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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Caleb Taylor
« on: Today at 10:57:44 AM »
22 today. Happy birthday Caleb. Here's hoping you have a great day, a wonderful season and a career with Albion that would be worthy of comparison with trophy laden 81 cap former England centre back' Rio Ferdinand. Just work on getting in the first team for now though and see what follows lad. All of the very best  8) .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: Yesterday at 03:59:40 PM »
I think we ought to relaunch a daily countdown similar to when we waited for the Bilic appointment  ;D .

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup
« on: Yesterday at 03:53:19 PM »
You could argue that without the prospect of a replay, teams have to make the most of their home ties now. Not that I'm excusing that kind of prices, but might be on thought

Agreed. They probably thought they were going to get murdered and decided to cash in on their support base while the going was good in the absence of a replay they would never have expected even if they hadn't already been scrapped  ;) .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: Yesterday at 03:39:52 PM »
Hake or Mowbray then, Mowbray would be decent if fit enough.

I thought he'd basically ruled himself out of the running as he doesn't think he is fit enough currently?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: Yesterday at 11:35:15 AM »
Hey Wicky your so fine ,your so fine you blow my mind

We must sing it to him, but will he get it?
Does he speak English?
Will he bring his own team with him?
If so are they Mickey , tricky and , dicky ?

Yes he does.

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Still a big yes from me if at all possible please. No, I haven't gone all Witton and pre booked a room near Wembley for a possible playoff final stopover. Let the chips fall where they may and let others worry about how the winnings are spent........so long as they're not wasted on buckets full of complete and utter past it's best tripe we couldn't even offload at a dodgy butcher's market stall.

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As I predicted we got a thrashing.  You can't expect League 1 and PL2 players suddenly manage the chasm of speed, thought and reaction that is required to play Premiership teams in one single leap.  But there you go.

We were just trying to lull the Premier League into a false sense of security ahead of HMS Albion sisping the playoffs. Phase One very definitely complete  ;) .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Josh Maja joins Albion
« on: January 12, 2025, 07:30:42 PM »
I suppose with 18 months left and after a good half season so far he's just putting the feelers out there. Bloody agents.

Putting the feelers out? More like a hungry octopus on speed grasping for whatever he can get his client plus whatever he's 'entitled' to in commission. Yeah, bloody agents looking out for their clients. And themselves  ;) .

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Not sure it's really fair to criticise some of the players seeing as they were playing against a team way above the quality.  What do we expect?  That Swift and Grady were suddenly going to have a decent premiership defence scrambling?

A bit of application would have been nice.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Josh Maja joins Albion
« on: January 12, 2025, 07:20:33 PM »
Think it's a Euro footy site taking a stab in the dark to be fair.

Courtesy of his agent performing some serious gymnastics.

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup
« on: January 12, 2025, 07:16:34 PM »
Getting rid of replays is a disgrace same as loads of games on Thursday and Friday. The FA cup is the most historic tournament in the world and it's been totally watered down to favor the big boys. Tanworth robbed of a cash cow replay down that London that would have helped finance that club for years

I'll tell you what else is a disgrace. Tamworth charging adults £42 a head for an FA Cup tie. They've lost out on a replay but a good number of their regular supporters refused to pay the exorbitant £42 admission fee and missed out on some magical moments.

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General Football & Sports / Re: La Liga
« on: January 12, 2025, 04:58:21 PM »
Ironically he rarely conceded late goals with us. I know there was Oxford this season but I can't remember too many other occasions.

We conceded late against Oxford and Sheffield Wednesday under Carlos Corberan this sea. Last season we conceded late goals against Middlesbrough, Huddersfield, Blues, Southampton (twice if you include the playoffs) , Leicester, Sunderland and Ipswich. Didn't check his first season with us.

https://footystats.org/clubs/west-bromwich-albion-fc-142


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Caleb Taylor
« on: January 12, 2025, 12:25:31 PM »
That's yourself and SmethDan  (I think it was a long time ago) that have said he is slow on the turn, and that does seem to suggest he still isn't ready.

Today was a bad day for all the defence and those meant to protect them, against very strong opposition so it would be harsh to judge him on this alone.

We should give him more opportunities long term, but that isn't going to happen now, so it is best that he goes back out on loan to Wycombe as a potential promotion should do wonders for his confidence and he needs to play games to improve his game and hopefully become a vital player for us in the future.

Yes that was me, well remembered given it was a while back. Posted it in response to someone suggesting we should play him on the right of a back three. My response being if we did use him in a three he should play centrally with more mobile players either side of him. At the same time if used in a back two I suggested he'd be better on the right side of a pairing so I'd have preferred to have seen him alongside Heggem yesterday instead of Holgate. Still, it was what it was. Minutes under his belt and a bit of experience against better players than he's faced in League One. All part of the learning curve.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Jed Wallace
« on: January 12, 2025, 12:12:28 PM »
Nixon saying Blackburn wants Schlupp from Palace but if they can't get him then they will move for Wallace

Bit of a leap given they play on opposite sides of the pitch.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 11, 2025, 07:17:34 AM »
And like Balis who do you think was realistically better ?

I'm sensing angst. There's really no need. I haven't stated anywhere on this thread that I'm either for or against any appointment. Apart from Russell Martin that is which was a bit of a given from me. Balis is being wary. That's healthy.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Daryl Dike
« on: January 11, 2025, 06:54:46 AM »
Did you actually read my post ??
I’m not sure that there’s an actual “reaction”
What I said was pretty clear
Any sensible person wouldn’t wish him bad
Social media is exactly that …social…so open to all and all includes some idiots
Being a footballer that is out injured long term,it may be considered that dancing about on tik tok/face book/myspace insta might not be the best idea …

Not sure how you can find an issue with that but each to his own eh ?

I'm in agreement to be honest.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 11, 2025, 06:50:30 AM »
So your writing him off before we have even kicked a ball under him. Steve Cooper has been out of management for over a year. Graham Potter was out of work for nearly 2 years, Who from the realistic options did you want?

No I don't think he is to be honest. My take from both of Balis's posts is that he's expressing a genuine concern while hoping for the best.

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup
« on: January 10, 2025, 12:26:23 PM »
I agree with his reasons for not bringing on Tyler Young, they were 1-0 down until stoppage time, the kids hardly figured all season so not as though a regular even as a sub.

Cue another miserable joyless git, timing impeccable as ever  ;D  ;) .

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup
« on: January 10, 2025, 07:00:02 AM »
Ashley Young on bench for Everton tonight against Peterborough who have his son on the bench!

Dad vs Son football - make it happen

Darren Ferguson is a miserable joyless git. Pass it on  ;) .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 09, 2025, 04:55:31 PM »
Sean Dyche spotted boarding a number 74 bus at New Street Station heading for The Hawthorns.
😜

Should've caught the Metro, the Soho Road's a bugger this time of evening in particular.

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I'd play our best team here but wouldn't risk anyone with a slight knock like you might in a league game. I would be interested in seeing if a midfield three would work although fear Maja would be too isolated, maybe something like:

Palmer

Furlong
Bartley
Heggem
Styles

Molumby
Diakite
Mowatt

Fellows
Maja
Grant

Not a bad shout so long as it becomes a 451 when defending with Fellows and Grant covering the full backs out wide in the 5.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 09, 2025, 09:43:26 AM »
Of those listed I think Bar sounds most interesting but does he have the experience? I don’t know a lot about him.

I saw what you did there  ;D  ;) .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 09, 2025, 01:21:44 AM »
I'm willing to bet that there will be people on here who start to judge before that. But it's all a bit of a pointless discussion at the moment. It takes as long as it takes and we'll know the choice fairly soon I'm sure (I anticipate the person watching the cup game on Saturday). In the meantime, there's absolutely zilch that any of us can do to speed things up, so really no point in any of us getting our knickers in a twist.

Sounds painful. Good job I paid extra and invested in a job lot of mankinis courtesy of Shein. Top tip. Shoulder straps eliminate the risk of getting anything in a twist. As does Veet but that's another story for a different time. And quite possibly a different kind of forum  ;D .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 08, 2025, 02:56:24 PM »
In talks with Rene Hake, Ten Hag's Assistant at Man U According to Romano. Interesting!

Noticed he was in at 4/1 this morning. Seems to have come in from nowhere. Very interesting.

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It’s amazing how fortunes can turnaround in football.
It wasn’t too many seasons ago that Bournemouth FCwere a total non-entity languishing in the lower leagues and now we are expecting a big loss to them and soundly beaten as posted above. Frightening really.

Correct. And yet when they were languishing in the lower leagues they still managed to knock us out of the FA Cup at their place despite being an apparent non entity.

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