16-04-2016, 21:02
I appreciate that I stay in touch from afar as I live in Scotland, that I now get to few games but would love to get to more. However, I reckon I'm as passionate a Baggie as anyone on this site, having seen my first game in 1962 and had all the ups and lows that vines from that. But I'm just in despair right now.
This match probably summed up our season; losing at home to a very average team, clearly playing poorly and missing the few clear chances we created...and they don't come more clear cut than two penalties. Yes, I know that Pulis doesn't take the penalties and that a professional footballer worth £25 million (yeah, whatever) should not miss even once from twelve yards but there is something vary basic at play here; fundamentally we are a shit team, managed by an individual who has no creative flair, who lacks any element of risk taking and who accepts a 1-0 home defeat to a crap side by saying "we played really well, everybody played really well". For Christ sake, we lost at home to Watford. You could almost accept this as a blip if we hadn't lost at home to Norwich and Bournemouth, failed to register a shot on target again the Villa and drew at home to Swansea with a last minute equaliser. I won't mention the other games where we failed to register a shot on target. I know that staying in the Premier League seems to be the be all and end all of our existence but when we have a manager who appears to be satisfied with this crap, is this the summit of our footballing world at the Hawthorns? I'm sorry but if we honestly think next season will be different with Pulis in charge, we are totally delusional.
I'm sorry to be an unhappy Scottish Baggie and I'm sorry to rant. I want to believe, I honestly do, but I have no faith in Pulis whatsoever. Where's the vino?
This match probably summed up our season; losing at home to a very average team, clearly playing poorly and missing the few clear chances we created...and they don't come more clear cut than two penalties. Yes, I know that Pulis doesn't take the penalties and that a professional footballer worth £25 million (yeah, whatever) should not miss even once from twelve yards but there is something vary basic at play here; fundamentally we are a shit team, managed by an individual who has no creative flair, who lacks any element of risk taking and who accepts a 1-0 home defeat to a crap side by saying "we played really well, everybody played really well". For Christ sake, we lost at home to Watford. You could almost accept this as a blip if we hadn't lost at home to Norwich and Bournemouth, failed to register a shot on target again the Villa and drew at home to Swansea with a last minute equaliser. I won't mention the other games where we failed to register a shot on target. I know that staying in the Premier League seems to be the be all and end all of our existence but when we have a manager who appears to be satisfied with this crap, is this the summit of our footballing world at the Hawthorns? I'm sorry but if we honestly think next season will be different with Pulis in charge, we are totally delusional.
I'm sorry to be an unhappy Scottish Baggie and I'm sorry to rant. I want to believe, I honestly do, but I have no faith in Pulis whatsoever. Where's the vino?