[aries22]

I've never booed either an Albion player, an Albion team or an Albion manager, and I hope I never do. But we were heading in only one direction under Alan Irvine, and it's true to say the vast majority of Albion fans never wanted him in the first place after his nonentity failures with Preston and Sheffield Wednesday, so some people need to stop kidding themselves about that and accept that change was needed, and in a lot of people's opinion, especially Jeremy Peace's, someone like Tony Pulis was what we needed, someone who could get us to stop losing football matches in the manner that we surrendered a 2-0 lead at QPR. I don't see anyone here saying lucky Stoke for two deflected goals in their recent 2-0 win against us, or saying lucky Hull after Graham Dorrans missed a penalty at the KC which might have given us a 1-0 win. What we got was a weak response from Irvine and the players and more dropped points in subsequent games, like at QPR. Two away points at West Ham and Everton and three precious home points against Hull now puts pressure on other teams at the bottom. What do people want, pretty football taking us to the Championship? In the circumstances we're in, does anyone here have a better coach in mind to replace Irvine? I don't, so let's have names.