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RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - Tibby Baggie - 04-02-2016
(04-02-2016, 00:38)4evaabaggie Wrote:(04-02-2016, 00:23)drewks Wrote: So much gloom and doom, some very much justified, some great points being made.
I'd just say look where we are NOW as opposed to 10 years ago. We are now a (pretty much) established PL club, very solvent and very unlikely to be relegated.
Hundreds of thousands of supporters would gladly be in our position.
End of?
Totally agree Drewks, I just hate the premier league, for us it will be a long slow road to build up sufficient independent non tv money to push on to the upper reaches ...... just had a thought ...... stoke, a similar sized club have been in prem longer than us, started off with Pulis, now just starting to bother the top ten with better football. There is hope yet.
It's the hope that kills you though
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - WBA Will - 04-02-2016
I agree that the priority is staying in the Premier League. I like seeing good players turn out for us against the biggest clubs, neither of which we would see in the Championship. However I think it's a very disingenuous argument to say that Pulis is a necessary sacrifice for this to happen; there are quite a few clubs in no danger of relegation that play much better football than us on a similar budget, and even with Pulis we're definitely not safe! That rhetoric is simply a false dichotomy. You're all correct that we haven't got the biggest budget in the league so I think it's pretty clear that we can't afford to give Pulis another transfer window to sign more expensive dross, which is what he did at Stoke and what he did last summer. I can't blame JP for not giving TP any more money in January.
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - BaggieMan - 04-02-2016
Will, you deserve another star if only for your excellent command of the English language!
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - Beefy 1965 - 04-02-2016
This Damn premier league is so money based people go to all ends just to survive.......
How many old People like Aries, Bournemouth Baggie, Baggie Man & Skad can remember buying the shoot magazine for four weeks and collecting this little lot when football was fun
![[Image: CZ6NEtCWwAIxgfr.jpg:large]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ6NEtCWwAIxgfr.jpg:large)
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - Dingle-Dingle - 04-02-2016
(04-02-2016, 02:23)Beefy 1965 Wrote: This Damn premier league is so money based people go to all ends just to survive.......
How many old People like Aries, Bournemouth Baggie, Baggie Man & Skad can remember buying the shoot magazine for four weeks and collecting this little lot when football was fun
Phew........ Thought we were the lowest ranked Prem team.......... Then I noticed...... We ARE according to this table the lowest ranked Prem team. DD
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - Baggievicar - 04-02-2016
Beefy, when I collected mine we were top flight and Wimbledon were non-league (where they belong).
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - BaggieMan - 04-02-2016
Nice one Beefy but AFTER my time methinks. Coloured printing hadn't been invented in the days when Derek Kevan was my hero.
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - talkSAFT - 04-02-2016
(04-02-2016, 11:16)TheBaggieMan Wrote: Nice one Beefy but AFTER my time methinks. Coloured printing hadn't been invented in the days when Derek Kevan was my hero.
Where does colour come from? (as in colour print, paint, dye, etc). Will the World ever run out? Serious question. Will Albion play Villa in varying shades of grey one day?
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - aries22 - 04-02-2016
I remember buying Shoot magazine but long before we were in the old Third Division, I'm sure! That's how old I am.
RE: WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread - Stairs - 04-02-2016
Very mid point as far as my football history goes. As said - Black & White, Billies Boots, Sportsnight with Coleman - they were the days - proper football, grass roots stuff etc.