[RainbowTurnedEastStand]

  You cant play attacking expansive football with the likes of Morrison,McManaman,Sessegnon,Pritchard,and Berahino

[drewks]

6 weeks ago I would have voted YES but I'm now firmly in the NO corner.

I'm big enough to admit TheBaggieMan got on my nerves with the footballing anti Christ jibe and relentlessly slating TP for his tactics and negativity and what we were letting ourselves in for.

Well I'm also big enough to now admit that TBM has been right all along.

I've loved following, supporting and watching the Albion for well over 40 years, but this season has been the hardest of them all, despite relegations, old 3rd division and being propping up premier league, I have never witnessed an Albion team simply not competing from the minute they step out onto the pitch, I've been bored brainless by the attitude and tactics they've been sent out with.

I understand it's a results business and I even said I'd take points over performances but there's a time when a different type of performance will ultimately get you those points. We've gone into every single game set up for a 0-0 draw, I'll take that home and away against the best 7 or 8 in the league. But for gods sake not against worst teams than us or lower league teams. I'll bet not one opponent this season has played us with the plan or tactics to try and sneak a draw against us.

I'm sure this "never been relegated tag" is weighing TP down, he's probably rightly proud of it, but I also think its now an obsession with him to continue the record for ever more whatever the cost, whatever the standard and whatever it takes.

Well thank you Tony for keeping us up last season and hopefully he pulls it off again this season but that's it. I couldn't stand another season of this.

I want my Albion back and I want my passion and excitement back before and during a game.

Hail TheBaggieMan you were right all along, it's just taken me longer to realise it, don't spoil it by saying I told you so.

Great post bomber68 - hit the nail square on it's bonce 
Likewise - me too, in everything you say.

All respect to TheBaggieMan. You are our new Messiah (....or are you "just a very naughty boy"?) 

[4evaabaggie]

Not diss'ing the baggieman, because he has said his piece and been true to his values, we all knew that TP did not play Albionesque football, we all knew that it would be difficult and not pretty, we all knew our shortcomings that have not been corrected over the last three or four years, we all knew the importance of staying up last year and still to be done this year. It is easy to say a manager is not good enough / will be sacked because eventually he will be, very few get to leave on their own terms. The baggieman, in conjunction with his stokey mates called it right and fair play ..... very few of us could have foreseen just how bad it has been the last few months ..... let's hope for Albion the only way is up ......

[Northwalesbaggie]

I have vote NO. Let's get this season over with & start afresh with a new manager (Brendon Rogers or JM.. Still out of a job ).
Until then can I please appeal to all true Baggies Supporters (not the Plonker who threw the coin or his ilk) to get behind the team in every game. Once we have reached Safety ( & I hope we do soon ) then you can boo TP & the players if you want to.
Until then stay positive.

[Lets-talk-about-Teix]

He should leave at the end of the season. That simple. We've got out use out of him. I never really wanted him here but the reality is we would have been relegated last season and this, so I could put up with it for a season or two while we rectified the shambles Burton and Day left behind. Next season is time for progression though. Can't remember seeing such a poor side technically as what we have and most of the last 18 months have been painful viewing. I suspect the next phase of transition may also be difficult given our players have spent the last two seasons having the basic's of passing and moving drilled out of them. But yes, shake hands and move on in the summer.

[RainbowTurnedEastStand]

That's what pisses me off about Pulis as we`ve actually got the players to be more creative and score goals but his lovers wont
have any of it.

[4evaabaggie]

RTE, I think you are being to simplistic and disingenuous, as I do not recall anybody on here claiming to be TP lovers, we are all Albion fans used to and lovers of expansive passing football, some of us our more forgiving knowing that our problems owe a lot to TP but also a lot to other factors, poor transfer windows over a number of years, limited finances due to ffp, a biased FA,, league system and European competitions designed for the few. Because people were prepared to give him the benefit of some time and patience does not make them die hard Pulis supporters. I have given him my support in order that he could take time to turn some of the issues around. My final straw was the embarrassment of Albion fans fighting each other and throwing at our own players.lets not accuse each other and name call but remain joined in friendship behind our, yes all our, club.

Albion til I die

[May68]

One swallow does not make a summer. We had a decent mini-spell a few months ago where we played nice football for 3 games on the trot, then it promptly ended and we reverted back to type.
Also worth bearing in mind that the team we beat yesterday are in horrendous form.
Pulis out at the end of the season please.

[Beefy 1965]

Makes you wonder though ...............


Last 10 league games -

Won - 4
Drew - 3
Lost - 3

6th in the form table.

Not bad for a team in Crisis ?

[Tibby Baggie]

Makes you wonder though ...............


Last 10 league games -

Won - 4
Drew - 3
Lost - 3

6th in the form table.

Not bad for a team in Crisis ?

The results have always been decent generally speaking, nobody can deny that and I've been someone who's debated that side of the argument more or less consistently on here.

What I think most are (myself included) hoping for is a return to football that's enjoyable to watch; and if it takes a new manager to achieve it then so be it. 

I'm also not confident that we'd get the best value for money with Pulis in charge of transfers, and JP seems to be of the same mind with him announcing the club will be recruiting a new "Dan Ashworth" so to speak. 

That said there's still 11 games left for Pulis to win me back around. If we can't try and be more expansive in our play given our almost assured safety this season, I don't know when else we would be.