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    Barnsley v West Ham Untited FC

    Post  Admin on Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:04 am

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    Npower Championship

    Venue: Oakwell
    Date: Friday, 6 AprilKick-off: 1715 BST
    Coverage: Live on BBC1 at 1700 BST; listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC local radio;
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    TEAM NEWS

    Barnsley manager Keith Hill has no new injury or suspension problems, but is still without seven first-team players.

    Midfielder Nathan Doyle sits out the second game of a three-match ban, while keeper David Button will continue in the absence of Luke Steele (abdomen).

    Mark Noble (thigh) will be missing for the Hammers, but boss Sam Allardyce can call on Papa Bouba Diop after his recovery from a hamstring injury.

    Defenders Winston Reid (concussion) and Guy Demel (thigh) are also available.

    MATCH PREVIEW

    Six matches left and under pressure, not the ideal scenario for either club entering the crucially busy Easter period. Barnsley sit 23rd in the current Championship form table and West Ham 15th (taken from their last six matches) so nothing much to inspire supporter confidence as the Tykes look to ensure Championship survival and the Hammers try to return to the Premier League at the first attempt.

    Barnsley do have a nine-point cushion on Bristol City, who hold the final relegation place, but with five of the top nine still to play and a trip to Ashton Gate to take on the Robins later this month, Tykes manager Keith Hill knows there is no room for complacency.

    West Ham have won only once in seven league games, a run that has seen them lose their grip on the second automatic promotion place to Reading, a side who beat them 4-2 at Upton Park last Saturday. The Hammers now trail the Royals by four points with only 18 left to play for.

    Recent criticism aimed at West Ham is that they have drawn too many matches - not something that can be aimed at Barnsley, who have only shared the points just once in their last 31 league games.

    MATCH FACTS
    Head-to-head



    • West Ham have won their previous three matches against Barnsley, including their most recent trip to Oakwell on 9 August 1997. That occasion was Barnsley's opening game of their one and only Premier League season.

    • An early header from Papa Bouba Diop proved the difference between the sides when they met at Upton Park just before Christmas. It was West Ham's fifth successive victory over the Tykes in league and cup. The last three have ended 6-0, 3-0 and 2-0.

    • It is 22 years since Barnsley last registered a league win over the Hammers, winning 1-0 at Oakwell in the old Second Division in December 1990.

    Barnsley


    • Nine defeats and just two wins in 12 outings have seen Barnsley slip from 13th to four places and nine points outside the relegation zone.

    • The Tykes have not managed a home win against any of the top eight, nor have they kept a clean sheet against a top-half club, home or away.

    • Keith Hill's side are one of three clubs (the others are Millwall and Coventry) not to have won from a losing position in the Championship this season.

    West Ham United


    • Defeat against Reading last time out is West Ham's only loss in their last 12 games, although this run includes seven draws.

    • Victory would see West Ham break a club record for number of away wins in a single season. They have won 11 matches to date, which equals a club record set in 1957-58 and 1922-23. They already have more away points than any other club (38), and travel to Oakwell on a five-match unbeaten away run.

    • Three points would secure a sixth double of the season, having already recorded home and away victories over Blackpool, Peterborough, Nottingham Forest, Coventry and Portsmouth.

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    Friday evening's referee will be Mr. Tony Bates.


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    Re: Barnsley v West Ham Untited FC

    Post  mottinghammer on Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:24 am

    Dontcare anymore, yah boo sucks :sleep: yawning nope

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    Post  Charlie Ham on Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:45 am

    yawning sleep

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    Post  Suzanne Claret on Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:30 pm

    Ian and I are going to this game, must be finguck mental Telling

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    Re: Barnsley v West Ham Untited FC

    Post  Charlie Ham on Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:31 pm

    Suzanne Claret wrote:Ian and I are going to this game, must be finguck mental Telling


    Well I hope they don't let you down, however?

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    Post  Admin on Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:38 pm

    Should be alright Suz , we are away from home , give my regards to Sire and have a good day out WH Flag

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    Post  Admin on Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:55 pm

    Well I manged to get in on a Tykes Chat Forum and put these questions to them , lets see what we get back :)The link if you want to pay them a visit , play nice cheesey grin Tykes

    Over the season I have been going over to oppos chat sites and getting their opinions on how they think the up and coming game will turn out . I am Admin on [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ( if you do pop in , play nice ) and would like to get some feedback which I will post in our Match Thread for the game on friday . You are sitting in 18th place and there is no chance in you going down as Pompey and Doncaster have two places already sorted for the drop and you would really have to drop a clanger to go down with them , but do you think you could of done better and gained more places if so , why ?
    Who do you think we should keep an eye on on friday and who are your best players at the mo ?
    Give us your honest opinion on Hill and your owner and what could they have done this season to get you further up the chumps league ?
    You really have been up and down the league,s over the years , do you think you have any chance of making it back to the Prem at any time ?
    What do you think our chances are of making automatic promotion now after we ballsed it up against reading ?
    You know our team or you should do , if you dont do a bit of homework and let me know who in your opinion will give you problems ?
    last , what do you think the score will be ?
    Cheers for your time , I wont say good luck as I would,nt mean it

    Nightmare
    Bring us Vaz Te back and we'll answer your questions

    Conan Troutman
    We don't have any threatening players at the moment. We had three and you nicked one of 'em!

    There is always a hope of getting back to the Prem but it becomes increasingly difficult year on year - especially with parachute payments being extended to four years - possibly the biggest injustice in modern day football. BUT if a much smaller club like Blackpool can do it there is always hope.

    Hill is a man with a good track record at the lower level but I think the jump has taken him by surprise. He has the makings of a good manager but he needs to learn a bit of humility and when to keep his trap shut. Chairman has lost interest unfortunately.

    I'm going to go for a 1-1 draw and I don't think you will get automatic promotion as I can't see the top two throwing it away now.

    Redstar
    We would have done better if clubs like you who are using borrowed money to buy players like Vaz Te were dealt with.

    Hill has done a good job in trying circumstances. See above and also that our owner is facing clink time so we have had to run a tighter ship than normal meaning we will make a profit this season.

    Best player is on your team, at Leicester and out injured after being assaulted by M Brown of Dirty Leeds.

    We could have told Fat Sam to feck off when he came calling for Vaz Te and bought Danny Drinkwater instead of Leicester.

    Vaz Te wil pose a threat and will the Noble that can play. Take the other one back with you will you?

    No chance of Prem again in all honesty unless football gets a grip sometime soon.
    Hope you don't go up because (I think you will like this one) I can't stand Allardyce and That London is always a good day out.

    Mrshallstoffeerols
    We will be back in the Prem in 4 years and in Europe in 5.

    Watch out for our Right Back Wiseman he is as quick as Billy Whizz and Alf Tupper rolled into one.

    That Clyde Best seems an handful and could cause us problems.

    Jay
    Our two best players by some distance were Butterfield and Vaz Te. You know what happened to Vaz Te, while Michael Brown put in a pretty shocking tackle on Butterfield on New Year's Eve which put him out for the season. They were part of a very competent midfield 5 who had us hovering around 10th place after the first half of the season. Two more from that midfield (O'Brien and Perkins) have spent much of the second half of the season injured, while the final piece in the jigsaw (Drinkwater) was sold to Leicester when we thought we had him on loan for the rest of the season from Man Utd. That pretty much fcuked it.

    The team we've got left is a nightmare. We rarely have a shot at goal any more, we've scored 1 goal in the last 6 games, the defence has more holes than a colander, and we're comfortably the worst team in the division. We've gone from being a match for anyone on our day to being a match for no one and although relegation still looks unlikely it looked impossible in January when we were 18 points clear. We've simply capitulated.

    So to your questions.

    Could we have done better? If our players hadn't been kicked to bits or sold then most certainly yes.

    As I explained above, we no longer have any good players, with the possible exception of Davies, but he is so starved of service that he's rendered impotent.

    If you judge Hill on the first half of the season he's great, on the second he's terrible. He lost his best players, but the replacements he's brought in haven't been up to it. He's signed over 20 players this season and most haven't worked. The reality of the situation is that we've probably got an average manager at this level who has a bit of a big gob.

    If Blackpool can make the Premiership any one can, but I wouldn't be placing a bet that it will be us any time soon.

    Southampton and Reading look almost certain for promotion now. You'll have to take your chances in the play-offs.

    You'll cause us problems from all areas of the pitch and should run out easy winners. Barnsley 0-3 West Ham.

    Dodworther
    1. I still don't think we are safe, we are 3 points from safety. We could've done better if our midfield wouldn't have been completely dismantled during the first two months of 2012.

    2. Watch out for Matty Done and Stephen Dawson their both just starting to settle into the Championship, we have a lot of key players out, and I doubt we will threaten your goal.

    3. Hill has done a good job at building a side on a shoe string budget, no complaints from me, because most teams will have to cut their budgets for next season but we have already done so. Patrick Cryne was never going to give us millions, but as long as the club is run in the right way Im not bothered about money.

    4. I doubt we will make it back in the near future, the whole game has changed since we were there last, way too much money involved for a club like us.

    5. I think West Ham will win the play-offs and just miss out on auto.

    6. Vaz Te will **** us up, big time never mind the rest.


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    Post  Johnny K on Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:26 am

    It's on Canal+ in Sweden isn't it? Shame I live in Finland!

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    Post  Arran H on Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:56 am

    Have a feeling that Vaz Te may score again today WH Flag Iam going 3-0 West Ham (Vaz Te,Cole and Nolan)
    My Line Up would Be : 433:
    Green.McCartney.Reid.Tomkins.Demel.Nolan.Diop.Taylor.Maynard.Cole.Vaz Te
    BENCH:Collison.Maynard.Baldock.Carew.O`Neill

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