Dean Ashton believes West Ham can be pleased with the their top ten finish this season after an injury-plagued campaign.

"There's a few players who've been injured and not played as many games as they wanted to," he said. "Although we'd have liked to have done a lot better, a couple of us are pleased with the way we've ended the season.

"If you put everything into consideration, the table doesn't look too bad.

"If we'd had everyone fit it would have been a different story but that's the way it goes and we did the best we could."

Ashton enjoyed a strong finish to the season, his perfectly executed equaliser against Villa lifting his recent run to five goals in eight games.

The former Norwich marksman finished the season with 11 goals and is pleased with the return after battling back from the serious ankle injury he sustained during England training in August 2006.

"It was nice to end the season like I have done after the year that I've had, which has been in-and-out really. I'm really pleased," he added.