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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: February 29, 2016, 05:31:48 PM »

Feel that we have a better chance at the KP as opposed to playing them at home where they have picked us off on the break twice.

Vardy etc rely on their pace in behind but I imagine we will sit that deep that we will restrict space for them.

1-1 draw I reckon.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 29, 2016, 01:50:07 PM »

Its always been the same to be honest whether on here or the radio after games, we win not much happens, we lose and its meltdown time

This is true. You would hope that those who have been critical, myself included, can hold hands up and be impressed by a first half performance like Saturday.

Sadly, Reading is still too fresh in the mind and if TP and the players want redemption, there are a good 10 or so games in which we need to be playing far more like we did on Saturday and far less like we did against Reading, Newcastle etc.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 29, 2016, 10:48:32 AM »

Much improved performance at long last, was nice to see the front three linking well and the shackles removed somewhat. Trying to keep positive and say that was down to us as opposed to Palace being rank awful in that first half.

Olsson proved why he really needs to depart at the end of the season, been a fantastic servant but age has caught up with him and I feel comfortable proceeding with G Mac (who I realise is older but belies his years), Evans, Chester and Dawson as our centre back options with the potential for another if the right deal comes about.

Chester is also looking more like the player we thought we had bought. Thought he was much better against Reading, though of course he gave away the two free kicks, and he handled Zaha well, both performances being at full back where he is far from a natural.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: February 27, 2016, 02:55:07 PM »

I'll be there, would rather not be but stupidly I love the Albion no matter how bad the football is, and it is currently awful

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 26, 2016, 01:50:03 PM »

Top 10 is a nice thought but still don't want to see TP..DK or GF here next season..

I'd keep DK. Gotta love a man who wears shorts in winter.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 26, 2016, 01:24:01 PM »

The thing is if we finish strong this season and get in the top 10 I could see a lot of opinions changing regarding keeping Pulis.

Unless the football changes, I can't see it.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 24, 2016, 04:00:02 PM »

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/tony-pulis-sacking-stopped-stoke-city-players-walking-out-8846627.html

The most worrying part of that interview is seeing that TP paid £8m for Kenwyne Jones ffs.

His propensity for paying over the odds for pooh has long been established.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: February 22, 2016, 04:13:50 PM »

Bolasie back for this one?

If so, they will destroy us down the flanks again.

Pulis out.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 21, 2016, 08:52:47 PM »

Anyone else who went yesterday still absolutely livid?

That performance, no different to all of them over the past couple of months, was unacceptable. To only have one shot on target again (the stats say 2, but the Fletcher chance can not be considered a shot with how lame it was) was lamentable and for the ungrateful bar stewards, Brunt aside, to just skulk off the pitch at the end and not acknowledge the 4,000 fans was a new low. Fletcher stood there hands on hips on the halfway line in shock as if he feels we should all be perfectly happy and content with what we are watching was bizarre.

That Reading team is woeful and made us look worse than them for Christ's sake.

The moron with the coin has ruined it for the rest of us as the game itself will now be glossed over, but this is as detached to the Albion as I have felt in the 25 years of owning a season ticket.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 20, 2016, 06:54:17 PM »

Last time I waste my money and time watching us away under Pulis.

Sadly the moron who threw a coin at Brunt has ensured that the performance will come a distant second in talking points. There are ways and means of doing things and the action of one has a negative impact on all of us, I was glad to see the rest of the Albion fans rightly castigating him for it as I left the ground with the mockery of the Reading fans ringing in my ears.

Pulis out.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 15, 2016, 08:20:29 AM »

Good Job we have to play the top 6 teams then.

Quite.

I am more confident that we will beat Man Utd than Crystal Palace/Norwich etc

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: February 14, 2016, 02:13:12 PM »

Well and truly Pulis'd them. Was awful to watch but a brilliant defensive display, it's fine in games like these but against turd like Newcastle, Bournemouth etc when we have to take the initiative, Pulis is always found wanting.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 10:14:27 PM »

£25m?! Come off it. Hasn't looked interested all night.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 10:12:10 PM »

Gardner is not a footballer.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 09:56:03 PM »

Now Fletcher, we are abysmal.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 09:27:47 PM »

Got this shower of pooh doing stepovers against us. I've not been this ashamed by an Albion performance since...Saturday.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 09:20:42 PM »

How ******* awful is Gardner. His first touch is woeful

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 08:26:51 PM »

Gamboa has been fantastic. **** off Pulis.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 08:16:00 PM »

We're still vulnerable at the back, McClean looks a real danger again when he gets it

He looks like he'll get sent off, not sure about anything else.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 08:10:12 PM »

The players aren't playing for TP anymore. End is nigh for him

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 04:50:25 PM »

I see the love in for Peterborough has begun. Talksport Drive coming live from there with Westley co-hosting.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: February 10, 2016, 12:15:35 PM »

Not looking forward to this at all, I see a very humbling evening on the cards. Just pray that as the chips are down, we come out fighting and, in this instance, I would more than gladly grind out a dull 1-0 win to get us through.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 09, 2016, 08:28:25 AM »

Don't mean a thing if you are partially at fault for the goal and come away with nothing though does it.

Christ if we are blaming Foster for the result the other day to deflect from Pulis and his team selection we really are clutching at straws. For the goal itself, 'd be looking more at the massive gap left by G-Mac (who I love btw) to allow Mitrovic all the space in the world to pick his spot past Foster.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 08, 2016, 04:13:14 PM »

I don't know why people cry out for Gamboa to play, successive managers have deemed him not good enough.  If his name was Geoff Brown or something we'd be saying get rid of him.

If he was named Geoff Brown he'd be the first name on a Pulis team sheet 

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General Football & Sports / Re: Tony Pulis

« on: February 08, 2016, 03:41:23 PM »

I think that you and I are approaching the same solution from a different angle, & will probably have to agree to disagree.

I think it's generally accepted that TP takes a "managed/measured" approach to games & doesn't take kindly to players doing their own thing. Players in his sides, will "buy-in" to that concept, or they don't play, simple as that.

I also believe that most modern coaches look for players who are flexible, game tactics tend to be dynamic, & the squad wins & loses matches, not just the players on the pitch. So the more flexible your squad, the more tactical options you've got.
IMO the reason TP doesn't play certain players, is because, a) they won't operate in a managed system &b) they are inflexible.

You look at Chelsea, probably not the best example currently, but they did win the title last year with the same squad and they have the flexibility in so far as they have a right back who can also play centre back, a left back who can play right back, Cesc can play either deep or in the hole, Oscar, Hazard, Pedro and Willian can operate successfully anywhere across the attacking midfield spectrum.

The problem with the signings Pulis has made is that he brought Chester in for flexibility when he clearly cannot play at right back well enough, no idea what he is like as a centre back, he signs the two wingers who he then discards.

The Jacko mentioned earlier about this not being football manager and not littering yourselves with a squad of 40. I would agree with the sentiment, but sadly for him the signings of Pulis contradict all that he is saying in that statement, we had Gamboa and Dawson as right back options and yet he still signs Chester to play right back. We currently have Yacob and Fletcher as fit defensive midfield options so Pulis signs Sandro as a further defensive midfielder as opposed to an attacking midfielder or winger, the latter we are seriously crying out for.