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In all fairness, there have been worse starts to a job. King Luis II, for instance, hardly had a whale of a time during his twenty-minute-long reign over Portugal, the entirety of which was spent in a gunfight with revolutionaries whilst bleeding from a hole in the cranium; and the less said about Ben Sliney's first day as head of air traffic control operations for the United States of America on Tuesday 11th September 2001, the better. But even so, Eric Ramsey's opening seven days at the Hawthorns have ostensibly consisted of him pondering the achievements of old Coup-Slew Lou and Benny Boom Boom and saying "hold my beer."
After back to back home defeats, the second of which was comfortably our most humiliating at this level in history, it's tempting to say that the only way is up, but of course there's another (and perhaps likelier) option. It doesn't help that tonight we visit Derby, where our last success came in summer 2003. The recruitment of keeper Max O'Leary is the one ray of hope in a dark and dismal week, giving us a potential - and much-needed - improvement between the sticks, but it's still difficult to see how we come away with any kind of result this evening, barring a miracle.
Assuming Ramsey is with us for a while yet, he'll need a little bit of leeway; but it's self-evident that so far, he's taken Mason's team and managed to make them even worse. Having made that catastrophic first impression, his chances to win back any charity or goodwill are limited, and will begin with tonight's showing, if not the outcome.
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Thanks, Ska'd. Surprised you could bring yourself to do a match thread after Tuesday - enjoyed it anyway (more than I'm likely to enjoy tonight's 90 mins).
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Yup.... doesn't defeat tonight mean it's our worst run EVER?
That really does sum up how terrible we are, to be honest, and have been for a good while; IMHO, our new man can't make a silk purse (... etc, etc) in 5 mins by just clicking his fingers but I'd hope that there will be noticeably more effort, pride, teamwork and togetherness shown in tonight's defeat....
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Yesterday, 19:05
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(Yesterday, 18:45)drewks Wrote: Yup.... doesn't defeat tonight mean it's our worst run EVER?
That really does sum up how terrible we are, to be honest, and have been for a good while; IMHO, our new man can't make a silk purse (... etc, etc) in 5 mins by just clicking his fingers but I'd hope that there will be noticeably more effort, pride, teamwork and togetherness shown in tonight's defeat....
Not quite, as I stated on my thread, a defeat tonight will equal our run of 11 away league defeats on the bounce set back in 1891, just 135 years ago. But who's quibbling.
It just shows how far we have sunk and is worse than our 1991 season, when we dropped down in to the third tier, our only two season outside the top two leagues in 138 years, since league football began in 1888.
Just checked our 90/91 results, our worst run of away results was six defeats, for those who weren't there, we finished the season on a run of nine games unbeaten, unfortunately 7 were draws and two were wins, we needed to win our last game at Bristol Rovers, we drew 1-1 and sunk to what is now league one for two years.
Due to the formation of the premier league, the league was reorganised and only two teams went down from division two that season, if we had beaten Rovers we would have been one of three teams on fifty points and Leicester would have gone down on account of our superior goal difference, instead, Albion being Albion, we blew it.
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Guess he’s not learnt from the Norwich debacle then with that set up!!!!
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Very worried about tonight. I don’t live in Derby anymore but got loads of ‘friends’ who will be messaging me if we lose. They’re still going on about the 2007 playoff final. But you never know with the Baggies, Think I’m going to watch from behind the sofa.
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Yesterday, 21:49
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Hoping O'Leary can Max e mise some confidence in the defence, not convinced this is the line up or tactics to end our abysmal away run.
Moloumby is a central midfield, defensive midfield playing at right wingback, wtf!
Definition of insanity, doing the same thing in the same way with the same components and expecting a different result ..... anyone remember Norwich?
Grant booked in less than five minutes, not in danger of a red card though, he has gone off injured on 7,illing-junior on
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Oh!!!!!!!! F### me. After a decent 1st half - 1-0 Derby
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with
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Yesterday, 22:50
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1 shot 1 goal, us 4 shots no goals you have to ask why our player was going for the ball when O'Leary was right behind him and appeared to knock the ball out of his hands did he not call or was he not trusted, it was Philips, more worryingly Bristol fans were saying on the forums, he is a good shot stopper but tends to flap at crosses.
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