, before the game he picked Cole, Nolan, Jarvis, Demel, Collins and JOB to potentially change a game. Really? Why no Poyet, , Lletget, Zarate or Lee? Surely some young fresh legs would've been better? If he could honestly release this obsession with trying to prove he's right about certain players, I think we could go far. Allardyce will never accept the fans and neither they with him, but if he keeps putting out a team like that to start, then I think people will bury their feelings and we could get more cracking performances like yesterday.

the reason we only came away from that sesspit with a point is so clear , our crap bench , just have a butchers at it compared to theirs , at one point we effectively went down to 9 men, Jarvis hardly touched the ball , and the only time Cole touched it was to give away a free kick in a dangerous area , Noble was a huge loss ,i dont know about you but im starting to go with the idea that the cups dont mean a toss anymore , otherwise how can you hold up that performance with the heap of shite last week , we can only go on now and try and get rid of the inconsistency , get rid of Cole Jarvis and Nolan , every time Cole come on the performance goes tits up , the players just dont have any confidence in him , and their not the only ones

The stats are now available and they aren't kind: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31428316
Sam cannot hide from the fact that West Ham sit snugly within a group of teams at the bottom of the league in terms of long balls played, long passes attempted, ratio of long balls to time of possession, etc. Although the article on the BBC makes me sick (because it seems like a blatant defense of Manure), there's no way of getting around West Ham being a long ball team. What I'd really like to know is how much this has changed since the start of the season when, from my memory at least, West Ham played attacking football that seemed pretty easy on the eye. I'd be willing to bet that it wasn't until the return of Carroll and Nolan that we started to play this ugly hoofball that once again seems the staple of Sam Allardici's method of play. If you think this is a beat up, it's because it is: Swansea BEAT Manure without the long ball and now they are one point behind us. Thoughts?