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West Bromwich Albion FC / West Brom.Com Player of The Year 2013-14

« on: May 18, 2014, 12:57:45 PM »

Following collation of all votes for Man of The Match this season.

Our Top Three Players are as follows.

1. Mulumbu - Player of The Year
2. Brunt
3. Sessegnon

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Vendetta Time

« on: September 14, 2013, 05:18:10 PM »

Listening to WM at the moment and there seems a theme on there that is almost a personal vendetta against him from Paul Franks

The jumped up Dingle must be very jealous that hes having to support a side in League One.

Its unacceptable and whats more is some of our fans are fueling the sodding fire.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / WESTBROM.COM PLAYER OF THE SEASON 2012-13

« on: May 19, 2013, 09:30:52 PM »

Following collation of the Man of The Match Votes this season our results are as Follows.

1st Place - Lukaku

2nd Place - Foster

3rd Place - Mulumbu

Thank you all for voting this season and contributing to the season as a whole.

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General Football & Sports / Is this seasons league table down to the 25 man squad rule

« on: December 16, 2012, 10:51:04 AM »

With the Premier Leagues 25 man squad rule now being inplace for the best part of 3 seasons is the Premier League now seeing the benefits of this?

Clubs who notoriously stocked up on players during the mid 2000’s such as Liverpool and Chelsea without the foresight to develop home grown players (something Liverpool had been famous for up until the turn of the new millennium) have found themselves either dragged back into the pack league wise or dropping down the table as in the case of Liverpool.

However sides like Us, Everton, Norwich (in the case of this season) who have slowly been built on budgets way less than the sides mentioned above have this season seemed to bridge the gap in terms of league placings.
I am a believer that players that many sides from 6th down are now attracting is down to the fact that teams can no longer ‘bulk’ buy.

Take our squad for instance a few years ago players such as Yacob, Odemwingie, Long, Foster etc. would have been part of a club where they would have been reserve footballers playing only cup and European games somewhat wasting careers now due to the squad rule they are at clubs where they play regularly and are show casing their abilities.

In my view long may this continue as the Premier League seems to be finding abit more competitiveness for the first time since the big money came into our game.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / WestBrom.Com Player of The Season

« on: May 20, 2012, 11:41:43 AM »

Following collation of all the Man of The Match Polls the top three players in reverse order are:

3rd Marc Antoine Fortune

2nd James Morrison

1st Ben Foster


Many Thanks for your votes during the season and have a great summer.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Interesting comment from Danny Murphy re: Fulham

« on: April 01, 2012, 06:29:05 PM »

Now Fulham are a team we ideally are looking to become, consistant midtable with the occaisonal flirtation with relegation depending on the strength of the league.

Murphy said there form is typical Fulham

'Win three on the bounce then loose three on the bounce'

Are we entering a period at our club where we need to recognise that its not all excitement when you start to register yourself as competitive at this level thus not being a cup final every week.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / The rest of the season

« on: November 20, 2011, 07:29:01 PM »

With the return to fitness of Gera I think this will be the final piece of the jigsaw on Roys plan, no one can deny in my view the improvement we have made at the back as we do now look tighter and more competitive at this level but without that supporting forward that we now have in Gera it all seemed too slow and laboured which had led to criticism of 'long ball' tactics.

I feel the rest of the season will see us show alot more quality going forward and we will get the points to not be in the relegation mire, I feel though some players may get left behind in this progression and some of these players maybe ones seen as key to our success last season.

How does everyone else see the rest of the season going?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Sunderland 1st October 2011

« on: October 01, 2011, 07:15:41 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=4228.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Fulham 24th September 2011

« on: September 24, 2011, 06:58:43 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=4108.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Everton 21st September 2011

« on: September 22, 2011, 06:11:32 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=4070.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Swansea City 17th September 2011

« on: September 17, 2011, 09:29:35 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3960.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Norwich City 11th September 2011

« on: September 11, 2011, 04:11:55 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3820.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Roys Plan- Our defence and squad in general

« on: September 08, 2011, 06:13:53 PM »

I posted this on a previous thread

Our defence

Jonas Olsson (28) Career League Apps 247 (3 years in Top Flight Level) - 3 Int Caps
Gabriel Tamas  (27) Career Leage Apps 258 (6 Years Top Flight Level) - 55 Int Caps
Gareth McAuley (31) Career League Apps 399 ( No Top Flight) -30 Int Caps
Craig Dawson (21) Career Leage Apps 88 (No Top Flight)
Nick Shorey (30) Career Apps 355 (3 years Top Flight) 1 Int Cap
Steven Reid (30) Career Apps 287 (8 years Top Flight) 23 Int Caps
Gonzalo Jara (26) Career Apps 186 (4 years top flight) 49 Int Caps
Joe Mattock (21) Career Apps 108 ( No Top Flight)
Billy Jones (24) Career Apps 292 (No Top Flight)

9 Players

Fulham Defence 2007/8

Moritz Volz (25) Career Apps 126 ( 4 years Top Flight)
Paul Konchesky (28) Career Apps 229 (6 years top flight) 2 Int Caps
Aaron Hughes (28) Career Apps 259 (10 years top flight) Regular NI international
Chris Baird (26) Career Apps 87 ( 1 Top Flight Season) Regular NI International
John Paintsil (27) Career Apps 133 ( 1 Top Flight Season) (Regular Ghana International
Brede Hangeland (27) Career Apps 175 (2 years top flight) Regular Norway International
Freddie Stoor (24) Career Apps 81 (2 years top flight)
Tom Kallio (30) Career Apps 272 (No Top Flight Exp) Regular Finland International
Chris Smalling (19) Career Apps 0


Avg Age WBA - 26 Fulham 26
Ave Apps - WBA - 246  Fulham  151
Top Flight Exp WBA- 2.5 Years    Fulham - 3 Years


This for me shows how very similar his two second season defences were for both us and Fulham, in all fairness ours is more experienceg games wise and Fulham finished in a European Place that season

It seems like Roy has a plan on how a defence should be built up.

Also looking at the two squads its very similar all the way throughout, with regards to experience and player numbers for certain positions and even down to the details of the types of players shipped out and not replaced during the closed season for both clubs

I am still annoyed we didnt replace at least one of our defenders with someone alot more experienced at top level and also leaving a lack of depth in the left back slot should Shorey get crocked

But to me its pretty obvious just as Peace and Ashworth have a model on how a club should be run,  Roy also has his model on what makes a successful side for the level we are at an hes adopted it during this closed season

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Stoke City 28th August 2011

« on: August 29, 2011, 04:14:43 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3629.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v AFC Bournemouth 23rd August 2011

« on: August 23, 2011, 09:50:21 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3486.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Chelsea 20th August 2011

« on: August 20, 2011, 08:38:39 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3418.0

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Man of The Match v Manchester United 14th August 2011

« on: August 15, 2011, 06:33:26 PM »

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http://westbrom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3308.0

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General Football & Sports / Horse Racing

« on: June 04, 2011, 02:56:48 PM »

Got very into it at late, the excitement of both flat and National Hunt racing is really dripping me.

I know Peter Barnes on here loves his horses just wondered whether anyone else does.

The skill of some of these jockeys to manage the pace and power of the horses over a course is tremendous

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General Football & Sports / Technique over Power

« on: June 03, 2011, 06:23:07 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13634800.stm

Seems like a step in the right direction with regards to changing our games mentality

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Westbrom.com Player of The Season

« on: May 30, 2011, 06:54:59 PM »

Following the votes collated from our Man of The Match Polls after each game this season the top three are as follows

3rd Place - Steven Reid

Runner Up - Peter Odemwingie

2010/11 WestBrom.com Player of The Season - Youssuff Mulumbu

Thank You to all who have contributed throughout the season to the voting as lets hope 2011/12 is as succesful as this season

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Scharners Insight Into The Dressing Room

« on: May 21, 2011, 06:57:10 PM »

http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/west-bromwich-albion-fc/west-bromwich-albion-fc-news/2011/05/21/west-brom-paul-scharner-s-guide-to-the-baggies-dressing-room-97319-28735044/

The best bit is

SOMEN TCHOYI: A good guy but everybody thinks he is about 45 years old. When he got man-of-the-match after the Manchester City cup game the manager said: “I hope you train properly now you’ve got the shirt.” I don’t think City knew what to do with him – probably because he’s so old.


 

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General Football & Sports / Blues/Relegation/Carling Cup and Europe

« on: May 15, 2011, 08:42:46 PM »

Back in 1967 QPR were denied a UEFA Cup place due to not being a top flight club, this got me thinking do the same rules apply, if so will Blues be denied entry if they go down.

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General Football & Sports / Rooney Rule

« on: March 31, 2011, 05:24:02 PM »

The PFA want it brought in over here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9441854.stm

The biggest load of rubbish I have ever read, a football team should not be made to interview anyone if their CV isnt good enough for what they feel is needed at their club

I wish the PFA would not try to make a problem where their isnt one.

There is a lack of black managers because there was a lack of Black proffessional players up until say 25 years ago.

I would argue in another 10 years it will be alot more commonplace

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General Football & Sports / Owen Coyle

« on: February 28, 2011, 10:26:30 PM »

What a refreshing pundit, someone who talks with unbiased honesty, humility and with a great knowledge of the game certainly better than the likes of Hansen, Shearer, Gray etc.