One word; typical.

Well, where to begin. I still stand by what I said at half time about the boo boys because we were by far the better team but what I want to know is, with all the strikers we've got, WHY THE FCUK CAN'T WE SCORE!?

Maynard has had a good goalscoring record for pretty much his whole career but as soon as he puts a West Ham shirt on it disappears. Baldock is our best goalscoring forward but hardly gets his chance and I won't even go there with Cole.

To be fair, not only did they have a fair shout for handball against Tomkins, Ogbeche's goal was a cracker. He could have and should have been closed down quicker but it was a beaut. It all could have been so different, though, if the Boro keeper hadn't saved Tomkins' header but that just goes to show, our forwards aren't doing enough and we're relying on our aerial players - mostly defenders - to score goals.

What annoyed me the most tonight was the amount of greedy, ambitious shots from outside the box. Even McCartney had a go with his right foot and Tomkins tried his luck as well! We're struggling at home and can't score more than a solitary goal - which has been scored by a defender in our last 2 games - so why are the players going for goal at any given opportunity when there's usually a better option in front of them?

We were so lucky tonight. How? Because Reading lost and we should have. Even in the last 2/3 minutes when we were going forward there just wasn't enough urgency in our play and they didn't look like they wanted to win!

Fortunately, my prediction (fail to win tonight and we won't finish in the top 2) is far from confirmed as Reading lost and a victory in our game in hand would lift us up to 2nd but for the time being we're seven points away from Southampton and that's a lot of ground to make up. I worked out before tonight's game that we needed to win 5 in a row to match Big Sam's magical 2 points a game benchmark, something he seems to be basing our season on and we're now 6 points behind that target.

And now we'll travel to Burnley on Saturday, which will be a very difficult game, having drawn our last 4 games, all 1-1. And to think it looked like the sky was the limit after the Blackpool result! It's a funny old game!

COME ON YOU IRONS!