analysis of the transfer window http://hammyend.com/index.php/2015/09/reflections-on-fulhams-transfer-window/?
Tom Cairney likely getting hit with FA misconduct after joining the subs bench when he was sent off. Thanks for the points, fellas.
I think the set up at Swansea has proven to be a well oiled machine that most people do well at, kind of takes the shine off of what Rodgers accomplished there. They are just a really well run club right now and I think Liverpool reached on him when they initially hired him away from them. I think the only thing he managed to prove at Liverpool is that he is tactically inept and has a terrible eye for picking his best 11. I've never seen a manager so stubbornly stick with players that look like shit week after week with solid performers on the bench behind them (except maybe for Mourinho and Iva this season).
Agreed with everything from Ace. Swansea benefitted immensely from the continuity provided from Kenny Jackett, Roberto Martinez, and Paulo Sousa. Rodgers inherited a team that required very little management as their system carried on from one coach to the next. His transfer hits are spectacularly bad (Sinclair, Neil Taylor, brought Leon Britton back, Vorm, Routledge) with about 40 absolutely terrible transfers mixed in.
Yeah...but if they can put it together they're a good two week run away from being right in the middle of things.
Which is what they do. They'll get my hopes up that things are coming together and then shut the bed against Bolton or something.
Im going to the Fulham Sheffield wed game jan 2. any idea what the best way to get tickets is and what section I should be looking to sit in?
glad to see you lads working your way up to the playoff places, EPL isn't the same without the cottage.
I have both ordered online then picked up at Will Call and just walked up to the box office a couple of hours prior to the match to buy tickets. Both worked fine. If you take the tube there are touts right when you walk out of Putney Bridge if you want to buy some scalped tickets. Also make sure to stop by the club shop there as well. Whatever you do, make sure to get there a couple of hours early and hit the pubs along the Thames before the match. I haven't been since we were relegated, but it used to be almost impossible to get anything other than end tickets unless you were a season ticket holder, so that's where I've always sat. This pic is from 2007. That's Brad Friedel in goal for Blackburn. Brian McBride and Carlos Bocanegra are also in that pic, and I believe Dempsey is as well. Kasey Keller was in goal for us.
exactly what I was looking for, Thanks. Hoping by december we'll be in the thick of a playoff spot. 4-1 was a great result but I feel like that anytime we have a great game, we come back and lay an egg the next match.
checked the facebook group and found that pretty much every available manager on planet earth is being rumoured for the job
Everyone gives the same argument about Colorado if we fire our current coach, who would want the job? I think that's a cop out. If someone doesn't have a job you think they would pass up any legitimate position? English soccer is all about recycling the same coaches and there's multiple who currently have no job who would jump at the chance to coach anyone and we have a solid history with some good young talent. The right coach could at least get our guys to play consistently instead of the schitzophrenic team we see every other week.
don't know if he's good or bad but he looks like Zod Steve Clarke set to be appointed new Fulham manager after Kit Symons leaves Fulham are on the brink of appointing Steve Clarke as their new manager. The Cottagers sacked Kit Symons earlier this month and have moved to pluck his replacement from Championship rivals Reading - with whom a compensation package must be agreed. Fulham, who also considered ex-Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson for the post, are just four points behind Reading in the table. Steve Clarke (above) is set to leave Reading to take over at Championship rivals Fulham Clarke, 52, led West Brom to eighth place in the Premier League in his only full season in management to date in the 2012-13 season. That represented their highest league finish since 1981 but he was sacked months later in December 2013. The Scot took over at Reading exactly 12 months later and steered them clear of relegation trouble last season as well as guiding them to an FA Cup semi-final. Clarke spent 11 years at Chelsea as a player and a further four years at the club as assistant manager, where he worked under Jose Mourinho. He has also assisted Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool and Newcastle and Gianfranco Zola at West Ham.
I know a lot of people like the promotion systems that are used in Europe, but I hate how smaller teams can never develop and keep their youngsters. It's develop and sell, develop and sell, forever.
I don't understand why we have a shitty mid tier American billionaire. I want a power hungry ex-KGB Russian willing to run his club at a massive loss.
I don't think I've ever seen our owner attend a match, he just cruises his yacht around in the Bahamas while Levy does his bidding.
I miss Al-Fayad. I'd let him even put back up that god awful MJ statue again to have an owner that actually gives a shit.
Just bought my tickets for Jan 2 game against Sheffield Wednesday. Will be the first time I get to see a match at Craven Cottage. Kinda surprised how cheap they are. 25 pounds to be at the hammersmith end about 10 rows up. Even midfield front row was like 50 pounds. Also, my buddy is a West Brom fan so we are going up to Birmingham dec 28 to see West Brom v Newcastle. First row right at midfield was only 27 pounds.
Up against Rotherham 2-1 at the half, hold on to those 3 points lads and get yourselves closer to a safe place. I couldn't handle you in League One ffs.
Great experience. We literally were in the first row pretty close to midfield for less than the cheapest seat at most college football games would be. I'd post a pic but not sure how to do on mobile. Newcastle fans were much louder than west brom, atmosphere was pretty great. The stadium is kinda a shit hole in not the nicest part of town, but certainly had charm. We got there a few hours before the game and drank beers in the fan zone and after the game got a tip to go to a west brom bar down the road that was packed with fans. Birmingham actually was kinda cool, surprised me. Will be at the cottage saturday, hoping Fulham play like they did yesterday.
Just back from the match. Craven Cottage is a pretty special place, especially after seeing the hawthornes. Fulham seemed to dominate possesion but just could never get good final passes. Woodrow missed a completely unmarked header from in front of goal which was the best chance in the second half. Wednesdays goal was pretty much unstoppable. hell of a strike in off the top bar. Hate that we keep inching closer and closer to the drop zone.
Sorry you couldn't have been there for a win, really hope you guys come back up sooner rather than later. The longer you stay down the harder it seems to get though.
Also you need to hold onto your good young players like Moussa Dembele this month, unless you sell him to us.
i think dembele is gone either in the transfer window or summer. he's young and has shown promise, he'll want a chance at a bigger club. If was fun to see two yanks out there today though. Can't wait to see how Hyndman develops. he looked pretty good at times today. Ream was a bit off though.
I just want to have two lads named Mousa/Moussa Dembele on the squad, and we need another front man. Fulham do have a good history of bringing Americans through their squad. You manage to snap any pics at the Cottage? Seemed like a pretty bleak day in London.
yeah, it was cold and rainy. I did grab some photos but theyre on a camera. Im heading back home tomorrow so in the next few days ill try to post some pics of both the fulham game and the west brom v newcastle game we went to.