Disappointing... again.

It's been a familiar story at Upton Park this season, a disappointing result at home. This isn't the first time we've gone into a home game we're expected to win on the back of a morale boosting away win this season and choked, and that's 3 draws on the trot at The Boleyn now.

My biggest fear is next season. If we do go up - and I believe we will - our home form will be a problem because even the most optimistic of West Ham fans couldn't dream of 10 away wins in the Premiership. Watford, a team who are quite frankly a level below us, made us look average at best on our own turf and they're not the first team to do so this season. Captain Kev returned to his usual role of being absolutely useless and non-existent in the midfield after his uncharacteristic cameo appearance as a decent team player on Sunday, Vaz Te (apart from his scrappy goal) and Maynard are proving to be the club's latest misfiring signings who are 'proven goalscorers' and the defence were all over the place with every player, even James Tomkins who has arguably been one of our most consistent players, having a shocker. If Watford had grabbed another goal in their spell of dominance shortly after their goal, who knows what would have happened.

Anyway, what's done is done, we have to accept the point and look forward to another vital game at home to Doncaster at the weekend and thankfully their star signing Freddy Piquionne is ineligible! If we don't win this game I fear that this could dent the players' confidence greatly leading to a major dip in form and morale. I think we need to really turn a team over at home to install some confidence in the players and more importantly, the fans. When the fans are fully behind the team at Upton Park the atmosphere is second to none but when things aren't going our way and the fans start to turn, it really does have a negative affect on the players (the 3-1 defeat to Wolves a couple years back springs to mind!). If we beat Doncaster by 4 or 5 on Saturday I think this will be just the pick-me-up we need after a disappointing result tonight and reinvigorate our home form as we've only won by more than one goal at home twice this season, 3-1 against Derby and 4-0 against Blackpool.

Any early predictions on the team BFS will put out or the result on Saturday? This would be my team:

                        Green
O'Brien     Tomkins    Faye     McCartney
Vaz Te     Noble        Nolan   Taylor
                Cole          Baldock

Subs: Boffin, Faubert, Lansbury, O'Neill, Maynard

I'd start Baldock as I think he's got a lot more to offer than what we've seen, and at the start of the season he got off to a flyer but hasn't had a looking since his injury before Christmas. Faubert was awful once again today so I'd bring in Vaz Te for him on the right with our usual central midfield partnership of Noble and Nolan (who is only in 'my' team because I know BFS won't not pick him), Taylor on the left for a bit of creativity and  most importantly his dead ball ability and with the big man Cole up top playing the target man role with little Sammy Baldock making runs, drawing defenders out of place and creating space, I think that if we play to our full potential, this team will destroy Doncaster. Well, lets hope so anyway!

COME ON YOU IRONS!