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Collins: “We have to be better than that”

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james-collins-435648James Collins has told the Hammers squad following the Villa match :”We have to be better.”

The Irons central defender was disappointed with Saturday’s result saying: “It’s disappointing really, after going 1-0 up and playing well in the first half. Second half we should have been better and they got on top a little bit.”

Speaking to the official site he declared: “We were expecting a tough second half, with the position they’re in and in front of their own fans, but we have to be better than that. We got the goal we’ve been looking for the last couple of weeks, so to draw is disappointing.”
“I’m not making excuses, but if you take Vardy and Mahrez out of Leicester’s team, they won’t be top of the league. That’s pretty much what’s happened to us with our attacking players.

“[The good thing is] We’re not losing games, we’re picking up points. We’d have liked to get three on Saturday but we’ll take a point away from home.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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4 comments

  • kevin says:

    What’s with all this Benetiz talk ?? . Are cracks appearing or is it a massive wind up by idiotic bloggers ?? . P(is)s off the lot of yah . We have our Manager , be it a great thing or a bad thing ,,, just leave us alone ,, we are suffering enough as it is .. FFS . ?. Too many clubs not happy with anything or anybody .. We are having our problems ( big ones ) but Bilic is our Manager and talk of Benitez is rank out of order . Christ , even BFS was given more respect . ( no abuse , please ) .
    Anyway , let’s get on : Tonight’s game against Southampton is going to be another night of tension and hope . Yes , hope because that’s all we can do at present . Sometimes teams falter on the back of a big win and other teams strengthen after loads of bad luck .
    Let’s hope that’s the case tonight . Collins is right , but drawing away to Villa and Swansea ( as ” johnboy” say’s ) is not the same as Getting three points tonight . It is a huge potentially season changing game for us and I hope the team paid attention to Ginge .

  • bubs says:

    The players don’t want him the same as what happened at Chelsea or what’s happening at Man Utd,
    He never paid big money at Valencia where he built a brilliant side,
    I love Slav but Bernitez would have been a good signing to,
    The players and fans hated Marinio at the end but they want him back now WHY,
    To many managers think they are bigger then the clubs they WORK for,
    They can manage but that means hard work where as buying the best is easy

  • johnboy says:

    On another note ,what’s the thinking behind the comments about benitez 2 hours away fromjoining us ,
    Is sully completely brain dead or what,
    Benitez would never be any good at a club like ours , he buys success whenever he can and even at real he aain’t up for it because he ain’t no good , end of .
    We got Bilic , he is a manager not a mourinio or benitez who could not manage a mediocre team without dosh .
    Sully needs a injection of some brain cells and keep it shut when it concerns PR.

  • johnboy says:

    Yes but we take a point at say Chelsea or the like , not villa and Swansea !!
    Let’s see if you’re concern gets a responds from our m/f today .

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