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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Kyle Bartley
« on: March 11, 2024, 10:37:24 PM »
Or we could give Caleb Taylor a chance? We have to become self sufficient as some point and all we're doing is stifling his development.

Our resources should be used to get Kipre on a new long term deal.  Any wage drop that Bartley takes is still likely to be more than what we can afford.

Agree with this, would also add in that Bartley's injury record has to be a concern

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: WBA NEW OWNERS - Bilkull football
« on: March 11, 2024, 06:47:21 AM »
There's an hour long interview with him being aired this week on Wednesday, 7pm, Radio BBC WM.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate
« on: February 25, 2024, 06:55:49 AM »
An even game, I think we were slightly better but in Philogene and Carvalho they have that little something extra.

I agree that we should have defended the corner better and that maybe Palmer will think he should have saved it but I'm actually frustrated with Yokuslu fir the goal. About 30 seconds before we are pressing them high, Yokuslu himself as followed his man Seri really high when the ball goes into their keeper; rather than let him have it which was the plan, Yokuslu breaks rank and closes the keeper down. They then play round us and through the middle in the area that Yokuslu has left vacant and force the corner. I'm not going to hang him out to dry but we had our off the ball setup so right, there was no need to deviate from it.

Onwards to Coventry, three points would be superb.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: February 19, 2024, 12:53:19 PM »
Tricky game, they sit in and counter which is something we have been susceptible to on our travels. This is such an important game for us with it being our game in hand on everyone around us apart from Hull, who have Southampton as their game in hand.

I think patience will be vital and I'd back us to nick one from a set piece. If we go behind, I would worry that in an attempt to get level, we will get caught again.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: February 16, 2024, 02:12:28 PM »
This isn't about CC in particular but one thing that comes up often is out away record. We are much better at home, but it's interesting when you look at who we've played at home Vs away

We have played every team from 23rd up to 12th at home, only losing once (Huddersfield). Conversely, we have played 23rd through to 19th away from home.

On the flip side, we've played 9 of the top 12 teams away from home (we can't play ourselves so that's only 2 games to go), only beating Preston and Coventry.

Al this is to say - is our good home form because we are good at home, or because we've basically played the whole of the bottom half of the league? And is our patchy away from more down to us playing most of the top half? The three losses Vs Blues, Swansea and Blackburn really sting, though

I think this is certainly worth pointing out, let's hope that our away form picks up as the fixtures are slightly easier (based on opponents league position).

Point taken about home form however I think we can be pretty confident that we are legitimately very good at home as our record at home last season under Corberan was also very good.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: February 11, 2024, 09:02:47 AM »
Can see some rotation for this one, especially with Southampton on the Friday night which will be a game where we will "suffer a lot" to use a Corberan quote.

Cardiff have a 6ft 6ins striker so expect Yokulsu to be part of the back 4 ahead of other options such as Pieters or tucking Furlong inside - this may afford him a little more rest ahead of Friday when hopefully Bartley or, more likely, Ajayi return.

I think we will see:

Palmer

Furlong
Yokuslu
Kipre
Townsend

Mowatt
Chalobah

Wallace
Swift
Johnstone

Thomas-Asante

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: January 27, 2024, 01:27:54 PM »
Both new signings are cup tied

We really are limited up top!

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: January 27, 2024, 11:09:01 AM »
I’ve just realised we will have 0 attacking options from the bench.
Worrying.

Think we might start Pipa from the left; gives us the option to play a back 3 and allows us to leave Fellows and Weimann on the bench so that there are a couple of offensive options.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: January 21, 2024, 10:02:26 PM »



Total garbage from what I have been told.

Hope so, just passing on what I'd found out!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: January 21, 2024, 09:40:30 PM »
I don't claim to be in the know so take this information from one Albion fan just passing on what he has heard to others...

Alex Hearn on Friday told my cousin's colleague that he was celebrating because he bought West Brom.

From everything we have heard about the group he is involved in, I hope it's not true.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: January 12, 2024, 06:46:58 AM »
With the lack of available attacking options, do we think we might go 343? Could also imagine our regular 4231 with Pipa at LW. Will be interesting to see the lineup.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tom Fellows
« on: January 09, 2024, 10:48:00 AM »
Something I have been meaning to post that I noticed on Sunday, when Love went through and spurned that one on one opportunity, Fellows was right next to him and Love could/should have taking the keeper out of the equation and passed it to Fellows. Obviously he didn't do that and blew the chance but instead of Fellows throwing his arms up in despair, he didn't and just got back into position. I thought that was quite a mature response from a young man in hunt for, at that time, his first senior goal. he seems like a good character, is a good player and has good potential. Hope we tie him down and get to watch his development.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: FA Cup Round 4
« on: January 07, 2024, 08:15:18 PM »
I always want the lowest ranked team left in the competition at home. Let's progress as far as we can. Those wanting an away game at a PL side surprise me a little, it's not a million years ago that we were regularly playing these teams home and away.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate
« on: January 07, 2024, 08:04:31 PM »
Echo what most others are saying: nice blend of experience and youth, Fellows, Mowatt and Heard were very good with good performances from our other experienced players such as Chalobah. Liked what I saw from Taylor, think he has a chance to be a big player for us although I can see why he is just behind the others in the pecking order. Delighted for Dike too who looked rusty, as expected, but his physicality was a notch or two above anything Aldershot had in their side.

Just a note on the setup today; we played our 343 shape today but in a way on the ball that I haven't seen us utilise before, with a midfield diamond. Mowatt was at the base pulling the strings, Heard at the tip with Chalobah right and Pipa left. This gave Fellows free reign from Right wing back to get beyond the front line and generally worked really well offensively I thought. It certainly gave Aldershot something to think about, often they had defenders pulled in to midfield which allowed Dike, Fellows and Malcom space in behind. The last thing you want to do in a game like this is labour for the first goal and give them a chance off a set-piece or something, so to cook something up to hurt them early was good to see.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: January 03, 2024, 10:27:18 AM »
I would put quite a strong team out, I feel like Yokuslu and Kipre are too important to our team for us to be without but obviously I am not privy to fitness concerns. I'd like us to start strong, I think it is important. I have Palmer in ahead of Griffiths as I think it sends a message that we are taking the game seriously but have no real issue with Griffiths starting.

Palmer

Kipre
Taylor
Pieters

Pipa
Yokuslu
Chalobah
Reach

Fellows
Malcolm
Thomas-Assante/Swift - depending on fitness

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Daryl Dike
« on: January 01, 2024, 08:57:47 PM »
I didn't read the comments as Corberan calling him out; Corberan is generally very honest in press conferences and I think he was just explaining exactly what happened. I think it is entirely reasonable and understandable that Dike would want to feel right before committing to play, especially after such a long term injury that followed another in quick succession.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: December 26, 2023, 07:54:22 AM »

Would like to see us give it a run for a few games with the back three and wing backs to see if we could rediscover that as something has been sadly lacking the last few games

To my mind, an issue we have is who will play wing back? Phillips gave us a wing back who could beat players and stay high and wide at certain times, who would fulfill that role now? The options at wing back to my mind are Townsend, Reach, Furlong and Pipa; I haven't seen much Pipa but don't think any if them give us that. We saw under Ismael, two wing backs (Townsend and Furlong mostly although Reach also got minutes) that can't beat players leaves you a bit stale going forward.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: December 13, 2023, 06:26:43 AM »
Poor performance for sure but that was in large down to his stupid decision to play four at the back again.

I too thought we've been more effective with a back three, I posed the question to the excellent Albion Analytics on X and he came back with the following stats:

Whilst playing a back 4:

xG: 0.97
xGA: 0.83
xGD: 0.14

Whilst playing a back 3:

xG: 1.06
xGA: 1.11
xGD: -0.05

So we've been better with back 4 in the underlying numbers, but the opposite when you look at actual goals.

Back 3 GD: 0.00
Back 4 GD: 0.91

Everything per 90

Overall we are more effective with a back 4. The figures could be impacted by the standard of opposition we've faced with each formation of course but thought it was interesting and surprising to see.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: November 30, 2023, 12:35:01 PM »
The article is a good read. I like corberan,  I think he’s a good guy but playing devils advocate, banning tomato sauce and daily weighings (not mentioned in this story but mentioned elsewhere) only work so much. I’m certain players will be eating it at home if they want it.  He probably does over step intensity a little which only works so long.

I can’t remember who it was but someone said about pulis that he asks players to ‘jump so high’ and they do it for a year or two,  but after that they say / think ‘flip off we’ve been jumping for two years’ which is why the best managers turn over squads. Ferguson was the master at it

Hes great for us right now though

We'll be turning over the squad this summer!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: A sold out Hawthorns.
« on: November 30, 2023, 12:33:17 PM »
Why are you shocked to find they have higher attendances when their stadiums have larger capacities and they have less local rivalries?

Off the top of my head Coventry's nearest rivals will be Nuneaton Borough and Northampton Town followed by Birmingham City who are miles away. Their stadium holds circa 32,000.


Not really relevant to the wider discussion but re the above, having grown up in Coventry and Warwickshire, it is Leicester that split many of the areas with Coventry in terms of fanbase and then unfortunately Villa are the others.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: October 26, 2023, 12:52:30 PM »
Presuming we are without both Ajayi and Kipre, it will be interesting to see what Corberan does. Will he change the system a little, will he bring in Taylor or move the team around and perhaps drop Furlong in there.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: October 23, 2023, 07:06:41 AM »
                          Palmer

Furlong      Kipre  Bartley  Townsend

                       Yokuslu
          Molumby         Mowatt

Wallace        Phillips           Fellows

I've suggested to a few people, this three man midfield freeing up Molumby to break in to the box could provide a source of goals for us, he got a few last season.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: October 07, 2023, 08:38:29 AM »
On Corberan watch as I always am with any head coach.

Didn't think he did too much wrong at Blues. I've said before I don't really like the 343 system but the head coach has a right to implement whichever way of playing he likes, I judge on how we perform as a result of that.

Given our lack of striking options I don't question the personnel we kicked off with and we were in control until that penalty decision.

I see from CC's Post match comments that he's really angry at the nights events. I'm sure there will be people who say the head coach should remain calm and professional but CC is a human being and I'd rather a honest reaction than a false, bland, "professional" one.

The only question I would ask is regarding the subs:

Q. Why Chalobah ahead of Molumby?

I can see a couple of possible reasons for this;

a) Chalobah is bigger than Molumby and was used to match Bielik physically.

b) Giving game time to a player to keep him happy.
c) Another reason we're not privy to.

"a" I can live with.
"b" I can't accept, absolutely ridiculous.
"c" I accept.

Good to see Tom Fellows finally get some playing time, though CC"s hand was pretty much forced by the Swift injury.

In summary - A defeat but no real blame on CC.

I suspect it is a) especially when considering we had Townsend on instead of Pieters.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: September 29, 2023, 08:57:23 PM »
Sheffield Wednesday are getting battered by Sunderland, 3-0 at half time. The antics of the chairman have definitely confirmed their position as the crisis club if the league. They seem to be persisting with a high line nonetheless so I would be looking at have Phillips, Wallace and Thomas-Assante all playing against them with Swift, Mowatt and Townsend all in the lineup too to feed the balls in behind fir them to run on to.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: September 21, 2023, 06:08:12 AM »
Do I think someone could be doing better with this squad? Potentially yes. Do I think someone could be doing worse with this squad? Oh yes for sure.

I like Corberan, he is adaptable in terms of the systems he uses and generally puts out a well coached side. Even if we don't like what we are seeing or agree with what we are doing, we usually can see what he is trying to do on any given Saturday.

He obviously has a preferred style he would like in the long term but can't quite implement it yet, the squad turnover required for that never happened. We know he'd have happily have shipped out Bartley and Chalobah amongst others. He's balancing maintaining some of the principles he'd ideally like with some short term compromise.

I personally have no problem with it; that's not to say I agree with every decision but in the overall context think he is doing a decent job and can see good potential for the future as and when we are able to turn over the squad.

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