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If you believe the press then this could be SB’s last match as manager for Albion unless we get a victory.

I know they are all on the gravy train and so sympathy is normally unwarranted, but I like the man and so I do feel for him. Fancy everyone at work being told, and notice boards having articles to the fact in them, that if you don’t do your job well this week you are for the boot!

SB is between a rock and a hard place.

We were hardly killing them at the end of last season in the Championship, we were JUST better than the rest. He was not really supported by the club after getting promotion and has had no real money to spend and so just secured the few loan players we had.

Yet he is being ripped to pieces for failing to perform on the Premier League stage.

Our club is and mostly always has been a tight arsed shambles and we seem happy to be ‘average’ rather than strive for higher things.

If the owners and management are, as they seem, content to fall back into the Championship then why not keep the manager who has proven himself in that league rather than go through the cost of change - unless they have already found a cheaper option.

It will always be about cheaper it seems rather than better option.

 You must remember that all the loan players were who Bilic wanted to resign and that Ivanavic and Grant were his choices. On the Diangana point it was presumed he would not be for sale, so when the opportunity arose we took it.  So to say Bilic has not been backed is wrong. We know he wanted more but you can only back the manager with so much money. Don’t get me wrong I would like him to stay but the results say he should go and a loss against a depleted Newcastle will probably be the final straw. I just hope we have someone lined up and we don’t let it drag on until the new year.