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[Albion] Should TB sack Potter?
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BluesRockDJ
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- Jan 24, 2020
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Perhaps without them going out on loan straight away ?
They’ve only lost twice this season, and he doesn’t say that ever game. But did say it when we beat them and drew earlier in the season [emoji849]
BluesRockDJ
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Let's keep digging up the past............was the late Alan Ball in charge of Stoke for any of the games of which you refer ? The whole dynamic of football has changed since those days .
super-seagulls
Soup! Why didn’t I get any Soup?
What happened last season!
BluesRockDJ
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Going to be VERY controversial here........how about bringing in a young attacking manager with an Albion legend as his sidekick.................Rooney and Rosenior ?
Rooney won’t move down south. Just built a mansion, Colleen doesn’t trust him…
Of course not - silly question.
The fact that the next man up will more than likely be the third clone in a row facing identical issues suggests TB needs to look inward before passing the buck.
The fact that the next man up will more than likely be the third clone in a row facing identical issues suggests TB needs to look inward before passing the buck.
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Kosh
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I’m not sure we’d sack GP even if we went down, we’re not managed in the same way as certain other PL clubs, and I’d suggest GP would bring us back up within a few seasons anyway.
Right now, we’ve lost our identity a wee bit. We’re playing safe passes in our attacking play, so often that we’re literally nullifying our own threat. I was there last week and proud of how we responded to going 2-0 down so quickly, but we remained timid in possession - which we had an awful lot of.
During one of GPs early games at St James’ I witnessed some of the best attacking play I’d ever seen from the Albion... we were playing incisive forward passes right through the middle of the pitch and into the channels. The ball was doing the work. Now we’re moving up the pitch in possession, whilst the ball moves sideways... the inevitable high line is leaving us hugely vulnerable to the counter. For me GP is now too reliant on our WBs being providers, sadly they’re all too often not delivering the quality final ball we need.
All I really want right now, is for GP to watch some tapes of his early games and try to rekindle the kind of thinking that left Steve Bruce dumbfounded (I know, lol) but we did.
Watching us of late, I’m reminded of the George Burley Ipswich team, which was pretty but not all that incisive.
All of that said, we have no right to be living with teams like Liverpool tbh, but I’d like to see us at our best nonetheless.
Right now, we’ve lost our identity a wee bit. We’re playing safe passes in our attacking play, so often that we’re literally nullifying our own threat. I was there last week and proud of how we responded to going 2-0 down so quickly, but we remained timid in possession - which we had an awful lot of.
During one of GPs early games at St James’ I witnessed some of the best attacking play I’d ever seen from the Albion... we were playing incisive forward passes right through the middle of the pitch and into the channels. The ball was doing the work. Now we’re moving up the pitch in possession, whilst the ball moves sideways... the inevitable high line is leaving us hugely vulnerable to the counter. For me GP is now too reliant on our WBs being providers, sadly they’re all too often not delivering the quality final ball we need.
All I really want right now, is for GP to watch some tapes of his early games and try to rekindle the kind of thinking that left Steve Bruce dumbfounded (I know, lol) but we did.
Watching us of late, I’m reminded of the George Burley Ipswich team, which was pretty but not all that incisive.
All of that said, we have no right to be living with teams like Liverpool tbh, but I’d like to see us at our best nonetheless.
You're confusing entitlement with ambition.
Even if it's long term / no definite timeframe, the club's own PR is more ambitious than that, and rightly so.
I love the Fairy's recent votes - does he actually watch football - or even have an interest in it? Perhaps he's just trying to be controversial....which makes a change. 
maresfield seagull
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Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
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Some people still haven't figured this division out yet, it's not a division where it is easy to win games in, or to score lots of goals in, unless you are a team that has spent billions on your squad, thanks mainly to Champions League money and 4 times+ more income than most in the division
Barely any clubs have strikers who make it to 20+ goals a season, (in fact only 2 players managed 20 or more last season, Kane and Salah and only three the season before that)
A lot of clubs have long runs of games without a win (and /or run of successive defeats) - for example, Leicester City went from December 28th 2021 until March 1st 2022 without a league win this season / Palace went 7 games no wins (and no goals) at the start of a season not long ago too
Maybe once those who currently fail to understand what this division is about and they finally get it, hopefully we will see the end of the overly negative, overly critical posts about the players / manager / owner, etc
Weststander
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Stanley Matthews was a better crosser of the ball than Gerry Fell.
Football’s been in decline for years.
Thanks for the condescending and self evident post.
I'm fairly sure we knew all that. The question, then, is why does Tony Bloom not understand it? Or, when he talks about regular top ten finishes, is he actually talking about the year 2030? Or is it just PR spin to get more season ticket sales and calm the natives.
Actually, let's just put that aside. I find the Premier League astonishingly boring precisely for the reasons you highlight. So paying a King's ransom to watch us finish 16th ish on 40 points ish for every remaining existential season is an actual purgatory. If that's the future we'll lose fans the way Katie Price loses her knickers. And if the alternative is seeing my club also being taken over by state sponsored blood money, well, that's worse.
Perhaps the European Super League wasn't such a bad idea after all. At least the rest of us could then have a reasonable competition between ourselves, just so long as someone on high sanctioned the Saudis as well, instead of selling them the planes that bomb Yemeni hospitals.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Ye course …not!…..you worked out how many Liverpool have won out of the last four games against us ….
I’ll help you out…same number as we’ve beaten them …oh dear!
portslade seagull
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It's not just a striker we need though, the midfield seems totally bereft of goalscoring prowess and any ability to actually create. We need strikers and midfielders
Wardy's twin
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Need to sack who ever sanctioned the Dan Burn move as lack of CBs has f*cked our style....
Neville's Breakfast
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Oh no, not again !!!
pork pie
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Yes. Useless. Should get rid ASAP.