West Ham Banter Archive September 11 2013

11 Sep 2013 16:05:45
We will see on Sunday if Allardyce knows how to play a different way. Personally I don;t think he does hence why he had Kevin Davies at Bolton and AC at Newcastle leading his attacks. If our defence can stay solid we may get a well earned point

11 Sep 2013 10:43:23
So he's stubborn but that stubbornness is going to leave Allardyce jobless come Xmas if we are languishing near the bottom. He built a whole team around Carroll adding Jarvis and Downing to ping them crosses into the tallman to get'em on his head and into the back of the net.
Well that was the theory but with sicknote Andy now out for about 6 months things need to change. Yes FatSam it's time to stick that attitude of yours to one side and change the formation to fit a team without Carroll.
Personally I'm in favour of a 4-4-2 but with a twist. I think Ravel should sit behind Petric up front and with Jarvis, Noble, Nolan and Diame in midfield. Downing and Cole are injured for a month each so count them out, if things are going tits up then change it to a 4-3-3 with Vaz Te on.
Either way we can't play the one up front system without Andy so Allardyce has to change things or we are going to get murdered out their!

I agree with post start Morrison behind petric he knows where the goal is. we have to invest in a striker come January no matter what. Just a note to the "Rhodes in" fans. Imust admit I personally would like to see him at whu. but further to my last post a good pal of mine a true blue toffees supporter who lives on the wirrall. told me everton watched him lots last season and prior to the window this term. along with reps from Fulham and wba. note none of them made an official bid for him. as I said before the majority of prem teams could afford him (10m plus) but have not gone for him as obvous as it looks. this must tell you something. he must be viewed as a gamble to make the grade, but probably not for that money. we must forget carroll for now. I understand he's unlikely to train before xmas he has not two but three separate injuries. we are talking to Vancouver about reo-coker (don't know why?) still chasing boulharouz and looking at another unknown from mls IRONMIKE

Dowining is not injured, and the only reason Nolan gets into the team is to score the knowck downs if we were to go 4-4-2 it would have to be Diame and Nobes in the middle for me. But we both know it won't change.

You can waste your breath all u want. The fat one would stick a lampost upfront before playing 4-4-2

2 the op am a liverpool fan and am telling u carroll heading is rubbish for his height kenny had the same idea with dowing crossing to him and it didn't work carroll is a good player to have but nowhere good enough to base a team around him

Carrol's heading is rubbish, yeah that Header he scored at last years Euro's was just awful!