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Steviedj 5:01 Mon Apr 2
Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17589323

flyingV 10:11 Wed Apr 4
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Considering the backlash already this season, and Sam's arrogance, I can't help but think next year will be a right mess if we don't go up and he's still here.

Very hard to turn a large section of supporters round after they've decided what they think of a manager.

Mr Polite 9:51 Wed Apr 4
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

I'm pretty sure she would have been just answering a question posed at her about Sams future. As much of a big mouth as she is I wouldn't expect her to say anything less at this stage.


I think Sullivan would want him to stay and i know Gold isn't a fan of the football played, he is putting up with it as he was assured it was 'winning' football. If it proves unsuccessful then I think he will want him gone.


Who will win that battle is anyones guess.


He doesn't strike me as the sort of bloke that would just walk away from a payoff.

New Jersey 9:00 Wed Apr 4
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

ChesterRd - I agree, hence the signing of Carew, Taylor, Faye and Captain Fantastic on a whopping 5 year £50,000 a week contract!

ironwatch 7:41 Wed Apr 4
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

I wont be renewing that's for sure cannot watch west ham play like this any more

, 9:25 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

If you give yourself two years to get promoted you don't spend the first year pratting about you try and get results from the off.

It looks to me that we have been trying to get up through direct promotion. It also looks like two other teams have been playing generally better than us and at least one of them will be champions.

So be it.

PDC ON THE VOLLEY 9:24 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

I am glad about this!

ChesterRd 9:19 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

This "he was given 2 years to get us up" is rewriting history. From day one the aim was and always was to get back first time.

BMU 9:01 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Two things re KIA 's earlier comments

Firstly it is quite right to highlight the difference between teams whose players have been together / assembled over a few years and one put together in a couple of transfer windows insofar as continuity is concerned. But in West Ham's case, if a reasonable assumption is that Avram Grant's limitations as a coach were cruelly exposed and thus a side that should have stayed up, instead got relegated, then what about the fact that the current side contains seven of last season's team ( Green, Reid, Tomkins, Noble, Collison, Faubert, O'Neill and Cole) with the return of another former player in George McCartney and players brought in who Allardyce knows well in Nolan, Taylor and Vaz Te? Thanks to Gold and Sullivan, the player turnover for West Ham was not discernably different from any other team looking to strengthen in key areas so hardly as disruptive as say our relegation in 2003?

Given the above, the main change was therefore the manager himself, which most including myself felt would mean a more professional set up with fitness and training followed by improving onfield performances once the new system, helped by familiar faces, had settled down. Indeed, despite the slightly erratic home form, West Ham got to the summit of the table leading by a point and a game in hand.

So why are West Ham now 4 points adrift of second place?
Quite simply, it is because they have dropped 8 points in matches they should have won and much of the cause can be laid squarely on a combination of Allardyce's tactics which are easy to defend against, players put out of position and some quite bewildering substitutions have undermined the promotion push in a big way.

I don't care whether the board gave Allardyce 2 or 10 years to secure promotion. With the support of the owners and the above, I like many others expected promotion this year and in my view, anyone who justifies Allardyce faint to achieve that because "he's been given two years". are themselves settling once again for second best

WHU(Exeter) 12:26 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

The blokes a fucking idiot.

Norwich City is a barometer for him, to measure ANYTHING and EVERYTHING within the game.

If we as fans mention Moore, Peters, Hurst, which nobody is, then we're living in the past.

But here you go, here's some relevant stats from the 1920s.

Fucking twat.

Chalkie the Ponce 12:22 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

remember, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

WHU(Exeter) 11:51 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

"In their 93 league seasons, 43 have been in the second tier. They have not won anything for 32 years. They do not have a God-given right to canter to promotion"

Fucking hell!!!

Talk about manipulating statistics.

As someone else has mentioned, if you take it from the late 1950s, which isn't even recent history in itself, there are only a HANDFUL of clubs who have spent more seasons in the top flight of football than West Ham.

And guess what, Norwich City isnt;t fucking one of them, or anywhere near.

Vast majority of those seasons he's referred to, are pre 1960 for fucks sake, and still this bloke has the temerity to have a pop at us, for bringing up Moore, Hurst, Peters WHICH WE HAVEN'T, but at the same time sees fit for himself to think stats from circa 19 fuckking 29 as relevant to his article?

Until very recently, Spurs had actually spent more years outside the top tier, than in it as well.

That too, is about as fucking relevant to his 'point'.

boltkunt 11:48 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

As I mentioned yesterday, the mentality the last time we were in the Championship was completely different, Because we lost so many players and replaced them with much poorer players, we wasn't really expecting anything other than getting to the play offs.

But we kept hold of the players we wanted too, and added with players that in fairness would still cut it at premier league level, hence why our targets are set much much higher and the mentality is so much different.

32nddegree 11:41 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Most people would have killed for that squad.

Don't forget Gavin WILLIAMS

Northern Sold 10:38 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

With players like Wayne Quinn, 97 year old Rob Lee, Neil MELLOR, Kevin Horlock etc etc I think he done a minor miracle even getting near a play off final...

Dolittle 10:34 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Those comparing Pardews first season with BFSs are forgeting a few things.

Roeder was still in cahrge at the beginning of that season. The team had been stripped of loads of players. Pardew didn't come in till 18 September.

We had other players who really wanted to leave but didn't/couldn't. He lost Defoe in the January tranfer window - he's scored 11 goals in 19 games in the league.

In the circumstances he did alright to get to the play-offs

mattyb 10:17 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Steve P
I think I'm with KIA really, I think the 'direct' or 'hoofball' stuff is a bit exaggerated, but we are boring and we don't attack enough or with the right quality.


Spot on

ooooh Morley Morley 9:40 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Did she get her stinking minge out?

Far Cough 9:40 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Steve P 9:18 Tue Apr 3

, 9:39 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Some years back a respected former player, speaking on behalf of the then owner said "it is our intention to retain the nucleas of the squad in order to make an immediate bid for promotion back to the premeirship"

Hearing that comment from our former player at least 20,000 gullible people renewed their season tickets.

This was closely followed by our best players being sold off.

When BFS took over I was given the impression that promotion was a two year project but that an immediate attempt to return was the aim. No promises were made that have yet been broken.

moorethanjustananon 9:32 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

Championship football isn't too terrible. I prefer it in some ways. Away days are good. However you can't help but sense that financially we cannot afford to wait around to long before returning to the top flight.

Wish the game wasn't so money orientated, wish I could've seen the game before it was. Then it wouldn't matter so much.

Swiss. 9:24 Tue Apr 3
Re: Karen Brady on Big Sam - He will be here next season.

interesting spin here to manage our expectations or should I say BFS et als failures.

Now it's more maybe we shouldn't go up this season anyway as we're not ready for the PL

What a bunch of mugs on here.

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