I can think of three or four people on here who are going to say that 3 wins and a draw in our last 4 games isn?t good enough in the context of how we play. Utter twaddle ? what counts is the score at 90mins. We are out of sorts, out of form and STILL winning. Football is a results business and we?re getting the results.

I am absolutely confident that we will play a whole lot better than that in some games this season and come away empty handed. Maybe that will make to doom merchants on here happy.

1) Saha is class and is regaining fitness, touch and confidence all the time (not to mention the GOALS!)

2) Vaughan?s performance has hopefully forged himself a proper chance and he looks a very good partner for Saha (therefore putting worthwhile pressure on the underperforming Yak).

3) Cahill looks below par but I feel it is inevitable his edge and sharpness will return very soon.

4) Big Vic put a proper shift in on the right and is a worthwhile (and very different) option there for us.

5) Arteta?s crosses have started beating the first man again at last!

6) Lescott bagged a cracking headed goal and that will help his confidence, plus he seemed to grow in sharpness and confidence as the game progressed.

7) Pienaar and Yak are to come back in.

8) Three wins on the bounce is proper momentum.

9) Howard seems to be getting back to his considerable best.

10) The players are working hard and the performances seem destined to improve based on the above momentum.

Cahill overated, Osman ? boy in a man's game, Arteta has been awol for over a year, and get Baines in at left back, Moyes is a shithouse trying to keep Lescott happy and constantly playing him out of position.

Sorry, that's just nonsense. If you refuse to play long passes, you?ll just get owned by every Premier League team.

Man alive, we?re away from home, everyone and his dog can see we?re struggling for form. We win the game and still people grumble.

How about we grumble when we lose, be thankful when we win whilst playing badly, shout from the rooftops when we pass a team off the park.... how hard is that?

You?d think West Ham had been camped in the Blues 25 and having wave after wave of attacks the way some of the media have reacted to this and quite frankly I wouldn?t expect to see similar headlines on a Blue website!! As was mentioned by one of the earlier posts, is this not the sign of a decent team that they can be the poorer team across the 90 mins and still come away with a positive result?

I am as pleased as anyone at our points tally but be honest, we really don?t deserve to be in seventh place. I just listened to DM on match of the day state that he really didn?t expect the comeback that transpired. Is no one else appalled at that? A year ago I was a supporter of David Moyes but this season something has changed. I fear that he is in a comfort zone knowing that Kenwright will never sack him and any new investor can?t really afford to.
I asked on another post whether we had bad players or a bad coach and was pretty well slated. A recurring comment is we are getting results while playing badly; wait 'til we start to play well. I think it?s getting too far into the season to be waiting for our team to play well. Maybe this is as good as we are. We could quite easily and deservedly be bottom of the table. Ian, the points do lie.

Lovely ball through from Osman to Saha who had five players in the box to cross to. And what was Lescott doing up there anyway? What a finish ? superb. After that maybe Motson was right saying that they fell apart, but only because we forced them to ? something he didn?t say. The number of blue shirts in their half of the field was almost suicidal, but they had run out of energy by now.

Survival of the fittest in football terms means up to the final whistle, and this isn?t only physical conditioning (which seems to be good) but mental attitude as well. The boys done good today.

Having said that, I hope that Moyes can find the passion we showed against Man U; but why has it not been seen since?

Osman had another good game, he?s finding the space he needs in front of the back 4. Rodwell is lacking experience as expected of a 17-year-old. He needs to track back for ALL counterattacks like Osman. We lost the goal because we didn?t have enough willing numbers back. I thought I saw Osman bollock Rodwell on an earlier break. I think things are looking up. COYB

Yeah they were better, so what? Yeah, they had more possession, so what? We played decent enough for a team that?s struggling, and the fact that they lost os down to their inabilities and our taking the opportunities... Saha... two opportunist goals, and Lescott brilliant goal.
Phil Neville looked good, so did Lescott. I thought we look like we?re getting better.

Some of you lads are missing the point, we have now played 12 league games, and of them games, we had a decent 1st half against Arsenal, and a great 2nd half against the Mancs, but for the rest of the time we have been fucking terrible to watch... So, while we should be happy when we win, that doesn?t mean we have to be happy with the shite football we are served up.

I am a supporter of EFC for far longer than most of the people writing on this forum BUT I don't fool myself by blinding myself to the glaringly obvious ineptitude of a lot of our professional players... IF WE COULD JUST BUY ONE DECENT PLAYER you would make him an absolute hero because we have been on a starvation diet of class players for years.

Don't talk about money either. Clichy, Fabregas, Toure and plenty of others have cost buttons. We badly need a real class playmaker to lift us all. Don't settle for the dire stuff we are being served up just because we have clawed a few points from games by sheer effort. The season is long and we are running the risk of tailing off again because of burn out, suspensions and injuries. Get the ball down and play properly and win with some style!!

Played off the park? not quite, West Ham were not that good, but we were very poor and we could have been a couple down at the interval. The second half was a completely different story.

Ok, fair play to the Hammers, they scored a decent goal, but apart from a long range effort from Bellamy that my missus would have saved they never threatened again.

On the other hand, Vic found Cahill unmarked in the box, normally a match sharp Cahill would have burried it, but he took too long to control it and a great chance went begging

Lescot nodded down a cross that Vaughany only failed to convert by the length of a stud ? I was right behind it, honestly it was deperately close.

Young Jack grazed the post with a close range header ? in a year, he?ll be burrying them. We forced a succession of corners throughout the half, Big Vic had them in trouble several times, only to let them off the hook by choosing the wrong option. Vaughany's introduction gave us an energy up front that almost instantly had them on the back foot. The longer we played the more West Ham faded

Ok our football wasn't as classy as we want it to be, but it's abject nonsense to claim we only came into it in the last 5 minutes. We were easily the better team in the second half, if we took all our chances, we?d have hit this crew for six.

One last point. The Evertonians once again showed up in their thousands, they were going bananas by the end, I mean absolutely fucking mental... musta been shite mustn?t it?

1st 20 minutes were 50/50, then last 25 minutes were all West Ham. Thankfully, Howard made 2 superb saves. But 2nd half with exception of odd spell it was all Everton. Their goal came from a penalty we should have had. And the last 25 minutes we ripped West Ham apart.

Now despite what Sky commentators or Match Of The Day may have made out, West Ham didn't dominate proceedings. On Match Of The Day it showed Scott Parker volleying over but it never showed Saha's volley in the 1st minute. It didnt show the one where if Vaughan had got a touch it would have been in the back of the net. And did they give credit when we came back? Of course not. Instead it was because West Ham collapsed. We got lucky. Yeah RIght?

We had them on the rails and the goal deservedly came, and when it did you got the feeling we'd go on and win it. And we did. 3 goals in 5 minutes. What a magnificent feeling that was. Of course there were negatives. Cahill was totally ineffective, Osman was painfully average, as was Yobo, and most frustratingly of all it took the goal to wake us up. Why can't we play like that from the start?

However, I also saw plenty of positives. Howard was superb and I'm starting to feel confident with him again. Jajielka again couldn't argue with... Neville had another good performance. Lescott played well 2nd half and thank christ for his goal ? hopefully that'll wake him up. Rodwell played ok, got caught a few times in possession but he's learning. Arteta played well 2nd half and his delivery was actually quite threatening for once. Anichebe I thought had a good game, and while Saha was average up till final 10 minutes, you couldn't argue with his contribution for the final 3 goals, and at the end of the day that's what we bought him for. 2 goals and an assist all with his weaker right foot.

But my man of the match was James Vaughan. His contribution when he came on was outstanding and he turned the game on its head. And it was no coincidence that when we played football we dictated. And 3 goals in 5 minutes was an incredible thing to happen. It showed we had a killer instinct, and even when we scored the 2nd we knew we needed 3rd to kill off game, and indeed we got that a couple of minutes later when we hit them we they least expected it.

I'm a pessimist and I've slagged off Moyes and Everton many times on this website but for once I'm going to leave it because I'm satisfied. Maybe we can finish top 6 after all. And one final point. Now since the Premier League has has been considered the best league in the world, and Everton are the form team, thus according to logic, at this present moment ? EVERTON ARE THE WORLD'S TOP TEAM.
COYB FTRS