[BaggieSteve]

So many opinions, but lets be honest we could sack SB 10 times and it would not fix our problems.  Firstly, we are a year ahead of schedule in the grand plan, the team is like one of those Spanish hotels in the seventies, open for business, but with building work going on all over it.  Lets not forget the way SB has been undermined by the owner and board throughout, yes they got him the loans from last season plus Grant and the old man, but I would bet SB's shopping list was a lot longer than that.  Then they go selling first team players without his knowledge.

People seem to forget at the start of the season we were all complaining about the positions which needed strengthening and they still have not been, so in reality we are playing with a team that could not win the Championship plus Grant and the old man, who with respect Harry Kane is not going to lose to much sleep about being challenged for his job and as for Ivanovic he was a world class player, emphasise on 'was'.  

As good as Bilic is, he is not Jesus who apparently could feed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish and the problems we have now, are still the same as when we were talking about them pre-season, we are short of quality in some positions, more importantly now, the players we do have, are running on zero confidence.  Understandable when you are facing some teams who have players who are worth around the same value as our entire squad, you keep losing and you know that the only way you stand any chance of competing with teams like that is with a good balance in your squad and a bit of luck.  We have neither.

We also need to be honest about who we would and could get to replace SB, we are not going to get anyone of proven quality, unless Sir Alex decides to make a comeback.  We will end up sacking a manager who may be able to do something and replace them with who?  What is the point of thinking ""well they might do a better job", if you can not replace SB with someone who, given all the restraints of being the manager of West Bromwich Albion, you can put your hand I your heart and say "I really believe this person could do a better job" then what is the point?  As my grannie used to say "Be careful you ain't jumping out the frying pan into the fire".

Well said, Salop. Like most of us, I'm not sure whether sacking Slaven would make a huge difference and, again like most others, I recognise that he's had precious little help from the Board. I'm not sure the transfers he has made have been the best use of the available money but again, with very little money to use, it's unsurprising he fell back upon those players he knew and who did a good job for us last season. I understand his thinking behind signing Ivanovic - provide some guidance to an EPL inexperienced defence - but the reality is that he's a liability. His signing of Grant has yet to come off but hopefully it will and, in all honesty, what we paid was all we could afford for a striker - I'd have preferred Ollie Watkins but he was way out of our price range. Perhaps we could have tried harder for Gayle but that's history.
If the replacement options include Allardyce, I think I'll stop watching - this would be such a retrograde step for the club, I find it hard to believe anyone would contemplate it.