Albion boss Tony Mowbray said today the Baggies must dust themselves down following the disappointment of Saturdays FA Cup semi final defeat to Portsmouth at Wembley.
Albion head to Blackpool tomorrow for the first of six make-or-break fixtures in the Championship.
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And Mowbray revealed today that he adopted an unusual method of dealing with the 1-0 loss – building a snowman at the crack of dawn yesterday with young son Lucas.
Mowbray said: “I was up at 7.00am yesterday building a snowman.
“My life is all about football and family and the family is always there to fall back on at times like this.”
But Mowbray insisted neither he or his players will have any problems picking themselves up from their Wembley heartache as they head for the seaside and a match at Bloomfield Road.
Mowbray said: “I am always ready for the next game because if you can’t cope with disappointment in this job then you shouldn’t be in it.
“There is always another game to focus on and that is what we’ll do.
“The players are fully aware of the programme that is in front them and they have got a determination to move forward.
“They won’t need Churchillian speeches from me because they know what the challenge is.”
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40 Comments
Unlucky lads. You had the lions share of it but were lacking in the goals dept.
At least it’s shown you if you go up this season that the cheque book will have to come out to get some premiership quality strikers because that’s where it the difference in the teams stood out the most.
I reckon you’d get respectable money from other championship sides for your existing strike force.
YEP YOU’LL BOUNCE BACK. AFTER LOSING TOMORROW AT BLACKPOOL, BACK TO BACK DEFEATS SHOULD SEE YOUR SEASON BACK ON TRACK.
I HOPE YOU’LL BE WATCHING WHEN WOLVES WIN THE PLAY OFF FINAL IN MAY..WELL LET’S FACE IT WE ARE THE ONLY BLACK COUNTRY TEAM WHO WIN AT WEMBLEY.
QUE SERA SERA, WHAT EVER WILL BE WILL BE, WE’RE GOIN’ TO WEMBLEY, QUE SERA SERA..
THE SOUTHBANK..BARMY ARMY..GOIN’ TO THE PREM THE MCARTHY WAY..IN STYLE OF COURSE..OH YES.
Fair comment, but I’m sure that TM believes he has the strikers he needs. It isn’t easy getting a striker that will score you 15 to 20 goals in the premiership unless you can spend vast ammounts of cash, or get younger players that have potential.
oooopppppps Poster 2 has caps lock hightus again I see.
Would not mind if it where reading but its unavoidable when its sticks out for 2 reasons
1.. Caps lock
2.. Utter rubbish
LAURA will you come on the big one with me please
boing boing going up on the big one
Number 2 - I assume it’s your first time on a computer so a bit advice - CAPS LOCK is normally on the left hand side of the keyboard halfway up. If you still can’t find it - ask your probation officer, he’ll be able to help you. Idiot.
Number 2 - it’s obviously the first time you’ve used a computer so a bit of advice - CAPS LOCK is halfway up the keyboard on the left. If you still can’t find it ask your probation officer to help you.
Play the rest of the season the same as Saturday lads and we will be in the Prem next season, no doubt.
Nice to see a couple of the local rivals posting on our board before us, one sensible and one full of the usual vitriol.
Hopefully results go for us tonight and a win tomorrow puts us where we should be.
Keep sniping dingles your playing catch up not us.
Boing Boing
Good morning tesco are you a bit upset this morning,i must say you tried your hardest at wembley but the real class came out in the end.You just dont seem to have the fire power to win at wembley,just not good enough.Come on happy and rally the troops theirs still chance of another semi final,law of averages and all that.
Kegworth Baggie : Are you playing spot the Difference? Posts 6 and 7 very similar…hehe
Bad luck on Saturday you were the better the first 45 but that’s the way the cookie sometimes crumbles and I think it helped you playing a Prem team as the space we gave you suited uoy more.
Chris Brunt had a stinker for you and that Miller my god… So one footed. You need changes if you do make it to the promised Land. Good Luck you’ll need it!
If you play like you did on saturday you will not look like scoring, you will not go up. you knocked the ball around in the middle of the pitch to no avail. brunt, phillips, bednar, koren and your shocking back 4 proved that they are not near being good enough for the prem. oh dear, blackpool will fancy it on tues! all these away games you have coming up too!
10 Pompey Agreed I think our style is much better suited to thr prem but the difficulty is getting there.
It was a definate 0-0 extra time and pens game untill Baros decided to play netball but the goal stood so as you said thats the way the cookie crumbles.
Good luck in the final keep the trophy in England
There was that much water at Wembeley, with all the tears, Pompey fans had to use a Kanu to get out.
Bong Bong Boggies Boggies
Staying at home to watch the cup final the Mowbray way.
Albion dominated possession but that counts for nothing when you only have one shot on target in 90 minutes. Pompey did an Italian Job on the baggies, they soaked up all the pressure with there 2 quality center halves and then did a counter attacking master class.
Fair play though, albion gave a good account for themselves and black country football but just lacked that killer edge, or maybe that was Portsmouth class which you don’t get in the championship!!
11.. We dont play against Englands goalkeeper every week nor two of there defenders.
You where not watching the same game our defence was shocking!! are you having a laugh.
Granted we did not make enough chances but the rest of your post is utter biased wolfie rubbis
11- Perhaps if we get promoted we’ll be able to fork out for some real firepower like Elliott or Eastwood.
boing boing splat splat
oops…..your seasons melting away just like Mowbrays snowman…….doing the double (losing twice at wembley)the Mowbray way…….come on you wolves…..anybody seen Terrywembleybaggy
Beaten by a team that as everybody knows , had an off day. Reached the semi’s by not playing any team worth talking about. You lot really are in fairy dairy land if you think thats an achievement.But then again most of you would need a dictionary to clarify achievement.
YES I DO KNOW WHERE THE CAPS LOCK IS..BUT THIS IS A BAGGIE THREAD SO.. I TYPE SLOWLY AND IN BIG LETTERS SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ IT.
2 caps locked.obviosly someone who has to raise his voice to make a point our try to win a argument. Most likely reason lack of intelligence!Proud of our performance.Credit to their back 4. Boing Boing
Southbank, you making yourself look an idiot. Now run along and take Terrywalsallbaggie with you.
We have nothing to bounce back from, apart from outplaying a Premiership team for most of an FA Cup Semi Final!!
On another point, i really don’t understand some of the recent posts saying that they preferred the Gary Megson baggies. I much prefer the football and entertainment that we are getting at the moment. Oh and how many FA Cup Semi finals did Megson get us to????
The Megson way is a complete contrast to the Mowbray way. I can understand the argument to a degree, and Megson’s way is far more effective in this league, which is why Bristol City and Stoke are utilising their resources a little better than we probably are.
BUT, Tony Mowbray’s brief as manager is to get this club into the Premiership again and giving us a chance to survive there.
If we were to somehow revert back to the Megson way, we may well battle to another promotion, but we’ll not stand a chance in the Premiership, as has been proved by every club that’s gone up and played that way, and we’ll have not progressed anywhere in 6 or 7 seasons.
This team can survive in the Premiership. Instead of moaning and knocking what was a gallant performance against a very good side, lets get behind them for 6 of the most important games in the club’s history.
To the bitter Wolves posts on here, get a grip, you make yourselves look silly by devoting so much time to us.
WOLVESWOLVES..IF I AM, THEN I’LL FIT RIGHT IN ON THREAD THEN.
19 The Dic etc.
Who said Pompey had an off day? Their own manager said,’we played as well as we were allowed to.’
Clapham.
As someone else said. Baros was playing basketball all the way through the game but the Premier league referee chose not to see the one they scored from. But that’s football. As they say, read the score in the paper.
23 Great Barr.
I haven’t seen these posts but I’ve said before it’s like comparing chalk and cheese. Without Gary Megson TM wouldn’t be in the position to play the football we are today and before we knock Gary’s lack of semi final appearances let’s look at how many promotions he got us. Anyway that’s water under the bridge. I think they’re both excellent managers, why knock one to praise the other.
10 Pompey.
Brunt did have a poor game but I think you should give Glen Johnson a bit more credit, he played him very well. I’ll be supporting your lot in the final. They played the game the right way. Apart from that cheating little ******* Baros of course.
24. - Totally agree.
Megson will always be loved by Baggies fans. We should all remember that we are in the position we are now, because of him. He changed us from a releagtion threatened Championship club into a Premiership club (all be it short lived), in a short space of time. Mowbray is now the man to take us to the next level and establish West Brom in the Premier League - Where we belong!!
To Warren (Albion). Have you seen your idiots on the Wolves site recently?
Splutter…splutter….Flatters to Deceive
20. And here is me thinking that your computer keyboard has been manufactured by Fisher Price.
were doing the midlands proud cos the other midland clubs aint capable,,,still the most exciting football to watch around the midlands and its all done the mowbray way,even mad mick tried copying the supa mowbrays tactics playing one up front away from home,,looking forward to the prem ..GOING UP IN STYLE THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,OH YES..
Why don’t you dingles crawl back into the hole you come from
26,
only one of your players saw the handball but typically you lot have to say that the ref was against you.
how pathetic are you.
Pompey where definately under par you dont get where they are in the prem by playing like that every week.
wakey wakey you played one prem team in the cup and lost.
didn’t create enough. so you only have yourselves to blame.
what a bunch of bottlers.
After reading all these posts today it seems to me a lot of Wolves fans watched our Semi Final at Wembley. Perhaps they wanted to watch how football should be played, and are looking to join us from the dark side.
Boing Boing
Ther it is ! opportunity knocks. We keep on hearing from TM, that the players are breaking at the leash after a reversal in any of our competitions. If we fail to overcome blackpool tonight, then all the hyperbole that comes from the local media will mean nothing. Its results that count, and we should not be aspiring to prem talk, if we cannot give blackpool a hiding.There is no excuse now, and i believe if we use just 40 per cent of our know quality, we should win 4-0 tonight.
Its all about the prem, we have endeared ourselves to the entire footballing public—but it counts for nothing if we miss promotion this year.
lets just clear this up. you were very good until xmas since then you have been awful, conceeding goas for fun and scraping wins, wait till you come to molineux.
the mowbray way bouncing straight down to 7th in the league by saturday, and after tuesday night you’ll be 9th,boing ding twang,no cup, no europe, no hope, and now 1 quid in to try and fill you blue and white tin shed why pay a quid in when it’s on sky, black country kids ain’t daft thats two games of pool in the pub with dad watching the boggies lose on sky LOL.
i hate dingles
37 Tipton born and bred. Thick of arm etc.
You must feel sooooooooooooo silly.
point taken well done boggies bouncing back,from your wembley heart ache.