Friday, 9th May 2008

Albion going in right direction: Boss

mowbray2.jpgAlbion boss Tony Mowbray insists this season will not represent ‘boom or bust’ for the Baggies – regardless of whether they win promotion.

Mowbray is adamant the club are moving in the right direction whichever division they are in next season.

And he is anxious not to get carried away with the hype surrounding their bid to return to the Premier League.

“It is all about perspective,” said Mowbray.

“If a journalist has an agenda then he might say we have spent £11million and are still not guaranteed to get out of this league.

“I do not know whether we have done well or not. At the end of the season, we will know. It is a bit like Arsenal at the moment.

“If they lose a few games over the next few weeks they will have had a ‘shocking season’ and won nothing.

“And yet they could be two weeks away from winning the Premier League and winning the Champions League.

“But if they get knocked out of the Champions League, and get beat against Manchester United for the league and win nothing, that is deemed a ‘shocking’ season.

“With us it is not to that extent but we fall into a similar category in the eyes of whoever writes the story.

“In my eyes, with the group of players there has been development and progression. I think we are moving in the right direction.

“So if it is the worse case scenario for us this year, then it won’t be a ‘bust’ situation.

“I think there is still plenty of work to be done, and it will be no ‘boom’ situation if we do achieve either one of our goals, or both of them.

“We are trying to keep a perspective on things.”

And Mowbray insists the switching of the national media attention away from the Baggies to in-form sides like Hull will have no effect on his players.

“I genuinely, and honestly, don’t see it,” he said. “I don’t know whether we are in the spotlight or not. If we are not, I am sure that is no problem.”

And Mowbray today assured suspended striker Luke Moore there is no pressure for him to become an instant Albion hit.

The on-loan Villa man, who will make his move  permanent for £3m in the summer, is serving a three-match suspension just two months into his Baggies career.

But Mowbray insists: “I don’t see any pressure on him. He has been brought into a football club for today, yes, but also for tomorrow.

“It is not as if we are a team struggling for goals. He has not come in with the expectation of having to score lots of goals.”

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73 Comments

  1. Malvern Wolf said:

    Sorry chaps, I think he is preparing you for the worst.

  2. mark said:

    preparing us for the worse?? what is the worse semi final fa cup,and playoffs mmm want to swap ooh yes exciting football and talent worth more now than they were this time last year and at best wow!!! boing boing going to wembley(at least once!!!)

  3. AMS said:

    Fair point Malvern but he’s at least two months behind Big Mick in covering his arse.

  4. uvill staydown said:

    The right direction? Junction 1 of the M5 that can’t be right. Sandwell town is not even on the map. Gosh it’s a bit rough around here. No wonder Stuart Pearce said: There’s no way i’m gonna have our under 21’s playing at a place like this. It may suit the poles but not our lads…No way!

  5. make my day punk said:

    what tony nobrain is actually saying is “we wont be in the cup final,we have blown promotion, luke moore isnt very good and in general we are going backwards and getting worse, but please let me stay next season and try again” hope this explains his comments to the not so bright of the albion fans

  6. Golden Blood said:

    Do I detect a wobble in the unshakeable confidence of the Boggies???? Sandwell is becoming a nervouse village.

  7. munchalot said:

    Mowbray: The right direction is infact lads all about me as when i’ve repeated the upset of last years playoff final but this time in the cup aswell. I’m off to Boro as I miss my family so i’m heading in the Northernly direction.

  8. Happier_Baggie said:

    take it my tiger didnt get makemydaypunk then…..?? shame. “see him off”…..

  9. freddy freddy freddy said:

    WELL IF GOING DOWN THE TABLE IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION, I COULDN’T AGREE MORE!!!!!

    GOING NOWHERE THE MOBRAY WAY..IN STYLE OF COURSE..OH YES..LMAO

  10. TonyWBA said:

    I notice the rise in idiots posting on here in the last week, roll on next week when the kids are back at schools and we get to have reasoned debate with sensible one’s like Kent Wolf & Malvern to name a couple.

    (Malvern I do not take your post above as vindictive, I do like post 3 AMS reply to it though lol)

  11. The Real Bully said:

    6.
    Spot on.
    Say we’re definitely going up (which we haven’t) and you accuse us of arrogance. Say if we go up (which we have) and our confidence is wobbling.
    It’s because of these sort of juvenile ‘yah boo sucks’ type of postings that I can’t be bothered to wade through any more to get to the worthwhile ones.

  12. Happy_Wolfie said:

    The manager is concerned to come out with a statement like that. He knows that a lot is at stake and is concerned that his team won’t deliver. Bring on the big derby…. I’d LOVE IT if we beat em LOVE IT!

  13. freddy freddy freddy said:

    TONYWBA
    ahh shame, don’t like it now the shoe’s on the other foot do you!.
    we’ve been rubbish all season and we’ve certainly let people know it. your lot haven’t been much better ( getting worse ) if anything, yet you keep gloating as if you were chelsea or man utd. that’s fine when your murdering all before you, and running away with the championship title. but your not, far from it and we just love to see all the disapointment at the end of the season when your very average team fails to deliver AGAIN!!

  14. Baggiebob said:

    Up or not, rather be a Baggie than be associated with a team whose fans, even collectively, would lack the ability to join Mensa! In simple terms: must be stupid to think you have had more to sing about than we have, pals.

  15. Gloucesterwolf said:

    thats the manager underhandedly stating hes not confident of cup or league success. Hoefkins has slated the club and area. geras put public his intention to leave, phillips hasnt or wont sign a new deal (i heard hes off to qpr 2 year deal)at least your have fatty robinson as he cant pass a medical, the circus at the poorthorns is well under way!!!

  16. shifnal baggie said:

    tony mowbary is taking the albion,in the right direction no probs,its better than hoof,hoof hoof,football down the custard bowl,haha wembley here come ,playing football the way its should be.

  17. SherpaVanDiv4winners said:

    Never mind Wolves fans..There’s always the semi final of the Welsh Cup to look forward to…Perhaps two legged between yo lot and Stourbridge….Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Wemberleeeeeeee!!…West Bromwich Albion..doing the Black Country proud..well lets face it, somebody has to!!..YOU BAGGIES!!!!

  18. Cyril Randle said:

    No.12 ” I’d LOVE IT if we beat em LOVE IT!” Note the word ‘if’. At last, a common sense Wulfy posting (other than Kent and Malvern). And we shall love it IF we beat you. That’s what makes it exciting and something to anticipate with relish. WE DON’T KNOW who will win it.

  19. NathanWolves said:

    This is a funny article.
    Mowbray saying albion are going in the right direction and yet are currently in the middle of a very bad patch.

    Then he goes on to compare you to Arsenal which i almost cried with laughter at. Remember a few seasons ago when you albion fans said we are trying to buy the league, you have spent 11 mil and are still not guarenteed promotion.

    I 100% agree with post 5. Blown promotion, blown the cup final but he wants another crack at spending 11 million plus next season!

  20. TonyWBA said:

    How have we blown anything, were still in an excellent position to either win the league or gain automatic promotion, and next week we are going to an FA Cup semi final at Wembley to try and gain a place in the final. How is that Blown anything, it ain’t over yet.

    According to many Wolves fans at the start of the season West Brom were gonna struggle and at best finish mid table, so for us to be fighting on all fronts to do “The Double” (AGAIN!!!) we must be having a terrific season, especially compared to the so called “FAVOURITES” for promotion Wolves.

  21. Happy_baggie said:

    Is it reasonable to liken us this season to wolves last season ??

    We are a team in transition - we have had a major rebuild with only 6 of our regular 11 here last season and most of our fringe players are also new this season.

    I don’t say this to make excuses as IMO we are 100 light yeras in advance of our neighbours - but the situations have similarities. However wolves were happy to make the playoffs (and lose) last year - although they will be happy with that again this year too.

    Albion have much higher standards - our football style gets recognition across the country - people think of Albion in terms of being a premier league team.

    All TM is saying is that the club wont live or die by which league we are in next season - we have money coming in and other than Gera we would probably keep the squad together. TM is also prepared to stay with us if we did miss out - which is a MAJOR plus.

    However, I and many other fans also see Albion as a top flight club - and now we have the players and manager to match, we just want to see us taking on the best.

    We may not be a “big” club - but we are a very good club - and that won’t change whatever happens !!

  22. Southern Wolves said:

    100 years you say happy.
    You may have a better team but what makes a good club is things like Ground,Training set up, youth policy etc. How on earth are you ahead of us on those things.You havent produced any kind of decent homegrown talent. As you say your not a big club.
    Deep down you all know that Albion being on top is an amazing achievement. But you dont have the sature to make it last.
    Wolves will always be known as a big club. We just need the team to complete us.

  23. Southern Wolves said:

    By the TM. It doesnt take a journalist with an agenda to point out that your current league position is a massive failure. Its just how it is.

  24. WBA4LIFE said:

    I love all the comments regarding how much money has been spent.
    Spent 11 Million? Has it been missed that we sold among others: C.Davies 10m, Kamara 6m, Koumas 5m.
    (Thats 10 Million PROFIT)
    Without wishing or needing to over state the fact, WBA is a profit making football club. Unlike alot
    of other clubs.
    How much do you think this ‘failing’ FA Cup run has made us?

  25. John said:

    21. “our football style gets recognition across the country - people think of Albion in terms of being a premier league team”.
    That simply is not true. WBA are regarded as a yo yo team.

  26. Happy_baggie said:

    Southern - as you posted in a reasonable way I’m happy to try and answer you.

    Yes you may have a bigger ground (not sure its better with no corners though) - you also have a bigger fan base. But lets not kid ourselves about whats important.

    The team.

    Its been a long time since wolves had a better team than albion - including your year in the prem - and thats what is rattling the wolves fans.

    If you are honest (don’t worry, I don’t expect you to agree on here) you would swap your attendances and training facilities for the football we have been watching these last few years.

    As I say we are not a big club - but neither are wolves…. you can say you have big crowds - but not as big as norwich (who are a small club), you can say you have history - well so do Forest and Leeds or Preston and burnley - it counts for nowt.

    Albion and Wolves are very similar clubs these days - except in footballing terms - and THAT (IMO) is where we leave you behind. You say wolves will always be a big club - and to you they are - but to the rest of the footballing world you are not - its just the way things are now.

  27. baggies said:

    wolves fans hoping we drop on our arses but love to be in our position,super mick last season give mick the kick halfway thru this one… glad im a happy baggie

  28. Happy_baggie said:

    Oh - and in what way is 5 points off top of the league with 2 games in hand (having been top for three months) a “massive failure” ??

    If you can’t be honest with yourself, what chance have the rest of us got ?

  29. NathanWolves said:

    Happy, you this season are nothing like us last. We lost 12 first team players and had no parachute money to go out and spend 11 million plus on players.
    Wolves are not “just” happy to make the playoffs and lose, our expectation is very high and was at the start of the season especially after last season.
    To say that albion have much higher standards is bordering on a disgrace and totally unacceptable. I think you know this not to be true, hence the wolves fans reaction to us underachieving this season thus far.

    The only people who see Albion as a top flight club is albion fans, no other prem team clubs would think that at all.

    There are just soo many flaws in your argument/opinion it’s untrue.
    You have gone in my opinion from an interesting blogger to someone who lacks more and more credibility everytime you post!

  30. NathanWolves said:

    where is wba forever to give his balanced view on proceedings.

  31. WORCESTERBAGGIE said:

    OH AVRAM GRANT
    ARE YOU LISTENING
    YOU BETTER KEEP OUR TROPHY GLISTENING
    COS WE,LL BE THERE IN MAY
    TO TAKE IT AWAY
    WALKING IN A MOWBRAY WONDERLAND,,,,,

    DOING THE DOUBLE THE MOWBRAY WAY ,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OH YES

  32. a gentleman said:

    Everone’s entitled to their veiw I guess, no matter how factually or grammatically vacuous
    they may be.

    However, no. 22, reflect on your post in shame, esp. when referring to ‘ground’.

    The dingles don’t own a ground, they merely rent that orange and yellow structure you frequent.

    I’ve attended uni class there on occassions (that’s higher education, beyond school and college,
    think reading books and writing sentences), and it’s in need of repair.

  33. Baggie Boy said:

    I like TM he says it like it is..

    24… Could not agree more we may have spent 11 million on players, thats because we could due to the chairman and the way he runs the club , should we not get promoted this year we will be able to do the same next year should we choose to sell our contracted players.

    Football is a buisness at the end of the day and simple rule of buisness “dont spend more than you get in and you will always be in buisness”

  34. TonyWBA said:

    S’pose reading 29: NathanWolves post has just put Happy_Baggies career down the pan, do not be to down beat HB were going to Wembley during this poor season we are having.

  35. Malvern Wolf said:

    Happy, we were more than happy to make the playoffs last year but we were not happy to lose especially to our biggest rivals. It is a long time ago now but with all the respect possible to Wayne Hennessey, I wonder what would have happened if Matty hadn’t injured himself in the last minute of the last training session before the game. He was our best player and his absence was a huge boost for you and a huge blow to us. Obviously we will never know but it could have favoured us to the extent that we could have been playing Derby and I like to think we would have beaten them. It is going to be another stressful weekend for us all but at least soon you will have the distraction of the Pompey game.
    Will it help or hinder your promotion target, only time will tell.

  36. Wallop said:

    Typical Dingles, think they are as big as Man Utd. Reality check, when Sir Jack was there you could not even buy your way up. When you did go up, you didn’t spend (big club indeed)Came down with debt and then had to be sold off for £10. You are a mid table team along with about 6 others who are vying a Play off spot. If Albion win their games in hand we go top.

  37. Happy_baggie said:

    Nathan - you are entitled to your opinion - just as i am.

    I did not expect wolves fans to see things as I do, and visa versa - however when i listen to programmes such as Talksport they regularly praise the albion for their style - something you do not hear about wolves.

    When you came down from the prem you also had 2 years parachute money - and did not spend much - and you also had JH and his money - so don’t plead poverty on here as it is laughable.

    And yes - I think we do have higher expectations at the Albion - I’m not saying we should as no-one has a divine right to promotion - but having spent three years in the top flight - getting automatic promotion twice - then i think we have come to expect big things at the albion.

    Last season WAS seen as a success at wolves - magic mick etc… so whats changed ?

    You can say I have no credibility - but I give you an honest opinion without hate or spite. If you disagree, fair enough - but just saying I’m wrong is no argument.

  38. Codsallwolf said:

    People criticize wolves but for me I do not think wolves are that far off albion in terms of quality.
    McCarthy has made some duff decisions and team selections, but wolves do have some quality in the squad
    in Kightley, Hennessey, Murrey, Jarvis and SEB. In addition, wolves also have a successful academy, a
    decent fan base and a decent ground. Albion are playing well at the moment, but I don’t believe wolves
    are as far off as some people would have you think (particularly since losing the parachute payments
    last year). I don’t get carried away with illusions of grandeur but I do see the club going in the right
    direction with potential to stay in the top flight if we make it.

  39. Southern Wolves said:

    Happy.

    I dont really think your leaving us behind. Same points last season and what 6 more this season.
    Portsmouth have left Southampton behind but your just ahead of us in footballing terms.
    For years we used to get the better of you so we all know things change in football.
    Really have to disagree with you when you say that the footballing world doesnt regards wolves as a big club. Anyone I ever meet and talk to about football always comes out with it “oh your a wolves fan, when are you going to get in the premier league?Wolves are a massive club” I know every wolves fan has heard this said time and time again. OK it doesnt matter at the moment but one day it will and thats the difference between us and Albion.

  40. raythewolf said:

    right direction??????wern`t you top and now forth.
    ……whats he trying to tell you….going nowhere the Mowbray way…..Boink Boink….come on you wolves

  41. Sandwell massive?? said:

    ‘you can say you have history - well so do Forest and Leeds or Preston and burnley - it counts for nowt.’

    So why gloat about being in the semi-finals of FA cup??

    Utter nonsense! You will have to put your hands up to that one. You would never hear a Forest fan saying winning the European Cup twice ‘counts for nowt!’. Maybe its just because you lot never see the job through and win anything, or your trying to make yourselves feel better cos the wheels are coming off your season?!

    Oh, and I wouldn’t swap our facilities, fanbase, history or fame for what is just a half decent Championship Baggie team. Get real, its such small potatoes! Maybe if you where Real Madrid i might consider it!

    Maybe things really have gone to your heads a little HB??

  42. SherpaVanDiv4winners said:

    Wolves fans..Pay attention!!..your deluded if you think one decade of a “purple patch” ie’ the fifties makes you a “big club”…Remember the “Babes” were lost prior to your 58/59 league wins!!….and come to think of it didn’t Huddersfield win 3 titles during the “twenties”…Don’t hear them piping up with “We’m a big club” do you?….wake up and smell the coffee…the games moved on..its just a pity you moping lot haven’t….Boing Boing!!!

  43. Loyal-Cannock-Wolf said:

    HB stop kidding yourself, Albion aint going nowhere this season.

  44. freddy freddy freddy said:

    happy baggie, your post 26# i would agree with a lot of what you said there, yes there’s a difference in football styles between us. mainly because you still have seasoned experienced players dominating your first team, we have many young inexperienced lads in ours. i think the current table is correct in that you are above us, but also in that fact that wolves are not far behind you. your current squad hasn’t gone any improvement left as at their ages their as good as their gonna get. our boys still have years of improvement left in them, yes albion hold the upper hand at the moment and fair play to you, but with our current young squad and the new morgan millions it won’t be long before wolves are a force to be reckoned with.
    albion are having their purple patch, ours is yet come. the better team will be the one who makes the most of it and can establish themselves in the premier. it could be both of us, it could be neither, only time will tell.

  45. Villain said:

    Oh dear the cracks are starting to show!!! Tesco Town are staying down!!! Even your gaffer believes it now!

  46. baggieno1 said:

    oh when the stripes come marching out (AT WEMBLEY) oh when the stripes come marching out (AT WEMBLEY) im gonna be in the stadium (AT WEMBLEY) oh when the stripes come marching out……………….LOVIN IT BOING BOING

  47. michael said:

    isn’t it amazing how if you don’t agree with any of the sandwell fans they accuse you of being a school kid i would ask who is really being childish.
    28. people are saying its a failure because according to you lot you where that superior to any other team in this division that you would be promoted by Christmas.
    that’s what happens when you dont show any kind of respect to other teams. live and learn.

  48. optimistic wolf said:

    yes ur going in right direction…from top to fifth in a couple of months…sliding down the table the mowbray way,oh yeah.

  49. baggyboys34 said:

    So nathan only we cnsider ourselves to be of a premiership standard? i suggest you take a look on the sky sports site and check out the experts columns and see what they say i believe its something along the lines of “west brom are a premiership standard team capable of challenging next season the 8 teams currently battling against relegation.” Chris Kamara

    So we arent top
    Nor are we winning every game
    then again…
    We are in the semi final which even if we lose is a certain distance further than dingle army have got
    We will without a doubt at least reach the play offs

    You are all going on about our failure; this coming from fans who repeatedly slate their OWN team, Boo players, want their SUPER MICK SACKED, and then try to justify our so called “failure” by saying they are “bigger” because of a windy custard bowel?
    A stadium doesnt make a club; MK Dons, Leeds, Forrest, Boro, Villa. But in fact it is the teams goals and fans belief. You mock our manager for not running around grinning when we score. Maybe if mad mick did less of this he would notice your faults?
    Mowbray is saying we may not achieve our goal… honest isn’t he?
    Your manager will say if you reach play offs and fail you have had success?
    we expect only the best this season and our manager is trying to prepare us for the worse just in case.
    We MIGHT cry at wembley
    We MIGHT not get promoted
    HOWEVER
    We HAVE reached the semis
    We HAVE enjoyed this season as a set of fans
    and we WILL continue to laugh at the dingle’s incapabilities to admit when we are better. You are utterly without a shadow of doubt pathetic as a group of hooligans and as a team/ city?
    Up the sandwell town
    Btw that is a reeeeeally nasty name to give us
    ouch it hurts so baddddly

  50. stevecorica.legend said:

    Seems like Morbid Mowbray is running scared -
    all the way to the Riverside & bossing the Boro.

    Spending £11Mil & excuses,excuses,excuses.

    Can’t understand Morbid making excuses!!!!!

    Go,get him Mad Mick.

  51. FCWolves said:

    “Right Direction” = TERMINAL DECLINE

  52. The Real Bully said:

    Happy Baggie and Southern Wolves.
    Well done both. Something worth reading rather than the tit for tat B——s that is in danger of ruining the site.

  53. themowbrayway said:

    Nathan Wolves, Shall we point a few things out here?
    Your club had the upper hand over the Baggies and blew it.
    Since Megson rubbed your club’s nose in the mud you’ve been playing catch up and are still some way behind.
    Your golden tit tried to buy success but your club poured the money down the drain.
    Albion have worked themselves into a strong position through hard work, thrift and skill.
    Your club just demands to be in the prem because you are a ’supposed’ big club, Newcastle anybody!!
    We have earned the right to be in with another great chance of getting in the prem through good management by a clever chairman with a plan.
    Your club is an underperforming laughing stock, again Newcastle anyone?
    Our club has won admiration from many for running the club well, having a great young manager,
    with an exciting team based on skill, pass and move, scoring plenty of goals and playing very entertaining football.
    On the other hand there’s your ’supposed’ big club where the mediocrity and underachievement is scandalous. You lot will be asking serious questions again at the end of another failed season, and so you should be.
    We’re having a great season and we’re lovin it.
    Why don’t you lot just concentrate on getting your own club in order, then you won’t have to keep casting envious eyes down the road at our club.

  54. Aussie Baggie said:

    If we do not get three points against Colchester on Saturday then we might as well kiss the season goodbye. We have made things difficult for ourselves but how the team responds in the next few games will reveal whether we really have a Premiership team or not.

  55. debigbadwolfman said:

    happy baggy you just keep dreamin about being arsenal. we should also be in the big league but we aint and neither are you you muppet you’re in the championship (not the premier) and the form u lot r in ur gonna stay there aswell so don’t get cryin at wembley again!anyone would think you were real madrid the way u lot keep spurting off, damn fools!

  56. debigbadwolfman said:

    baggyboy,hate to tell you this but a custard bowl is round like your industrial dumpin ground not our ground another damn fool1

  57. BAGGIE BOY said:

    Can anyone explain (not that I am moaning) West brom stated that we where only able to sell 24k tickets the FA cup semi up till wednesday night due to the way Albion had decided to sell them (1 per season ticket/Member and box holders) yet at this same point they said they had sold 25K anybody else notice this.

    But now they are on sale to Albion fans that attend matches but did not qualify for them under the above rules they will sell very quickly

  58. Gloucesterwolf said:

    didnt you spend 11 million on players this season? kamara, koumas, mc shane and davies would stroll back into your team you have got worse this season and you couldnt make it last season. no parachute payments next season, no phillips or gera but robinson wont pass a medical so your stuck with him. end of parachute payments and you’ll be mid table in championship next season. oh dear.

  59. Southern Wolves said:

    I do worry for any team that goes up to be fair(more likely albion than wolves).
    Thats because this league is very poor this season and whoever wins it(good chance ALbion) will probably win it on the lowest points total ever.
    How can anyone expect to do better than Derby considering these stats. Serious money would have to be spent but what top players want a relegation fight.
    Yo Yo springs to mind and Derby fans will tell you its no fun losing every week.

  60. wolf2008 said:

    49. I am proud to be associated with Wolverhampton the city aswell as the football club. I’d be very
    surprised if you would say the same about Sandwell (what a dump).

  61. TonyWBA said:

    59: Southern Wolves

    Somehwhere in there you make some valid and discusionable points.

    “I do worry for any team that goes up to be fair(more likely albion than wolves).”

    That would be the same as any other season where the teams that get promoted are automatically designated favourites for the drop, but if you can manage to string some wins together you get a good exciting season, take the “Great Escape” for example. We enjoyed it.

    “Thats because this league is very poor this season and whoever wins it(good chance ALbion) will probably win it on the lowest points total ever”.

    Does this really mean that this league is very poor or does it mean that with every team seeming to take points off each other that the gap has been bridged slightly, also with the way Championship sides have more than held their own against the so-called big fish of the Premiership in the FA Cup. I personally believe this Championship season has been one of the best for a long time for competitiveness.

    “How can anyone expect to do better than Derby considering these stats”.

    I’m not quite so sure how anybody could do any worse TBH, to me they are a waste of a place in the Premiership but I’m positive IF West Brom went up we would have 10 points on the board before we have reached 10 games. Just my opinion. I also tend to believe Wolves would do a damn sight better than Derby are. To be fair Derby are a shambles. (before certain dimwits pipe in, yes they did beat us to get there).

    “Serious money would have to be spent but what top players want a relegation fight”.

    Maybe, Maybe not!! Has this really worked for Newcastle over the years???
    Have Reading really gone and spent a shed load of money, they are there still competing.
    Surely if you go up with a strong foundation to build on you stand a better chance obviously some money would need to be spent but that would be for tweaking a tad.

    “Yo Yo springs to mind and Derby fans will tell you its no fun losing every week”.

    The “YoYo” effect has not harmed West Brom in my opinion, finanaces are good and has given us a basis to build from, whether we achieve the goals we require to get to that basis, is still to be answered.

    There are definetly a number of teams in the Premiership that are beatable and I would hold no fear if we went up that we could gain enough points to survive, if we were to fail I’d like to think we failed trying, then for me it is worthwhile, plus the added benefit of parachute payments would continue to furthermore carry on building.

  62. Gold'n'Black Wolf said:

    49. what exactly is kamara a expert at he was a failed manager and i remember him saying wolves where prem quality when Hoddle was here.

  63. The Real Bully said:

    My earlier comment about Happy B’s and Southern W’s thoughtful postings raising the standard of debate on here seemed to work for a while and we had some positive comments from both sides. However, soon after the lunatics seemed to realise they were in danger of losing control of the asylum and came back in force.
    59 Southern.
    A good point which 61 Tony answered in part. I well remember the first time we went up and by Easter there was little pleasure in dragging yourself to a game, the fact that you know you are likely to lose gets to be very depressing. But what is the alternative? Giving up and not trying.
    The article that provoked this, sums TM up for me. He is a cautious and modest man, if we were twenty points clear he would still be saying the same thing. Give me TM any day over BFR who would be telling us by now who he would be buying for the prem.

  64. Happy_baggie said:

    TRB 63 - like a snow flake or a passing smile - nothing lasts for ever.

    I am sooooo bored of the head hurting stupidity on these boards now that I rarely feel bothered to post - but I thought I would give it a go…. and for a while it was ok. But you can’t debate with stupidity and so its back to normal again YAWNNNNNNNN….

  65. Kegworth Baggie said:

    Brilliant posting 22 - “we just need the team to complete us”. Made me laugh. What is the club without a team? Yes
    the Wolves on the pitch have a great history (off it you are known as animals) but so do Preston,
    Blackpool etc. How far back do you go? In the last twenty years you have been bottom of the bottom league
    almost out of business and then underacheiving every year apart from one year in the prem when you were almost as bad as Derby are this year. Get a grip.

  66. Happy_baggie said:

    Kegworth - being a big club without a decent team is like having little feet and buying big shoes… pointless and a bit silly.

    But you can’t get it through so don’t bother trying.

  67. Malvern Wolf said:

    Kegworth, we were very low but we were never that low.

  68. The Real Bully said:

    60 Wolf2008.
    You obviously set your sights very low and yet still manage to miss.

  69. Southern Wolves said:

    Good teams come and go. Look at the likes of Swindon,Oxford, Barnsley. All have played in the top flight in recent years. Fan base and history is permanent and no one can take it away. Once we get it right on the pitch we can challenge the top 6 or 7 clubs in the country. It makes sense actually Happy. Pointless and Silly?? We could just go back to name calling??

  70. Southern Wolves said:

    By the way Kegworth. Our one year in the prem we got 33 points which is 7 more than you got in your first year and 3 more than the last time you got relegated. So, nearly as bad as Derby but still better than Albion.

  71. Dave said:

    Why are people using the ‘Your Towns a Dump’ line to score points off each other? I deliver beds to Wolverhampton and West Bromwich and let me tell you with no uncertain terms that there are area’s in both where I wish I had 2 Rottweilers with me at all times. Both areas are part of the same connurbation which differs very little from one end to the other.

  72. swindon baggy said:

    This site is becoming overrun by deluded wolves fans,jealous up to their high teeth because they think we are a far better side than they are. Express and Star take note;supply the demented with a secound site. Call it WWFC, whingers and whiners full-of crap site.

  73. frankthegas said:

    This time we will stay up,with the team we have we can beat any of the bottom 8 in the premiership

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