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I think to be fair to him yesterday, Michael Gray was commenting on the whole team while, as a striker, Iwelumo focused on Murray.

I bet when you started this thread you never imagined this as a result. What a statement of intent. Still can't believe it happened to be honest. The most interesting thing in my view is how bad Norwich were. I know they won't be that bad other weeks but, considering they are possibly our main...

It must be tough to be up against the best central defensive pairing in the division at the best of times. When you have no support from your teammates, it is even harder.

There's a balance. Undoubtedly a couple of our goals were down to Norwich but we also had to pressurise e.g. Murray for the first and Knockaert for the fourth forced errors from them. In terms of their attack, I think we can take full credit for that. Our defence in the first hour, when they...

Agreed. There's no point in leaving a big club to get first team football at his age when you go to another club where you are far from guaranteed it. Hughton clearly had a plan about how to get the best out of Pritchard. It doesn't look like Neil does.

I don't get it. Surely as a supporter you get behind the team not pick out individual players and shout abuse at them. It's very odd. Judging by some of the threads on here, they are not alone in hating Stockdale. Personally, this and last season are my favourite Albion teams ever (started...

But even if he doesn't work there, it doesn't mean he wouldn't have worked here. It is a big difference to getting occasional games out wide to being a regular in his favoured position.

I remember that. He got good distance on the punch and won a free kick. Hard to know how anyone can criticise him for that. Some 'fans' are never happy.

I'm pretty sure that he would have been dropped for Rosenior once Duffy signed if Rosenior hadn't got injured. But he stayed in the team and has got better and better. He looks a different player to the start of the season when he hardly got forward. That run and pass for Skalak was a classic...

Agreed. Tottenham made him the player he is and looking at yesterday he is so far off a top Premier League player it is ridiculous. The irony is, if you are so frustrated at not getting first team football, why not go somewhere you are guaranteed to get regular games in your favoured central...

I doubt he will but it is a fair point. Ironically, after Alex Neil's comments, they seemed quite predictable. Too many similar players and we showed how to deal with it. Alex Neil calls it defensive, I call it actually being able to defend, which judging by yesterday and their record so far...

Anyone who criticised any of our players yesterday was an idiot. They were all very good and Bong was among the top two or three performers yesterday. So great to see him back to his best and what a ball for Skalak for the second goal.

Completely. He went for short term financial gain, which is fair enough. But, when you're a young player leaving a big club to play regular football, you go to the club that can offer that. We obviously had a clear plan of where to play him. Norwich wanted to add him to Hoolahan, Murphy and...

Absolutely. And he was earmarked for a more central role behind Murray for us. I never felt that Norwich were that bothered about him. It just felt like they missed out on other targets and decided they should go for him as we were interested. It's not worked for him so far or Norwich.

Agree with this. The head to head was a booking each at worst but he should have been sent off for the kick out at Murray. As others have said he could already have been booked for the dissent/not giving the ball back to Stockdale and then fouled Skalak after the incident with Murray and could...

No it is not. He was recommended by scouts who watched him a number of times, not in one match where Norwich were to be honest all terrible. He was apparently brilliant for Brentford in this division so I'm sure he is better than we saw yesterday. Looks like he might have made a big mistake as...

I do wonder sometimes what people expect from a Championship player. He's been a superb signing for us. So many assists and a couple of great goals last season and he's not even been here a year.

Stockdale 7.5 - Did all he had to do. One good save, a good punch in the first half and decent kicking Bruno 7.5 - Solid. Not as involved in attack as in other games but did his job well Duffy 9 - Blocked any threat from Norwich and won everything in the air. What a signing Dunk 9 - Great...

Completely agree with this. March was amazing for six or seven games last season but, before that, he had not been playing very well (understandably after another long term injury the previous season) and was only still in the team because we lack options. The worry is that he won't get that...

I find this opinion, which seems to be accepted by many on here, to be ridiculously harsh on Skalak. Yes, his biggest strength is crossing, as you'd expect from a winger, but he's working harder now and offers more defensively. Frankly, given the quality of his crossing, if the rest of his game...