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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Wba financial report 2020-2021

« on: July 07, 2022, 01:13:23 PM »

To be fair - its taking a while for filed accounts to appear on Co House these days - think ours took over a week last time.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel

« on: November 23, 2021, 01:55:52 PM »

Not sure it requires even a good coach to work us out

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General Football & Sports / Re: What is the actual point of the Premier League?

« on: September 08, 2021, 02:15:32 PM »

Your second sentence explain sit all - it is a way of the richer clubs getting richer.

As the title says. I am struggling to understand what the point of the league is anymore. For all but a handful of teams it's a meaningless exercise. If you have a spare £500m you might get into the top 4. But then you need to keep investing heavily as well as accepting a hefty fine from the fair play boys. Wages alone for players would consume way more than the likes of wba could afford. So why bother? Teams literally buy the title now. Its not sport anymore. What on earth do League 1 & 2 clubs aim for? I'm glad I don't support Manchester City because Where's the feeling of pride and achievement when you know you paid for the title. I really dont know where football is going anymore

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General Football & Sports / Re: Slaven Bilic

« on: December 16, 2020, 12:36:43 PM »

Sad to see Bilic go but lets be honest since Lockdown we haven't been performing and his tactical decisions (except for last night) have been bizarre to see the least.

On top our general fitness as a team appears to be awful currently.

Admittedly, financial backing has been poor but where the money was spent on the transfers that were bought in failures appear to be down to Bilic:

- Diangana - hasn't been the same since his injury and very expensive (in hindsight)
- Krovinovic - luxury signing where a defensive midfielder was needed
- Grant - jury's out for me, confidence definitely an issue as we aren't creating chances but currently not looking great
- Ivanovic - we needed something but not looking great currently
- Pereira - again jury's out - struggling for form and confidence especially without Diangana pulling up trees

Understand why it has been done and not sure I am happy with Sam as a replacement but until we find someone to buy the club and pump some money in to the club, this is where we are. Sam will give us a chance as we are not down yet.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Callum Robinson (on loan from Sheff. Utd.)

« on: September 08, 2020, 10:23:40 AM »

Percy has just confirmed he is having a medical today on twitter

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General Football & Sports / Re: Kenneth Zohore

« on: September 03, 2020, 04:26:55 PM »

A loan fee from Boro would recoup some of the £8m.

Not sure how much though

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Players who have played for all midlands clubs?

« on: September 01, 2015, 01:15:21 PM »

Andy Gray - Villa, Wolves, Albion

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General Football & Sports / Re: Westbrom.com fantasy football

« on: August 14, 2014, 08:37:28 PM »

Doesn't seem to work

No just me being useless...

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 25 July 2014 - Sacramento Republic v Albion

« on: July 26, 2014, 06:07:21 AM »

You're on the wrong forum

Ha ha. Saw second half and thought we looked reasonable. And jiffy lube are the us equivalent of kwik fit - thanks google.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 25 July 2014 - Sacramento Republic v Albion

« on: July 26, 2014, 05:17:53 AM »

What is jiffylube?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next West Brom Head Coach

« on: June 12, 2014, 09:27:29 PM »

If the combination of my mathematics and the Express and Dingles reports are correct, both a long shot - Tim Sherwood should be named head coach at some point during the night!

Seriously now - what do people think will come first, England's first WC game or us naming a new boss?

England going out of the World Cup?

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Team

« on: September 12, 2013, 01:00:54 PM »

Myhill

Jones
McAuley
Ollson
Popov

Yacob
Mulumbu

Sessegnon
Anelka
Sinclair

Long

Subs:
Daniels
Ridgewell
Lugano/ Dawson (can't decide)
Dorrans
Amalfitano
Anichebe
Berahino

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Narrowing of the Pitch?

« on: September 04, 2013, 08:41:33 PM »

I'm sure I read/ heard somewhere that pitch size is now standard across the premier league. Not sure though. http://angryofislington.com/2012/09/01/new-premier-league-pitch-dimensions-rules/

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: What is our best starting 11 now?

« on: September 03, 2013, 01:30:01 PM »

For me:

Foster

Jones
McAuley
Ollson
Popov

Yacob
Mulumbu

Sessegnon
Anelka
Sinclair

Anichebe/ Long

Personally would like to see Long back up top on his own and Anichebe is a bit of an unknown.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Would you sell Peter Odemwingie

« on: July 20, 2012, 07:30:46 PM »

One word, no! Quality that is difficult to replace. Damn that's more than one word.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Claudio Yacob

« on: July 19, 2012, 08:56:04 PM »

Its reported on Telam a news site if you want to view it yourself you will need to translate it.

Thanks, seems a bit far fetched to me. But who knows...

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Claudio Yacob

« on: July 19, 2012, 08:10:24 PM »

Can someone tell me where the reports that it has broken down have come from?

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Have we finally arrived?

« on: March 04, 2012, 12:01:45 PM »

The biggest challenge we face at the end of this season is keeping our manager and our best players. It is imperative that we keep Ollsson, Morrison, Brunt, Mulumbu, Foster and Roy. Otherwise we are going nowhere.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Rangers

« on: February 19, 2012, 07:48:03 PM »

Feel sorry for the fans but apart from that......

Make an example of them.  Liquidate them and make them start again from the lowest level. (Wont be too hard getting back through the Scottish leagues anyway)

These clubs need to be made an example of, to show that you really cant run your club in such a terrible way financially.

You just shouldnt be allowed to get a way with not paying tax.

Put them out of business and set the standard.

To be fair to Rangers the EBT schemes they were involved in were a valid tax planning tool at the time - they have been caught by the government deciding to attack them - correctly so in my opinion.

The £9m of PAYE tax however is a different matter!

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General Football & Sports / Re: Lowlife XI

« on: February 12, 2012, 09:49:56 AM »

To be fair, if I take off my blue and white tinted glasses for a minute you cant really disagree with that.

Bit harsh to put Roy Keane in that company - Ronnie Wallwork would be a better bet.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Lawro Predicts

« on: December 30, 2011, 10:41:26 AM »

He really doesn't like us does he...

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Will the yellow and green away kit ever return?

« on: December 19, 2011, 10:10:43 PM »

I for one have never really liked it. Much prefer the red or black ones. Not convinced by this seasons blue effort though

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General Football & Sports / Re: Weekend Games 21/22/23/24 Oct 2011

« on: October 22, 2011, 01:26:01 PM »

Oh dear... supposed to be seeing a friend of mine who is a season ticket holder tonight - not sure the invite will still stand

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: A change to 4 4 2

« on: August 26, 2011, 11:28:36 AM »

Think this would be interesting:

Dorrans     Mulumbu      Hargreaves       Brunt

With Gera and Scharner on the bench. Hargreaves is much more than a DM IMO.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Respect for Stoke...

« on: August 25, 2011, 08:38:46 PM »

Hopefully they will be shattered at the weekend.