Great win last night against a fellow top 6 hopeful, hopefully we can use it as a platform to push on for the rest of the season. Goal scoring has certainly improved over the last 2 games, we have a winnable game at Palace on Saturday then a double header against Southampton and Leicester. 5 points or more from those games would be a good return, 62 points with 8 games to play leaves us with a good chance of the top 6. Also, two of three league doubles have come against 2 of the best sides in this league and only the standard 0 points from Burnleh has been the only league double someone has done over us.
Hope No.1 That we can now hold onto the habit of scoring. Another two at least at Palace would be great. Hope No. 2 That the top three start getting the jitters and slip back into the chasing pack. Reading's winning run ended with a disappointing draw at Doncaster last night and if West Ham lose at Leeds on Saturday it will be very interesting how they react..
West Hams next fixture after TWS is Middlesboro @ home tuesday night. Dont rule out more dropped points. As for US, Palace wont be easy but IF we play anything like Cardiff then another win will be ours. The lads were buzzing when they came into the KFC last night. Liam says top 2 is the aim still. That confidence will do for me and it showed on the pitch.
West Ham's remaining home fixtures: Middlesbrough, Reading, Birmingham, Brighton, Hull. Not exactly easy!
Correct, Hull City the last one. The pressure is now growing not only on the team but the Brady(Karen) bunch from the hammers fans.
The last weekend of March has BRIGHTON v. MIDDLESBORO, WEST HAM v. READING, BLACKPOOL v. SOUTHAMPTON(live on sky), whilst we play coventry at home. What a picture the championship table could make by 1st April.
Next time you're updating fixtures, how do the home/aways look for the top sides? I've just noticed on the Ipswich board they've got a thread saying that they've got 7 home games compared to 4 away games left. That's quite an imbalance developed, so somewhere there must be teams with it the other way round.
Cardiff had the same ahead of their game against us, so there must be a a couple of teams the other way round.
Indeed. Hence even my enhanced optimisim. Side track news....Stuart Attwell will ref. the Aldershot v. Bradford game on saturday (poor sonny bradley) and then he gets the Doncaster v.Millwall game next tuesday. At least we dont have that fool. Darren Drysdale is the ref. @ Crystal Palace on saturday. Hull City could be 4th by saturday night.
Not sure i share your distain on this one mate ? It could be alot worse than Drysdale but why your angxst ? David Webb is the match ref. for our game with Southampton next tuesday.
Its very rare for me to blame the refs for the match result. What i wont accept are basic arrors of judgement. The ref. who did the Ipswich game for example,, EAST,, how he did not award us a penalty for the fouling on Fryatt in the first half is imo a deraliction of his duty. A stone wall penalty in anyones language. Thats why many blame refs for defeats. Refs always getting even the most basic of decisions wrong. In our case it cost us the win.
Not at all. The officials got the decisons spot on from where i was sat. Unlike ref. East last saturday. Shirt pulling is a foul and the flag was up Prior to the header. Mackay does not mention that. Plus there was not a stone wall penalty missed. So no i disagree.
Fryatt started with the fouling last week. You can't call it a stonewall penalty just because their player's foul was more effective than our's was.
Oh come on. Even Ipswich fans behind that goal said it was a penalty. Fryatt paid the price for trying to stay on his feet.
