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This info was posted on the KUMB Forum under the name of "Craig's Uncle".
(Is this where you saw it Sir Trev. None of the other sites have been able to add to this yet, although a couple have commented).
 
According to the comments that followed, "Craig's Uncle" is a regular contributor with a reasonable reputation for accuracy. Certainly not the type to make stories up.
 
Lets hope he has this one wrong. We will know all by the weekend.
 
A RELATED COMMENT INDICATED THAT IT WAS TIME FOR ASHTON TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE.
One would think he has spent enough time at the plate already.
One Heavy Hammer, he is just one Heavy Hammer, one Heavy Hammer etc etc etc
February 07, 2008 10:41 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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FOLLOW UP COMMENT FROM "CRAIG'S UNCLE".
craigs uncle wrote:
Scaloni Is The Messiah wrote:I presumed it was a wind-up, especially as he refers to two different injuries coming at the same time. Sounds like classic fishing.
theres no one more pissed off than me here,i had hoped by the time you guys read my comments, you would already have heard about it (hense buried in that qpr thread) as for his knee, remember the tendonitis problem? this will help on that one. makes sense to sort that out aswell, seems i was first with the news but as it came from craigs dads lips its got to be true. anyways you will hear soon enough from other sources
February 07, 2008 11:41 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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yer saw it on kumb. i hope its all sh it. like you say ashton has to step up. if he wants this pay rise he had better earn it.
finally watched the liverpool game (recorded it) our defense was pretty good. it was good to see the whole team defending not just the back four. a lesson for the phoenix there. freddie was awesome. So was cole. he has earned that spot now. he is a handful to defend against.
like i said earlier, I would keep him on for 90 sub zman and ashton.

cole and zamora = pace... running at defenders
February 07, 2008 13:02 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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looks like the phoenix could have the possibility of playing man u or chelsea. check the link... if this goes through it will be massive.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article775384.ece
February 08, 2008 07:32 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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What might have been
 
Scott Parker 7 mil played 6 games.

Kieron Dyer 6mil, played 2 games

Julien Faubert 6.1mil played 2 games.

Craig Bellamy 7.5 mil 8 games.

Freddie Ljungberg 3mil 11 games.
February 09, 2008 14:35 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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thats the draw I was talking about (bugger it)
I prefer Cole as lone striker to be honest. Ashton is running out of excuses now and surely must be getting close to full fitness?????


February 10, 2008 09:27 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Dean Ashton = John Hartson

 
We have given away too many soft points , outside chance of Europe I think.
February 11, 2008 21:17 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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We have given away too many soft points , outside chance of Europe I think.
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Sunderland              W              -
Bolton                      D               -
Wigan                      D               L
Birmingham              D              W
Reading                   D              W
Fulham                    W              -
Derby                      -               W
 
Just as well we still have games left against Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea
February 12, 2008 07:50 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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my predictions...... ahem!!!

fulham win
chelsea loss
liverpool loss
tottenham draw
February 12, 2008 17:30 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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sounds like there was some truth in that Bellamy rumor. He's reported as being out for the season.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2255845,00.html
February 12, 2008 17:33 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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What was with taking Cole off on Saturday and then bringing on our fifth ranked striker 10 minutes later? Whatever tactics Curbs had in mind, they didn't work.
February 12, 2008 21:37 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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West Ham's Technical Director of Football:
The role will include scouting for players, transfers, work on the new stadium and training-ground projects, says The Times.
 
Would a director of Football normally have these type of responsabilities? It will be interesting to see who the new guy, (or woman) is and whether he / she fits the mold of a top flight football manager. If they do, then this position has been put together to ease them into the club to eventually step up to the big job. (As at Chelsea).
 
Looking at the game this week, I think Faubert's comments about lack of tactical training could be right. We were running around like headless chooks for most of the game with the "big Welly" being our main form of attack.
February 13, 2008 07:45 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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SOME GOOD NEWS 
Reserves beat Birmingham reserves 4 -1. (They were 3rd in the league 2 points ahead of WHU  before today).
Zamora played 90 and scored a hatrick. Faubert played 90. Collison got the other. Walker played in goal. Forgot we still had him. Spector played. No sign of LBM.
Time to move over fatty.
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February 13, 2008 13:07 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Zamora banging em in is good news!! he will be hungry to get back into top flight and keen to impress. Faubert playing 90 is great to. Hopefully they will feature in the up coming games. We need to beat Fulham this week!!!!! I cant see us getting much change out of the other big games we got coming up.

Zamora and Cole please.

February 13, 2008 15:42 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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So Faubert was wrong. Who does that leave. BILIC?

Trapoltini or whatever his name is has taken the Republic of Ireland job; 
 
Hopefully not Venables.
Come on Frankie Mac. You're just round the corner. Whose been coming and going uiron2008-02-13 22:52:59
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Topic: FULL OF FREDDIES
    Posted: Today at 12:38pm <!-- Start Member Post -->

With Freddie L doing a great job in th EPL, his name sake, Freddie Sears is establishing himself as a "SH*T THIS GUY IS GOING TO BE A STAR" player.

Just turned 18 he has scored 21 goals in 17 games in the U18 league (ok it is against kids), and now has three from six in the reserves. If this continues through until the end of  the season I can see him off on loan to a Championship or Div 1 team to get some first team experience. Remember Defoe's visit to Bournmouth at the same age.
 
Zamora came off at halftime for the reserves. Had a knock to the knee before the break. May just be precautionary, may just be that he is starting on Saturday, may just be this week's long term injury.
 
With Spurs winning the League Cup it means that only the top six teams will go to Europe this year. If Chelsea won it would have meant the 7th placed team would have qualified.
 
Anyway, Chelsea Saturday, Liverpool Wednesday and Spurs Sunday. Nine points there!!
 
February 26, 2008 12:40 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Introducing West Ham's newest fan...Scott Marshall.
 
Born Friday and watching the Hammers on telly with Dad Sunday morning - now thats commitment. 
 
He must have been a good luck charm too so same again this weekend against Chelski.
 
 
  
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Theres quite a few rumours that the Brum are set to make a move for Bobby Z in the summer. I seriously hope this doesn't happen. He has been one of our most consistent players the last couple of seasons and although it was tevez who took all the credit following our escape from relegation, without Bobbys goal scoring at the beginning of the season we probably would never have had a chance of surviving at the end anyway.

To see him in another clubs shirt just wouldn't feel right. 
 
On a brighter note Freddie Sears is banging them in for the reserves. Might be a good time to ship him off on loan for a few months.        
February 29, 2008 10:57 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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4 mill wont get Zamora.
He has telve games to prove his worth and I dont think we will be dissapointed.
 
Sears , more experience in researves then off on loan next year.
 
Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, Blackburn, Everton. That's some run.
 
Are we men or are we boys?
February 29, 2008 20:07 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Vukovic eyes Di Canio defence to beat ban<!--articleExtras-wrap-->

THE appeal against Danny Vukovic's 15-month ban for striking referee Mark Shield is set to centre on examples from around the world of players receiving far more lenient punishments for similar offences.

And at the top of the list is Italian star Paolo Di Canio's suspension of just 11 matches for pushing referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being shown a red card while playing for Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal in an English Premier League game in 1998.

The independent match review panel outed Vukovic for 15 months - including a six-month suspended term - on Monday, as a result of his aggressively striking Shield's right arm with his right hand in the dying stages of Sunday's grand final. Central Coast players had raced to Shield to complain over his non-awarding of what replays showed should have been a Mariners penalty for a handball by Newcastle replacement James Holland in the game the Newcastle Jets won 1-0.

Mariners executive chairman Lyall Gorman yesterday met Vukovic, the player's manager, Leo Karis, and legal counsel before announcing Vukovic would lodge an appeal against the severity of the punishment.

"We have a pathway in place," Gorman said. "We believe there is an opportunity to present some facts that the independent tribunal wasn't privy to. We hope these facts will support a reduction in penalty. Danny is anxious and full of remorse. He regrets the incident. I think you know it's out of character for him. The club is of the view that the severity of the sanction for such a player of his record is excessive, despite the serious nature of the charge. We will be lodging an appeal this week and hope to have a hearing early next week. We hope the penalty will be reduced."

The appeal will be heard by the disciplinary committee. If Vukovic is not satisfied after that hearing, his last avenue will be the appeals committee. Gorman said Vukovic had apologised to Shield immediately after the game and had followed that up with written apologies to the referee, Football Federation Australia's referees manager and the FFA. Karis, when asked whether Vukovic's legal team was optimistic about the chances of getting a reduction upon appeal, replied: "We wouldn't be going down this path if we didn't think it was worthwhile. The legal advice is that we should go down this path."

The FFA will not formally extend Vukovic's ban to cover national team football while it awaits the result of his appeal, but if the ban is unchanged, it is expected to apply to the national team as well.

February 29, 2008 21:45 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Hammerhead.....

If that is a pic of your new baby congrats mate.

Mine is due in 8 weeks!!
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Alan Curbishley has revealed that Freddie Sears could make his first team debut before the end of the season.

The Hammers boss, talking ahead of the visit of Chelsea this weekend confirmed that the 18-year-old striker is very much in his plans - as are some of Sears' fellow youth team players.

"He's different to what we've got available at the moment," said Curbishley, talking in the pre-match press conference. "He's Bellamy-like; he's quick, wants to get in behind people and goes about his business very quietly when he's around us. He's a good finisher.

"He's burst on in the last two months really. I think the natural progression is to get some sort of football and we'll see if it's in the next 12 games.

"He's been on the [first team] trips for the last couple of months and luckily enough has been on the bonuses as well so he's well happy!"

With regard to Sears' fellow youth team players - the likes of centre-half James TOmkins and midfielder Jack Collison - he added:

"I've got no doubts about playing them. The Tomkins, Collisons and Sears have all been around the first team squad for the last four or five weeks so if they get a game that's part and parcel of the future of the club.

"I'm not afraid of putting the young boys in. If the opportunity arises, then I'll do it - especially now in a side that's doing okay.

"Anyone that comes through the ranks has that affinity with them [the fans], so they should be looking out for the likes of Sears and Tomkins over the next couple of months - and next season, obviously."

When questioned whether Sears may be set for a first team debut as soon as this weekend in the big London derby, Curbishley replied:

"He's around us, he's training with us and in the squad - so we'll have to see."
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sir_trev wrote:
Hammerhead.....

If that is a pic of your new baby congrats mate.

Mine is due in 8 weeks!!
 
Yeah its supposed to be a pic of us watching the Fulham game together but it keeps disappearing.
 
Good luck with yours Sir Trev. Do you know what you're having?
 
On a different note it looks like the Chelsea game isn't on TV.
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Congrats Hammerhead and all the best for you and your wife Sir Trev.
 
My son turned out to be a fanatical supporter of the Hammers. Probably no surprise there, but his sister who now lives in London has also been hooked in to the extent that she has told her Blackburn supporting fiance that she is West Ham till she Dies, and he neednt ever forget it. They are going to the WHU v BB game in a few weeks seperately. Have to say, since they have been together we have had a fairly good run against them in league and cup.
 
Two of my proudest football photos, both with my son, after our first visit and victory at Upton Park, and outside the Millenium Stadium before the Cup Final. I also have a picture of him holding the Chatham Cup when he was 6 months old. It was holding him up actually and when he fell over the lid hit him on the head.
 
The game that brings generations together.  Lets hope we do a bit of blue flag sticking tonight.
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Thats an awesome story urion. I think it'll be a few years until I get Scott along to Upton Park.
 
I love being a Hammer.
March 01, 2008 19:00 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Thanks guys... we're having a boy! So another future hammer in the ranks!

He's already kicking his mum about so he may be a striker.

Got a good feeling about the chav game. Im picking a sneaky win or a draw..

(tin hat on with that prediction)

No doubt Curbs will stay with a lone striker, Cole, even though he isnt banging them in!!!! Apparently Barnes is a done deal according to the news now web site.
March 01, 2008 20:02 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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If it makes you feel any better the last time someone said to me they "had a good feeling" we went on and beat Arsenal.
 
It was last year when we were doing poo and had just beaten Blackburn rather fortuitously. I was walking around Spotlight in my Hammers shirt and some old geezer walked up to me and said
"I've got a good feeling about this one". Still the only team to beat them at the Emirates - although I also think that could change tonight.
 
I'm gutted its not on telly. This is the match I look forward to more than any other (my two brothers are Chelscum fans). I've got the last game we won against them on DVD.
 
 
 
   
March 01, 2008 21:52 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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well I cocked that prediction up!!
March 02, 2008 06:42 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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I'm not here to gloat.  Well, sod it.  Yes I am actually.  What a strange result.  I don't think any of us would have picked that before the game. 
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Hammerhead and Sir Trev, as a close neighbour to Jose's Dog, is there anything in particular that I should spray paint on his fence or did we just let ourselves down.
Must learn from the blues and bounce back against Liverpool on Wednesday.
If we have 3 bad ones this week, there will have to be changes, both positional and formation wise. The hardest thing is which four to pick in the midfield expecting that Parker and Etherington are due to join Freddie, Nobs, Mullin, Faubert, LBM and Solano. Lets hope he picks it right first time then sticks with it.
The frustrating thing is that our ever present back five have had a pretty good record up until now.  Hammerhead. Hope your youngster didnt watch that.
March 02, 2008 09:36 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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http://cmonyuirons.isgreat.org/2008/03/01/chelsea-win-is-the-end-of-the-road-for-curbs/
 
Lot of sense in this article. Opinions??
March 02, 2008 09:58 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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No not really. I think if he had players at his disposal he can do alot better. Granted if it EVER came to the crunch and we were in europe (cough cough) he probably would be in over his head. But realistically we along way from that.

I personally reckon we need strikers who can bang em in. I know who we've got and what they cam do BUT they're either injured all the time or are championship quality.

Our back four are sound, the mid field play well, we just arn't scoring the goals. Time for Mr Cole to stand down. January will be interesting.

We achieved our goal of staying up. Lets be content with that. (for now)
But we need to spend.
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Yeah its hard to disagree with alot of whats been said.

I guess the question isn't so much whether Curbs can get us into Europe, its whether he can lead us to a title if we get there. There's no point in getting to Europe only to get trounced in the first round (a la Palermo).
 
The answer I suspect is no. Curb is a good manager, but you could hardly say he's a great manager. Look at what clubs like Villa, Man City and Spurs have been able to accomplish with much better managers. O'Neill, Erickson and Ramos have all proved it elsewhere before the arrival, Curbs has done f**k all except keep Charlton up. 
 
You might also argue that Curbs is not that much better than Pardew. Sure, he's done better this season, but look what Pards did in our first year back in the Prem. 7th place was it? And a trip to the FA Cup final. And that was with worse players than Curbs has at his disposal now.
 
I reckon we give Curbs until the end of the season to see where he can take us. If we are still mid table then we have to look for someone who can take us forward.
 
I totally agree we need a quality striker, but if we're going to have a quality team we need a quality manager.
 
  
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My own view for what it's worth, and I know it is nothing to do with me, is that Curbs was a "safe" appointment which showed a lack of ambition.  He wasn't going to upset anyone or cock things up, but on the other hand he wasn't going to make any dramatic changes and have you racing up the table.  He's a good manager and a good guy, but he isn't a winner.  If you want to be a top 6 club and be challenging for trophies, ANY club (not just WHU) has got to take some risks and go for it.  Sure, give him until the end of the season but what's going to change in the meantime? 
 
Spurs went for Ramos and now have a trophy in the cabinet.  Not much but it's a start.  But the guy is not cut from the same cloth as most of the premiership managers and they've seen an early return of sorts on their decision to get rid of a good but uninspiring manager in Jol.   
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The comparison between Pardew and Curbishley has already been made on this thread and whilst they had different styles they both had similar levels of achievement. Mid table.  Increadibly, Curbishley is still only 50 and has time to change as a manager, but only he can make that call. He has shown that he can only draw players that he knows and has coached, with a few exceptions. Because he has not had one of those "big" teams in England or Europe, he can not use his personal experience to attract the top brass.

Job done. Find someone of the calibre of top five. We have the money and the location (London) to get the good players. We also have an established base, potentially a new stadium and a steady and wealthy admin that can attract the right kind of coach.
Timing. Out of both cups, almst out of Europe, barring a finish like last year. I dont think a change will do any good now, but the person does need to be there at the end of the season ready to take over and get into the transfer market. Ideally he could become a Football Director, find his players, then swap jobs diplomatically at the end of the season.
Noble to Arsenal. Doubt it. Look at the sources quoting this rubbish.
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Fansfc.com today

Reports claim Alan Curbishley will be handed a substantial transfer kitty in the region of �30million at the end of the season, and �8million of this could be heading to Liverpool.

It is believed the Upton Park club have made a striker their priority for when the window opens, and Curbishley hopes to tempt Peter Crouch to move south to spearhead his attack.

 

Two days earlier on the same site

Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni is the first target for the Hammers' incoming sporting director

Gianluca Nani is tipped to take the role in the summer and the Brescia supremo knows Toni well from his time with the Italian club.
The 30-year-old striker moved to Bayern last summer and has been a big hit in the Bundesliga.

 

Questions: If true, and I doubt it,

�          Why has the FD appointment not been made.

Answer. To see how we go against the three this week before appointing Nani as Manager, not Football Director.

�          Why would we want both of these strikers

Answer. Rumours only.

�          Crouch? Up front with who.

Answer. Must be Bellamy. Wouldn�t work with Ashton or Cole

�          �30 Million?.

Answer. Wasted on Curbishley.

The last time we beat Liverpool at Anfield was September 1963!!
March 06, 2008 07:47 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Sounds like alot of make believe to me. Still, it wouldn't be the first director of football to end up with the top job.
 
What has Nani done at Brescia? How high did they finish in the Serie A under him? Did they ever qualify for Europe?
 
 
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His record as a manager doesnt speak highly for him, my comment was probably more aimed at Curbishley going rather than who would replace. If we lose this morning that will virtually kill off any chance of Europe and to bring in a new manager at that time would be useful, depending on what the owners expected from Curbishley in the first place.
Then again, what good managers are availalbe at the moment. Jose or big Sam? Oh and of course the former England Manager.  I would think the replacement would come from Europe this time.
March 06, 2008 08:12 · Edited September 09, 2012 16:59
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Yeah I've been thinking about what other managers are around.  I'm not totally against the idea of Big Sam taking over. Just as long as he brings his heart pills with him. God knows he'll need them.

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4-0, ouch.

Laters Curbishley
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