[Alouion]

Thank you Amelia for your kind words about my beloved club. I hope you still like us a little after Saturday, whatever the result!
Huddersfield have made such a good start that this fixture, I approach with some anxiety.
As you say Pulis needs a result. I admire Pulis as a manager but you are quite right our fans are beginning to lose patience He had always had his detractors from day 1 but because we have had 3 years under him and stayed mid-table he has silenced them. Football under Pulis is a hard watch and when we struggle to win matches, the knives are out.
Expect Huddersfield to be given the freedom of the park on Saturday and to dominate possession. I will go for 1-1.

[jjamez]

Think this is the first home game where we are expected to quite possibly be favourites so it would be quite apt for us to still be in awe at anfield.

West brom did alright at arsenal and made them panic for a while so in typical pullis fashion they wont just crumble from the off.

Did ronnie wallwork ever play for wba?

[Amelia Chaffinch]

VLP fit according to Radio Leeds.

[sloppyattheback]

I think Albion will be too strong and rough us up, got height and a player or two with a hammer shot, we might not be too comfortable.

[Lord Snooty]

I think  Albion will be too strong and rough us up, got height and a player or two with a hammer shot, we might not be too comfortable.

Yes. We're not comfortable against this type of team. Sheff Weds all last season and West Ham with Andy Carrol this season. This will be much harder than the Manyoo game.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Many thanks for sharing that old montage of mine and for plugging the novel! Am busy putting the finishing touches on the second (though for Silver's benefit, I'm sorry to say that it's not a sequel, but something completely different).

A while ago I dug out the programme from when Huddersfield visited the Hawthorns in 1992, just a month or so after Kevin Donovan came to us. The player interview on the back page was with Kev, and it was loaded with many a cheap dig at his former employers (I seem to recall they asked him what the best day of his life was, and he replied "leaving Huddersfield and coming to Albion.") Obviously wasn't a happy departure at the time!

A quarter of a century on, and irrespective of my feelings on Pulis, obviously I want us to get three points from this any way we can. With the fixtures we've got coming up, we can't afford to be teetering on the precipice. But if it works out otherwise, I just hope it'll be enough to stun our owners into some kind of action.

[theo_luddite]

Nice one AmChaff. Got a slack handfull of drinking buddies who are Baggies fans so more than just a bit of interest in this game in the locals I frequent down here. Pubs wise, I noticed a request above after a nudge from her highness. The Head of Steam at the station was mentioned amongst others, there's also the King's Head at the other end of the station building. Down in town the 'Spoons pub, The Cherry Tree, on John William Street is often an away fans designated pub but I've wandered in before and found a mixed bag of fans in there. The Vulcan is really the only home fans only pub so you might get a cool welcome in there. A few make it into The Peacock on Leeds Road, on past B&Q etc, for a pint of Terrier. If you like your real ales and you are up for a bit of a hike then the Rat & Ratchet on Chapel Hill, just off the ring road is well worth a visit. On the other hand if you just like cold fizzy lager served in a flimsy plastic beaker you can also use the bar in the cinema complex.

[talkSAFT]

I used to use The Peacock when I went to your old Ground down the road, which was great but probably quite a walk (?)
But there's one on the main road opposite B&Q (I think). I went there back in the 90s a couple of times.
I chuckle when I think of it (sorry), but it was some weeks into a long drought and the hosepipe ban was on. I went for a pee and the Baggies fans who'd just left for the Ground had left all the taps running ..............I turned them off, of course!

[Lord Snooty]

The one across the road was the Wagon & Horses, later Ricky's Bar. Sadly it's now boarded up, leaving many a lunchtime stripper out of work.

[WakeyTerrier]

Not enough boozers around the ground or on the approach these days and those that are close are a nightmare to get served in.
Quite a few Baggies fans were in the Slubbers the last time we played, seemed a popular spot before and after even if it is a bit of a walk