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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Atmosphere at Home Games
« on: April 16, 2024, 11:25:05 AM »They clearly don't make bald Bond type villains like they used to Jeremy .
villainous work is hard to find these days
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They clearly don't make bald Bond type villains like they used to Jeremy .
quite possibly the worst atmosphere last night for many years, the times i use to get excited going to home games, now its a chore. hopefully it changes with whatever the new owner might have in store from next season
We were really short up front so as an extra body why not? However across very limited minutes he looked out of his depth at this level. That is not to say he won't have a future in the game but right now not at the Championship level. I bear him no ill will it was a loan signing that didn't work many don't.
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.
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
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.
That's what you call making clean contact with the ball........ And close to the corner so gave any keeper no chance.
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 ?
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.
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 .
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.
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)
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.