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General Football & Sports / Re: Saido Berahino
« on: February 01, 2019, 02:21:37 PM »
If I remember rightly Roy Hodgson reportedly wanted to bin him off following one of his loan spells. Apparently he wasn't impressed with Saido's reported general conduct while on loan and didn't think much of him as a young 'professional' or as a person either. Dan' Ashworth was credited with having talked Roy round and into Albion keeping hold of him. I'd be very surprised were Saido to rock up at Selhurst Park while Roy Hodgson's there.

Didn't Roy give Saido his first England call up?

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Up until the last few weeks where he has been excellent he has been hit and miss for the first half of the season.
He should get it. He has been excellent this season and has surpsied a lot of people at how good he has been this season.

a little contradicting?

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Marton Fulop
« on: May 13, 2012, 10:32:51 PM »
i don't really get on players backs and i always like to defend our players but i can't find any words to defend Fulop. his mistakes came from basic goalkeeping procedures; kicking and punching. very comical errors, but I'm only laughing because we really didn't have much riding on the game!

also correct me if I'm wrong, but Marton Fulop is quite an experienced goalkeeper is he not? played for city a few seasons back on an emergency loan and also sunderland and maybe ipswich? i guess i expected more from him.

however I'm very disappointed with the minority who booed him. the team that finished 10th this season isn't just the usual 11-15 players we see on a saturday afternoon. the whole squad achieved 10th place. Fulop included.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: PRE SEASON TOUR??
« on: May 10, 2012, 06:09:01 PM »
4 of us going. landing in copenhagen thursday morning and flying back on the friday. malmo is just little trip on the train or taxi. no hotels though, plan to drink through the night!

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: May 08, 2012, 01:10:51 PM »
correct me of i am wrong, but i am sure i have read somewhere that we have never lost on the last day of a premier league season?

Liverpool have a tricky last two games. i would love it if we got something out of this and finished above them. fitting end to a remarkable season.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Manager
« on: April 29, 2012, 10:42:04 PM »
maybe a rousing rendition of TLMS could get devout catholic Marcelo Bielsa to consider a move to the Black Country!?  :P

he has a reputation of being a little 'mad', id love it if he were mad enough to swap la liga and the europa league for us! 


okay, il stop dreaming now

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Albion fan demographic
« on: April 29, 2012, 10:15:42 PM »
I still think we aren't tapping into the local ethinic population nearly as much as we should have by now.

Amazing how many Asian and Afro-Carribean guys of all ages you see around the area wearing Liverpool/Man U shirts which really disappoints.

totally agree. out of my all of my asian mates, there are only two of us who are baggies fans. the rest are liverpool.

when my sister got married, her husband was a man united fan. so i started taking him to games with me when i had a free ticket and now he's hardcore albion. a few years ago i started taking a few of the lads to away games with me and they loved it. i haven't had time to get to any away games this season but they still beg me to organise something. they look out for for our results and are casual baggies fans.

The baggies ground is literally a stone throw away from two of the first Sikh Gurdwaras in Europe and also two of the biggest. We have our own football teams and sunday leagues. i know for a fact if the Albion wanted to have a presence in the Gurdwaras (temple) it would be welcome. They are not just a place of worship. they are the centre of our community. i gave my brother-in-law and mates access to the albion and they caught the bug. we need to massively increase our presence in the local areas imo. give ourselves exposure. we have so much to be proud of as a club. we have a reputation and identity i think we should be proud to show off.

id love it if we could have a young indian lad come through the ranks and play for the first team. imagine the advantages for us as a club in a country whose population is past the one billion mark and still increasing.

We have a very talented young british pakistani lad in our ranks called Adil Nabi. if he makes it to the first team id like to see if that has an effect in the pakistani community.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Scouse wannabes
« on: April 28, 2012, 08:28:35 PM »
i don't see why i should clap, or whatever it is that they wanted me to do. what is it going to achieve? they guy has an illness and I'm sorry to hear it, but how many albion fans have life threatening illnesses? actually how many people have life threatening illnesses full stop?

its the same as the muamba thing, with certain newspapers calling him a 'hero'. he had a cardiac arrest, and i wish him all the best, but sometimes this world is just a competition as to who can grieve the most.

i don't care how harsh this is, but what has petrov or muamba got to do with me?

i saw a comment on a social networking site a few weeks back, with regards to the muamba pic of him kicking a ball. it was the along the lines of 'my granddad fought in the 2nd world war and recently had a heart attack, why are the papers not calling him a hero?'

when i heard about muamba and petrov, i felt bad for the guys involved. i wished them the best. end of.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate
« on: April 23, 2012, 12:10:41 PM »
take the chelsea vs barca game. barca could have ended up in double figure yet they didnt even score once. chelsea had one shot and scored the goal. and most of the press go nuts claiming it to be a di matteo tactical masterstroke.

however we did it, we kept a clean sheet. we scored the winning goal. and to be fair we had 3 other clear cut chances. i feel the lads deserve alot more credit for yesterday's performance. they didnt let there heads drop and wait for the inevitable liverpool goal. we just stuck to the task and kept going.


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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Odemwingie Celebration with Mulumbu
« on: April 23, 2012, 11:45:28 AM »
they were taking the mick out of the foster incident from the everton game. i read it somewhere yesterday...but i cant find the link!

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: April 17, 2012, 02:57:09 PM »
Or Liverpool.

snap. i detest this club and everything associated with it. A win over these lot at anfield would mean more to me than any other victory we have had this season.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: 'The Banner'
« on: April 17, 2012, 02:48:48 PM »
£30 from me coming in a few days

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liverpool
liverpool
liverpool
liverpool
liverpool

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: wigan
« on: March 03, 2012, 10:13:56 AM »
coaches are full but match tickets still available

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When petes on form, i think he can play in any team in the league, i really do.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Racist scum
« on: February 26, 2012, 10:26:13 PM »
every team will have their fair share of idiots. I've had to tell albion fans on two occasions to watch what they say on away days in regards to racial chants etc. I've had racial abuse of everton fans and now we hear about sunderland fans. its a problem in wider society rather than certain sets of supporters but my personal experience of sunderland fans is nothing but positive. me and my mate were the only albion fans in a sunderland pub last season and the only asians and we were made to feel nothing but welcome.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Racist scum
« on: February 25, 2012, 06:14:05 PM »
there s having your own opinion on foreingners, but surely your express it privately, not shouting abuse at anyone walking past.

the colour of your skin doesn't make you a foreigner.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Who is going to be the next england manager
« on: February 08, 2012, 08:43:57 PM »
Whilst I have said that I think it will be Roy , there is a certain Mr Wenger not far from wembley , has good pedigree and works very well with younger player development ??

I agree. i think we will make a short term appointment at the moment. then after the euros, if arsenal don't make the top 4, i can see a reshuffle at the emirates; their fans are getting restless. Wenger would be an excellent choice for the long term, especially as many see the future england team being built around Wilshere.

as for a short term answer, rafa benitez? excellent in cup competitions. not the best style of football though.


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Albions Next Manager
« on: February 06, 2012, 02:11:52 PM »
Some players need to move around before they find somewhere they can settle, perfect example for us would be Thomas.

My point was the players are there at reasonable prices if you look hard enough.

i totally understand where your coming from mate. i just feel to improve on what we have out wide, would be expensive.
the players which play wide for us are technically gifted; they just require pace (bar JT). to find two wingers with technical ability and pace to improve our midfield would come at a premium i feel.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Albions Next Manager
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:55:10 PM »
Not really, just from Swansea on Saturday Nathan Dyer cost them £400k and Scott Sinclair (who was quiet Saturday) cost them £500k rising to £1m. The players are there if you look for them.

Many teams were probably saying the same about some of our players last season. the same players are struggling this season. Nathan dyer was signed 3 or so years ago. in a lower division, where he developed. sinclair too only really got a good number of games under his belt last season in the championship. before that he was stop start at a host of clubs. at the time they were signed, were they any better than any of our options in wide areas? i dont think they were.

perhaps i over-simpliefied my original post by stating pace as the only attribute i think our team lacks.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: in hindsight . . . . . .
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:01:39 PM »
we would be in no better position if we stay up then where we were at the start of this season imo.

we have not got the set up to compete long term in the prem.

peace has shown rightly or wrongly that he wont over invest to move us up a place or two long term.

all i ask for is that we try and play the best we can with what we have and roy has failed miserably on that front at home this year.

i disagree. the more seasons we stay up, the better quality of player we attract. we would be able to command bigger sponsorship fee's, not to mention another season of premier league money. if we manage to retain our premiership status this season, it looks like a couple of regular premier league teams will lose theirs. hopefully that would move us up in the 'food chain'.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Ben Foster
« on: February 06, 2012, 12:55:58 PM »
agree.

chris hughton is doing too good a job at blues this season. we really need them to stop down so we can keep foster.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Albions Next Manager
« on: February 06, 2012, 12:50:25 PM »
Our other problem is injuries to Gera , Brunt, Pete, Long etc etc
Take out sinclair , dyer , Graham from Swansea and they would suffer??

very good point.
we were very lucky with injuries last season and very unlucky this season.

if my memory serves me correct, we lost both gera and brunt to injuries not caused by any tackle or impact?

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