[Beefy 1965]

Is it hard to say that I'm relieved to get a point when we missed two open goals and hit the woodwork three times in the 2nd half?
Bottle that last twenty Mins up please guys, Big D Im behind you but we cant have a CM with Brunt in it.
Bit harsh on Livermore mate one of our better players Brunt should not be in the Middle,
Barnes looked better when Mozza went off and linked well with Gayle who looks full of goals, Take the money and run for Jrod as long as we can get a decent target man in,
Phillips and Bartley the best of a bad bunch, our passing is still poor and our lack off getting of getting people into the box is mystifying until the last 15 Mins, so why is that i cant fathom it out ?
Pundits slaughtering us on sky and I'm still going to be controversial and say we should have gone for Dean Smith, but its Big D so the next two days are massive the Board have to back him or it will end in tears, we have a minus net spend so far we need the board to Step up

[valpayne]

Powder puff spineless clueless s*** TAXI

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Absolute garbage for the first eighty minutes, and if we replicate that week in week out then we're going to be a lot closer to the bottom of the table than the top of it.

However, the last ten minutes demonstrated that we do have the means to hurt teams in this division when things click for us. Gayle missed two sitters, but he gave us the kind of pace and guile up front we haven't seen since Fatty Bum-Bum went to Stoke, and on another day, those chances hit the back of the net instead of the woodwork. If Phillips and Barnes can create for him, I'm confident he'll come good.

Defence and midfield remain worrying areas. As pretty much everyone else has pointed out, we need someone like Guedioura in the centre who can make good forward passes and through-balls or ping it out to the wingers. At the back there's far too much fannying about, though that may improve as the back four settle in and become a unit. Johnstone needs to wipe the butter off his gloves and start catching the ball. When we're out of possession we don't press anywhere near enough, just sit back in our two banks of four, and in possession we're far too static, no one making any dummy runs to create space or even just taking a chance to get in the box. It's like we're still mentally stuck at the arse-end of the Premier League playing the likes of Chelsea and Man City. Those days are gone, and the players need to remember how to take the game to the opposition if they still can.

It was always going to be a steep learning curve for Big Dave, but hopefully from now on it'll be the last ten minutes we aim to repeat in games, not the first eighty.

[talkSAFT]

Good summary, Ska'd. I'm clutching at straws to suggest that we'll improve when the players get used to each other, but you'd think that seasoned pros like Brunt/Livermore/Morrison would be able to fill the midfield between them - there were gaps the size of housing estates when Forest broke forward, and we can only thank their forwards for not winning by 5 or 6. Gayle looked lively when he came on, and that seemed to inspire the players around him. As someone said earlier Brunt should not be skippering this team - it needs a character in the midfield to stir the players up (and we haven't got one!)

Sorry, Beefy, but if someone offered to take Liversalts off our hands for free I'd be happy. Sam Field could do a better job, but I'd bring in a strong leader today if possible.

[Beefy 1965]

I think with a box to box midfielder Livermore will be fine , his positioning at the corner at the end to head that one backwards off the line was crucial,with Brunt with him it's to slow and predictable, even Brunts dead balls were shite today, everything went into the GK's hands, it's no coincidence either that when Mozza went off and Barnes was more central we improved dramatically and actually played to feet in the last ten, why it took that long to play football was mystifying really..
Maybe it's time to bench these guys who have been top top pros for us ?

[WakeyTerrier]

Decent game for the neutral last night, Forest all over you like a nasty rash in the first half but things improved for you in the second half when the game seemed to open right up and you really should've won it near the end.
I'm sure you'll be fine

[4evaabaggie]

Thank you Wakey, it is always good to get a neutral view on things, sometimes when your too close you can't see the wood for the trees ..... after the pulis years we are a bit more critical than maybe we need to be .... it's a slow start yes but last year we were 100% at this stage and we know how that ended .... New league, different style, different challenges, still working out the mental blocks and shackles placed on them from years of defend defend defend nick one ... New coaches with different methods and uncertainties in relation to who will be on board come British then rest of the world window closures ...... stability is the name of the game ..... we ain't got it yet .....

Patience and hope ........ Come On You Baggies.

[valpayne]

whats this i hear? Middlesborough wba game on TV? Who manages Midds these days? Oh yes of course step up Mr Pulis. We know how that game will turn out at least.
TP will bust his balls out through that baseball cap to shit on us and he will succeed. I've had enough already I didn't even tune in last night because I knew it would be a total waste of precious time I can waste without the heartache in a beer garden. Wise choice in retrospect because that was an absolute dogshite performance by pretty much everyone in fact the only good thing all night was Phillips goal which was an absolute belter. Oh and for the record I personally hate that green and yellow kit. I never liked it years ago as I only ever remember us getting beat in it. Now before you older citizens throw your tenpenneth in I was a kid and my memory is hazy but I'm pretty sure in my mind every time I saw us play in that yellow belly kit we lost. I suppose now I'm going to get a load of stats to prove me wrong so by all means bring it on

[Beefy 1965]

According to Brendon Batson they hardly lost in it and was considered lucky...
And I love it

Albion teased the announcement of their new away strip with a video of it being shown to legendary full-back Brendon Batson, who featured in the kit in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“I love that strip,” he said, with the kit out of sight. “We used to think it was our lucky kit, hardly got beaten. Welcome back.”

[valpayne]

Thanks for the info beefy I stand corrected I still don’t like it tho as a kid it reminded me of Norwich ahhh childhood memories all a bit hazy ? we probably didn’t lose in that kit often coz we were pretty good back then no? This shower need to watch some video of that team and be ashamed into pulling their fingers out then