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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL PREMIER LEAGUE THREAD

« on: Yesterday at 09:56:03 PM »

This is Southgate we are talking about though. Loyal is his middle name sadly

It’s true, but the form of some of our more fringe players under him is frighteningly good.

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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL PREMIER LEAGUE THREAD

« on: Yesterday at 09:51:31 PM »

Thankfully Palmer is making it nigh on impossible not to take him.

Luckily, a lot of his favourites like Phillips and Rashford are in terrible form so he will have a job on to justify selecting them if he does

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: Yesterday at 12:48:31 PM »

Ultimately we’ll never know, all we can go by is the stats from this season as he has played a whole lot of games in the goal scoring position to be only 3 goals more than Swift, five more than Grady and MJ etc.

The eyes don’t lie, his ability, or lack thereof is clear for anyone with footballing knowledge to see, the ball bounces off him frequently, misplaces pass after pass, misses easy chances for fun.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 14, 2024, 10:50:24 PM »

He was bought as a £300k squad player to fill in from the bench, its not his fault that he has been forced to play most games this season in a position that is not his natural one. To judge him as a starting champ striker is just crazy. We paid £300k for a squad player winger who has got that many goals.

If you think he has been a bad signing or not worth the money I really do give up.

How do any of us claim to know what he was signed as? Were you present in the recruitment meetings and privy to conversations the rest of us aren’t?

I’ve never said he was a bad signing, merely that he’s not very good and the team is better without him in it, which I continue to stand by, he’s a hindrance every time he starts.

Either way, we’re going round in circles somewhat.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 14, 2024, 10:06:16 PM »

Are you including Ken Zohore or Luke Moore in that quote, maybe brown idaye or some of the really rubbish strikers we have had in the past.

As none of them are part of our current squad, I’m not sure what any of them have to do with the argument? Strangely enough, our last two defeats have come with BTA leading the line, we were absolutely fine and unbeaten without him in the side. He has scored 12 goals after playing as the central striker in a promotion seeking team all season, Johnston has come in and scored 7 in 15 games from the wing. The bloke is just not very good, he can barely control a football which is how he got sent off yesterday after yet another awful first touch. He’s a liability when he plays.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Seals watch - Anything Villa

« on: April 14, 2024, 06:22:15 PM »

2-0 up at arsenal. God I hate football at times

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 14, 2024, 04:35:15 PM »

Limited player who always tries, and he is what he is, and I've said that for long time and was gutted when we refused to sell him to stoke, but to suggest he didn't look gutted after his sending off is simply untrue.

Agreed. Rejecting £4m or whatever it was they bid for him was just crazy really as he is worth nowhere near that amount. I know people will say that would have left us without a striker all season, but I would argue we have had no striker all season with BTA up front. Anyone we stick up there would have scored a similar amount, if not more

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan

« on: April 13, 2024, 05:26:56 PM »

Let down massively by Brandon in a game we were controlling really well and must be disappointed that players couldn’t defend a set piece with Townsend losing goal scorer. Second half I actually thought we would be more under cosh and can understand his substitution’s as we haven’t got a player in midfield who can create an opening.

Comes as no surprise that our two worst players cost us in BTA and Townsend. Staggering the amount of goals CT costs us by losing his man, just saw the highlights of it and they say it all, shocking touch from BTA who can’t trap a bag of sand to lead to his sending off and CT nowhere near his man.

I guess you can hold CC responsible for continuing to select them, but the players themselves have to take some responsibility and show some improvement, which neither of those pair do

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan

« on: April 13, 2024, 05:16:43 PM »

Do you think those half-time subs worked? We’ve got three really difficult games coming up now. To not finish in the play offs would be absolutely terrible management.

The only criticism I can have for him today is starting BTA. Other than that, we were still holding our own despite having ten men for the entire second half

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: After Match Debate

« on: April 13, 2024, 05:10:24 PM »

We were bound to lose sometime I wouldn't change our position with those below and not too much damage done.

Don’t think it would have been today, were it not for BTA getting sent off as Sunderland were a poor side.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 13, 2024, 05:06:33 PM »

Hopefully the last we see of him starting this season. Not only a poor player but an utter moronbased on those two bookings. Cost us three points today

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 04:35:15 PM »

Why oh why are we still playing out from the back against 11  they have the extra man?

Because launching it long at Ballard is precisely what they would want. Meat and drink to them.

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 04:24:00 PM »

More shots from them, this half.

I wonder why 

I hope BTA is sat in the changing room disgusted with himself

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 04:21:15 PM »

This is going to be a long half…

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 04:07:06 PM »

We were doing fine with Wallace up front and were unbeaten. There was no need to change it, the last time we lost was against Southampton when BTA was up top and played and had another mare.

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:55:50 PM »

Can’t see us getting this back now. Ten men against a team like this is not where you can afford to be.

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:51:44 PM »

And there we go.

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:49:21 PM »

BTA off 2nd yellow. 

Utterly stupid after just getting booked. Will likely cost us the game now, but don’t worry, he only cost us £300k and is learning etc

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:31:55 PM »

BTA should have passed to Mikey.

You can’t criticise him, he’s trying hard

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:18:42 PM »

Replays show Bellingham scissored NC a bit, unintentional

Kinky 

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 03:03:17 PM »

Nice to see Ballard getting booed already.

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Last Match Forum - 13/04 Sunderland (H) / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: April 13, 2024, 02:39:39 PM »

Leicester and now Leeds have lost. Interesting at the top.

Please use the correct thread 

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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP THREAD

« on: April 13, 2024, 02:33:53 PM »

Ipswich win today would be massive. Leicester or Leeds in the play offs would not be ideal

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 13, 2024, 02:24:06 PM »

Nwankadu Kanu (sp) was a multi million pound player man years ago and he managed to miss from a yard, it happens to the very best,

Is this you claiming BTA is of the same level? 

Add that one to the one on ones he put straight at the keeper last game and the Watford game and, I’m sorry, but on an in game chat, he’s going to be called out for it. May as well just ban the in game chat threads if you don’t want people to react to the game as it goes on? Not sure what people expect in there

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 13, 2024, 01:30:12 PM »

Do they need to constantly bang on about it every  game though?
We all know he's limited so why keep mentioning it.

When he skies it over the bar from three yards out, it’s going to attract comments I’m afraid. Any footballer would get the same.