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West Bromwich Albion FC / Baggies fans in NE scotland?

« on: January 24, 2022, 09:03:08 PM »

Long shot here, but im in aberdeen for a few weeks and was wondering if anyone in Aberdeen (or local to) fancied going to watch the preston game on the box on wednesday somewhere? Or if anyone was based up these ends. Mods feel free to move if necessary!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Anyone else just really fed up with WBA?

« on: June 09, 2019, 12:35:37 PM »

I should say I'm not a complete glory hunter but right now it seems like there's a lot of negativity, a lot of our key players seem to be linked or off now this summer and the enormity of the task just seems too much to progress upwards. Meanwhile, our two main rivals are in the premier league and there's not an ounce of me that feels like we will be joining them anytime soon. Poor mismanagement, a dose of reality and a heartbreaking penalty shootout has just left me feeling a bit meh. Next season will probably be a slog, unless we get our act together, and financially we just can't compete anymore meaning we're left with the rest, after a pretty exciting last decade or so. MEH

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West Bromwich Albion FC / What will it take for us to compete at the right side of the table next year?

« on: April 08, 2018, 01:02:42 AM »

So with us all but mathematically relegated now, we have to get some fighting spirit back for next year. Whilst i am pleased with stopping the rot today, theres still a lot of complacency in this squad with us just simply unable to hold onto a lead. My worry is, we will take this into next year, with the players that stay having that nervous mentality instilled into their gameplay. My questions are: 1) is a manager capable of stopping this, 2) how many new players in our squad will it take to be a competing league in the championship, and 3) can anyone see us having the grit to compete for the playoffs? I feel our confidence as a club is shred to pieces right now

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Who's starting to become resigned

« on: December 10, 2017, 08:28:34 PM »

Before anyone says im making early conclusions, it's looking really bleak given we can't score, we can't win and we are conceding too many. In my opinion we are looking doomed 🤧 Palace, Newcastle and now Swansea after charity fc turned up all have fight. I haven't felt this bleak for a long long time. I'm just expecting the championship now, if we stay up it'll prolong the pain for next season.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Fears of relegation...

« on: October 02, 2017, 07:17:24 PM »

Is anyone else feeling the same? Or just feels numb now. A genuinely struggling team right now, can't hold onto leads and the strikers just not scoring enough goals. Reminds me of Birmingham in 2010/11 actually who had similar problems with a solid team but not enough about them. People know our game plan and they can better us for it. My fears are based around the fact we've dropped crucial points against Watford, stoke, Brighton and West Ham. Worst of all, we've been gutless too often. I want to see a side of tryers, not aimless hoofers. I wluldnt be surprised at all if we've just fallen short come may 2018, really.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Season so far: Appraisal?

« on: September 25, 2016, 06:41:14 PM »

So we've beaten Palace away and West Ham with two confident performances, lost to Everton and Bournemouth with some sloppy defending and against Stoke and Boro been fairly uninspiring but more importantly haven't lost. We are on the same amount of points as last year although we have a marginally better goal difference. Pulis still divides opinion dramatically, although we can all see we have two excellent players in Chadli and Rondon that we absolutely have to try and keep fit for as long as possible. In our next three fixtures: We play Sunderland, Spurs, Liverpool, which will all present challenges in their own right. I think sunderland in particular will throw the kitchen sink at us but I expect us to compete against Spurs and Liverpool as well. In my opinion, we've been average, not awful but im still a little frustrated in the way we conceded to Bournemouth and couldn't get the goal against Boro. What are your thoughts?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Stagnating....

« on: May 07, 2016, 05:47:04 PM »

You can't help but feel we are simply stagnating as a club, when you look at the likes of Norwich and Newcastle, doomed to relegation, but their hand will be forced to rebuild next year as they try to come back up. What will we do? We will spend as late as possible, on some cheap, slow aging players once again, and struggle in the league, perhaps do the bare minimum again, repeat. The excitement really is fading fast for me. We huffed and puffed last week against West Ham but got caught out by cheap goals. Today was slightly unlucky but our dreadful away record continues. What can you say anymore. Only club in this county in the premier league and barely drawing breath. 

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Will we stay up?

« on: February 07, 2016, 12:14:00 PM »

After having 4 hours to think it through on the way back home yesterday, based on that performance, I just don't know anymore. I thought we would really turn it up for the game yesterday but once again we just didn't show up. Coupled with four awful league performances prior, and we have a real battle on our hands, given our next five are very tough indeed. In my opinion, heres what we need to do:

1) Palace, Norwich, Watford and the Hammers are all home games we need to be seeking three points from. The rest of our fixtures are a bit of a lottery with Sunderland away in particular being all or nothing.

2) We need to grind out results in those tougher fixtures. Much higher possession stats starting next week against Everton, any sloppy ball giveaways and we could find ourselves three or four down.

3) The Cup needs to go on the back foot for me. Its an unwelcome distraction given our position and beating Peterborough and Reading will come at a cost.

4) Pritchard, Rondon, Sess and Berahino are vital for us. Without them there will be no goals and more turgid performances.

COYB

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West Bromwich Albion FC / IF villa go down....

« on: November 28, 2015, 11:19:03 PM »

And we stay up, we could potentially be the only club in the county to represent the division. How would you all feel about this? More prestige being the only team from this area, or more tussle as the Johnny come latelys try to see us play. I've noticed a marked level in difficulty in getting tickets this year alone, even as a member, on other campaigns so for me it would be a bit bittersweet.

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General Football & Sports / Marton Fulop

« on: November 12, 2015, 01:37:12 PM »

Just read the news that he passed away aged 32 from cancer, taken far too young. I remember his game against Arsenal with those goals that every Albion fan would want to forget. RIP

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West Bromwich Albion FC / QPR Away

« on: November 19, 2014, 12:28:39 PM »

I've just read on the singing section facebook page, QPR have dropped the prices to 20 quid for adults, 15 for seniors and 10 for 16-22 years in the silver section on the 20th december. Really good effort just before Christmas as well. Expect them to be taken up in a flash. Anyone who could do me a massive favour and get 3 in a row would be really helping me out, preferably in the singing section, as i'm just a member this year and therefore low down the pecking order.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Albion tops at England games?

« on: November 11, 2014, 08:40:43 PM »

May seem like a silly question, anyone going to Wembley on saturday for englands game, have you ever worn your mighty blue and white colours or are people generally pretty reserved about wearing their clubs tops to the games? Any advice would be appreciated, ta.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Are we really much better than last season?

« on: October 26, 2014, 03:58:36 PM »

My mate made an interesting point to me after our draw yesterday, that we have the same amount of points as the same stage last season, we are still over reliant on certain players (mainly Saido) and we are drawing too many. I just see similarities to last year, in that we are panicking on the pitch too much, and if anything, a little more rash in decision making. We could've gifted palace 2 or 3 penalties if the ref had seen fit, and with Lady Luck on our side we avoided a momentum crushing defeat. For me, there is a considerable amount of work to do to avoid the drop more comfortably this year and it starts with good discipline. Yesterday we made some awful decisions and I want to see these cut out for our huge game against Leicester next weekend.

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General Football & Sports / ArsenalFanTV- Could WBA do something similar?

« on: March 21, 2014, 09:40:16 AM »

I always keep an eye out for AFTV on youtube, as the main 'interviewer' Robbie travels home and away every game, interviewing the fans, doing match previews and reviews, with other people chipping in doing their separate pieces related to all things arsenal. Not only this, but they have developed their own graphics for the video, have a cameraman etc. I know you'll probably think I'm bonkers when i say this, but i think it would be great trying to get something similar going with the Baggies. A fair few of us travel home and away and why does it have to be just Arsenal that does this? I'd love to know your thoughts as i'd be keen to trial something like this in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/user/arsenalfanstv check out some of their videos, they are definitely on to a winner there. It'd be doing something we all feel passionate about it.

An IT specialist, cameraman and someone who can manage the audio would be ideal as well 

Thoughts? Some sophisticated input would definitely help, see what we could get going.

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General Football & Sports / Football is fixed

« on: November 12, 2013, 11:49:20 AM »

As has been discussed in the chelsea thread, this blog that has been running for 6 years: http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/ has made some compelling arguments, and i urge you if you have a few minutes spare to have a read. let us know what you think, as it's hard to argue with some of the posts! I appreciate it may come across as conspiracy, but definitely a look, even if you think its a load of rubbish.

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General Football & Sports / match fixing showing its ugly head again

« on: February 04, 2013, 03:36:46 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807

this time a champions league game played in england is 'under investigation'. those of you who know me know that i believe match fixing is widespread, with not enough attention focused on it. whos to say a game could have spot fixing? betting on a player throwing the ball out in the 'x'th minute, or a referee being heavily biased towards one team. we've seen it many times before, particularly at old trafford, where the away team never gets a penalty.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / next 3 games....

« on: December 08, 2012, 08:00:08 PM »

3 big tests coming up now. we have had the heartbreak of once again losing to stoke at home last week(even villa could see a goalless draw out), and today was another lethargic performance not helped by a poor refereeing decision. thankfully, we have 3 fixtures coming up that we can 'bounce back' from, but this really is clarkes biggest test yet. west ham, norwich, and qpr all coming up. surely we should be targetting 2 wins from this set, and a draw? thoughts? surely if we lose our next fixtures the real grumbles will start coming out and we'll be nervously singling out the winnable games. the time is now, win 2 out of the next 3 and we can be top 4 again.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Can we keep hold of our best players?

« on: November 10, 2012, 10:08:36 PM »

reading some of the snide comments on other boards; including people believing we will tail away, and others saying money talks and we'll be lucky to keep mozza/mulumbu etc. what do you think? mulumbu has been outstanding so far this season and surely those at the manchester clubs have been keeping their eyes peeled on him. i truly hope we can keep hold of our best assets but i know if we keep playing as we are the men with the money wont be far away

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General Football & Sports / is being a west brom fan bad for your health?

« on: November 05, 2012, 12:03:29 AM »

have just been thinking about this over recent weeks, especially after 2 gutting defeats. all the stress and disappointment we get after losing, how much does it put affect our blood pressure? is it a temporary thing, or does it just accumulate over time. ive read various articles on this;  one linking football fans with increased risk of stroke and blood pressure problems, and an doubled risk of premature death through irregular heart beats. if we lead a healthy lifestyle otherwise, do we have little to worry about. thoughts?

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General Football & Sports / what do you wear to the match?

« on: October 26, 2012, 11:06:33 AM »

was thinking about this the other day, pondering over whether i should bring my scarf up north or not; whether it'd actually be cold enough in the echalons of st james park. i was wondering what people generally wear to matches, especially those that go week in, week out. do you dress up heavily matted in west brom merchandise; scarf, tshirt and perhaps coat? does it depend on weather conditions, i.e on a frosty night you are more likely to bring your scarf. or are you perhaps the sort to just go in a tshirt of your choice, not conforming to the merchandise at all. do you perceive someone going all dressed up in west brom attire as being a day tripper, just going occasionally and going all out on the occasion. would be interesting to know thoughts.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Some perspective needed...

« on: October 20, 2012, 09:38:17 PM »

after 8 games i think 14 points is an excellent return in all honesty. ok so today was hard to take after 2 soft goals, but that is football and why we love, and hate, the game depending on the result. getting a defeat from the hands of victory is how far we've come as city found us hard to break down today, and our desire to attack at times is just a sign of intent to bring attractive football back to our great club. we have potential in this team, i can feel it, but you just have to take the good with the bad sometimes. our next home game against s'ton is a great chance at bouncing back. im just as disappointed as the next with todays result but i see the positives in our play, just a tactical mistake and playing too high a line which is correctable today. lets go to newcastle and try and get our first away victory of the season. COYB

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Albion Matchday Forum / 28 Oct 2012 Newcastle 2 Albion 1

« on: October 16, 2012, 09:27:25 PM »

mods i understand this may not be the right area for this question, so please move it if appropriate. basically, i cant decide whether to go to newcastle away or not. having asked loads of pals and transport seemingly being expensive, i still feel the urge to visit st james' park at 10 quid a ticket. the thing is, it is a fair way to go alone, but do people think there may be many others doing this trip alone? i feel this sort of price for a ticket doesnt come along very often, but pre match may be a little difficult if theres noone else with me. thoughts?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / newcastle/swansea away travel question

« on: October 05, 2012, 10:46:11 PM »

hi, im looking to do potentially both of these trips in the next couple of months. coming from just outside telford makes it difficult though, does someone know of coaches or cars coming from this area to these games? many thanks.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Our away form this season

« on: October 01, 2012, 01:58:39 PM »

After the amazing ride we travelling support experienced last season, do you finally feel that clarke is content to go away and draw? ive been to spurs and villa this season, and both have seen us look a little reserved at times, content to ride the storm so to speak. i would suspect given the scoreline and the reactions we were pretty reserved at the cottage too.  under hodgson we seemed to be happy to go away and fear nothing; owing to our multiple away wins last season. i know that it would take something special to go near the form we produced on the road last season, but i'll be happy if we can really make the hawthorns a fortress and pick up the occasional away win thoughts?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / the sacrifices you make for albion

« on: August 11, 2012, 07:16:13 PM »

im in a real dilemma at the moment. i cant make the liverpool game as i am working at a music festival. but working qualifies for being paid in a ticket for the festival, as well as food and water. it seems like im having to dish out my entire wallet at the mo, and money just goes, with nothing coming in. 30 quid for a tent, 60 quid for a new microsoft office for mac package. on top of this, i really want to see the lads play at white hart lane on the 25th, but obviously that comes at a price; a day worth about 60 quid if you restrict yourself on booze. i was just wondering, what sacrifices others make in this expensive game? away games just cost a fortune atm, and i feel like im stretching myself to make this one, but i want to see albion