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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Who really wants promotion?
« Last post by Droitwich Baggie on Today at 01:44:28 PM »If Phillips does go, it will that our management and heirach don't want to go up.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: TV Games
« Last post by SmethDan on Today at 01:43:56 PM »We are not amused 
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Harvey Barnes (on loan from Leicester)
« Last post by tuamigos on Today at 01:32:40 PM »If anybody at Leicester decides to send him back out on loan, we're the only club he can join. You can only play for two clubs in a year / season.
I can't see that happening, would make Puel look a right twerp
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Who really wants promotion?
« Last post by Backofthenet on Today at 01:29:26 PM »The question posed about wanting promotion is really interesting and has seen some well thought out responses supported with solid reasoning.
I would invite someone from the club to state their objective which will obviously point out they do want promotion.
We can then see if they back the words with action. I'm not meaning a gung ho attititude in the transfer window but what we have mostly agreed on to be the real strengthening of our squad with quality signings.
I also accept that these are not easy to find but the names with have been 'linked with' correctly or otherwise almost bring me to despair.
I would invite someone from the club to state their objective which will obviously point out they do want promotion.
We can then see if they back the words with action. I'm not meaning a gung ho attititude in the transfer window but what we have mostly agreed on to be the real strengthening of our squad with quality signings.
I also accept that these are not easy to find but the names with have been 'linked with' correctly or otherwise almost bring me to despair.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: The Liquidator liquidated?
« Last post by FallOutBoy on Today at 01:17:47 PM »I'll be honest, apart from the Villa game I haven't sung along that much. I'm worried the police are using it as a sting operation to bump up their arrest figures. 
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Ex Players Thread
« Last post by FallOutBoy on Today at 01:13:18 PM »Completely forgot ex Albion youth player Paul Downing was playkng championshi football with Blackburn this season. Has only made 4 appearances this season and is looking likely to move back to move back to league 1 this month. Not making a bad career for himself though.
Any player that comes through the academy and has a sustained career in league football is a success story. Some academies realise this, some don't.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Harvey Barnes (on loan from Leicester)
« Last post by FallOutBoy on Today at 01:11:16 PM »I'm not syaing i've heard anything BUT if Puel changes his mind is it possible for him to come back to us?
If anybody at Leicester decides to send him back out on loan, we're the only club he can join. You can only play for two clubs in a year / season.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: The Liquidator liquidated?
« Last post by LiamTheBaggie on Today at 01:06:56 PM »Anybody offended by the Liquidator, or any form of language it entails, needs to sit in a cellar and never come out.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Who really wants promotion?
« Last post by FallOutBoy on Today at 01:05:59 PM »If Bournemouth, a League 1-sized club with no financial advantage over other Prem clubs, can get promoted and comfortably stay midtable with a young squad playing decent football, then anyone can. You need a decent head coach, a clear recruitment strategy coming from above the level of the current head coach, a good scouting network and an owner/board who plan for the long term.
We're a bigger club than the majority of bottom-half Prem sides, we're at no disadvantage other than the fact we employ crap head coaches and have awful recruitment and zero long-term (or even medium-term) planning. Whether Dowling and Moore are the men to create a long-term recruitment strategy (I have serious doubts), and whether Jenkins would even let them (again, serious doubts) we will have to wait and see.
I won't argue with the second part of that, but I have to take issue with the first. Bournemouth do have a well-heeled owner who supports them through cash injections (or at least did to get them up). They got fined nearly £5 million by the football league for breaking FFP
Story - https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11743/11426730/bournemouth-agree-4-75m-settlement-with-efl-for-breach-of-ffp-rules
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: The Liquidator liquidated?
« Last post by Norfolk Baggie on Today at 12:52:20 PM »We absolutely need to keep the liquidator. When it comes on I start to dance. My son standing next to me is usually mortified...