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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Roberto Mancini

« on: October 20, 2012, 11:31:55 AM »

We've actualy so far managed to disprove Rodgers' proposition - that possession of the ball is vital to winning a game - and I'm pretty happy about that.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: If James Morrison had waited........

« on: October 09, 2012, 01:20:44 PM »

Morrison is a clever player. He shows glimpses of it playing for Scotland but the system doesn't allow him the freedom that ours offers.

I think he's also targetted by Scotland fans but simply because they want to see Celtic/Ex-rangers players playing for Scotland. I mean - Commons over Mozza ffs?

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Booing of Anton Ferdinand

« on: October 07, 2012, 10:30:45 AM »

Absolutely disgusting comment to make just because people don't agree with you.

Not really. By chanting 'there's only one John Terry' you're automatically condoning racism. It doesn't matter whether or not the allegations by Anton were true.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Being: Liverpool

« on: September 28, 2012, 11:45:24 PM »

It is a truly awful show. I tried to watch it a while back, but who actually cares about 'families' and the so called 'real people'? Talk is cheap, and Brendan Rodgers is full of it. Yet they fail to show it on the pitch time and time again.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Peter Odemwingie

« on: September 27, 2012, 09:02:56 AM »

I think reading through the responses broods the message that you truly don't know what you've got until it's gone.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Yassine El Ghanassy (On loan from AA Gent)

« on: September 27, 2012, 08:57:31 AM »

Because they want to see if his ethic is there and if he can acclimatise to the English game, he's still very young and he wasn't brought in for the first team, rather as a raw talent that if he is good enough we buy and mould if not is shipped back to Belgium. Like Clarke keeps saying he's VERY good going forward but needs to learn the defensive portion of the game to a better degree

I understand that but, correct me if I'm wrong, our current wide men don't do enough defensive work anyway so wouldn't it be prudent to put a natural winger in El G on the wing?

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: September 26, 2012, 10:23:39 PM »

Here's the truth:

- Dorrans was awful. No excuses. He just isn't with it.
- Despite people complaining about Fortune, which I can't understand, he was really threatening down the wing. Sorry but if you deny that then I can't understand. Loads of attacks came through Fortune.
- Dawson was up against a very skilful winger and playing out of position. He also lacked support at times.
- Lukaku, Olsson and Mulumbu (to an extent) were our best players.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Steve Clarke

« on: September 25, 2012, 12:03:58 PM »

http://www.wba.co.uk//news/article/mourinho-hails-incredible-clarke-388777.aspx

JOSE Mourinho has given Steve Clarke a ringing endorsement as Albion boss, insisting: “He is doing amazing.”

Albion sit fourth in the table with ten points from their opening five games – their best-ever start to a Barclays Premier League campaign.

And the Real Madrid boss, who had the Hawthorns chief as his No.2 at Chelsea for three seasons, says he is not surprised to see Clarke flourishing in his first head coach role.

“He is doing amazing and I’m the last person to be surprised because I felt he was ready for this a long time ago,” said Mourinho.

“He is very mature and he’s a very strong personality.

“He can be a strong leader but at the same time he can establish a good relationship with the players.

“I’m not surprised.

“West Brom is a club with an incredible history and tradition but it is not a club to be in the top places of the Premier League, so we cannot expect Steve to finish in the Champions League places.

“But he is an incredible coach."

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: 'Brand' of football.

« on: September 24, 2012, 06:40:57 PM »

We've still got a good shape, and we're still organised, but once we get the ball we look to counter-attack - and quickly! I think that's the important bit though, that we're able to move it quickly. Ok, there's still some fine-tuning required not least because on Saturday some of the passes which didn't come off - and had they have done would've looked slick - caused our attack to faulter.

But it's a work in progress. And for a work in progress to net 10 points at the start of the campaign is nothing short of spectacular.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Jerome Thomas

« on: September 24, 2012, 06:30:26 PM »

Yeah look forward to Thomas/El Ghanassy coming into the action at some point. Both Gera and Brunt play the same way and want to drift inside, but it's always good to have someone with close control and pace who can hug the touchline as someone has already mentioned.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate

« on: September 23, 2012, 09:18:50 AM »

I thought Brunt played adequately yesterday. He's a great aerial an passing outlet. Alright, he didn't create much but you only have to review him statistically to realise how effective a player he is.

Aside from that, I was once again impressed by how well Morrison and Lukaku link together. Sometimes the former needs to raise his head and look around but apart from that, pretty good! I do think we suffered when Morrison was taken off; he's an integral part of that midfield trio; Lukaku couldn't get much service after he departed too.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat

« on: September 15, 2012, 04:02:20 PM »

The only way now is brute force. Let's hit them with physical strength. Lukaku + Fortuné could be devastating.

We have to keep tight and let the forwards ram their players.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: A View from the Opposition

« on: September 15, 2012, 11:08:49 AM »

Everyone says Lukaku for the biggest threat! Not disputing the point, but we have other good players 

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Some recognition?

« on: September 15, 2012, 11:05:54 AM »

Useful insight into the mindset of the National Media. A few points emerge

1. A team that finished 10th and 11th over the last two seasons were completely off their radar and unless we are playing one of the glamour clubs e.g. Liverpool most of them would have hardly covered one of our games.
2. Obsessed with the cult of the Manager it is all about Clarke good or bad.
3. Have not grasped the way the Albion recruit players they always portray it as a bit of a slight on the Head Coach.

Same old balls as per usual but at least they acknowledged they were probably wrong at the outset although as I have said before only three games in so it all could still go belly up and if it does we will no doubt have to suffer the "yes we were right about the Albion all along" video in January.

And this is exactly the problem.

If the players we currently have are capable players, with the capabilities of collectively producing a top ten/mid-table finish, then why would they suddenly lose those capabilities with a managerial change? I can't understand how a different head coach - yes a head coach; not a manager - coming in, who has made small but effective changes to our style of play, would disrupt our league momentum.

I know I'm not being very clear with what I'm trying to say, but neither are these pundits. It's the same excuse every time - Steve Clarke has never managed before and therefore WBA might be relegated. I see no logic in that argument and they have done absolutely no research on Steve Clarke as a person either. He wasn't a typical 'yes man' No. 2 when he was an assistant; he was always a hands on, interactive coach who liked to take coaching sessions; he was perfect for our system, which most pundits don't seem to understand.

They're all ignorant. The lot of 'em.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Most Over& Underated players ?

« on: September 11, 2012, 05:02:30 PM »

A lot of our players are severely underrated to be honest. Pundits, on the contrary, like to wax lyrical about Swansea and their business but we deserve a mention too.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Andy Murray

« on: September 11, 2012, 09:41:42 AM »

I dont think anyone needs to eat Humble Pie, Everyone i know who dislikes Murray including myself have never doubted his talent to tennis,  Its his personality and comments which he made in the past that has made me dislike him, Nothing to do with how good or bad of a tennis player he is

True.

But I can't understand why people go on about his personality. Off the court he's fine. He's a serious professional in the game of tennis, and I can't see what's wrong with that.

Anyway, good win Murray.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: How much time do George Thorne and Saido Berahino and maybe James Hurst have?

« on: September 09, 2012, 12:46:10 PM »

Who just likened Sterling to Cunningham?! Jog on haha 

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General Football & Sports / Re: Scotland v Serbia

« on: September 08, 2012, 08:23:08 PM »

They want to see their Celtic/ex-rangers players in action..

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General Football & Sports / Re: Scotland v Serbia

« on: September 08, 2012, 06:54:12 PM »

http://www.facebook.com/scotlandnationalteam

Wow some of the comments on the FT statuses are really hurtful for Morrison.

Did they ignore the fact that he was creating things in the second half?

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General Football & Sports / Re: Scotland v Serbia

« on: September 08, 2012, 05:20:21 PM »

Morrison had a poor game by his recent standards i thought, very sloppy in possession. He did create a few chances for the AWFUL Miller (how is he still playing) but aside from that i was dissapointed in him

He didn't actually. Morrison gave away possession three times. The rest of the team were just as sloppy. The difference between Morrison and the others, is that the former was able to be creative and composed when it was necessary.

I can't really say who had a good game for Scotland. Snodgrass was majorly sloppy and didn't create anything, Naismith had his moments but seriously faded towards the end, Adam... just shouldn't be allowed to hoof balls from such deep positions, Caldwell had a good-ish game, Berra was hopeless.

In fact, the goalkeeper was probably their best player.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Scotland v Serbia

« on: September 08, 2012, 04:57:36 PM »

Thought Caldwell has been by far the best player on the pitch. Done very well in that holding role.

Caldwell did well for one of the chances, and did his job pretty well. But I feel you need to give Morrison a mention; and I'm not being biased; he was one of the only people creating goal-scoring opportunities. Clever player, but goes unnoticed by incompetent commentators and Celtic/Rangers fans in the audience, until Jimmy makes the occasional mistake of course.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Scotland v Serbia

« on: September 08, 2012, 04:54:18 PM »

Morrison - creates three goal scoring opportunities in the second half...Miller misses them...James Morrison is taken off?

I can understand why Jimmy must get frustrated playing for Scotland sometimes. If he hasn't got the ball Charlie Adam is mouthing off at some other player or trying to play hopeful Beckham-esque cross-field balls. Morrison wants the short simple passing game but not many of the others seem interested.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Romelu Lukaku (On loan from Chelsea)

« on: September 07, 2012, 07:20:03 PM »

If he becomes a world wide star, well at least we can say we were one of his clubs hehe.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Would you take Clarke now

« on: September 07, 2012, 07:19:12 PM »

I was happy enough to give Clarke his chance,the one named that concerned me was Roy Keane!

Yeah indeed!

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General Football & Sports / Re: The Footballers Football Show

« on: September 07, 2012, 03:22:10 PM »

Hoddle was, ok I suppose. Can't say I like him as a person but he had a few good things to say.

Wilkins on the other hand, "my word" is he boring. He has some litany of superlatives I tell ya! Awful commentator.