| The Hammers to get hammered by The U’s! 19:42 - Dec 8 with 1263 views | ghughes11 |
My dislike for West Ham comes from when I was a lad at school supporting Col U when some of the other (shall we call them ‘cooler’) boys in school decided to change the team they support from Arsenal and Man Utd to their local team! Now bearing in mind that they all lived, and I assume were born in Colchester, I thought that we might have had one or two extra Col U fans to populate Layer Road – nope, I was wrong they plumbed for that other “local” team approx. 60 miles away in East London! Then as I got older there were neighbours and work colleagues that supported West Ham for no other reason than being the local “big Team in Essex!?!?” 
Anyway, moving on and it sounds like lots of other Colchester/Clacton/Witham/Braintree based West Ham fans will be descending on the Jobserve Community Stadium to join Robbie and maybe Danny in the away end (approx. 1,500 at last guess) having not read the script about the boycott surrounding this tournament. 
Ah yes, this tournament. At the time of writing the EFL Trophy is currently known as the Vertue Trophy. I say at the time writing because sponsorship of the Associate Members' Cup (renamed the Football League Trophy in 1992) has had 10 different sponsors in 40 odd years with 4 in the last 10 years (Checkatrade.com, Leasing.com, Papa John’s and now Vertu Motors). However, many Col U fans will remember fondly that this trophy was once known as the Auto Windscreens Shield (1994-2000), and in April 1997 a young Karl Duguid missed the 4th Col U penalty, leaving it to soon-to-be Col U player Warren Aspinall to score his. After Peter Cawley saw his penalty and Col U’s 5th saved, Carlisle captain Steve Hayward scored his to win the penalty shootout for Carlisle. 
Onto Tuesday’s match with “them” down the road and Danny Cowley has admitted that he was disappointed with the EFL for approving the change of date of this match from December 2nd to December 9th having planned for some of The U’s youngsters to feature in the match, before heading out on loan.
Cowley said: “Everything had been planned for us to play West Ham, on December 2.
“But unfortunately, we got on the wrong side of a big club, which sometimes you do.
“West Ham put another fixture on that day and have played strong teams, in this competition to that point.
“I think they have a first team game on December 4 [at Manchester United], so they weren’t keen to play it on that date.
“It’s not ideal for us, because we’d prepared to play it that week and we’ve got some young ones who we really want to go out on loan, but we don’t want them to go out, until they’ve played in this game, because it’s a great game for them and an important part of their development.
“It’s going to move their fixture closer to the run of games that we already have over the Christmas period and after the 9th, we’re away for an early kick-off, against Salford.
“We’re pretty disappointed with the league, because we thought it was an EFL competition and we’re an EFL team.
“I’m a bit perplexed and disappointed that they haven’t supported us in that.
“We’re now going to have to play a West Ham team who already in this competition have played first-team players in Tomas Soucek and have incredible kids, players that won the FA Youth Cup three years ago.
“They’ve got boys like George Earthy who was in the Championship Team of the Year and [Freddie] Potts has already played in this competition as well.
“It’s life changing money for us as a football club – it can really make a difference and we’d just like to have a fair crack at it but it doesn’t look like we’ve been given it, so I think we just have to accept it.”
So, Danny C is getting his excuses in all ready it seems. However, West Ham Utd U21 have lost to Reading 3-1 back in Sept with Soucek playing the full 90 minutes, so we should show no fear! 
As for our starting line-up, I would go:
GK: Smith
RB: Hunt
CB: Kuffour Jr
CB: Araujo (swap for Tucker at half time)
LB: Powell
RM: Gordon
CM: Gape (swap for Oni at half time
CM: Bishop (swap for Read at half time)
LM: Edwards
CF: Willaims
CF: Goodwin
Subs: Chamberlain, Tucker, Oni, Read, Kaion Lisbie, Kyreece Lisbie, Tovide
I’m sure there will some rules and regulations that means this team cannot start, but I cannot be bothered to work it out 
Weather: Light rain, 13oc, Precipitation: 20%, Humidity: 87%, Wind: 26 km/h
Score prediction: 3-2 Col U! 
Up the ‘Wembley here we come’ U’s!  |  |
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| The Hammers to get hammered by The U’s! on 18:54 - Dec 10 with 118 views | ghughes11 |
| The Hammers to get hammered by The U’s! on 19:27 - Dec 9 by wessex_exile |
Have a good day chap, bet it's much warmer down there than here right now. Try and avoid t'internet if you don't want any spoilers! |
Cheers Wessex.
Managed to watch it without any spoilers.....
Basically a cobbled XI vs a West Ham U21 (or as Danny C said U23) team that have been playing with each other (and winning things) since U8s probably.
Shame that non of our youngsters, reserves did enough to be in contention for a starting place - but I would rather a fit starting XI for Saturday, then a win in this competion and a few injuries for the weekend.
Thought Mbick looked confident when stepping up to take the penalty - but I had to replay the action after the pentalty again to see how Lisbie managed to miss the rebound - turns out Mbick blocked it on the line otherwise would have been a certain goal!
Nevermind - as the old saying goes "concerntrate on the league" and "there's always next season"
Up the 'On the way to Salford U's' | |
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