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The back five, plus johnston, were immense tonight, and absolutely gutted to go out to that bunch of w@#kers.
Still strongly believe that shan is useless, although he should never have been put in that position.
So its goodbye to Holgate, Dawson, Hegazi, Gibbs, Phillips, Rodriguez, Gayle, Murphy, Montero, Johansen, and in all probability Harper. We need a head coach who can start from scratch and build a new, young, hungry squad.
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The team at least gave us a gutsy performance to go out on, and in the circumstances that's all we could ask. In my heart of hearts I can't blame Brunty for the daft second-yellow challenge: he was probably the one bloke out there who knew exactly what this derby means to all of us (he's said in the past that he sends his kids to a Birmingham school and gets stick on the morning run from Villa parents), and it was pure adrenaline and passion.
As for the mighty Witton... well, with a full-strength squad and a twelve-game unbeaten streak behind them, they finally managed to scrape by in a shootout where three of our takers were defenders and the other two midfielders, after 210 minutes of football - 41 of them against ten men - with half of our key players injured or suspended, having been all but rudderless for months. They should have taken us to the cleaners in these two games. They bottled it big-time. And unless they buck their ideas up, Wembley is going to be a massive dose of footballing reality for the second year in a row...
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Having been at the Shrine last night, I honestly think that is the best atmosphere I have ever experienced up there. The Baggies fans were phenomenal! All stands singing throughout the entire match. Well done one and all!
We needed to kill them off in the second half when they were struggling but it wasn't to be. Once Brunty was sent off that was it. Oh well, let's hope we get a manager in who plays attractive football so we can start the rebuilding process.
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Feel for Brunty as it’s highly likely last night will be the last time he wears an Albion shirt.
Same probably goes for Mozza, Daws, Phillips, Jay Rod, Hegazi and Gibbs and I expect Saturday was the last time we saw Dwight Gale
It was a great first half of the season that fell apart when playmaker Harvey Barnes returned to Leicester and since then we have been poor and, in all honesty, do not deserve a place in the Premiership. Sadly, given the input of our owners, I suspect we will be languishing in the lower league/s for some time to come.
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Agree with what Skad said ,
4 times we have played Villa this season winning twice,
Yet Villa get by us just the once thanks to a totally incompetent referee that gave them everything and us nothing
The game last night deserved more as Skad said we were a squad thrown together as best it could with injuries and suspensions, ten men this time for 40 minuets and still Villa couldn't beat us,
Yet all we have instead of dominating villa this season is gloating fans who think they are the world's best,memories of inept referring, villa players diving ,surrounding the referee trying to influence him at every opportunity,and John Terry in the linesman's ear all night so we know where their players get it from,
Grealish is so overated it's unbelievable, ultimately the first leg cost us a cheating Grealish drags his foot to make contact with our player, penalty.
Holgate assaulted in the box by Abraham no penalty, just one of those desicions reversed and we win easy even without our top striker,
Yet somehow the jammy Villa bastards are going to Wembley,
Why they get this luck against us all the time amazes me and yet for the next week or so I will have the per taken out of me and be told how great they are,
After last night I can at least hold my head high and call them Jammy as I know my team gave everything and now the dust has settled strangely feel proud of them,
So now just numerous problems to solve at the top of the club in every department,
As a club where do we go from here 
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Virtually all the posts above show the reasons why I love this forum and members. All care immensely about the club - OUR club - but aren't blind to the truth, or vindictive when things don't go right.
IMHO, in all honesty, if we HAD fluked promotion, the best HC in the world would struggle to stay up next season with the size of the rebuild needed in 2-3 months.
I think we'll do well to survive where we are.
Also, I haven't seen anyone criticise Brunty. Again, IMO a daft challenge given he was on a yellow, and where it was, but he did it out of passion, commitment, determination. You could see how much it meant to him.
Tragic that it may be his last game for us - let's hope not.
All in all, a great battling performance last night but we definitely don't deserve to go up, the way we've been run.
Don't know what's best now, apart from at least a consultancy position for Josh.
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Immense pride in both the players and the fans last night. It’s a long time since I’ve stood throughout a game (sensible stewarding for once) though I’m getting too old to do that on a regular basis.
Words can not adequately express my hatred of those arrogant ****s and I am consoled by the prospect of seeing them all in tears at Wembley again.
They say that ignorance is bliss - no wonder so many people are happy.
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While I've been left far too disappointed to post, the fans can hold their heads high. The volume levels and intensity were exceptional.
2020 the year the bubble burst 
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15-05-2019, 12:31
(This post was last modified: 15-05-2019, 12:31 by Onetruebaggie.)
I can't disagree with any of the above comments, I feel proud of the performance and result, they gave it everything backed by a fantastic crowd who sang their hearts out. The atmosphere was incredible and I feel that we won the battle but not the war, I feel quietly content with last night, obviously disappointed to go out to that $hite but proud to win, proud to hear the Hawthorns rocking and ready to rebuild next year in whatever form it comes. Lets go away have a good summer and hope behind the scenes it gets sorted and come back next year with renewed optimism, I for one will be back with the masses ready to go again.
Albion till I die and proud, thanks Albion, a great nights entertainment!!
COYB
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15-05-2019, 14:46
(This post was last modified: 15-05-2019, 15:11 by Beefy 1965.)
Seriously listen to the noise havnt heard the shrine rock like this for years...
This is why we love our club and always will 
https://twitter.com/i/status/1128424275990515712
Bet that brought a tear to the eyes
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