CanadaSaint

After what the club has done with Rickie Lambert, who IIRC was also accused of being fat and unfit, I really fancy our chances of turning Billy Sharp into one heck of a player.

So are West Ham without Nolan and Taylor for the next two games, and without Taylor for the one after that?

Absolutely. With that result behind us and the squad strengthening, I think we can go back to October/November form.

I'm actually a bit disappointed but pleased at the same time. I thought we had more than enough to see them off if we'd had the courage to go at them as soon as they went one goal up and one man down. Still a good point, though.

Corky at right back. With him sitting on a yellow, WHU will go at him if they've got any sense. All the more important for Puncheon to keep them occupied on that side.

I think you're right.

Eleven on target shots to 4. Keep it up guys. He might think about Connolly for Sharp although I'd be inclined to keep Sharp out there for now.

If we keep the width and go at them down both flanks, I can see us scoring two in the last twenty minutes.

Dave's dead right about the width. I'm really surprised that Adkins, playing against ten men, chose to narrow things rather than widen them.

I'd definitely keep Sharp on for the rebounds and half-chances that I think will be coming.

I'll back Adkins to make more effective adjustments than Fat Sam, and I think we can give them real problems in the second half. Quietly optimistic.

We've got a lot of options on the bench and we really need to take the game to them. Let 'em chase us around, keep lots of width, move it around and they could be looking at another red or two.

Me too, but he's just gone up in my book - and down in the ref's! :lol::lol:

Hoof, chance. They've done it all season and we should have been ready.

That would take "nightmare" to a whole new level.

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

No, I'm not judging someone by their appearance - just suspecting that you would do that before deciding to call them a moron to their face, which you are so quick to do on here.

Very true, and I think Rickie is evolving into (if he isn't already) a player who will set up far more than he scores - all the more so now he has Sharp there. He's ahead of Holt on just about every measure in my book.

If it turned out that "The boy done well" was a 6' 3", 15-stone, tattooed, muscle-bound freak with a very nasty disposition, would you call him a "moron" to his face? I'm not sure you'll answer that honestly on here but I think I know the answer anyway. And if that answer is what I'm fairly sure it would be, you've just proved the very point you're arguing against.

I think it's a very fair comparison Minty, and I'll go a little farther. Sherringham played at the top level until he was 41, I believe. He did that because he just seemed to get smarter and better with age, so the development/expansion of Rickie's game this year may just be a preview of improvement still to come. And if that's the case we still have another ten years of Rickie to look forward to, as long as we take care of him and he takes care of himself.

There are plenty of people in the world who are far from the confrontational type. Why are they a "coward" or a "weirdo" if choose not to confront someone face-to-face for breaking the law or ruining the enjoyment of others? Especially when the morons who come out with racist crap are often the kind of people who regard a smack in the face as being a reasonable response to someone who calls them on it?

I think Lambert has far more dimensions to his game. The comparison is very flattering to Holt.

I don't think it's the clarity that's in question.

Makes sense for them - it's code for 4 (kick) - 5 (rush) - 1 (look for rebounds).

I hope he wasn't looking at any of our players. I dread him getting his hands on them because I don't think they'd ever be the same again.