[betterthanbaird]

Good comeback but we should win that and Berahino should have scored one near the end. We played quite poorly for most of the game.

Burnley looked decent and have a bit of quality.

Happy for Ideye to get a goal and he was generally decent in the air. Plenty of fight in him.

[Stairs]

It interesting to look at the other clubs fixtures rather than just worry about us not winning.

Villa can't score for toffee and really are not likely to get many points from their remaining games.
QPR have lost Austin and won't get too many points either.
Look at Burnley and Leicester fixtures and they might get to double figures if lucky.

When that is taken into account it makes it possible for us to stay up with a couple of wins and a few draws. Not a positive outlook but a bit a realism.

Survival is key. Rebuild in the summer essential.

[wba_1996]

Only saw the second half thankfully. We have absolutely no composure, can't string 2 passes together so we just hoof it to their keeper. Pulis has really disappointed me so far, to the point that I'm not sure I'd want to see him here next season whether he keeps us up or not. Play with fullbacks ffs, Dawson is just as bad as Wisdom and Baird has zero pace. Gamboa and Poco should be banging TP's door down with how shite we have been down the flanks since he came in. Look at Trippier for Burnley, we miss out on all that attacking threat and crossing opportunities because we play a flat 4 of centre backs.

Only positive was Ideye getting a goal. Massive chance missed to pull away from danger against a Championship side we should have beaten but made look a lot better than they are.

[aries22]

Just got in from work petrified to see the result and I think I'm happy to have missed all that, but a rousing revival and a good point, infinitely better than losing. We 'only' have to match what QPR, Leicester and another club below us do between now and the end of the season and we might get lucky and be safe. We've still to play QPR and Leicester at home, and we've got some really awkward games coming up well before those awful five at the end of the season. Swansea, Southampton and Stoke at home, Sunderland away. It gets no better, as Jim Bowen used to say.

[BaggieMan]

Pulis has really disappointed me so far, to the point that I'm not sure I'd want to see him here next season whether he keeps us up or not. Play with fullbacks ffs, Dawson is just as bad as Wisdom and Baird has zero pace. Gamboa and Poco should be banging TP's door down with how shite we have been down the flanks since he came in.

1996, with Pulis it ain't going to get any better I'm sorry to say.

Play without any full backs FFS and no pace down the flanks! I think Pulis would be happy playing with 10 centre backs and a goalkeeper. Just the same as he was with Sjoke - crazy line-ups, hoof ball from defence and aggressive physical football. Look at the number of bookings we had today.

Their second came from their right and had all the time he wanted for the perfect cross. Where was our left back, Lescott and we all know Brunt has as much pace as a two legged sloth. This game cried out for Gamboa and Poco but of course, Pulis knows better.

Great goal from Ideye and just hope it will give him the confidence to kick on from there and prove his price tag. His touches and work-rate weren't bad either.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

This is the situation as I see it:

1. Pulis knows full well that we struggle to score from open play. We've been like it all season, even when we had (vaguely) attacking full-backs. Rather than try and put this right with players who just may not be good enough, he's obviously trying to maximise our threat from set-pieces the way he did with Stoke back in the day. This is why we're getting the four CBs in defence.

2. Unfortunately, though it may give us a bit more presence at set-pieces (and even that's disputable as far as I'm concerned), it's also weakening us defensively, and we're having some nightmare starts to games as a result. Unfortunately for TP, I think he's toyed with doing things "the Palace way" for us, and now he's tried doing it "the Stoke way", and neither are really doing much good. He's going to have to work out a brand new "Albion way" which covers our weaknesses and maximises our few strengths. Expect more playing for set-pieces in the weeks to come, though hopefully things will change at the back, and he'll have a bit of faith in Pocognoli.

3. As regards our run-in, Leicester and QPR at home are absolute must-win games which we need the full six points from. We could probably settle for draws at Villa and Sunderland, and then whatever we can pick up from everything else to stagger across the finish line. We're in exactly the same position now that we were this time last year, so it's far from mission impossible.

[tidy]

Difference beinmajorityman we wouldn't have come back from 2-0 down under Irvine.
In fact 2-0 up and lost at QPR..enough said.
Great point in the end but initial team selection wrong. We need to start better against Swansea and several players need to look in the mirror tonight.
C O Y B - bring on the Swans

We did, actually, against Palace.

However, we were completely PANTS today and once again, got away with it.
When Pulis was appointed it was accompanied by cries of 'hoofball' by the majority of the UK footballing fanbase, including our cousin's down the road. Staunch baggies would point out that Pulis's time at Palace proves them wrong...
On the evidence of today's game, 'Ultra-hoofball' seems to be the new tactic employed by West Brom, one that we are not very good at yet. Currently we are 'hoofing' into a half that contains at least one player in blue and white. Hopefully, given a few more games, we can up the accuracy of the hoof to getting within 20 yds of one of our players and then take it from there!


I dread to think what would have happened today had Vic not suffered from his latest malfunction. Say what you want about our 'saviour' Pulis but he hasn't got a clue about picking a team.

Not feckin happy.

[betterthanbaird]

We did play a lot of long balls but do you have faith in that team to play it out from the back? Obviously the answer is to pick a better defence but I'm just wondering.

[tidy]

Ask yourself, given the original team selection, just what was the 'plan' today?

[aries22]

Three wins against QPR, Leicester and Villa (I really fancy us to win there) (bugger, that's famous last words and the kiss of death) and an unlikely point at Sunderland would be a dream and 33 points on the board, leaving the bottom three to really scrap it out, plus we have the equal best GD of the seven bottom teams, which may or may not be worth an extra point. This is just the sort of excitement we don't need!
As for TP, IMHO he was and still is the stand-out head coach to save us from relegation and I stand by that. Come the close season, I expect some real fireworks in the transfer market, departures as well as arrivals. Martin Olsson from Norwich, tries for Danny Ings and or Charlie Austin, Berahino out, etc.