[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Well here's a strange one (from the BBC write up):
The Baggies' past five home Premier League wins have come under a different manager - Allardyce, Slaven Bilic, Darren Moore, Alan Pardew and Tony Pulis.

Yep, can confirm that's correct. And it stretches back to August 2017, which was when we got our last home win under Pulis.

[Dingle-Dingle]

Well here's a strange one (from the BBC write up):
The Baggies' past five home Premier League wins have come under a different manager - Allardyce, Slaven Bilic, Darren Moore, Alan Pardew and Tony Pulis.

Yep, can confirm that's correct.  And it stretches back to August 2017, which was when we got our last home win under Pulis.

Was about to query this then I noticed the greed league bit lol.

DD

[drewks]

Well here's a strange one (from the BBC write up):
The Baggies' past five home Premier League wins have come under a different manager - Allardyce, Slaven Bilic, Darren Moore, Alan Pardew and Tony Pulis.

..... QUICK! Get a new manager in for the next home game!

[baggietrousers]

Why the f$%k is Clinton morrison a pundit on sky, because it certainly isn't for his insightful, considered and meaningful contribution.
He was just talking about 'that' free kick, along that other great pundit Lee hendry, and was completely wrong in his analysis.
Yes Mason had a mare, and made a mistake in blowing the whistle when he did. But he realised his mistake almost immediately and blew the whistle again before the ball went in, therefore no goal.
Thank God the journo on sky this morning talked some sense.
This is the first time I've watched the Sunday morning show this season, and I only watched soccer Saturday for the first week of the season which was complete crap with the new line up of 'experts' , but today's performance from Morrison just shows he hasn't improved one jot.
Can't wait to get back to the grounds so wont have to subscribe to this shit.
PS. Bartley was awesome.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Bizzare or not, I was pleased with that win. Our game has improved over the last 3 so am hoping new found confidence will be enough for the next 3 win games. Good on Bartley.

Is Pereira really as bad as people are saying?? Cos weeks ago evryone was praising him

[valpayne]

watched the highlights this morning on sky full 90 minutes observations thus.
We have improved defensively under sam this seems to be the first job he's insisted on and its showing
perhaps a bit too aggressive and desperate on occasion but its effective

the free kick was bewildering I can only assume he accidentally blew his whistle but as mentioned blew again to halt proceedings
before the ball went in. That said when it did go in at least one if not two of their players were in offside positions. No idea why Mason
decided to change his mind an award the goal for it to then be overturned again by VAR however as mentioned by others about time we had some luck

the good. gallagher in particular is tireless and constantly looking to put a tackle in and looks to win the ball back and does on a fair few occasions, Bartley was immense his goal priceless
and he seems to be spearheading the spirit and desire needed in this team, brighton are known to have most of the possession whoever they play
but the commentators very much favoured that WBA were being very proactive in nullifying and restricting them it happened at palace palace didn't
have hardly any of the ball for large spells but nicked it at the end.

the bad. As mentioned Perriera doesn't look up for it. He strolls around a lot and when he did get a great chance on the right in the second half he overplayed it and way too casual
fluffed the chance to take a shot or put a threatening cross in. Not at all surprised Sam substituted him for a defender cos we had a massive 3 points to defend and perreira was very lacklustre may as well have another defender on than a forward who doesn't care enough to do his job. Diangana similarly when he came on tried a bit harder than Perriera but not a patch on the player he was and could be
two penalties thankfully both missed and who'd have betted on wellbeck sticking a nail in our coffin? first one, our guy is jumping for the ball with the classic arm out to get leverage off the ground and ruffle the opponent handball was a bit harsh IMHO second one Oshea did get the ball first so again I'd say unfortunate.

the ugly. Were improving on that side of the game with the majority of the team scrapping and fighting for the ball about time to. their free kick goal that wasn't see above.

I still think were going down but we are fighting and improving. Realistically we need 3 wins in 3 and then we would be amongst it properly. bets anyone?

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

the free kick was bewildering I can only assume he accidentally blew his whistle but as mentioned blew again to halt proceedings
before the ball went in. That said when it did go in at least one if not two of their players were in offside positions. No idea why Mason
decided to change his mind an award the goal for it to then be overturned again by VAR however as mentioned by others about time we had some luck

The MOTD gang explained it pretty convincingly last night. Brighton had asked permission to take the free-kick quickly, which the ref had verbally given (as their players confirmed in post-match interviews). He then blew the whistle to allow the kick, but panicked and changed his mind when he spotted Johnstone standing by the post arranging the wall. He awarded the goal because he thought at first that he'd been too late with the second whistle, but VAR subsequently confirmed that the ball hadn't crossed the line at that point, so it was disallowed.

Brighton apparently did the same thing a couple of years back against Liverpool and got away with it, so in the name of consistency they might feel hard done by. But in contrast to what Lineker and his pals were saying, I think it opens a massive can of worms to allow quick free-kicks in any situation where a goal could be scored from one single strike. After all, if you allow that, why not "quick penalties" too? Why give the goalie chance to prepare himself? Both teams deserve the chance to ready themselves for a major set-piece, because what you've got otherwise is chaos and inconsistency; and as VAR has already demonstrated, heaping more arbitrary power into the hands of match officials goes a long way towards wrecking the game.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

As it stands with Burnley losing today, we need 10pts to be above them and Newcastle that's if they were not to get points.

It's a big ask.

[talkSAFT]

the free kick was bewildering I can only assume he accidentally blew his whistle but as mentioned blew again to halt proceedings
before the ball went in. That said when it did go in at least one if not two of their players were in offside positions. No idea why Mason
decided to change his mind an award the goal for it to then be overturned again by VAR however as mentioned by others about time we had some luck

The MOTD gang explained it pretty convincingly last night.  Brighton had asked permission to take the free-kick quickly, which the ref had verbally given (as their players confirmed in post-match interviews).  He then blew the whistle to allow the kick, but panicked and changed his mind when he spotted Johnstone standing by the post arranging the wall.  He awarded the goal because he thought at first that he'd been too late with the second whistle, but VAR subsequently confirmed that the ball hadn't crossed the line at that point, so it was disallowed.

Brighton apparently did the same thing a couple of years back against Liverpool and got away with it, so in the name of consistency they might feel hard done by.  But in contrast to what Lineker and his pals were saying, I think it opens a massive can of worms to allow quick free-kicks in any situation where a goal could be scored from one single strike.  After all, if you allow that, why not "quick penalties" too?  Why give the goalie chance to prepare himself?  Both teams deserve the chance to ready themselves for a major set-piece, because what you've got otherwise is chaos and inconsistency; and as VAR has already demonstrated, heaping more arbitrary power into the hands of match officials goes a long way towards wrecking the game.

I can't believe how similar it was to the Wales try against England yesterday, about an hour later!

[valpayne]

watched the highlights this morning on sky full 90 minutes observations thus.
We have improved defensively under sam this seems to be the first job he's insisted on and its showing
perhaps a bit too aggressive and desperate on occasion but its effective

the free kick was bewildering I can only assume he accidentally blew his whistle but as mentioned blew again to halt proceedings
before the ball went in. That said when it did go in at least one if not two of their players were in offside positions. No idea why Mason
decided to change his mind an award the goal for it to then be overturned again by VAR however as mentioned by others about time we had some luck

the good. gallagher in particular is tireless and constantly looking to put a tackle in and looks to win the ball back and does on a fair few occasions, Bartley was immense his goal priceless
and he seems to be spearheading the spirit and desire needed in this team, brighton are known to have most of the possession whoever they play
but the commentators very much favoured that WBA were being very proactive in nullifying and restricting them it happened at palace palace didn't
have hardly any of the ball for large spells but nicked it at the end.

the bad. As mentioned Perriera doesn't look up for it. He strolls around a lot and when he did get a great chance on the right in the second half he overplayed it and way too casual
fluffed the chance to take a shot or put a threatening cross in. Not at all surprised Sam substituted him for a defender cos we had a massive 3 points to defend and perreira was very lacklustre may as well have another defender on than a forward who doesn't care enough to do his job. Diangana similarly when he came on tried a bit harder than Perriera but not a patch on the player he was and could be
two penalties thankfully both missed and who'd have betted on wellbeck sticking a nail in our coffin? first one, our guy is jumping for the ball with the classic arm out to get leverage off the ground and ruffle the opponent handball was a bit harsh IMHO second one Oshea did get the ball first so again I'd say unfortunate.

the ugly. Were improving on that side of the game with the majority of the team scrapping and fighting for the ball about time to. their free kick goal that wasn't see above.

I still think were going down but we are fighting and improving. Realistically we need 3 wins in 3 and then we would be amongst it properly. bets anyone?

thank you Ska'd that makes sense