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Mike Forster (West Ham United fan) says...
As long as Curbs is at the helm we will never be exciting ! Dull, boaring, negative, 1 upfront taktics is all he ever playes, hoof the ball upfront and see what happens ! Im sorry but Curbs has to go now !
Robbie Jess (West Ham United fan) says...
I know we had a rough time with injuries last season but I was disappointed by the lack of hunger at the club and for me this stems from the Management. I don't think Curbs is the man for the job, he did ok at Charlton but The Irons are a much bigger club and keeping us in mid table for 9 years is not what we are looking for.
I would love to still have Curbs and be in the Prem league. Well his first 5 years until parker went. So come Christmas we might see Curbs back if we have a poor start. As he wont be at the irons
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I've just laughed out loud at that, the people in my office think I'm weird.
Curbs is not exactly 'sleeping well at nights' and aint what one might call a happy bunny!
That things haven't worked out the way we would have wanted since he went doesn't mean that the decision to let him go wasn't the right one.
In our early premiership, Curbishley got us playing some good attacking football so am suprised that he seems to have been so negative at west ham considering the players he has at his disposal.
I'm not saying we should bring him back but like it or not I think we'd still be in The Premiership gaining all the finance and spin offs that that entails.
We couldn't have been relegated at a worst moment in the history of The Premiership as far as finance was concerned.
I'd sooner he'd have stayed and we stayed up quite frankly, negative football and all that it brought us not withstanding.
We could have and possibly would have attracted some bigger backers somewhere along the line, of course you can't say that for sure but it's a fair shout IMHO. As it is, we are now a far less attractive proposition for an ever decreasing number of 'sugar daddies' out there who are willing to dig deep.
I thought he wanted to leave ?
It was time for him to go. Should of went out and payed top dollar for a manager not egor !!
Admittedly they probably have big debt from stadium development, and big wages, but they also have a pretty decent fan base/capacity and big money from the Premiership.
As it was i think Curbs knew we were in big dodo, and he couldnt get motivated at CAFC anymore. Deano--Ewell both said same thing he was going through the motions towards the end.
Sad to say that big spend up in our last season seems like it will be the first and last big spend up we will have and what a pile of shit we got for our cash.
Wont shedto many tears if it all goes pete tong at Wet Spam.
Invariably, everything he did was based on a safety first approach - after all, if we were 3-0 down with 25 minutes left and getting a bit of a tonking, he'd play his master stroke tactic of pulling off a forward and replacing him with yet another defender.
He even did that at West Ham when they were 4-0 down at Reading at halftime - his damage limitation tactics really paid off, as the Hamsters only lost 6-0 in the end, lol
He'd only been in that job a fortnight at that time, but obviously leopards don't change their spots, so it doesn't surprise me that Hamster fans are dismayed with his negativity.
I know this sounds like I'm Curb-bashing (instead of Curb-crawling, perhaps?) - but just saying it how I see it.
Take nothing away from his achievements at Charlton, but all the while he has this underdog mentality, rarely can you expect him to take the bull by the horns and simply go for it.
Argh!
Curbishley wanted to go but wanted to see out the last year of his contract. Quite rightly the Board said no if you want to go, go now. So I suppose you could argue that we let him go.
But I agree with GH, personally I thought he should have gone a couple of season before he actually did.
I hope Pardew does it for us this season but I must admit that at present I feel more negative about a new season than I have done for many a year - any one else feel that way?
It is distinctly possible Charlton won't play top tier football again in my lifetime.
The longer we stagnate or worse in the Championship the more apparent will be the amazing acievement of Alan Curbishley in giving us Premiership football at The Valley for so many seasons.
Very true. As great Charlton managers there is a fag paper between them.
Curbs gets the nod for me because he had to deal with Bosmans, agents and players wanting European football while being relatively short of resources. Lennie had none of those problems, other than the shortage of resources, as the Heysel ban was in operation although he had to play 42 away games of course!
very good point BFR ... still boring mid table premiership isn't good enough for some.....