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Elvis Hammond

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If you can find a decent Fulham forum then please let me know, because I'd like to ask. I've tried to look for one but they don't seem to ba as advanced as LCFC in that respect!!! Hell we have so many we can conduct a full scale civil war lol

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Nope, but he's posted in the past and hasn't b*llshitted us yet.

I guess we'll have to wait and see, it seems quite plausable to me though!

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It would seem to make sense though - A tall, pacey and physical striker. Could compliment Connolly quite well.

Has he posted anything credible before though? Any examples?

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Found this;

he hasn''t been a member of our first team for years. he was a lone striker for us at the age of around 19-20, when we were in division 1, and did well, but apart from that, we don't know too much about him either. i know he is ghanian somewhere along the lines, but his primary nationality, i don't know, i think he is classed as a ghanian with

english citizenship. he would probably do well for leicester.

good luck next

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alex lowy - 04/08/2005 22:54:10

thanks mate and good luck to you too!

if anyone else knows anything please post it. i saw him play against our reserves

last year, and other than being a pacey young lad not much else springs to mind!

silverfox - 04/08/2005 22:57:39

against chelsea in the cup i remember coley not getting anything all game and he came on and skinned sum 1, crossed it to mcbride for his goal

ric - 04/08/2005 23:01:12 :D

http://www.fulhamweb.com/fulhamweb/mboard/mboard.asp

Not much info there but its a start! ;)

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Found this;

he hasn''t been a member of our first team for years. he was a lone striker for us at the age of around 19-20, when we were in division 1, and did well, but apart from that, we don't know too much about him either. i know he is ghanian somewhere along the lines, but his primary nationality, i don't know, i think he is classed as a ghanian with

english citizenship. he would probably do well for leicester.

good luck next

season.

alex lowy - 04/08/2005 22:54:10

thanks mate and good luck to you too!

if anyone else knows anything please post it. i saw him play against our reserves

last year, and other than being a pacey young lad not much else springs to mind!

silverfox - 04/08/2005 22:57:39

against chelsea in the cup i remember coley not getting anything all game and he came on and skinned sum 1, crossed it to mcbride for his goal

ric - 04/08/2005 23:01:12 :D

http://www.fulhamweb.com/fulhamweb/mboard/mboard.asp

Not much info there but its a start! ;)

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I reckon we might need to go do our own scouting!

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It would seem to make sense though - A tall, pacey and physical striker. Could compliment Connolly quite well.

Has he posted anything credible before though? Any examples?

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No immediate examples spring to mind (though in the link to TB someone mentioned that he has posted info in the past), but he has a good reputation, and as I said hasn't pulled any pranks in the past!

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Wed 20th Oct 2004

Fulham's Reserve Team notch up a good win on Wednesday...

Fulham Res. 2-1 Chelsea Res.

The Reserve Team's recent upturn in form continued as they secured their second win of the season with a well-deserved victory over Chelsea.

The Reserves' most recent fixtures have seen some much improved performances which, unfortunately, did not yield matching results. However, both sides of the game came together nicely on Wednesday evening at Craven Cottage.

Elvis Hammond opened the scoring in predatory fashion early in the first half when he darted to the near post and turned in Malik Buari's cross.

Hammond, making only his fourth appearance following injury, performed the role of lone striker with energy and enthusiasm and the goal was a fitting reward.

"He's been improving with every game. He's getting into great positions and using his speed and strength well but he's a 'one out of three striker' at the moment," said Reserve Team Manager, Paul Nevin. "To play at the top level he's got to reduce his chances to goals ratio and hit the net on a more regular basis.

"He scored a great poacher's goal but ten minutes later he had a good chance to put us two up but there was a slight lack of care in the finish. He's got to get that ruthless streak to progress to the next level."

So not the finished article yet, but he sounds quite promising...the qualities of a CL signing for sure! :D

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The thread on TB is bleedin' full of Elvis puns! :P  They can't help turning threads off-topic there :D  :cool:  :smile:

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Hey! :angry: the point of the thread was 'always on my mind' lol;)

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If you can find a decent Fulham forum then please let me know, because I'd like to ask.  I've tried to look for one but they don't seem to ba as advanced as LCFC in that respect!!!  Hell we have so many we can conduct a full scale civil war lol

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lollollollollol

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"Elvis, Elvis give us a song..." is chanted as much by opposition fans as it is by Fulham followers whenever Elvis Hammond makes an appearance for the First Team. Almost as gifted with a football as his namesake was with a microphone, the young Ghanaian striker made quite an impression in the closing weeks of the season.

While he may still be seeking his first senior Fulham goal Hammond was the top scorer in this season's Premier Reserve League (South). Notching up 13 in all for the Whites - who finished as runners up in the League, just two points behind Watford - Elvis had been firmly knocking on the door of the First Team for some time.

However, despite a handful of substitute appearances, it wasn't until late in the season that Fulham fans got to see much of the 22-year-old. Last month, departing manager Jean Tigana gave Elvis his chance when he brought him on during the crunch games against Blackburn and Liverpool. While both were disappointing results the spritely forward looked quick and hungry for that first goal, causing the opposition a few headaches in the process.

Caretaker Manager Chris Coleman went one step further and, with Louis Saha sidelined through injury, Hammond got his first full start against Leeds and was once again part of the starting XI away at Stamford Bridge.

Speaking of his late run in the side Hammond said: "It was great towards the end, the injuries at the beginning of the season meant that is was a slow start for me. I stuck to it and I think that I'm now reaping the rewards. It's just a shame that the season wasn't like that from the beginning. This was the last year of my contract and I wasn't in contention for the First Team at the beginning of the season so I knew that I had to make in impact this time. I've done that right at the end, so I'm very happy."

Why did he leave it until so late in the season? Elvis believes that an injury he sustained towards the beginning of the season might have actually adversely helped his progress towards the end. "I was out for quite a long time with an injury and you tend to miss playing when you're out for a long time" he explains.

"During that recovery time I was able to think about what I wanted to do with myself. I would say that, from then onwards [once fit], I started scoring regularly in the Reserves. Maybe it was that I had got too comfortable with where I was in the squad. The injury was really a wake-up call. If I wasn't playing football, I don't know what I'd be doing so I think getting the injury gave me a bit of extra motivation."

Once the goals started coming in the Reserves it was then a case of getting "a foot in the door" - as he puts it - with the First Team. "You start off scoring in the Reserves and then you start joining in with the First Team in their training sessions" he says.

However, the jump from playing for the Reserves to playing for the First Team can be a big one and Elvis admits that, while it isn't easy, it is an experience he is working hard for and, importantly, enjoying. "It's difficult but it's a job that you've got to do. You have to try and do the best you can for the team and for yourself. You've just got to be mentally strong to start with and, if you can get one over on your defender in a game, then the confidence starts to flow. It's been difficult but I always try to do the best that I can no matter who I'm playing against."

The good news for both Fulham fans and Elvis alike is that he's been offered a new contract by the Club, and if the last few games of the season are anything to go by, he certainly features in the new manager's plans. Elvis has not left the building!

and I'm spent!

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Maybe the coaches saw Hammond in this game as he was certainly a player for Fulham against our reserves.  :unsure:  :huh:

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I was at that game Sven! And I remember it for two reasons:

1. The Elvis jokes

2. Stephen Dawson had a stinker and I was gutted because I took a friend to the match and harped on about how he was the best thing since sliced bread the whole way there, only to eat humble pie the whole way home! :rolleyes:

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