Bad run continues.

Last night's game against West Ham was one of those you wanted to forget pretty damned quick. Ollie made a couple of changes, which frankly in the first half did not work at all. He decided to drop Ian Evatt to the bench, link up Baptiste with Cathcart and bring in Carney at left back, with Eardley on the other flank. All the defence with the exception of Carney had a nightmare in that first half. I also include Kingson in that. He has started to show a bit of inconsistency of late, which was summed up with his handling clanger for the first goal. Baptiste and Cathcart played like a couple of schoolboys pitched up against the more experienced West Ham attack and you knew it would only be a matter of time before their defence would be breached. Andy Reid had a reasonable introduction and showed some fine touches early on and was unlucky not to score with one effort that Green had to palm over the bar. Their second goal like the first boardered on the rediculous. The defence was all over the place and although Kingson did well to keep the ball out twice until he was beaten by a fortuitous poke by Robbie Keane, you just knew it was going to be one of those nights.  Charlie Adam's goal  came from one of the worst corners he has ever taken but took the West Ham defence by complete surprise as it trundled all along the ground into the net. It came just before half-time and gave us some hope of a comeback. Unfortunately about 2 minutes later West Ham had scored again and by that time the game was just about over. We did come back into the game more in the second half with the reintrodution of Evatt, Beattie and to a lesser extent Harewood, but the damage of the first half performance was too much to claw back. West Ham are a far better side than their current league position suggests but we should have at least got a share of the points. It was a horrible game to watch and strangely the state of our pitch once again caused us more problems than the opposition. They moved the ball about very well and found their players easily, whereas we couldn't control the ball sufficiently to make it count. There was so many negatives about last night but I don't want to finish on a downer. James Beattie, although looking slightly overweight, looked to be a handfull when he came on. I was also impressed with the way he tried to gee up the other lads when they looked low on confidence. We are currently going through a bad spell, which Ollie needs to work his man management technique on the players like never before. I was disappointed in the way the home crowd left in their hoardes well before the final whistle, but on the other hand I understand their frustration. But we can't support the team like crazy when we're winning and then sneek off sheepishly when things are not going our way. We play Everton on Saturday, so come on you Pool fans get behind the lads and show your support.