[SmethDan]

The position of head coach in our set up requires a number of abilities

Getting players united as a team - erring on side of a tick for this.
Tactical nous - jury out
Out-witting opposition head coach - Jury out
Building confidence - Jury out
Developing skills - Jury out

there are many other abilities / skills / attributes, my point is despite an un-inspiring record we have not had an opportunity to evaluate AI yet, until we have we must give him the benefit of the doubt and get baehind club, coaching staff, players.

As we all keep saying its our club !!! The rest is transisitory............. so lets back ourselves

Great post and very much how I feel about things.
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[LiamTheBaggie]

and as for Craig's comments fair play to him and he's not the only one to come out and say it so they all must be wrong, perhaps the dressing room all being as one will make a massive difference compared the the Pepe reign

How many players come out and slag off their manager to the press?

The results of his coaching will be seen on a Saturday.

[gerry m]

How many players come out and slag off their manager to the press?

The results of his coaching will be seen on a Saturday.

I was just about to say the same thing in reply to an earlier poster!

[monkey nuts]

but they don't have to come out and say good things either do they but lots have

[Chipperfan]

but they don't have to come out and say good things either do they but lots have

How does that fit in with the conspiracy theory that everything is rotten and any good news or positive statement is just a smokescreen?

[robnewbold]

FFS Give the guy a chance. We are Albion, feck all the pundits and the ITKs. We do what we do. If we win great, if we dont , not so great . We are bigger than all this , we are a heritage, we are founders of the football league....ups and downs, they cant take this away from us, TBH i dont give a flying feck....we will always be there...
chill out...we are history, we are tradition we are what its all about.....results. yeah.
TBH...its more than that. id love to finish top ten, and i think we will.. but TBH i dont really care.
 We are West Bromwich Albion.........wow,  who else can say that!

[Legend]

Final away day we'll be wearing kilts and taking scottish flags. Have some faith.

[WBAinDEVON]

Final away day we'll be wearing kilts and taking scottish flags. Have some faith.

If thats the case i wont wear anything underneath it

[boing boing baggies]

FFS Give the guy a chance. We are Albion, feck all the pundits and the ITKs. We do what we do. If we win great, if we dont , not so great . We are bigger than all this , we are a heritage, we are founders of the football league....ups and downs, they cant take this away from us, TBH i dont give a flying feck....we will always be there...
chill out...we are history, we are tradition we are what its all about.....results. yeah.
TBH...its more than that. id love to finish top ten, and i think we will.. but TBH i dont really care.
 We are West Bromwich Albion.........wow,  who else can say that!

Where's the "like" button  boingboing AlanIrvine's pinstripe Army

[OldburyWBA]

Time for the sarcasm to end as it making the board look pathetic.

People have a right to have whatever viewpoint they like without receiving sarcastic posts in return, if you have nothing constructive to post then please do not bother.

Any issues with that please conduct moans via PM as anything posted in here or elsewhere will be removed.

At the end of the day everyone whether a fan of Irvine being appointed or not wants him to succeed as thats for the benefit of the club we all follow.

[TheJacko2000]

but they don't have to come out and say good things either do they but lots have

Press Officer: "Craig can I have a quick word for the official website"

Gardner: "yeah sure"

Press Officer: "make sure you mention how respected AI is."

Gardner: "no problem."

[VVVAlbion]

Press Officer: "Craig can I have a quick word for the official website"

Gardner: "yeah sure"

Press Officer: "make sure you mention how respected AI is."

Gardner: "no problem."

Or maybe he actually believes it! 

You can understand why players become disillusioned with their "supporters" and refuse to speak to them or the press and flick the v during matches.

[Sessegod]

did okay first game, bit unsure with the double subs before their second, when its that tight always best to keep formation.

Note for next week - work at defending because it was dire.

[geoff]

Went for the safe option with about 15 mins to go bring on Yacob & sess it would have been the ideal time to give Bobby his 1st run out for us.

[kris_boing]

Tough one.  History will say that he made a mistake in the changes he made because a few minutes later we conceded the equaliser.


It was a decent performance but ultimately 2 points dropped against a poor team who will be in the relegation mix at the end of the season.


I dont think he is the man and have made no secret of that but he needs to be properly judged when after the transfer window when he has new signings available.

[spencer Baggie]

By all accounts, more positives than negatives.

Re: Dorrans and Gardner - GD was knackered, CG had cramp.

Irvine's hand forced to a degree.

[wardy65]

did okay first game, bit unsure with the double subs before their second, when its that tight always best to keep formation.

Note for next week - work at defending because it was dire.

Yes, we defended poorly at times today, but that'll be remedied when we have 2 quality centre halves back in the team.
Lot of positives today, but ultimately 2 points dropped against a very ordinary team.
Don't think Irvine would be making those subs if the players going off were fit to continue, so I sympathise with him there, as I'm sure he'd have liked to have given us more energy up front.

[graka]

Our problems for me came down our right flank mainly due to the fact we had no natural wide right man to support wisdom. A natural right sided midfielder is essential to give us balance defensively and offensively

[Adamstv]

Our problems for me came down our right flank mainly due to the fact we had no natural wide right man to support wisdom. A natural right sided midfielder is essential to give us balance defensively and offensively

Is that where Gamboa could play?

[zippyandbungle]

The Albion PR machine has gone into overdrive with the appointment of Irvine. The picture they've painted so far is that Al;an is a mixture of Sir Alex Ferguson and Jesus Christ.

For the benefit of the young people on here he means Jeremy Kyle and Simon Cowell 

[baggie96]

Best passing we've produced in a long while. Yesterday's performance was quite good, we've got ideye to come in, lescott and mcauley to fix our defence along with gamboa. Sessegnon to play more, looked good when he came on. Add a couple of wingers and we should be nowhere near relegation struggles. Very impressed.

[Greenock Baggie]

Didn't do a lot wrong yesterday, made the changes when they were needed.

[tylerm]

Didn't do a lot wrong yesterday, made the changes when they were needed.

Disagree to be honest
He should have made a change earlier as Sunderland had taken control
He made re first change when we went 2 1 up and tried to defend what we had far too early. This invited Sunderland to come at us more
Then made further defensive substitutions
Showed the difference between a good coach and a manager- but hopefully he will learn

[Legend]

I'm sure supporters of every team will criticize their manager's substitutions when they don't win.

[Chipperfan]

I'm sure supporters of every team will criticize their manager's substitutions when they don't win.

Correct! He did the right thing with the players he took off, he sent on two seasoned international players.

We should have had the three points but we didn't, next week things will be different.