West Ham United 3 - 1 Newcastle - 20/09/08 - post match reaction from page 19

[themanupstairs]

It was 2 poor teams out there on Saturday.

 

And as poor as we were, in another game the deflection wouldn't have happened and Owen would have planted his header a yard to the left.

 

 

 

no chance of either happening as long as ashley and wise are in charge! Wise probably controlled the deflection from a remote location, and an ashley fart distracted owen making him wince as the ball landed on his head

[Guest RowanB]

Apart from the 2nd goal and the flukey first i thought we played some good attacking football and on another day could have at least got a point or sneaked a win.

 

I honestly didn't think we played particularly badly from an attacking point of view, but let in 3 soft goals.

 

 

 

Dreamland

is it f***. The first goal was a fluke and the 2nd came against the run of play was as soft as owt. if the penalty we conceded at Arsenal was a penalty then we should have had 2 penalties on saturday.

 

we did not play that badly.

 

 

Upjest. I agree with you completely. We didn't play that badly, and although Hull are sh*t, a draw would have been a fairer result. We're not where I want us to be, but we definitely aren't relegation standard, and that's without the likes of Martins and Guttierez.

 

[thomas]

It was 2 poor teams out there on Saturday.

 

And as poor as we were, in another game the deflection wouldn't have happened and Owen would have planted his header a yard to the left.

 

 

 

no chance of either happening as long as ashley and wise are in charge! Wise probably controlled the deflection from a remote location, and an ashley fart distracted owen making him wince as the ball landed on his head

It's only a matter of time before "Geordie faithful convinced so-called 'Cockney Mafia' is employing voodoo and witchcraft" makes the rounds.

[S.S.R.]

Although I'm by no means a Taylor fan, I'll reserve judgement on Colo and Taylor until they play with decent full-backs and central midfield pairing in front of them.

 

If I was a West Ham fan, I wouldn't be getting too carried away with that result. Papered over the cracks of a pretty poor team.

[Colos Short and Curlies]

It was 2 poor teams out there on Saturday.

 

And as poor as we were, in another game the deflection wouldn't have happened and Owen would have planted his header a yard to the left.

 

 

 

 

running out of straws to clutch at.....

 

No its not, We weren't beaten by a team filled with better players, we weren't beaten by undefendible goals, we did create a few chances.

 

All this despite being poor.

[Tachikoma]

I wouldn't go quite as far as to solely blame Butt for the defeat but he really is a joke. Unable to pass, not winning the ball and shown up completely by Cacapa today- who was no better than average. Fortunately, with his contract up at the end of the season he'll be gone soon. But I can barely stomach watching another match he plays in.

 

I only started watching the game 5 minutes before we went down 3-0, but Cacapa's passing really, really surprised me; it was at least as good as anything I've seen in the last 4 years. Can't believe he went off instead of Butt.

[TRon]

I wouldn't go quite as far as to solely blame Butt for the defeat but he really is a joke. Unable to pass, not winning the ball and shown up completely by Cacapa today- who was no better than average. Fortunately, with his contract up at the end of the season he'll be gone soon. But I can barely stomach watching another match he plays in.

 

I only started watching the game 5 minutes before we went down 3-0, but Cacapa's passing really, really surprised me; it was at least as good as anything I've seen in the last 4 years. Can't believe he went off instead of Butt.

 

He looked yards quicker too, which was even more surprising.

[Guest newcastle4life]

Awful performance and if it doesnt improve big problems as the team will be in a relagation battle.