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General Football & Sports / Season Tickets prices for Non League football.

« on: April 06, 2023, 11:16:32 AM »

Just look at the price for a season ticket to watch Macclesfield FC who are in the 7th tier of English Football.

Adults £299

Concessions £225

Students £175

Disabled £175

U18 £125

U12 £50

I know times are hard for ALL football clubs but these prices, really

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Hull City ( h ) 20th August

« on: July 14, 2022, 10:08:54 PM »

Mods please move if in wrong section.

Think this will affect a fair few fans going to the Hull game at the Hawthorns on August 20th. Workers at Network Rail and 14 Train operators are to strike on 18th and 20th August.

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General Football & Sports / Peter Lorimer

« on: February 25, 2021, 10:41:15 PM »

Just seen this on FB

Peter Lorimer has been admitted into a hospice with late stage brain cancer. Terrible news.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Mark Ashton returning as CEO

« on: February 22, 2021, 10:21:19 AM »

Has anyone heard any rumours about Mark Ashton returning as CEO.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Fans returning.

« on: August 19, 2020, 04:30:49 PM »

Mods if this is in the wrong place please move  it to where it belongs.

Just some news I picked up last night at a meeting.

https://sgsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SG02-Planning-for-Social-Distancing-at-Sports-Grounds.pdf

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Steve Taylor RIP

« on: April 01, 2020, 10:25:55 PM »

Very sad news folks,  Albion season ticket holder and England fan regular Steve Taylor as passed away our thoughts to all his family. RIP Steve you will be remembered.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Damage to the Stadium or near the Stadium

« on: February 24, 2020, 05:44:59 PM »

Access to The Hawthorns is temporarily restricted owing to the Birmingham Road being closed because of safety concerns over an adjacent building.

Supporters are advised to keep an eye on the Club’s website and social media feeds to find out when it will be re-opened.

Some reports on Facebook are saying it is the Brummie Road roof.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / East End Food Car Park

« on: November 24, 2019, 03:12:52 PM »

Anyone heard that there will be no more parking in the East End Food Car Park. What with Trains on strike and car parking becoming a problem it is going to real problem getting to the Hawthorns.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / kc56wba at Villa Park

« on: May 11, 2019, 10:07:13 PM »

Hi all just to say  been back to Hospital for a check up and all is ok after being knocked out at Villa Park when we scored, I must say a big thanks to the villa stewards, WMP police and the paramedics, but by all accounts when I was being wheeled to the first aid room the vile scum fans were singing derogatory remarks to me. SOTV.

I cor be sure but if it was Liam the Baggie who come to my aid, THANKS MATE

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West Bromwich Albion FC / End-of-season awards and lap of appreciation

« on: April 25, 2019, 03:45:40 PM »

https://www.wba.co.uk/news/2019/april/end-of-season-awards-and-lap-of-appreciation/

Wonder how many will stay behind for the lap of apprecation?

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Albion Matchday Forum / 16 Feb 2019 Aston Villa 0 Albion 2

« on: January 25, 2019, 02:55:28 PM »

https://www.wba.co.uk/news/2019/january/ticket-details-for-aston-villa-trip/

Disgrace. SOTV.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Always Albion: Remembering loved ones lost in 2018

« on: December 28, 2018, 03:43:40 PM »

www.wba.co.uk/news/2018/december/always-albion-remembering-lost-love-ones/

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Graham Lovett

« on: May 10, 2018, 08:51:16 AM »

Just heard that Graham Lovett ( Shuv ) as passed away.

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Announcements, Feedback & Questions / R.I.P Martin Collinson

« on: April 10, 2018, 10:59:52 AM »

It is with a very sad heart that I announce that a life long Albion fan Martin Collinson passed away yesterday.  He was my cousin but more like the big brother that I never had. Some of you older lads may remember Martin when he was doorman on the Woodman Pub and was one of the Tipton lads back in the day.

RIP Mart. 

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Les James RIP

« on: July 31, 2017, 03:45:04 PM »

This morning Les James, one of our most loyal fans, passed away aged 91. Les was a popular figure amongst all Albion fans and the last game he saw was at Swansea on the final day of last season. He was a regular on our coach number 2 and as a mark of respect his seat will remain empty for the trip to Burnley & on behalf of Les a toffee will be given to everyone who travels with Baggies Travel. On a personal note I would like to thank Les for his company, support and toffees over the years and for always being positive, whether we had won, drawn or lost. RIP Sir. xx
Dave Holloway

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West Bromwich Albion FC / West Broms u 13

« on: April 18, 2017, 05:10:19 PM »

Had a e-mail from my mate over in Ireland about an under 13 game over there  West Brom v Barcelona.  It was and under age Academy cup which is held in Dublin every year at one of West Broms nursery clubs here in Dublin, St Kevin’s Boys. It was actually under 13 but great to watch, even at that age, Barcelona were passing it around and West Brom were chasing shadows at times. Barcelona were 1 nil up at half time and West Brom had to win to make the semi finals, they did get a goal back, a good goal actually but the game ended 1-1. Barcelona went on to win the tournament. There were some good sides at it, from memory, West Brom, St Kevins Boys, Barcelona, Deport Le Coruna, Marseille, Gent.

Good tournament to get involved in.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Free Coach Travel

« on: February 21, 2017, 05:16:44 PM »

The match chosen for free coach travel is Burnley on the 6th May.

http://www.wba.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/west-brom-albion-premier-league-burnley-free-coach-travel-3587050.aspx

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West Bromwich Albion FC / CLUB STATEMENT: Goodman to replace Jenkins as CEO.

« on: November 23, 2016, 11:48:07 AM »

So he is going.

http://www.wba.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/west-brom-wba-ceo-mark-jenkins-martin-goodman-stoke-city-3431942.aspx

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General Football & Sports / Average Price of Premier League ticket.

« on: November 10, 2016, 07:53:40 PM »

Worth a read.


http://asia.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2016-2017/average-price-of-premier-league-ticket-this-season-is-31-report-reveals_sto5944944/story.shtml

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General Football & Sports / Invictus Games

« on: May 12, 2016, 09:06:28 PM »

Bloody brilliant watching these games.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / WBADSC player of the year 2014/15

« on: April 28, 2015, 07:42:54 AM »

The WBADSC player of the year for 2014/15 is Joleon Lescott .

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West Bromwich Albion FC / The Hawthorns Express

« on: November 13, 2014, 03:24:46 PM »

The Hawthorns Express coaches which run from Worcester, Tamworth & Stafford will now leave half hour earlier from their first pick up points and various pick ups on route than advertised for night games at The Hawthorns.

The three coaches will now leave at 5.00pm instead of 5.30.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Southampton away 23rd August

« on: July 30, 2014, 09:38:59 AM »

Anyone know when the Southampton tickets go on sale on-line, should have been today but just tried and it wont let me book any tickets apart from FC Porto or Sunderland.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Clive Chippy Clark

« on: May 01, 2014, 04:38:07 PM »

http://www.wba.co.uk/news/article/albion-mourn-clive-chippy-clark-1521818.aspx

Club pay tribute to former winger

ALBION are mourning the loss of former player Clive ‘Chippy’ Clark, who has passed away at the age of 73.

The left winger was a loyal servant to the club, making 351 starts, two substitute appearances, and scoring 98 goals during eight years at The Hawthorns.

He became Albion’s record signing at the start of 1961 when manager Gordon Clark snapped him up from Queens Park Rangers for £20,000.

His greatest moments in a Baggies shirt came between 1966 and 1968.




He scored and was instrumental in the 1966 League Cup Final victory over two legs against West Ham.

The following season he topped the Albion scoring chart with an incredible 29 goals.

And in 1968 he netted three times in the club’s run to lifting the FA Cup at Wembley.

Our thoughts are with Clive’s family and friends at this difficult time.

The club will pay tribute to his career at Sunday week’s final home game of the season against Stoke.

Below is a tribute to Clive’s time at Albion, written by publications editor Dave Bowler.

CLIVE CLARK (1940-2014)

It is a peculiar thing but, while wingers of any kind are the sort of player that sets the pulses racing and the spirit soaring, it is the left winger who has traditionally captured the imagination most of all. Perhaps it is because the bulk of us favour our right side and find those who are of the southpaw – or southpeg – persuasion to be some kind of sorcerer. Whatever the reason, wearing the number 11 shirt in those pre-squad numbering days was always a badge of particular honour.

Wingers have always been a focal point of Albion tradition, going all the way back to Billy Bassett, through the likes of Tommy Glidden and Stan Wood, then George Lee and Frank Griffin, FA Cup-winning combinations both. But those were from the days when all teams had wingers, two of them, by Act of Parliament. By the time Clive Clark was embarrassing defenders, the footballing world had turned, Alf Ramsey had won the World Cup with the ‘wingless wonders’ and a puritanical era of utilitarian midfielders was upon us.

Clark had of course been dazzling the Throstletariat before that 1966 watershed and was so deeply entrenched as a pivotal part of the Albion that no mere whim of fashion could see him out of the side.

Chippy had become Albion’s record signing at the start of 1961 when manager Gordon Clark snapped him up from Queens Park Rangers for £20,000. As befits a man on whom so much cash was expended, Clark went straight into the side, making his debut on 14th January 1961 in a 3-1 win over Preston North End, then on their way to relegation in the first season after the great Tom Finney had hung up those alchemic boots – that is the difference a great winger makes to a team.

If Clark was no Finney – who, barring Matthews, has been? – he repaid every penny of that fee a hundred times, a thousand times over during his stay at The Hawthorns for as outside lefts go, Clive was just a little bit different. Most of them during his era were creators of goals, belting to the by-line and smacking in crosses for the big centre-forward – in Albion’s case the likes of Derek Kevan, John Kaye and Jeff Astle – to get on the end of. But that was not enough for Chippy, because he liked to get involved in the goalscoring stakes as well. He might cut inside, blazing past the full-back on his wrong side before smashing a shot past the ‘keeper or, his speciality, come haring in from the wing to get on the end of a cross from the right. For a man who was anything but a giant, he was strong in the air, getting across the defender to get the crucial touch – of more recent vintage, Zoltan Gera is a reasonable comparison in that regard.

Clark’s contemporaries in the Albion team remained in awe of the man, not just for his talent but for his courage under what was withering fire. ‘Brave as a lion’ is Tony Brown’s assessment of his cup-winning colleague, for not only would he throw himself at the ball to win those decisive headers, he played in the day when the phrase ‘put it in row Z’ referred to the winger, not the ball. The tackle from behind was not outlawed, it was compulsory, while teams thought little of doubling up against the likes of Clark, happy to hack him down whenever he got the ball, willing to concede free-kicks rather than run the risk of him undressing them with a surging dart down the flank. But time and again, back would come Chippy to taunt and tease with his talent, skipping past lunge after lunge, digging the ball out of the cloying muddied fields of yesteryear, dribbling with it as though playing on a bowling green.

He formed a critical part of the Albion team that emerged from the shadow of the majestic team of the ‘50s to create their own slice of history. Clark was crucial to the balance, the more so once Jimmy Hagan came in and really began to get the best from him. With 17 goals from the wing – no penalties – Chippy top scored in 1963/64, a feat he repeated with 11 in 1964/65, by which time a couple of chaps called Astle and Brown were settling into the team and would go on to dominate those charts through the rest of the 1960s, a bit like The Beatles and the Stones.

In 1966/67, a League Cup winner’s tankard already in the sideboard after helping the Throstles dismember West Ham United in the second leg of the final, Clark completed a quite extraordinary feat for an outside-left. Over that one campaign, he scored 29 goals. 29. Even Astle only exceeded that number in two seasons, Bomber just once. That in itself is a measure of Clark’s genuine greatness. Remember how people slavered over Cristiano Ronaldo’s goalscoring exploits when he was only nominally a winger at Manchester United, often playing more centrally? That was the kind of prolific form Clark was in.

Ironically it came in a season that carried his greatest disappointment. Holders of the League Cup, the Throstles had destroyed all and sundry before them on the way to the first Wembley final in the competition’s history. There we met QPR, Chippy’s first club, then in the Third Division. A formality for Albion? It seemed that way when we led 2-0 at half-time, both goals from Clark. A controversial second half ensued with Rangers mounting one of the great Wembley comebacks to win 3-2, leaving Albion, Clive especially, stunned.

Recompense was gained twelve months later when Albion lifted the FA Cup after beating Everton, following a cup run where Clark had been immense again, not least in the punishing three games it took to overcome Shankly’s Liverpool in the sixth round, Clark getting the winner. After Wembley, the Throstles jetted off for an ill-starred tour of East Africa. Facing some, at best, rudimentary tackling from the local sides, Clark found himself on the wrong end of an appalling tackle that ended not only his tour but, to all intents and purposes, his top flight career. The zip, the devil had gone from his game when he returned and he was soon on his way, back to QPR after 351 starts, two substitute appearances and 98 goals.

Ill health scarred his later life but he remained an Albion man through and through until the last. Clark will be forever remembered at The Hawthorns, one of the finest of all the stars in stripes, an architect of our greatness, our history, our birthright.

Rest easy Clive.

(A full tribute to Clive ‘Chippy’ Clark will be published in the Stoke edition of 'Albion News

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Swansea away

« on: February 12, 2014, 12:45:25 PM »

As anyone heard that the Swansea match may be moved to a midweek game?