[OldburyWBA]

West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland

Saturday 13th April 2024 15.00pm

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[throstle]

Sunderland game is a live international broadcast fixture, so live on BEIN Sports, ESPN etc

[KnaveofAlbion]

First game i'll be able to attend for an age. Going with Dad and Brother. Not been to the shrine since the 0-0 with Luton 18 months back.

Please give us a reason to smile Albion!

[Fritzl Palace]

I imagine the atmosphere will be somewhat more pumped as Sunderland will undoubtedly sell out and there ought to be a feel good factor after the win last night and the position we are in.

I still have haunting memories of the same fixture last season that killed our play off chances. Would be nice to avenge that and the defeat at their place earlier in the season which was a farce with Ballard scoring for them when he should have been sent off.

[NJS]

First game i'll be able to attend for an age. Going with Dad and Brother. Not been to the shrine since the 0-0 with Luton 18 months back.

Please give us a reason to smile Albion!

Very similar here, annual pilgrimage.  I'm driving so be careful and tolerant on the roads around Blackheath - Rowley Regis station.  Son who used to drive me is coming from Bristol.
The alternative of the train from the Surrey Hants border takes about 5 hours all in and costs ~£86.

Looking forward to it, watched Sunderland the other night and they are a typical championship side clattering into the back of opposition players and willing to run until they drop or substituted.  As Ballard goes in, he makes sure his foot goes down the ankle.  Jack Clarke is the main danger - show him down the outside.

Leeds couldn't penetrate their defence but didn't play well.  They have 4 clean sheets in 5;  BTA is going to get far fewer chances than against Rotherham, I'm not confident he'll take them.  I would be happy with a nervous draw

[alex1]

Looking forward to it, watched Sunderland the other night and they are a typical championship side clattering into the back of opposition players and willing to run until they drop or substituted.  As Ballard goes in, he makes sure his foot goes down the ankle.  Jack Clarke is the main danger - show him down the outside.

Maybe just as important not to pick up any injuries with Play-Offs on the horizon. On the otehr hand, we can't afford to slip up against Sunderland.

[Sted1990]

I expect Coventry to win so we need the 3 points.
Outside of Clarke we have better players & manager, so if we play well then we will win. The problem is we're stuttering over the line after a long season.

[SmethDan]

Here's hoping Ballard and O'Nien don't nobble anyone.

[the other AJ]

Sunderland game is a live international broadcast fixture, so live on BEIN Sports, ESPN etc

Cheers for that I didn’t realise. Good for us Baggies down under 

[timdon]

I expect Coventry to win so we need the 3 points.
Outside of Clarke we have better players & manager, so if we play well then we will win. The problem is we're stuttering over the line after a long season.

No we're not. Five wins, five draws, and no defeats in the last 10 matches suggests the opposite does it not? Admittedly we haven't always sparkled in a few of these matches but we have got the job done. I haven't actually checked but I suspect there are very few teams in the division who have a better record over the last 10 games.

[OldburyWBA]

No we're not. Five wins, five draws, and no defeats in the last 10 matches suggests the opposite does it not? Admittedly we haven't always sparkled in a few of these matches but we have got the job done. I haven't actually checked but I suspect there are very few teams in the division who have a better record over the last 10 games.

Last 10 games we're 4th behind Ipswich, Leeds and Norwich.

Last 6 3rd behind Norwich and Bristol City

Last 5 joint 5th behind Ipswich, Preston, Bristol City, Norwich with Middlesbrough

Purely down to the drawn games

https://footystats.org/england/championship/form-table

[baggie53]

Igor Balis day today COYB

[Droitwich Baggie]

Fellows and Chalobah start.

[Droitwich Baggie]

Leicester last night lost and now Leeds are losing. Banana skins all around.

[TheBaggieMan]

(4-2-3-1): Palmer; Furlong, Bartley, Kipre, Townsend; Chalobah, Mowatt; Fellows, Diangana, Johnston; Thomas-Asante

Albion subs: Griffiths, Reach, Ajayi, Yokuslu, M'Vila, Swift, Phillips, Wallace, Weimann.

[TheBaggieMan]

Josh Maja not even made the bench so must be some way from being fully fit.

[gazberg]

Josh Maja not even made the bench so must be some way from being fully fit.

He.played for the u21s last night mate

[Hunnington Baggie]

Josh Maja not even made the bench so must be some way from being fully fit.

played for U21’s yesterday, that and this isn’t the best game to come back to with Ballard playing.

[Droitwich Baggie]

Leicester and now Leeds have lost. Interesting at the top.

[Fritzl Palace]

Leicester and now Leeds have lost. Interesting at the top.

Please use the correct thread 

[gazberg]

Anyone else watching from abroad unable to get stream on WBA TV?

[Fritzl Palace]

Nice to see Ballard getting booed already.

[OldburyWBA]

Please use the correct thread 

You tell him