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Fortune smiles on the Irons again

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Fortune continues to favour the Irons with the latest results today both going very much our way.

Manchester United put three past Watford without reply earlier with Wolves managing the same result against Norwich who now look entirely booked for the drop

It means that we go into tomorrow night#s match at Liverpool (oh that it was somewhere, anywhere else) with a goal difference better than any of the four teams around us – for now anyway.

Norwich are on minus 27, Watford on minus 19,  Villa, minus 18 and Bournemouth on minus 17 whilst the Hammers are minus 15.

Yes, of course, it’s a rubbish position to be in but given everything we have to be grateful for the smallest of mercies and in those terms this weekend has been good news for us.

The Norwich and Watford defeats come after Aston Villa, Newcastle and Bournemouth were all beaten on Saturday while Brighton could only manage a draw at Sheffield United.

Now there’s only the small matter of runaway leaders Liverpool with whom to deal!!

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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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15 comments

  • Paul says:

    Losing Fredericks typifies our season. The most vulnerable spot now was right back and yup it happened. Play Zabby at 35 against Mane and Robertson with Snod as support? Makes me light headed just contemplating that option.Will Moyes opt for a 19 year old with speed and energy which is the other option?
    Another important decision by Moyes which could come back to hit him hard by fans.
    Playing Zabby would be a disaster but a justifiable decision given his experience , despite lack of pace. Same way it was justifiable for the owners to give Zabby a years extension meaning they never had to fork out money on a younger back up. Nothing is done right at this club. 3 strikers leave 1 in. Slowest midfield last season , we bring in Whilshire and Sanchez . Let Obang leave who fought 3 relegation battles with us and Kouyate, plus Cullen on loan.
    Nothing makes sense because the club is run by owners who ” believe” they know how to run a club but its a circus.
    Managers go from one extreme to the other. From Sam to Bilic , from Bilic to Moyes, from Moyes to Pellegrini back to Moyes. We have no business model, no long term plan like Wolves and Leicester. Its just to keep fans quiet which is backfiring now and the team has totally lost its identity.
    Sam defends , fans un-happy. Bring in Bilic. Concede too many goals , bring in Moyes to defend and keep us up.
    Thank you Moyes and Bye.
    Pellegrini comes in to play attacking football. Owners fail to get him the players he needs to play his system. Pellegrini wanted Gomez and a strong powerful midfield player. He got neither and the chain breaks.
    Back comes Moyes with a defensive minded team and now we are back to park the bus to scrap for points with ” The Same Players That Were Taught To Attack More Under Pellegrini”
    We are all over the place and WILL get relegated. 3 from 4 years we fight relegation. That tells you what state we are in despite being promised a world class stadium with world class players to move home.
    We were conned and now we cling on to hope to survive. If we do survive Moyes will keep the job and next season we will grind out results and be a mid table team. Fans will get on managers and owners back , like they did with Sam because we want more.
    But the owners do not know how to give more !!!!!!!!!!!

  • The Cat says:

    The results HAVE been favourable to us recently and this weekend.
    I’m as frustrated as anyone, but there is also a massive dilemma for most of us. Looking at the reasons for us being where we are is a waste of time right now, but if we manage to stay up due to goal difference….99.9% of us would take that right now.
    So the Liverpool match (like the Man City) isn’t the game to prove that we can match them with attacking intent as every man and his dog knows that’s impossible. So I don’t think we should get our hopes up for anything other than the City type game………however, after the Liverpool match, it’s GAME ON!

    • GaryD says:

      Couldn’t agree more. Need to be strategic. we are not going to win EPL this year so play smart, avoid injuries do our best are out against the other bottom dwellers.

  • Hollywood Hammer says:

    I wonder if Moyes reads all these posts.Because this is free advice which He should be using.

  • Simon barbet says:

    Forget goal difference
    We are better than this!
    No 1-0 and no playing safe!
    COYI

  • Pacific Claret says:

    It is a good summary of our embarrassing situation. We are so hopeless that we have to now compete with the worst teams in the league to see if we can beat them on goal difference.
    How did we get here? Why hasn’t anybody resigned/been kicked out from this club’s incompetent leadership?
    To get relegated a club has to be consistently awful. Given our budget, that should be really hard to do.

  • johnham1 says:

    To be fair the results this weekend have been good for us. Now over to Mr Negative to see what team he puts out on Monday. He needs to cop on that we need to have pace on the break while being set up to defend. Anderson is a better defender and attacker than Snodgrass, Bowen has much more about him than Noble. I hope he has learned from a simply awful team he put out against City. We have no easy game in the next 6 so not sure what his masterplan is, I don’t think he knows.

  • Ernie says:

    Please can we play the Girls against Liverpool , it would be entertaining and they do at least believe in themselves , we need to stop crowing about other teams misfortunes grow a pair and believe we can beat anyone , very true kcockayne.

  • Becks says:

    Most important thing against Liverpool is to keep our goal difference down lower than those around us. Hopefully Moyes will set us up defensively again Liverpool like he did against city.

    • Clacton Rd Iron says:

      What is the point of being in the league if you are only going to try and win games you think you have a chance in?
      Then then mighty Leicester City of 2015/16 who won the Premiership might beg to differ???

  • kcockayne says:

    It will only be good news if we win or draw. Otherwise, there is no good news whatsoever. It can only be good news if we are better off. So far, we are not.

  • Dave says:

    It makes me laugh a bit that everyone thinks just because we will have played Man City and Liverpool that we will win the other games vs the other so called lesser teams.
    We look useless, we have most of the season .
    Where winning 50 percent of our games will all of a sudden come from is beyond most people.
    It doesn’t matter how many attacking players we play, we can’t defend and will continue shipping 2-3 goals a game.
    Those so called teams we are supposed to be beating will be looking at our fixture and fancy to score loads.

    • Alan Wallace says:

      Dave your right, for most of the games before xmas we didn’t start playing until we were 2 nil down. But if Moyes is doing anything to the squad it’s making us hard to beat, The other parts of the games I’ll reserve judgement.

      • slidingtackle says:

        Alan
        What the hell are you on about ?
        Making us hard to beat . if exclude the last defeats to City,Liverpool,West Brom and Leicester,the lucky draw against Brighton.All easy victories for the opponents,we never came close. The opposite in fact.
        Pathectic judgement of our team. We became awful under Pellegrini. Apart from one game against a poor Bournemouth we have played dire football and lost 4 out of 6 games.
        We give teams easy games not difficult ones. Moyes plays the same old ****.

        He has to go

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