If we go down so be it, we were competitive for four of our five seasons in the Championship so why wouldn't be be successful again and gain promotion once more. Other clubs have done it and come back stronger for the experience.
After a shaky start to the season I thought Stephens went through a period of a dozen games where he got better, you can understand it would take a few games to acclimatise to the Premier.
I can understand the criticism of passing square but let's be honest often he has few options on the ball...
If we are going to play a back three I wouldn't mind seeing Stephens playing in the middle of the three (sweeping), I thought we needed a better passer in the system. This would also mean we can play a more positive midfield in Kayal and Propper.
I'm not really that bothered about kit manufacturers so I would vote for who every gives us the most amount of money. What is the value of the current contract and how many shirts have we sold? I presume the club make a healthy profit on kit sales?
The simple answer is Dunk and Duffy are the best centre halves at the club and we just need to work and work at it until we get it right.
Couple of observations we do seem to concede a lot of corners and free kicks maybe because most of the game is played in our half. Also our wingers are poor...
3 5 2 gets my vote, however my only concern is we will drop deeper and deeper and end up playing 5 3 2.
Somehow we need to get our wide players higher up the pitch but more important playing with confidence and taking defenders on.
I really can't see CH changing the formation he is very much a...
I thought we were poorer at Huddersfield and Leicester. Positives, we didn't concede from open play, we had a lot of the ball. Negatives, we did very little with the ball, can't defend set pieces, no movement from players off the ball, wide players have very little confidence on the ball and...
This will be the second Albion v Palace game I will have missed since 1979.
With the potential train strike and both sides putting out weakened teams and it being on the box I thought I would save myself £25 plus £15 train return to Caterham. Gives me more money to spend at West Brom.