[bomberbrown1968]

For me it's time to go cap in hand to Tim Sherwood and say ok have it your way, bring in your own backroom team and show these players that if they want a career with the Baggies then they've got to damn well earn it.

The 3 mistakes against Man City all stemmed from complacency, they're earning huge wages and regardless of how they play, some of them are having AI and the rest of the coaching staff just throwing an arm around them and being picked time and time again.

No wonder they all come out in support of AI, they've never had it so easy, except they have, for the last few years we've had the rumours of player power and I think it's still there.

They're too comfortable, too cosy and too settled for me, Irvine has merely carried on from where others left off before him, with player friendly Downing, Kiely and co. The longer this goes on the less time anybody will have to change things in time to stave off the inevitable.

Sherwood was the man in the summer and still is the man to come in and ruffle a few feathers and instill some desire which we've been lacking for 18 months now, no more experimenting, no more foreign names and no more spineless appointments.