[Salopbaggie]

Can you imagine Albion going to West Ham, going 2-0 down and then putting four past them?
No, neither can I.

I think you will find it was 3-0 down Aries after 17 or 18 minutes and came back to win it, them were the days when we used to play that football stuff.

Well aware of that, but that was then and this is now. Can you imagine it happening now?  

Yes definitely:

If we get a new manager and about 7 or 8 new players

[BBB]

It really has become a shambles.  We need to get this take-over finalised. Does anyone know what final steps are needed for that to complete?

I  think (hope) that the minute that this has happened things will start happening. It seems that Pulis probably knows this is heading his way and probably the squad know it to. The mood is the camp is very low and with the fans alike.

I am holding my breath until this happens...................

It really needs for someone to release them from their shackles, and let them play football. They look as if they have forgotten, or don't know how to any more because of this defensive style.
How did the new boys do, and the youngsters? No-one mentions them.

[Slick_Footwork]

Two poor teams. We were unlucky to lose on the overall balance of play, but both team were generally p*ss poor. With the game decided by a rare moment of quality...

The middle of the park is a joke. How can you play with 3 in the middle yet none of them have the quality to open teams up? Field is tidy but rarely passes forward and doesn't seem to have any extra energy which we drastically need. I never thought I'd say this, but i'd rather Field was sacrificed for McClean and Chadli was played behind the striker. At least we'd have an extra body getting forward that way.

Galloway was getting ripped a new one by Ibe and doesn't looked very accomplished defensively...

Saido looks a shadow of the player he once was...

Chadli looked a different class, but I guess that's what happens when you buy proven Premier league played from top sides. Who knows what might be different had we actually made some proper signings this window...

I worry for us no matter who the manager is with this squad. Ageing, lacking quality, lacking legs. We have players who can't pass but still don't have energy. Struggling to see where the next point is coming from. Not a good day all round.

[4evaabaggie]

Played four four points ....... still on course for thirty eight points and most probable survival.

Before I get shot down in flames .... I am kidding.

I am so disillusioned that even a defeat does not bother me right now, managed one game last season, struggling to find the enthusiasm or a decent reason to go to a game this season.

I work in London have worked today, I came home on a packed four carriage train full of football fans ......

Arsenal fans saying they were rubbish and did not deserve to win
West Ham fans being more critical ....... but the shocking thing is they said the home fans were fighting with each other.

We are not that bad yet ...... but I can not see with our current squad and saido not trying / bothered what any manager can do before January, just hope we stay in touch with safety and plot a great escape two after then.

The takeover has been a big thorn on our side for about three years now, let's hope it was worth it.

[Dingle-Dingle]

Looking on the positive side of things.......

We will be playing 3x2 local derbies next season.

DD

[baggietrousers]

In Bournemouth on business, was offered the choice of tickets to the game in directors box or round of golf. Much against my better judgment I went for the footy even though I've said as long as TP is in charge I won't go anywhere near. Wish I'd stuck to my guns and played golf!!!
I saw nothing to suggest there's any improvement or future for this current squad. The only words that spring to mind are, boring, uninspired, amateurish, rudderless, tactically inept and clueless.

[Beefy 1965]

It really has become a shambles.  We need to get this take-over finalised. Does anyone know what final steps are needed for that to complete?

I  think (hope) that the minute that this has happened things will start happening. It seems that Pulis probably knows this is heading his way and probably the squad know it to. The mood is the camp is very low and with the fans alike.

I am holding my breath until this happens...................

Stairs ...
Should be a interesting week,

I hear the takeover will almost be completed as early as Tuesday,

And if you read TP's comments after the game he has at least confirmed the consortium is moving in next week

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Peace has sold the club to Chinese investor Guochuan Lai and the new owner is expected to be officially installed at the end of next week.

Pulis is waiting to see how Lai approaches ownership. Keen to land more players in the transfer window, the Welshman would like more financial backing from the board.

Yesterday, he confirmed that the five signings Albion made in summer were not the marquee additions he wanted to make, and today he blamed the problems on the pitch to the struggles in the window.

"The Chinese are coming in next week so the club is being taken over next week," he said. "We’ll see what vision and what they want to do.


Read more at http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/west...VLuHRpS.99

[Dingle-Dingle]

I have the same problem when I order a Chinese....... Always delivered late.

DD

[Stathemwasthebestever]

So that's something like 7 points out of the last 36. Amazed (and horrified) if Pulis is allowed to continue. It's not as though those 7 points have come with any entertainment value or innovation. No move from playing as many defensive minded players as possible using identical tactics regardless of the opposition.

How can Field, Yacob and Fletcher play in the same side? How many efforts on target this season? We could play a primary school team and Pulis would send them out in the same formation? Why pay him? Just have someone off the street tell the players to do the same as they did last week. We could auction the honour of giving the team talk each week - all proceeds to charity. Personally, I'd pay just for Pulis not to do it.

[Zinman]

Has he gone yet?

Listenetd to the game but really didn't care that much when we conceded. I really want the Dementor gone before 45 years of support is made irrelevant.