[dont ask me to choose luv]

I could, but I'm sick of seeing his name. I didn't like him when he played for us, now I'm happy he's gone and I assumed that was the end of it. I'm just not sure what else there is to be said that hasn't already been said over the past 9 months.

I hear what you're saying GD & I agree with you to a certain extent, thing is Pete is a latter day mis-legend (made that up), a West Brom anti-hero if you like & as such some people (yes I'm looking at you Jacko) will continue to want to debate his contribution to what has been a very successful period of our recent past, bit sad that it all ended how it did but I don't have any ill feelings towards him, we move on! life really is too short for grudges.

[east-stand-nick]

Jacko, your attempts to defend Odemwingie are admirable, if a little misguided at times. But to suggest that he never won over the fans is ridiculous to put it mildly.

After the hat-trick at Dingleland we all regarded him as a hero, myself included. His name was sung every single match. One of the best players we've had for decades. Defend him all you like, but don't criticise the fans for never taking to him - utter nonsense, sorry.

[TheJacko2000]

Jacko, your attempts to defend Odemwingie are admirable, if a little misguided at times. But to suggest that he never won over the fans is ridiculous to put it mildly.

After the hat-trick at Dingleland we all regarded him as a hero, myself included. His name was sung every single match. One of the best players we've had for decades. Defend him all you like, but don't criticise the fans for never taking to him - utter nonsense, sorry.

Yet it's not nonsense is it mate more of an uncomfortable truth I would say, other people have gone along/agreed with my assertion, it isn't one lone voice as you suggest.

[LiamTheBaggie]

Also he never quite won over the majority of the fans.

Do you really believe that or are you looking for some reactions?

You're willing to defend Odemwingie and I respect that despite not agreeing with it but this comment in particular is nonsense in my opinion. To suggest he never quite won over the fans is surely looking for reactions from other members. Ever since he scored his goal against Sunderland and his problems in Russia became known, he received nothing but our praise and full attention. Fans even paid to display a banner issuing nothing but 100% support. His song was chanted just as much as anybody else over the last year and a half, sometimes more. After his hat-trick against the Wolves he was in territory not many other Albion players had been before - he would have been loved forever, remembered widely as a legend, yet he threw that away himself - nothing of the fans doing and that is the real shame of this whole saga.

[TheJacko2000]

Do you really believe that or are you looking for some reactions?

You're willing to defend Odemwingie and I respect that despite not agreeing with it but this comment in particular is nonsense in my opinion. To suggest he never quite won over the fans is surely looking for reactions from other members. Ever since he scored his goal against Sunderland and his problems in Russia became known, he received nothing but our praise and full attention. Fans even paid to display a banner issuing nothing but 100% support. His song was chanted just as much as anybody else over the last year and a half, sometimes more. After his hat-trick against the Wolves he was in territory not many other Albion players had been before - he would have been loved forever, remembered widely as a legend, yet he threw that away himself - nothing of the fans doing and that is the real shame of this whole saga.

I've been to virtually every game since PO signed. I heard crowd reactions, I heard people talking under the stand, I heard people talking in pubs before games and I have been active in Odemwingie threads on here. He has been labelled lazy, greedy, mercenary, overrated, childish and all this was before the January 2013 transfer window.  I believe what I have said, I don't post up on here looking for "reactions", yet I am accused of it more than I would like by people who don't disagree with my opinion, that's just as bad as shouting me down imo.

[wbasoprano]

I've been to virtually every game since PO signed. I heard crowd reactions, I heard people talking under the stand, I heard people talking in pubs before games and I have been active in Odemwingie threads on here. He has been labelled lazy, greedy, mercenary, overrated, childish and all this was before the January 2013 transfer window.  I believe what I have said, I don't post up on here looking for "reactions", yet I am accused of it more than I would like by people who don't disagree with my opinion, that's just as bad as shouting me down imo.

I've called him all those things at one point or another, it's because he was all of those things at some point. That doesn't take away from the fact I knew he was our most dangerous player, and match winner, when he was on song.

[zippyandbungle]

I think jacko is right on this one, PO has done a lot more for us than certain other players yet their name gets sung more often and louder?
I've always said it felt an uneasy fit with no small number of our fans?
Really don't know why , maybe we are spoilt, maybe as we go up the leagues the glory hunters (experts ) attach themselves and feel the need to discredit to get a voice?

When all said and done , we fetched him on a long haul flight next day he scores on his dayboo , he scored the equaliser against them scumbags from b6, played rb, rw, cf against Chelsea all at the same time almost winning the match himself and then.....how can anybody ever forget that match at that 5hithole with that hattrick .
Good luck , god bless and please don't score against us.

[TheJacko2000]

I've called him all those things at one point or another, it's because he was all of those things at some point. That doesn't take away from the fact I knew he was our most dangerous player, and match winner, when he was on song.

I'm not suggesting we didn't know his worth, I'm suggesting we didn't turn a blind eye to his limitations (mostly mental) whereas we do to (just for example) to Shane Long's glaring footballing limitations.

There were always undercurrents with Odemwingie among the fanbase.

[OldburyWBA]

Jacko, the thread is Odemwingie, why bring Long into another topic, we know you don't like/ rate the bloke, we get the message.

Almost every topic has to involve either Brunt/ Pete (to be replaced by AN Other) in the one corner or Dorrans/ Long in the other.

I have also been to probably every game Pete played for us and have heard minor comments here and there, nothing more than that so maybe I have been in different pubs/ different parts of the grounds. Minor comments get aimed at every player we have, every player we have had and every player we will have, thats life. It was minor here and here until January, nothing more than that

[tucka9]

I tend to agree Odemwingie probably did get abused at times before all the wanting to leave stuff started, but if you have to name a player whose name was song the most in his first two years at the club it has to be Odemwingie?

[TheJacko2000]

Jacko, the thread is Odemwingie, why bring Long into another topic, we know you don't like/ rate the bloke, we get the message.

Almost every topic has to involve either Brunt/ Pete (to be replaced by AN Other) in the one corner or Dorrans/ Long in the other.

I have also been to probably every game Pete played for us and have heard minor comments here and there, nothing more than that so maybe I have been in different pubs/ different parts of the grounds. Minor comments get aimed at every player we have, every player we have had and every player we will have, thats life. It was minor here and here until January, nothing more than that

You take exception to me comparing players at almost every turn. Long IS the archetypal fans favourite at Albion that is why I used him, irrespective of whether I rate him or not. Comparing players is an obvious way to make a point, as fans of the club we know all the players, whereas people maybe won't know a reference to something outside of the club for example in popular culture (there was a reference to Robbie Williams in another thread that made no sense (to me at least)) or another footballer from another club.

You say "nothing more than that" and I accept that is your opinion, I just happen to disagree with it. That is one big problem on here when you put on "nothing more than that" it reads as a statement of fact rather than an opinion, similarly when I say that "Odemwingie never completely won over the fans" it looks as though I am stating it as fact. It is purely my opinion, agreed with by two or three others in the last few posts, disagreed with by a few others in the last few posts.

[zippyandbungle]

I tend to agree Odemwingie probably did get abused at times before all the wanting to leave stuff started, but if you have to name a player whose name was song the most in his first two years at the club it has to be Odemwingie?

More than mulumbu?

[OldburyWBA]

You take exception to me comparing players at almost every turn. Long IS the archetypal fans favourite at Albion that is why I used him, irrespective of whether I rate him or not. Comparing players is an obvious way to make a point, as fans of the club we know all the players, whereas people maybe won't know a reference to something outside of the club for example in popular culture (there was a reference to Robbie Williams in another thread that made no sense (to me at least)) or another footballer from another club.

You say "nothing more than that" and I accept that is your opinion, I just happen to disagree with it. That is one big problem on here when you put on "nothing more than that" it reads as a statement of fact rather than an opinion, similarly when I say that "Odemwingie never completely won over the fans" it looks as though I am stating it as fact. It is purely my opinion, agreed with by two or three others in the last few posts, disagreed with by a few others in the last few posts.

No more a statement of fact than the posts you yourself put which also come across to folk as statements as fact where you give the impression you are right, the rest are wrong which you have just said is merely you giving your opinion. This forum is a mere minor percentage of Albion fans so could be argued that what is agreed/ disagreed by some means not a lot in the general scheme of things, just like what is said on the Express and Star website for example.

I don't take exception to anything I just find it difficult to understand why you have to bring certain players into topics for no reason other than to big up or put down. You can dress it up as comparing but we all know why you do it as we've read it often enough.

[tucka9]

More than mulumbu?

I'd say home games more Mulumbu, but every away game in his first two years the "just can't get enough" song would go on for ages each game I seem to remember.

[TheJacko2000]

No more a statement of fact than the posts you yourself put which also come across to folk as statements as fact where you give the impression you are right, the rest are wrong which you have just said is merely you giving your opinion. This forum is a mere minor percentage of Albion fans so could be argued that what is agreed/ disagreed by some means not a lot in the general scheme of things, just like what is said on the Express and Star website for example.

I don't take exception to anything I just find it difficult to understand why you have to bring certain players into topics for no reason other than to big up or put down. You can dress it up as comparing but we all know why you do it as we've read it often enough.

I said that!!! 

I'm glad you "know" why I do things, I'll ask you if I'm ever unsure...

[OldburyWBA]

I said that!!! 

I'm glad you "know" why I do things, I'll ask you if I'm ever unsure...

I know you said it 

[geoff]

Odemwingie Claims Cardiff City Better Than WBA Vital Football - Cardiff City 17:51

http://www.cardiff.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=332117

[Jack Russell]

Odemwingie Claims Cardiff City Better Than WBA Vital Football - Cardiff City 17:51

http://www.cardiff.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=332117

is he having a laugh.The atmosphere will be spicy for him when Barrrdiff come to the Hawthorns

[dont ask me to choose luv]

Odemwingie Claims Cardiff City Better Than WBA Vital Football - Cardiff City 17:51

http://www.cardiff.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=332117

Did anyone really expect anything less? predictable Pete, just predictable 

[KnaveofAlbion]

I have no time for him any more, but to be fair, he was probably asked out right, does he think Cardiff are a stronger team. Journo's ask leading questions all the time and then only publish the question, so it looks like a brash statement.

The guy is a d**k, but he's lead my the nose and isn't very bright about it.

[maximus]

got his move to a new club and yet still finds the time to mention the albion.....

[RowleyBaggie2]

For someone so desperate to leave he certainly seems to want to talk about us a lot.

He's fallen out with every club and manager he's played for - it's like a bloke who's followed through complaining that every room he goes into smells of pooh.

[KnaveofAlbion]

Guardian article..... Albion really don't come off well here....

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/13/peter-odemwinge-fallout-west-bromwich-albion

[OldburyWBA]

Whole worlds against him, poor bloke. 

[RowleyBaggie2]

Guardian article..... Albion really don't come off well here....

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/13/peter-odemwinge-fallout-west-bromwich-albion

Oh well, we'll live.