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WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 02-01-2015
So here we are. Another year, another boss down in the technical area. And though he has yet to officially take charge of an Albion match, our new gaffer arrives having won more matches at the Hawthorns than Alan Irvine and Pepe Mel combined. Now he just has to master the trick of doing it for us rather than against us.
Welcome to your favourite hunting ground, Tony.
![[Image: tony_pulis_012.jpg]](http://s14.postimg.org/pl24zf1i9/tony_pulis_012.jpg)
After watching Victor and Bobby train for ten minutes, Tony prays the sixteen-million-pound strikeforce he's been told about is stuck in traffic somewhere.
It's a new year and a new start, and the timing couldn't be better. With just over a week to prepare for his first Premier League match in charge of the Baggies, having absorbed what he's seen down at West Ham, Tony Pulis could scarcely hope for a better chance to experiment than in an FA Cup tie against non-league opposition. That's not to say that Gateshead should be underestimated or dismissed - in their first third round fixture since 1955, they'll no doubt pull a good crowd down from the North East, and they remain a strong Conference side with quick, confident players - but hopefully, the beginning of a new Albion era should encourage a decent attendance and plenty of optimism among our own fans too. I'd be very surprised if Pulis opts for a fringe side in this game, as it's the perfect opportunity to see exactly what his best players are made of. Every member of the squad should start with a clean slate, and be out to impress and nail down their starting place for next weekend.
It's been a long time since Albion have faced non-league opposition in the cup - you have to go way back to the four consecutive years when we did so in the early Nineties; a real mixture of joys and horrors - and it's worth remembering that for every Marlow or Aylesbury, there's a Halifax or a Woking. Twenty years on, with a brand new boss and a point to prove, you'd hope we're made of sterner stuff. Fingers crossed.
Classic Matches
FA Cup, non-league opposition
A timely reminder of how things can go right, and how they can go very wrong...
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - WBA-Josh - 02-01-2015
Foster
Gamboa-McAuley-Lescott-Pocognoli
Mulumbu-Yacob
Sessegnon-Morrison-Varela
Berahino
Gamboa-McAuley-Lescott-Pocognoli
Mulumbu-Yacob
Sessegnon-Morrison-Varela
Berahino
Subs
Myhill
Dawson
Wisdom
Dorrans
Brunt
Blanco
Ideye
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Foxman_WBA - 02-01-2015
I take it you want us to go for this one then josh!
My team;
Myhill
Gamboa-Dawson-Gmac-Davidson
Yacob
Varela-Blanco-Sameras
Anichebe-Ideye
If any of these cant cut it against Gateshead then they don’t deserve to be in our team! Simple as! Big test for the fridge players.
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Baggievicar - 02-01-2015
(02-01-2015, 17:40)Foxman_WBA Wrote: Big test for the fridge players.
You think they'll be frozen out otherwise, Foxy?
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Foxman_WBA - 02-01-2015
(02-01-2015, 18:30)Baggievicar Wrote:(02-01-2015, 17:40)Foxman_WBA Wrote: Big test for the fridge players.
You think they'll be frozen out otherwise, Foxy?
wonder if they'll be cool under pressure
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - talkSAFT - 02-01-2015
Anichibe = The Refrigerator
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Dingle-Dingle - 02-01-2015
Anchovie`s Best kept refridgerated. DD
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - WBA-Josh - 02-01-2015
(02-01-2015, 17:40)Foxman_WBA Wrote: I take it you want us to go for this one then josh!
My team;
Myhill
Gamboa-Dawson-Gmac-Davidson
Yacob
Varela-Blanco-Sameras
Anichebe-Ideye
If any of these cant cut it against Gateshead then they don’t deserve to be in our team! Simple as! Big test for the fridge players.
The FA Cup should be very important to us. That means in tomorrow's match we need to go for the kill and strangle the life out of Gateshead from the first minute to the last. The players in my 11 include some of our best players not only at the club but also in their position who need to show Tony why they are classed as that and some of the guys who haven't had much chance this season such as Gamboa and Yacob. These 2 will have the chance to show that AI was wrong not to play them.
I like the whole final chance saloon for our Hotpoint fridge players
but to me it should be the best 11 or close to it. If this was a mid-week game with a league game a few days later, I would wholeheartedly agree with us playing the other members of the squad because the league is more important than the cup (at least in our current position) and rotation is a good thing to do when playing 3 games in a week. Of course that is just my way of looking at things.
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - wba_1996 - 02-01-2015
TP says he is going for this one. Our development squad should be able to win tomorrow but, like Pulis, I would go for the best team I can put out.
Get all the use out of Mulumbu we can before the ACON.
RE: WBA vs Gateshead - FA Cup Third Round Match Thread - Wrigley - 02-01-2015
I have a spare ticket for Gateshead game if there is anyone out there that doesn't get the chance to go to many games don't want owt for it but you would have to meet me at the shrine on match day COYB