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Messages - Jeremy Roland Peace

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Off topic but I really agree. He wasn't a top player and had to build his way up. He won Leicester their first ever FA cup and was generally good there, however they didn't reinvest last season and struggled because of it (a bit like Palace this season but worse off). I would say that he has a tendency to bottle things such as the league with Liverpool and the Champions League with Leicester. Nonetheless, he is clearly capable and has mostly had a good managerial career.

the possible points deduction hanging over them is why they couldn't invest. they run the risk of a points deduction now dropping them into playoffs and possibly not gaining promotion or starting next season in the prem on negative points

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Play off Points Target
« on: March 18, 2024, 11:59:52 AM »
According to Opta, we have the second easiest run in, while Hull and Coventry have the fourth and sixth hardest respectively. Hull have drawn their last four, including a creditable result Vs Leicester, but also throwing away a lead Vs Blues.

The game's not played on paper but we're in pole position for those outside the top 4

no games are easy in this league, it's what makes the championship one of the most exciting leagues in the world in terms of results.

for us i thnk it's more about who we will face in the playoffs (trying not to get ahead of ourselves however).
Southampton for us are the team to avoid as we have 2 losses against them and the style of play seems to be one we can't deal with.

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Last Match Forum - 16/03 Bristol City (H) / Re: After Match Debate
« on: March 18, 2024, 10:51:43 AM »
Pretty sure this was raised on his own thread when he was still with us. That and comments attributed to members of his family online too from memory.

i remember this, didn't or doesn't a family member run a twitter account looking at analytics of albion or something

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Last Match Forum - 16/03 Bristol City (H) / Re: After Match Debate
« on: March 18, 2024, 09:02:36 AM »
TGH looked out of his depth at times and that was the reason for the fouls he was committing. and that is out of his depth against us who were in second gear for most of the game.

interestingly on radio wm on the way home the reporters and host were hinting at attitude problems with him that were happening before he left us.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: WBA NEW OWNERS - Bilkul football
« on: March 14, 2024, 01:10:31 PM »
with regards to the loan, much like your own mortgage there will probably be penalties in paying it off early due to the interest that is on it.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Under 23's / Academy Thread
« on: March 14, 2024, 10:22:17 AM »
they will still have contacts at all the junior levels of training camps they set up while here. so i would expect it to carry on for another 2 or 3 years at least.

the one benefit however is they can only have so many in an academy until it starts to have a negative effect so it will balance out over time.

and how many academy players actually make the grade, with the vile now pushing for champions league the level to make the team has just increased even more.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: March 12, 2024, 02:10:17 PM »
Having hosted Andy Street in my company's office many times recently.
He does say a lot, no idea if he was involved or not however.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Okay Yokuslu
« on: March 11, 2024, 09:09:11 AM »
That's what you call making clean contact with the ball........ And close to the corner so gave any keeper no chance.

if the keeper had got anything on it he'd have been in the net with the ball

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Albion Tackle Crowd Behaviour
« on: March 08, 2024, 09:22:19 AM »
there were police in the Smethwick end for the coventry game with a sheet of paper with faces on.

they removed two people during the game.

could be linked to the trouble at wolves game

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: WBA NEW OWNERS - Bilkull football
« on: March 04, 2024, 02:26:08 PM »
i would say it shows he and his family are sensible with money as well.

we won't be throwing cash around like the early Lai days for sure.

also seeing where Bologna are in Serie A now is promising as it will surely be a club that we have good contacts with.
the number 2 for Coventry on Friday (left sided centre back) is on loan from Bologna, wouldn't be surprised to see him with us next season on loan.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Grady Diangana
« on: March 03, 2024, 10:32:18 AM »
take his goal away on Friday night and it was like playing with 10 men

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General Football & Sports / Re: Bad Owners
« on: February 28, 2024, 03:59:18 PM »
So this is the murky world of football ownership. She owns 10% of the club which is now apparently 6% (rumoured) but that % was bought by a company that she is a shareholder of and not directly by her herself, she was the face of the consortium as such that led the takeover so there was no need for her to undertake any fit and proper tests for the takeover.
https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/announcement/view/459

Interestingly she owes this 35m to a greek shipping magnate, it wouldn't be the same greek shipping magnate that owns another premier league club would it ?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: WBA NEW OWNERS - Bilkull football
« on: February 21, 2024, 03:21:43 PM »
Jeremy, you will have to move all that £200m out of the way and dust them off, Mr Patel will be willing to pay handsomely for them.

By "my locker at work",   I assume you mean the locker in the changing room for your 100m olympic pool at you Jersey Mansion ?

did i say locker, i meant safe in my underground bunker courtesy of the money received from Mr Lai!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: WBA NEW OWNERS - Bilkull football
« on: February 21, 2024, 01:02:40 PM »
The plan under JP was not to reroute the road but instead leave the road there and build the new stand over the top of it.

correct. i have the design drawings for this in my locker at work

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Mikey Johnston joins on loan (Official!)
« on: February 18, 2024, 11:40:28 AM »
great running with the ball and direct, got to the edge of the box and then didn't know what to do.

however that was against what i think we can agree is a premier league defence for a premier league level squad.

will be interesting to see what his decision making is like against some of the lesser teams in the league as feel he could be a real threat.

would add that he showed up more in this game against Southampton than he did against Cardiff.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: February 16, 2024, 10:31:51 AM »
What a beautiful day. The sun is out and so are the unmentionables. A very grateful thank you to the pronoun in the sky. May treat myself to an early start in the pub ahead of tonight's game. Or possibly even a very early start. Brilliant news. COYB  8) .

have you hung your washing out then?!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: February 16, 2024, 10:30:59 AM »
There was a report done by someone who specialised in the Chinese economy which suggested that Chinese consortiums had taken an interest in Midlands club to benefit their steel productions off the back of HS2.

Lai, if he specialises in anything, would surely have seen some property developments to accompany the HS2 works which would have made us an attractive prospect to his investors.

However, HS2 stalled and the Chinese Government pulled up the draw bridge and the rest is history.

the chinese were also looking at a lot of local based steel companies but then the chinese government pulled the plug on letting money out of the country.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Ian Pearce
« on: February 16, 2024, 09:34:05 AM »
I would give him no prep time and get him in the office and ask to see the recruitment / retention / development strategy for all playing staff including the academy, dependant upon what I see, I would make my decisions. (No cohesive plan, there is the door)

Whilst IP has not performed it could be that he has not been allowed to perform,

If retained it would be clear that its on the basis that next window MUST be a success measured against the boundaries he is given.

(Devils advocate)

i don't think we can risk a transfer window with money with him as well.


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: February 16, 2024, 09:14:10 AM »
All I can say, as a more recent (post-Peace) minority shareholder, is that it’s just as well that Lai didn’t buy out the minority shareholders and get 100% control, because the legal aspects of not being able to prejudice the rights of minority shareholders were an effective brake on Lai doing any more damage once it became known what he’d been up to.  I’m not going to say much more than that, but it terrifies me to think what extra damage he could have done without that factor in place.

maybe one for in a few weeks time, as i'm sure there is a lot more to the story than everyone knew.

everyone played some kind of a part in stopping Lai from the minority shareholders to A4A and even the fans chanting about him, lets enjoy this moment of relief and be able to look forward together as one once again.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: February 16, 2024, 09:11:28 AM »
turned the best part of 200m into about 15m after loans paid off.

he's lost 185m of other peoples money, hope he likes being locked in small rooms and let out for an hour a day.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Warming up
« on: February 13, 2024, 12:38:24 PM »
believe he retired, but can’t remember.

he passed away sadly

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: February 07, 2024, 10:26:00 AM »
Wouldn't Rob Lake be under the parameters of any NDA that was in place ?

don't think he would as the foundation is technically separate to the club so not part of the sale in essence.

however the person that told him it was close probably was.

as for Goldberg i'd take what he says with a pinch of salt, someone who used to be in and around it from his WM days but is now just trying to make sure he's not forgotten and making whatever noise he can for attention.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Heading
« on: February 06, 2024, 01:06:12 PM »
there was an interesting study years ago on gumshields and what they actually do with regards to concussions. annoyingly i can't find it but the outcomes weren't as supportive of them in terms of stopping/slowing the symptoms.

would be interesting to see the data on this however, although with all things data you can use sample sizes to prove one thing and another sample to prove something else.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate
« on: February 04, 2024, 12:09:32 PM »
few things from yesterday:

BTA - had one of those games where every decision he made whether it be a run or a shot was the wrong decision. could see it was affecting him all game as well and the harder he tried the worse it got.
Fellows - wow, last year i thought this kid had no future with us going the same way as Edwards and Harper. happy to be very wrong here. best player for us on the day.
Marshall - looks a busy player, he will get a few goals just from causing problems
Majority of team - looked slow for 70 minutes, maybe that was the pressure and closing down from blues however who closed us down all game

Blues tactics - very un-Mowbray like if we are comparing the Mowbray who managed us. everything blues did yesterday was everything he used to moan about in the opposition when with us.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: February 04, 2024, 12:04:48 PM »
when diangana and ajayi comes back from afcon are we about to be in a position for the first time when Carlos will be able to have a bench full of options for the first time since he joined us.

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