[bomberbrown1968]

I think I'd use Sawyers in a comparison with the Pereira dilemma and at the risk of sounding like a broken record I struggle to see exactly what it is Sawyers brings to the team either defensively or going forward. Whatever it is that Allardyce & Bilic before see in training then it's become blatantly obvious that he doesn't bring it with him on matchdays. It's a shame and all that and because he originally came through the ranks there's a little more sympathy than I'd normally afford to most footballers. But Sawyers is no more a premier league player than I am, he'd do a job in a mid table championship club but that's about his level. If we're talking about carrying Pereira when we haven't got the ball, we've done exactly the same with Sawyers every game this season.

I don't want to harp on about Sawyers, he gets enough stick, justifiably, from all of us. Where I use the comparison is that Pereira at least can turn a game or even win it, yes he can be a luxury but he's had nobody to do his dirty work for him like most luxury players. I agree mid table Prem is probably where he is, but we've got 12 points for god sake from 23 games, a couple of 0-0 draws and the odd 1-0 smash & grab is never going to keep us up. 15 games left and we might have to win 10 of them, so today we rock up with Sawyers as the holding midfielder, Pereira on the bench and Yokuslu sat next to him, where's the intent to try and win. This is my reason why there's no point keeping Allardyce, he was purely appointed to keep us up and it's not going to happen, and I'll never understand the 18 month contract, the 3 new boys won't win us 10 games on their own. Diagne might score 2 in a game but we'd still concede 3, Yokuslu might improve the cover in front of the defence, but I doubt we'll keep another clean sheet this season.

I've seen worse teams for the Baggies but never ones that don't seem to be able to compete.