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West Bromwich Albion FC / Attendance
« on: February 07, 2019, 11:35:15 AM »
Might be a short thread but has anyone got an idea when the last time our attendance was as low as it was last night for a competitive game?
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Pre Season
« on: May 15, 2018, 10:15:07 AM »
Anyone heard anything about where our pre season friendlies are yet?
I've heard rumours of Portugal or Hamburg for the tour but nothing about UK friendlies.
I've heard rumours of Portugal or Hamburg for the tour but nothing about UK friendlies.
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Albion Matchday Forum / 15 Aug 2015 Watford 0 Albion 0
« on: July 14, 2015, 02:25:08 PM »
4 weeks Saturday till our first away game, anyone have any idea on tickets for this as I can't see anything about away games on the official site?
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West Bromwich Albion FC / End Of Season Dinner
« on: April 28, 2013, 08:45:46 PM »
Thought be good to make a new thread with some of the tweets from the end of season dinner as I am bored on a Sunday night
WBAFCofficial ?
Chairman Jeremy Peace delivering EOSD speech. He congratulates Steve Clarke & players on a successful season.
Chris Lepkowski ?@chrislepkowski
peace shelved plans to build New stand. Capacity to be increased within current stadium #Wba
WBAFCofficial ?@WBAFCofficial
Peace praises fans for tremendous backing & describes finishing as top Midlands club for 2nd season running as highly commendable #wba
WBAFCofficial ?@WBAFCofficial
Peace adds best way forward for The Hawthorns is a 'gradual increase in capacity' #wbaEOSD
Chris Lepkowski ?@chrislepkowski
peace also reveals why he's so opposed to ffp. Disincentive for outside investment among reasons #wba
Pat Frost ?@KitmanPat
At the end of season presentation....the chairman finished his speech with...we know what we are...love that mr chairman #wba
WBAFCofficial ?
Chairman Jeremy Peace delivering EOSD speech. He congratulates Steve Clarke & players on a successful season.
Chris Lepkowski ?@chrislepkowski
peace shelved plans to build New stand. Capacity to be increased within current stadium #Wba
WBAFCofficial ?@WBAFCofficial
Peace praises fans for tremendous backing & describes finishing as top Midlands club for 2nd season running as highly commendable #wba
WBAFCofficial ?@WBAFCofficial
Peace adds best way forward for The Hawthorns is a 'gradual increase in capacity' #wbaEOSD
Chris Lepkowski ?@chrislepkowski
peace also reveals why he's so opposed to ffp. Disincentive for outside investment among reasons #wba
Pat Frost ?@KitmanPat
At the end of season presentation....the chairman finished his speech with...we know what we are...love that mr chairman #wba
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Sky Live Games
« on: October 05, 2012, 11:29:02 AM »
The next batch of sky fixtures have come out.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11096/8140098/Festive-fixtures
Our fixture changes: Sun Dec 16 WBA v West Ham (4pm)
Tue Jan 1 WBA v Fulham (12.45)
3 years running now we have been at home at 12.45 on new years day, its ridiculous. No one at all wants to be there and the atmosphere is dead!
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11096/8140098/Festive-fixtures
Our fixture changes: Sun Dec 16 WBA v West Ham (4pm)
Tue Jan 1 WBA v Fulham (12.45)
3 years running now we have been at home at 12.45 on new years day, its ridiculous. No one at all wants to be there and the atmosphere is dead!
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General Football & Sports / Closing Ceremony
« on: August 12, 2012, 09:18:24 PM »
Is it only me that didnt know Prince Harry's name is actually Henry 
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Away Attendance
« on: January 17, 2012, 03:09:12 PM »
How sad is it that ticket prices are now ruining away attendances, it used to be the games that people all looked forward to an went with there mates and soon I think that hardly any will bother anymore.
Look at Stoke away for instance, 5 years ago we would have sold the whole stand out by now in the Championship but we are now struggling to sell out just under half of it for Saturday.
Also I thought Wolves away would be sold out by now, still nothing on the officail site saying 'not many left' like normal.
I think in the next 5-10 years football attendances will be hit badly because people who are 16-21 just arent going now beacuse they cant afford it and once you get out of the habit its hard to get back in to it. It is okay at the moment because the main people that attend in my opinion are 35-60 year olds who were brought up going every week and its in their blood and will always go, but once they stop I think attendances every where will drop.
Does anybody think that ticket prices will ever come down now and make football enjoyable again rather than worrying if you can afford a pint after you have paid money for your ticket?
Very sad as most of my memories with mates are away games but now we are going fewer and fewer every year
Look at Stoke away for instance, 5 years ago we would have sold the whole stand out by now in the Championship but we are now struggling to sell out just under half of it for Saturday.
Also I thought Wolves away would be sold out by now, still nothing on the officail site saying 'not many left' like normal.
I think in the next 5-10 years football attendances will be hit badly because people who are 16-21 just arent going now beacuse they cant afford it and once you get out of the habit its hard to get back in to it. It is okay at the moment because the main people that attend in my opinion are 35-60 year olds who were brought up going every week and its in their blood and will always go, but once they stop I think attendances every where will drop.
Does anybody think that ticket prices will ever come down now and make football enjoyable again rather than worrying if you can afford a pint after you have paid money for your ticket?
Very sad as most of my memories with mates are away games but now we are going fewer and fewer every year
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Albion Matchday Forum / 3 Dec 2011 QPR 1 Albion 1
« on: November 07, 2011, 11:40:27 AM »
Any AST holders brought there tickets for this today? If so anyone sure on the prices because nothing on the official website yet?
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Proud
« on: October 22, 2011, 10:19:39 PM »
What a day, what a week.
****** as a fart so hopefully the mods dont delete this, or maybe help me out and do a bit of editing if i miss spell a few things. You're welcome.
Absolute fantasic feeling tonight, who would of thought this 12 years or whatever it is when we were sitting there losing 5-1 at home to crewe that so many years later we would be here after beating the Wolves and Villa in same week. Never felt so good in my life, pride of the midlands and loving it!!
Boing Boing. Best week ever!
****** as a fart so hopefully the mods dont delete this, or maybe help me out and do a bit of editing if i miss spell a few things. You're welcome.
Absolute fantasic feeling tonight, who would of thought this 12 years or whatever it is when we were sitting there losing 5-1 at home to crewe that so many years later we would be here after beating the Wolves and Villa in same week. Never felt so good in my life, pride of the midlands and loving it!!
Boing Boing. Best week ever!
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General Football & Sports / TV Deals
« on: October 12, 2011, 01:02:44 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/11/liverpool-breakaway-tv-deal
The deal that shares television's billions equally between Premier League clubs is facing its biggest threat to date after Liverpool announced they would lead a challenge for overseas TV rights to be sold on a club-by-club basis.
Liverpool's managing director, Ian Ayre, has insisted the break-up of the established broadcasting deal, worth £3.2bn in total to all Premier League clubs for 2010?13, is "a debate that has to happen", with the Anfield club in favour of the Spanish model that allows Barcelona and Real Madrid to negotiate individual contracts that dwarf their domestic and European rivals.
Since the Premier League's foundation in 1992 its success has been largely based on the principle of collective selling, where each club no matter how lowly can expect a fixed share of TV deals with "merit" awards for finishing positions as an add?on. Changing this model would risk revolt from the smaller clubs who stand to lose most, and thus threatens the league's very structure.
At present, the Premier League sells domestic and overseas broadcasting rights collectively and more than doubled international revenue in its last negotiations, from £625m for 2007?10 to £1.4bn for 2010?13. With the Premier League shown in 212 countries and having 98 broadcast partners around the world, it is expected the next deal will show a similar increase, with overseas rights potentially worth more than domestic for the first time.
Ayre believes the Premier League's four biggest global draws – Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal – deserve an increased share from 2013, with overseas broadcasting having a greater influence on the Anfield club's financial future than a new stadium. "Personally I think the game-changer is going out and recognising our brand globally," said the Liverpool managing director. "Maybe the path will be individual TV rights like they do in Spain. There are so many things moving in that particular area.
"What is absolutely certain is that, with the greatest of respect to our colleagues in the Premier League, but if you're a Bolton fan in Bolton, then you subscribe to Sky because you want to watch Bolton. Everyone gets that. Likewise, if you're a Liverpool fan from Liverpool, you subscribe. But if you're in Kuala Lumpur there isn't anyone subscribing to Astro, or ESPN to watch Bolton, or if they are it's a very small number. Whereas the large majority are subscribing because they want to watch Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal.
"So is it right that the international rights are shared equally between all the clubs? Some people will say: 'Well you've got to all be in it to make it happen.' But isn't it really about where the revenue is coming from, which is the broadcaster, and isn't it really about who people want to watch on that channel? We know it is us. And others. At some point we definitely feel there has to be some rebalance on that, because what we are actually doing is disadvantaging ourselves against other big European clubs."
It would require 14 of the Premier League's 20 members to vote in favour of a new commercial arrangement. Though Sir Alex Ferguson recently described the collective deal as "fair", albeit while insisting clubs deserved more from overseas rights, and La Liga's system has attracted widespread criticism, Ayre believes the status quo jeopardises the financial might of the Premier League.
"If Real Madrid or Barcelona or other big European clubs have the opportunity to truly realise their international media value potential, where does that leave Liverpool and Manchester United? We'll just share ours because we'll all be nice to each other? The whole phenomenon of the Premier League could be threatened. If they just get bigger and bigger and they generate more and more, then all the players will start drifting that way and will the Premier League bubble burst because we are sticking to this equal-sharing model? It's a real debate that has to happen."
Liverpool insist their radical proposals are limited to overseas broadcasting, although success on that front could set a precedent domestically in the long term, and the club plans to raise the issue at the next Premier League meeting. Ayre's frank admission comes almost one year on from Fenway Sports Group acquiring the club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett in the high court and, along with broadcasting revenue, another major financial decision to be resolved by the American owners remains whether to construct a new stadium or redevelop their current home, Anfield.
Liverpool's managing director insists the club are pursuing "a parallel course" on both options, with planning regulations complicating the redevelopment of Anfield and the financial benefits of a new-build uncertain, although Ayre admits the latter option is only viable with a naming rights deal. "We have been in discussions here and in other parts of the world with a small group of people that we have narrowed down that we are targeting for naming rights. That is an absolute catalyst to building a new stadium. The economics just don't stack up without it.
"When will the decision be made? It'll only be when we reach an answer with both. It's hard to put a time on it. If you put a deadline on the naming rights, then you start to marginalise the deal. We aren't desperate. We think we have an amazing proposition as one of the biggest clubs in the world. I don't recall any football club of this size with this international reach that's ever done a naming rights deal. It is quite unique in that sense. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United haven't. Nobody in football has done this at this level. It's new ground and it will take what it takes."
Ayre, along with the former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton, ex-chief executive Christian Purslow and Fenway Sports Group, remains the subject of a £1bn lawsuit filed by Hicks and Gillett over the events surrounding their departure last October. "It's an unwanted and unwelcome distraction. That's their prerogative but we remain extremely confident that we did the right thing," he said. The Liverpool MD offered his resignation to John W Henry following FSG's victory in the high court, and admits the five-times European champions could have entered administration had Hicks and Gillett retained control.
"Certainly the bank had the power to call in the debt and at the time there wasn't anyone ready to take on that debt. So I guess the answer to that [would Liverpool have gone into administration] is yes. It's hypothetical but based on where we were and based on the circumstances at the time that was a very real threat. That was the case in the final hours. That was one of the other routes we could have gone down."
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Whats everyone think of this, any real football fan knows that this is a shocking, and would make the Premierleague less competative than it already is and literally tell teams liike us that we dont matter anymore.
First step towards Euro Superleague and if that did go through and then I think I would be finished with football.
Everything about the sport now is really depressing
The deal that shares television's billions equally between Premier League clubs is facing its biggest threat to date after Liverpool announced they would lead a challenge for overseas TV rights to be sold on a club-by-club basis.
Liverpool's managing director, Ian Ayre, has insisted the break-up of the established broadcasting deal, worth £3.2bn in total to all Premier League clubs for 2010?13, is "a debate that has to happen", with the Anfield club in favour of the Spanish model that allows Barcelona and Real Madrid to negotiate individual contracts that dwarf their domestic and European rivals.
Since the Premier League's foundation in 1992 its success has been largely based on the principle of collective selling, where each club no matter how lowly can expect a fixed share of TV deals with "merit" awards for finishing positions as an add?on. Changing this model would risk revolt from the smaller clubs who stand to lose most, and thus threatens the league's very structure.
At present, the Premier League sells domestic and overseas broadcasting rights collectively and more than doubled international revenue in its last negotiations, from £625m for 2007?10 to £1.4bn for 2010?13. With the Premier League shown in 212 countries and having 98 broadcast partners around the world, it is expected the next deal will show a similar increase, with overseas rights potentially worth more than domestic for the first time.
Ayre believes the Premier League's four biggest global draws – Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal – deserve an increased share from 2013, with overseas broadcasting having a greater influence on the Anfield club's financial future than a new stadium. "Personally I think the game-changer is going out and recognising our brand globally," said the Liverpool managing director. "Maybe the path will be individual TV rights like they do in Spain. There are so many things moving in that particular area.
"What is absolutely certain is that, with the greatest of respect to our colleagues in the Premier League, but if you're a Bolton fan in Bolton, then you subscribe to Sky because you want to watch Bolton. Everyone gets that. Likewise, if you're a Liverpool fan from Liverpool, you subscribe. But if you're in Kuala Lumpur there isn't anyone subscribing to Astro, or ESPN to watch Bolton, or if they are it's a very small number. Whereas the large majority are subscribing because they want to watch Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal.
"So is it right that the international rights are shared equally between all the clubs? Some people will say: 'Well you've got to all be in it to make it happen.' But isn't it really about where the revenue is coming from, which is the broadcaster, and isn't it really about who people want to watch on that channel? We know it is us. And others. At some point we definitely feel there has to be some rebalance on that, because what we are actually doing is disadvantaging ourselves against other big European clubs."
It would require 14 of the Premier League's 20 members to vote in favour of a new commercial arrangement. Though Sir Alex Ferguson recently described the collective deal as "fair", albeit while insisting clubs deserved more from overseas rights, and La Liga's system has attracted widespread criticism, Ayre believes the status quo jeopardises the financial might of the Premier League.
"If Real Madrid or Barcelona or other big European clubs have the opportunity to truly realise their international media value potential, where does that leave Liverpool and Manchester United? We'll just share ours because we'll all be nice to each other? The whole phenomenon of the Premier League could be threatened. If they just get bigger and bigger and they generate more and more, then all the players will start drifting that way and will the Premier League bubble burst because we are sticking to this equal-sharing model? It's a real debate that has to happen."
Liverpool insist their radical proposals are limited to overseas broadcasting, although success on that front could set a precedent domestically in the long term, and the club plans to raise the issue at the next Premier League meeting. Ayre's frank admission comes almost one year on from Fenway Sports Group acquiring the club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett in the high court and, along with broadcasting revenue, another major financial decision to be resolved by the American owners remains whether to construct a new stadium or redevelop their current home, Anfield.
Liverpool's managing director insists the club are pursuing "a parallel course" on both options, with planning regulations complicating the redevelopment of Anfield and the financial benefits of a new-build uncertain, although Ayre admits the latter option is only viable with a naming rights deal. "We have been in discussions here and in other parts of the world with a small group of people that we have narrowed down that we are targeting for naming rights. That is an absolute catalyst to building a new stadium. The economics just don't stack up without it.
"When will the decision be made? It'll only be when we reach an answer with both. It's hard to put a time on it. If you put a deadline on the naming rights, then you start to marginalise the deal. We aren't desperate. We think we have an amazing proposition as one of the biggest clubs in the world. I don't recall any football club of this size with this international reach that's ever done a naming rights deal. It is quite unique in that sense. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United haven't. Nobody in football has done this at this level. It's new ground and it will take what it takes."
Ayre, along with the former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton, ex-chief executive Christian Purslow and Fenway Sports Group, remains the subject of a £1bn lawsuit filed by Hicks and Gillett over the events surrounding their departure last October. "It's an unwanted and unwelcome distraction. That's their prerogative but we remain extremely confident that we did the right thing," he said. The Liverpool MD offered his resignation to John W Henry following FSG's victory in the high court, and admits the five-times European champions could have entered administration had Hicks and Gillett retained control.
"Certainly the bank had the power to call in the debt and at the time there wasn't anyone ready to take on that debt. So I guess the answer to that [would Liverpool have gone into administration] is yes. It's hypothetical but based on where we were and based on the circumstances at the time that was a very real threat. That was the case in the final hours. That was one of the other routes we could have gone down."
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Whats everyone think of this, any real football fan knows that this is a shocking, and would make the Premierleague less competative than it already is and literally tell teams liike us that we dont matter anymore.
First step towards Euro Superleague and if that did go through and then I think I would be finished with football.
Everything about the sport now is really depressing
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Loyalty Points
« on: August 23, 2011, 04:49:00 PM »
Just looked at my loyalty points, I have 154. How does this work then because last season I had like 240 at start of the season and ended up with about 290.
Has everyone started again at 150?
Has everyone started again at 150?
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General Football & Sports / QPR Prices
« on: July 26, 2011, 05:37:04 PM »
Just reading that QPR are charging Bolton fans £57 for the first game of the season, this is an absolute disgrace even where its restriced view it is £48.
Really how long can this go on, cant the FA do something about it. To me they should put price caps on it e.g Adults highest price £30 and kids £15.
Does my head in if it carries on I will be soon priced out of going!
Really how long can this go on, cant the FA do something about it. To me they should put price caps on it e.g Adults highest price £30 and kids £15.
Does my head in if it carries on I will be soon priced out of going!
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Midlands Table
« on: May 02, 2011, 09:27:32 PM »
Only one more game then and all the Midland teams have played eachother twice, overall we have done very well in them so far (touch wood for Sunday) only losing to Villa, I think if there was a table of the 4 of us we would be top. At the start fans said how crucial the games were and I think they have been. Hopefully the same next year even though there may be one less of us 
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