[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

After a last-gasp win over Blackpool, there were few if any positives to take from a long, hard slog at the City Ground on Easter Monday; a match which saw Albion muster only one shot on goal all game, and none at all after Darnell Furlong's 17th-minute red card. The result is that nothing short of a 100% win record in the three remaining matches will now give the Baggies even the slightest hope of scraping into the playoffs, and three wins on the bounce is something we haven't achieved since last August.

First we host Coventry on Saturday, in their first visit to the Hawthorns since a 1-0 defeat courtesy of Steven Reid in March 2010. They flirted with the playoffs earlier in the season, but have since sunk down to our level, and a win at the weekend would see us swap places. They're certainly no more consistent in their results than us, though they've won their last two on the road; nevertheless, it would be a poor showing if we can't find a result in this.

A trip to Reading follows, with the Royals at the moment still needing results to go their way in order to rubber-stamp survival at Peterborough's expense. Having won our first game at the Madejski at the ninth attempt in 2020, there should be no lingering curse to keep us from delivering a performance, but it may still end up being an all-or-nothing must-win clash for both sides. Fingers crossed for Reading reaching mathematical safety before then.

We finish the season, not for the first time, with already-relegated Barnsley joining us in B71. The previous times we capped a season with a Tykes visit, in 2007 and 2010, were a mixed bag: the latter resulted in a 1-1 draw, the former in the famous 7-0 thrashing that saw Kevin Phillips at his sizzling best and Robert Koren first hitting his stride in an Albion shirt. Not much likelihood of those kind of fireworks this time round, but on paper, it is another winnable game that there can't be an excuse for bungling.

Three wins and a whole lot of extra luck required. Even if it's too little and too late, Albion and Steve Bruce need to show up with something during this run-in, as the threadbare dog-ate-my-homework cop-outs just aren't enough to cut it with fans who've spent the last two years watching the club go backwards.

[Dingle-Dingle]

Sorry to say, but after more than 50 years of being a Baggie I just can`t be bothered anymore.

DD #No1

[drewks]

Sorry to say, but after more than 50 years of being a Baggie I just can`t be bothered anymore.

DD  #No1   

Very similar feelings.
Interest in football generally has probably gone from 100% to literally 2% for me in the last 50 years; sadly, even for the Baggies it's gone from 120% to maybe 10% at most.
I'm sure that the appointment of another RDM or Tony Mowbray would increase the latter somewhat, but I'm afraid I expect us to continue sliding down a precarious slope, which is where I see us going with our present HC in charge

[talkSAFT]

Get a grip, Drewks and Ding!
Albion's not about the current players or Management........it's about us:  the fans. When we stick together and get behind even those we dislike and disrespect, our love for the Club grows. (Well it did for me back in the mid-70s and 90s!)

Don't show apathy - that will only infest the players! (Not that it hasn't already )
Be proud of the Albion, if not the current lot.

[Salopbaggie]

Back to the Coventry game, somehow we are making them look more like Man City than Coventry City.

[4evaabaggie]

Get a grip, Drewks and Ding!
Albion's not about the current players or Management........it's about us:  the fans. When we stick together and get behind even those we dislike and disrespect, our love for the Club grows. (Well it did for me back in the mid-70s and 90s!)

Don't show apathy - that will only infest the players! (Not that it hasn't already  )
Be proud of the Albion, if not the current lot.     

Talk,
I have supported the Albion since the early 70's, I am very much of the same opinion as Drewks and DD. I love the Albion, always will, the current situation rips my heart out but I can not muster any interest in going to games, the results upset and frustrate me in equal measures. The wins and surprise results still make my heart skip, my apathy grows, not from our demise. Although that is bad enough, but from the murdering onslaught against British football. The closed shop of success created by the greed league and powers that be. Next year five substitutes, another advantage for bigger clubs (6) with bigger squads.
We were an established mid table premier league side, we had no vision, no ambition, took no gambles, we employed pulis, a nightmare that got worse and worse and we wake up in 2022. A sport and a club going nowhere

[baggietrousers]

I'm right with Drewks, DD and 4ever on this. My first game was the 68 FA cup final hoisted on my dad's shoulders and have loved the baggies ever since. But this season has finally got to me. We have a squad who don't play with any passion or have any pride in wearing the shirt. As long as they pick up their over inflated salaries what do they care, probably as little as the owner and the management.
I have seen nothing this season that fills me with the slightest optimism for the future, and indeed the imminent confirmation that potatoe head will remain in charge next season makes things even worse if that's possible.
I don't get to as many games as I once did with living in Ireland, but I've always had a season ticket and travelled as often as I can, however for the first time in over 40 years there'll be no season ticket next season. I'll always be a baggie, but this current bunch of so called professional footballers and worse than useless head coach have finally achieved what the Irish sea, a fear of flying, a nagging wife and covid couldn't do..................keep me at home.

[4evaabaggie]

It is not, as I said above, our demise or our diabolical management, owner down to potato head, that is killing my love of football, it is the greed and monopoly of anything worth having in football by the elite clubs, and not just in england, bayern Munich have just won their tenth consecutive bundasliga, psg won their tenth French league title. Everything is geared up so that a very small collection of clubs gain any silverware, trophies or glory.
Real clubs, real fans can only watch from the sidelines, occasionally small crumbs, Leicester, Wigan or even blues Nick a bit of history but how many times has it been done since 93.
I really wanted the European super league to go ahead and the destructive big clubs to have left for the gold leaden pavements of sky world. Alas it did not materlise.
Albion til I die.

[Baggievicar]

Erm...we won a match today.

[Minizin]

As my only other game was Sheffield United at home, I’ve got a 100% record this season!

But it was dire today. Reading were dreadful, we weren’t much better. Clueless once we got within 30 yards of goal. But Robinson showed some intent, Diangana was the only one with some spark. Livermore and Molumby are red cards waiting to happen. Lots and lots to change over the summer