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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: After Match Debate

« on: April 23, 2024, 06:37:14 PM »

I’d be more interested in signing him for next season.

No, No and No,


Too old and too odious !

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: After Match Debate

« on: April 23, 2024, 01:24:08 PM »

I know this is highly unlikely, but how much pleasure would be derived from beating Leicester in the play off final and shoving it up Vardys passage.

Heavenly, we can only dream !!!

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Next Match Forum - 27/04 Sheffield Wednesday (A) / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: April 22, 2024, 03:30:54 PM »

I think he means Sheffield Wednesday. They came back from two down with a couple of late goals at home against Norwich earlier this month.

got it, cheers !

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General Football & Sports / Re: The big sports thread

« on: April 22, 2024, 03:24:56 PM »

Dan in JCB yellow, with a big bucket out front interesting image.

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup

« on: April 22, 2024, 03:23:50 PM »

Is it? So we just aim to finish above The Ipswichs, Norwichs and Leicesters and then its job done?
Reminds me of what my Dad used to say. Aim high and you might not get there. Aim to be average, and you won't even make that.

I love the sentiment, but we are not going to compete with Sovereign funds / Cartels, while Shilen is shaping up to be our saviour, he aint the second coming.  We will not compete with the top 6 however much we collectively wish it. Sorry !

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Next Match Forum - 27/04 Sheffield Wednesday (A) / Re: Pre Match Chat

« on: April 22, 2024, 03:19:03 PM »

Boy, will they be up for this.  I watched their comeback against Norwich, I expect them them to really go for us physically.

do you mean Blackburn?

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup

« on: April 22, 2024, 12:30:24 PM »

Although much of the attitude of the big clubs, and the national media's cowtowing to them stinks, the last thing I'd want would be a breakaway Superleague.  The gap between them and the rest would become more or less unbridgable.  They might even try to turn it into a US type franchise without promotion or relegation. As an Albion fan you always hope we may be able to re-establish ourselves, so that we can take on the Liverpools and Man Utds and give them a good game. Otherwise what's the point? Football is a competitive sport. Is the pinnacle of our ambition to be champions of some second tier divsion?

Its that now, effectively !

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: After Match Debate

« on: April 20, 2024, 02:30:34 PM »

ref pays us back for the events at home to dingles, leaves the door slightly ajar for Hull 

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: Match Officials

« on: April 20, 2024, 02:28:37 PM »

do wonder if he ius paying us back for events at the Hawthorns, which cannot have been good for him

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 20, 2024, 02:10:05 PM »

A point here would be incredible. Almost guarantees play offs

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 20, 2024, 01:57:00 PM »

how we could do witha striker, oh we have one on the bench !

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Last Match Forum - 20/04 Leicester City (A) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 20, 2024, 01:37:10 PM »

not fussed if we finish 5th or 6th, either way we have to beat 2 others.
Would be a bitter pill if we didnt get at least 6th though !

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General Football & Sports / Re: FA Cup

« on: April 18, 2024, 09:20:52 PM »

Divide and conquer, all part of the superleague plan

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General Football & Sports / Re: Anything England Football

« on: April 16, 2024, 04:07:36 PM »

At the moment I think Southgate and most fans picks goes Foden left / Bellingham Central and Saka right. Foden gets shunted left probably unfairly but because he's more comfortable out there than Bellingham.

However Foden, Palmer, Saka would allow us to drop Bellingham deeper to play central with Rice, which I think would work really well. Rice Bellingham central has legs, power, pace, bite and quality and you've got balance between one who naturally wants to be more defensive and sit, and another who wants to press forward.

Wouldnt disagree with a 5 man midfield

 ------- Keeper (Pickford?)

Walker   Stones    Qanash??   Shaw (trippier)

 -------------- Rice

---- Foden         Palmer           Saka

-------------- Bellingham

--------------------Kane

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General Football & Sports / Re: Anything England Football

« on: April 16, 2024, 12:42:52 PM »

Manager created a team in his own image, Dour, organised, fit, lacking in flair and creativity.

Used to be known as "the english way".
Most successful teams have been a marriage of "the english way" with a sprinkling of highly talented players, or supporting a generational talent (Pele / Maradona / Messi).

If we look at the Argentine side, you would hardly call McAllister / Otamendi / Fernandez / Rodrigo DePaul ...... world beaters, but they were, Largely due to Messi & Di Maria

Gareth needs to choose some "quality" and stick with it, personally I would go Saka / Foden / Palmer.

Grealish / Gordon / Sterling / Bowen   might make my squad but unlikely to play. Rashford definitely would not

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Atmosphere at Home Games

« on: April 16, 2024, 12:19:34 PM »

villainous work is hard to find these days 

nearest thing to a job for life, based upon the vitriol on here

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 15, 2024, 11:39:52 AM »

Andi Weimann.

sorry, I was attempting (and failing) Irony !

Another over the hill failure not quite in the Ricky lambert / Mark Albrighton class I admit, but if he is the answer, words fail me (they did)

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 15, 2024, 11:22:19 AM »

I've said it on many occasions now, that he a scorer of great goals, but not a great goalscorer.

He's a very likeable guy.

He grafts and grafts but he isn't clinical enough. Just like he made an impact off the bench in his first appearance for us, I think that is where he would be now if DD wasn't always injured.

We haven't seen enough of Maja to see if he is any better than BTA, but hopefully he is and BTA can be impact player off the bench.

Our options are limited and AW obviously isn't showing much in training if he still does not come on when we are trying to get an equaliser.

AW

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Blind Dave

« on: April 15, 2024, 11:18:13 AM »

Well deserved, as above, why so long ??

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Atmosphere at Home Games

« on: April 15, 2024, 11:17:33 AM »

My first memories of football are of the shock of

• proper black country accents" (being as I am from Great Barr).
  Getting on the special and the chaos and singing on the top deck,
  The queues and crush to get in / under the gates
  Knees up mother brown and the pushing and shoving of great waves of humanity against "crash barriers"
  The smell of beer / fags / pi55 (the bogs under the brummie were open sewers
  The incessant singing, once I learned the words of the songs, I would leave the ground hoarse
  The running "battles" in halfords lane, often with no actual violence
  The swearing by thousands, like "your going to get your freaking head kicked in"

"

Thats what I fell in love with and in some ways the football was just a facilitator to the match experience

Oh and Willie beating a full back and inviting hiim back for another go, while Ossy had a fag from a fan, the like of which will never be seen again !

I actually feel sorry for modern fans not living that experience.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 13, 2024, 02:08:20 PM »

When he skies it over the bar from three yards out, it’s going to attract comments I’m afraid. Any footballer would get the same.

Nwankadu Kanu (sp) was a multi million pound player man years ago and he managed to miss from a yard, it happens to the very best,

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: End of season theme, Poll included

« on: April 12, 2024, 06:45:02 PM »

I reckon if we all dress up as stewards would be funny 

Quite like that one !!!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Brandon Thomas-Asante

« on: April 12, 2024, 06:35:48 PM »

I just re-read the first few pages on this thread and it is fair to say that BTA has exceeded expectations, not sure what else the lad can do frankly

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Last Match Forum - 10/04 Rotherham United (H) / Re: In Game Chat

« on: April 10, 2024, 08:44:15 PM »

I don’t think he’s ever been as bad as some make out …I am disappointed he hasn’t had more efforts from range when he clearly knows how too.

We need one more before HT then steamroller them 2nd half

Yes he has, he has been dire

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan

« on: April 10, 2024, 08:37:48 PM »

Darren Moore was a very solid player for WBA, totally committed and a leader by example, deserves our respect.