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Can't see why it's "very poor". I've just checked our home league attendances and, if you ignore the prestige games (local derbies or against big boys West Ham etc) and the ever popular Christmas games, all attendances are between 21k and 24K really. What are people realistically expecting us to achieve for a game against Derby on a Saturday in February?

Sometimes I go mental after home matches and feel like having a beer; not an evening of several beers, a few chasers and a couple of ill advised lap dances, but just a single, solitary beer. Last season I could wander round to the Itchen concourse, get three beers for £6 (split with two equally tight mates), watch some of the late kick-off game on Sky, listen to a God-awful band with a slightly overweight, ugly blond girl trying to sing and then watch a slightly awkward interview with the man of the match. This season I have to set foot in the 'Alfred' *shudder*. I miss the concourse being open. Do you?

On being gay?

On here if that post is anything to go by.

Well, I do have an estate agent mate who confirmed that Theo has registered with him as a prospective buyer in the area.

Asking somebody to name their favourite referee is like asking them which STD they'd most like to catch. VD in case you wondered.

Have they signed Tevez yet?

Willing to flog a vastly superior HTC Desire (boxed and unlocked) to anybody interested for just £25 extra. Feel free to pm. Not desperate to get rid but happy to sell to finance move to iPhone.

Specialized Rockhopper A1 FS from 1996. Frame 18". Currently with wheels unattached but in sound order apart from that. Make me an offer and come and collect as it's on the way to the tip. Cost £600 new.

21000 before any on the day walk-up is pretty good isn't it? The majority of our attendances seem to fall between 20k and 25k depending on a whole host of factors so with a thousand paying on the day there's nothing alarming about our forthcoming attendance.

Gay apparently.

The interesting thing about Cortese is that his approach to running the football club is similar to Lowe's in many ways. The club's financial circumstances are very different and you could argue that he's more willing to finance a competitive playing squad (to what extent Lowe may have been willing to do this had our finances been different we'll never know) but there are many similarities about the way in which the two approach the running of our football club.

wtf is Alpine doing posting on a Hammers forum?

It's odd really. We do a lot of criticising of teams who play long ball but we do a fair bit of it ourselves, as do lots of teams. For some reason, some of us seem to think that Saints are some sort of Barcelona-esque side and, having watched them an awful lot this season, that simply ain't true.

I can't stress just how much it annoys me when somebody 'famous' dies and I have to listen to and see all these stupid public outpourings of grief. I can cope with a little bit of sentiment or respect but it's the extent of the usual reaction and the ridiculous amount of hyperbole that gets used which really annoys me.

Couldn't we do them a favour and loan them Guly or something?

I don't think a home brewing industry will be ignited by rising bar costs at all.

Great idea. Binge drinking is one of Britain's major problems; particularly amongst the young and the working class. Fixing the prices of all drinks would undoubtedly make people drink less.

Think you need to shop around at renewal time. I've always had policies with extras covered. Perhaps ask a decent broker like Chris Knott to find you a decent policy.

This site has one too. It's just stuck on Matthew Le God's bedroom wall.

If you step back and think about taking a draw from the Hammers away from home it seems ok. However, playing against ten men for most of the game, creating that many chances, many on target, whilst only scoring once, you've got to say we should have done better. You shouldn't be only putting the ball in the net once if you've got that many 'on target' chances; not if you're "controlling the controllables" anyway. Onto Derby and a win there would give us 7 points from the last three 'difficult' games and you'd have to be satisfied with that I guess.

Still think Adkins has got the midfield all wrong. Somebody on the right wing who isn't Guly all day long for me. And, perhaps more importantly, I'd like Hammond's bite in the centre of midfield so would have to leave out either Morgan or Cork. And I'm really disappointed for De Ridder that he's failed to make the bench again. In the two consecutive starts he made at home, I thought he played well. In the second game everything he did with the ball was positive and dangerous. People criticise his distribution but he fluffed just one pass in that game.

It's been brilliant; no sailors banging about their tin pot subs, misogyny and supposed military expertise.

It's hardly totally irrelevant Jonny. The price of frozen peas in Tesco is "totally irrelevant."

You realise places like CEX and Gamestation only pay about £25-£30 for these now? Add on a few quid for the games and you'll probably be lucky to get £50 mate.