Well this thread is trundling along nicely

comment by BaggyBomber (U19742)
posted 3 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by aries22 (U1203)
posted 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
I see no Wo1ve5 fan is arguing when I say that they'd take Tony Pulis as manager in a heartbeat.
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Personally I wouldn't. A club sells their identity to play a certain way, with him. Allardyce too. Just to sit above the relegation zone.

I would rather take my chances with a more exciting coach and risk failure to advance, than settle for mediocrity. Each to their own though.
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Yes, you've perfected sitting IN the relegation zone, being above it you find a bit more of a struggle. Your exciting coaches (name one), since God knows when, have been great risk-takers where failure to advance is concerned.
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They haven't. Our choice of manager since McCarthy has been poor. Never said it wasn't.

However, I would rather take the chance of trying to bring in progressive managers like Leicester and Southampton have, than turn to Pulis or Allardyce. Turning to those two just shows a lack of a long term plan to me and means that a club is content with just avoiding relegation at any cost.

Aries point was that all Wolves fans would immediately swap managers with Albion. I just pointed out that I wouldn't. I am sure you are all very excited at the prospect of playing 6 defenders this weekend though.

And well done Wet Bum on being the official long ball team of 2015, it was on sky this morning!

Since when do any supporters on a football forum have any say in who the club appoints or how they play football?
Keep it real. All we are doing is going along for the ride.

comment by WOLVES55 (U10973)
posted 1 minute ago
And well done Wet Bum on being the official long ball team of 2015, it was on sky this morning!
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I'll contact my MP right away....

Hoooooooof Bromwich Albion.

Since when did 'long ball' equal 'hoof'?
Wolves fans and Igor haven't got a clue how Albion play because they don't watch us. All they're doing is trotting out the same rubbish because it's Tony Pulis.
Wolves have been crap most of the season too.

Most of the season????

All of us season.

Mostly the last game on MoT.d Aries..

I time my sleep with the wet bums.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
comment by aries22 (U1203)
I see no Wo1ve5 fan is arguing when I say that they'd take Tony Pulis as manager in a heartbeat.
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Personally I wouldn't. A club sells their identity to play a certain way, with him. Allardyce too. Just to sit above the relegation zone.
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We're 13th, not 17th.
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I would rather take my chances with a more exciting coach and risk failure to advance, than settle for mediocrity. Each to their own though.
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I will settle for mediocrity in the PL for now over being in the Championship any day. Tony Pulis's remit was to keep Albion in the PL pro tem and he's succeeding in that. Good luck with appointing an exciting coach and running a risk, but you risked failure and achieved it in League One without troubling to appoint anyone exciting.
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Our choice of manager since McCarthy has been poor. Never said it wasn't.
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I think that answers your point about appointing an exciting manager? The most exciting manager out there who's available and might come to Wolves is Nigel Pearson. I think he's a realistic target for you.
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However, I would rather take the chance of trying to bring in progressive managers like Leicester and Southampton have, than turn to Pulis or Allardyce. Turning to those two just shows a lack of a long term plan to me and means that a club is content with just avoiding relegation at any cost.
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And what exactly is Wolves' long-term plan? I really hate to drive home the point that Wolves couldn't even avoid relegation, and whilst no Albion fan can say he's 100% happy at the moment, we would certainly prefer to be where we are with the manager we have than in the Championship with Kenny Jackett.
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Aries point was that all Wolves fans would immediately swap managers with Albion. I just pointed out that I wouldn't. I am sure you are all very excited at the prospect of playing 6 defenders this weekend though.
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Yep, a back four and two holding MF who can also turn to attack.

If you actually read that.

Jump.

I would have thought the charmless Direby wannabe wums on here would be better using their childish name-calling on the Villa site. That's the team challenging their proud Premiership relegation record.

All those years of hating Pulis and boasting about The Albion Way

"I would HATE for us to play like Stoke - they are ugly, dirty and anti football"

Now he's your Saviour

Derby

Record breakers

Wolves = Walsall. You're insignificant to us now.

comment by ❌❌❌UH❌❌❌ (U16263)
Now he's your Saviour
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He's defnitely kept us in the Premier League.
Who's your Saviour?
I'll wait.

comment by Igor is feeling topper. (U1993)
If you actually read that.
Jump.
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How do you feel about coming up to the PL and your best player is someone who couldn't hold down a place in the Albion team?
Where do you think you will need to strengthen apart from all over the pitch?
Or do you think you will do a Leicester?

comment by Igor is feeling topper. (U1993)
posted 8 hours, 29 minutes ago
Mostly the last game on MoT.d Aries..
I time my sleep with the wet bums.
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So you would have seen us against Newcastle United then.
And can you remember why Newcastle United are so special in your memory of your last, disastrous PL campaign?

Even 5 time CL winners, Liverpool, celebrated a 2-2 draw at home to us, like they'd just won the league.

what a team

comment by heisenberg... (U4832)
posted 12 hours, 51 minutes ago
Since when do any supporters on a football forum have any say in who the club appoints or how they play football?
Keep it real. All we are doing is going along for the ride.
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We don't. You can voice your opinion on a manager though. If you don't like that, what is the point in being on a football forum?

How do you feel about coming up to the PL and your best player is someone who couldn't hold down a place in the Albion team?
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Who Everton and 4 other Prem teams are after!

Wolves = Walsall. You're insignificant to us now.
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Who cares about what the Long ball team of 2015 thinks?
We only care what Sky think and Wolves have been on Sky 4 times in 3 weeks When was Wet Bum last on? No one wants to watch Wet Bum #justgivingthepeoplewhattheywantonsky

I love how Aries just makes everything Albion about Wolves. He ignores everything else and just compares them to us.

He would rather have a team playing mediocre football, finishing bottom half every season, whilst any player with any flair leaves the club and being above Wolves, than trying to be more progressive and emulate what teams that have been promoted since have done and surpassed them. You might be 13th the moment, but you are only 6 points above relegation and could easily get nothing from your next three games and be back in the mire.

I know where Wolves are. You don't need to keep reminding me. However, if we ever get promoted, I would hope we are more ambitious and expansive than Albion, even if that risks relegation. Hiring a manager like Pulis shows that a team is just happy to survive in the short term and having him for a prolonged period results in the loss of any flair players. Palace got rid early after he had done the initial job and before he had gutted the team and managed to build. Stoke took years under Hughes to turn it round and risked relegation when Pulis left. Albion look like they are sitting in for the long run with him. To me that shows a lack of ambition, but if you are happy with that, then good for you.

Tamwolf... Aries is quite correct in what he says. There are 100 million reasons why we appreciate Pulis keeping us in the Premiership although there is no concrete evidence that we would have been relegated anyway.

I would agree his style of football isn't entirely exciting or attractive and I for one would hope the Pulis tenure is not too long.

Whatever you say will not change the fact that West Bromwich Albion are a top tier club whilst Wo1ve5 are a second rate outfit playing in a sub-standard league in a tin-pot stadium with inferior playing staff and unlikely to achieve Premier status in the next decade.

We are without question, the top team in the area and that will not change so Dingles, accept your fate and continue in your mediocre way in mid-table Chumpionship avoiding a return to Div 1.

Happy New Year Dingles

comment by WOLVES55 (U10973)
posted 52 minutes ago
... [Derby's] best player is someone who couldn't hold down a place in the Albion team...
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Who Everton and 4 other Prem teams are after!
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If George Thorne leaves Derby, that's the end of their dream.

tin-pot stadium
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Really? Even you know our ground is better, and not in Handsworth!

Wo1ve5 are a second rate outfit
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Yet on TV every week, we have been on Sky more time in the last 2 weeks than you have been this season!

unlikely to achieve Premier status in the next decade.
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New owners on the way very exciting times ahead!!!


We are without question, the top team in the area
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That does not say how good you are it says how rubbish midlands football is when Wet anti-football Bum the official hoofball team of 2015 according to Sky and am I right in saying the team last on MOTD most? is the best team in the midlands................

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 51 minutes ago
I love how Aries just makes everything Albion about Wolves. He ignores everything else and just compares them to us.
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I'm not ignoring everything else. Everything else you say is about Wolves and how you'd like to appoint a go-ahead manager even if it is risky etc. We just need to see your board do that.
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He would rather have a team playing mediocre football, finishing bottom half every season...
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Bottom half every season - where did I say that?
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... whilst any player with any flair leaves the club... than trying to be more progressive and emulate what teams that have been promoted since have done and surpassed them.
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Well done to Leicester, Watford, Southampton and Crystal Palace (the latter in administration twice in the last 15 years). But not Newcastle, Sunderland, Bournemouth, Norwich or Swansea, nor massive established PL club Aston Villa.
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You might be 13th the moment, but you are only 6 points above relegation and could easily get nothing from your next three games and be back in the mire.
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That's true. Equally, we could get 12 points from our next four fixtures. Where would we be then? Or we could get 6-7 points and be anywhere between 10th and 13th.
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I know where Wolves are. You don't need to keep reminding me. However, if we ever get promoted, I would hope we are more ambitious and expansive than Albion, even if that risks relegation.
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If you get promoted and keep Kenny Jackett, I don't fancy your chances.
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Hiring a manager like Pulis shows that a team is just happy to survive in the short term and having him for a prolonged period results in the loss of any flair players.
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Short term - the key words. That's what we've been trying to tell you.
What flair players have left us or want to leave because of Pulis?
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Palace got rid early
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Wrong. Check your facts.
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Stoke took years under Hughes to turn it round and risked relegation when Pulis left. Albion look like they are sitting in for the long run with him. To me that shows a lack of ambition, but if you are happy with that, then good for you.
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Still more ambitious and better managed on and off the field than some clubs I could name.