West Bromwich Albion bosses today refused to budge over their rejection of a victory parade for the team’s Premier League-bound heroes, despite heartfelt pleas from scores of fans who want to salute their idols’ achievement.
The Mayor of Sandwell, marathon man Dave Heeley and a legion of supporters wanted stars to go on an open-top bus tour in West Bromwich. But council bosses revealed yesterday the club had turned down its offer “to focus all of our attentions on preparing for the Premier League.”
A club spokesman said players were now on a well-earned rest and refused to discuss its decision any further today.
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Enjoy your holidays lads, come back nice and fit & strong for the long slog in the Premiership
o well mayb we mite have more 2 celebrate nxt season !!!
PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LOL
I suppose Mowbray’s taking the lead from Roy Keane at Sunderland last year…..Staying in there has to be the next challenge…and you can’t argue that the end has justified the means with Keeno…..Winning what is the 2nd division title isn’t too much to get excited about..but competing week in week out in the Worlds top league is….So let’s cut Lord Mowbray a break and move on…..IN STYLE OF COURSE(WORCESTERBAGGIE Copyright2007)
DON’T BLAME YOU.
STOKES PARADE WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!
A complete PR gaff, at a time when WBA spirits are high we score an own goal.
If i was JP, i would organise for the trophy to be put on display in the East Stand corporate hospitality, charge people to come in, have their photos with the cup, a couple of players in attendence and give all proceeds to charity.
Everyones a winner, some good PR, fans happy, press happy, club happy, and happy baggie happy!!!
Whoever is in charge of PR at the Albion needs to look at what they are doing, the club is about fans, without fans the club dies, simple as that.
When have the Albion ever really cared about the fans,sham at selling tickets for big games etc i have been a season ticket holder for over twenty years and the proper fan hardly gets a look in you will notice this even more again next season when the prawn sandwich brigade are welcomed back with open arms,we just learn to live with it.Boing Boing
I can not believe we are not having a parade!! you have let down the fans. is it such an hardship to go on a open top bus ??????????
4.SBA…As a an Albion player once said on a visit to China “you’ve seen one wall you’ve seen em all”
we have seen one parade we’ve seen em all.
Just imagine what Stokes parade been like if they where good enough to win the league!!.
Who really cares about a parade we have got the prize we set out to get in the bank so to speak.
We dont need to parade around the streets to know how good we are!!
I would’nt have been able to bear it. Thousands of Albion fans old and young,men,women and kids lining the streets,waving flags and banners to cheer home their triumphant heroes.UURRRGH.Would have been a nice day for you lot though,can’t understand it really.You deserve a chance to show your appreciation and you have to milk these occasions.
I hardly think a ride on a bus from the ground to the council house would be too taxing for them.
perhaps JP is too tight to pay for the bus!!!!!
I agree Bomber a massive PR Gaffe, which in all fairness you can always rely on the Albion to to manage.
southbank barmy army
where’s the dingles parade then eh?
6. Utter rubbish, the proper fan DOES get a look in if they are indeed proper fans.
At the end of the day it’s the clubs decision. Half the lads are already on holiday abroad today and more will follow this week. Personally I think an open top bus with only the cup and Shelton Martis on it would be rather boring, don’t you?
Stop moaning for the sake of moaning, enjoy the summer, bask in the glory of being Champions, and cheer up!
Albion PR person out out out out out out out out out, oh come on when was the last time we got to chant someone out of the Albion!!
PR person out out out out out out!!!
All we need now is a name.
Flashback to end of last season - Sunderland champions; Blues runners up. Sunderland declined parade to prepare for premier league and stated it was a “stepping stone” on a journey to better things. Blues paraded to celebrate being promoted - where are each now a year on?
So much for us being a community club.
12. Are you suggesting only the 3000 at QPR are “proper” fans? So a local shopkeeper (for example) whose entire family have been Baggie since 1878 but can’t afford the admission isn’t a proper fan? You’re just wrong.
Strange decision, we had a great time after our play off final and it is days like that that help ease the pain of so many other days. The next Baggie generation would have had great fun dressing up etc. Success next year will be finishing 17th and you won’t have a parade then so this moment has gone forever.
Our decision not to hold a celebration having finished 7th is more logical.
the people who want a open top bus ,are the ones who didnt fill the east stand this season
Everyone is missing the point re the players being on holiday. They couldn’t have booked an holiday until a couple of weeks ago because they didn’t know if they would be needed for the play offs - so that is just a poor excuse. Of course there should have been bus tour. Not every Baggie fan could be at the last game. Basically they are prepared to take our money but are not prepared to give us an hour an a half of their time. Shame on you West Brom.
Oh dear blah blah blah ……whine whine whine…
What a shame you poor folk can’t have your great day. Give them a break. Get a life. I’ll do my cheering in the prem.
i dont think i could cope with another party,had loads this season,lets have one next season when we qualify for ueropeboing boing top 6
we should celebrate our win. you say it isn’t that much of an achievment but when was the last time we got a trophy you all know! You need to celebrate in order to move on. let’s face they deserve it and they aren’t going to work on the next season the whole summer.
I remember when you only had a parade if you won the fa cup, euro cup or old 1st div. This is all out of proportion.We have achieved promotion nothing else, the tin pot title of the old 2nd division meant nothing 20 years ago and still means nothing now. I am a season ticket holder of more than thirty years and as everyone knows have had to sit through some real dross through the years. this season has been one of the most entertaining ever. I even missed out on the southampton game because of sky moving it and being unable to change work commitments. I am not bitter about the lack of a parade. who wants to stand outside the council house in Oldbury (not West Bromwich). Lets not forget Sandwell council painted its new council buildings Claret and Blue. I for one am not upset at not cheering at anyone standing at a building that reminds me of Aston Villa.
Here here, Cooper
It´s no big deal for us. To Stoke it is. We have far more important things to concentrate on now. Looking forward to next season. Hopefully we can silence some of the mouthy ex-pat supporters of the big four out here. Off to the beach now. BOING-BOING!!!
15. I understand different people have different circumstances etc, but there is no excuse for missing Southampton at home. QPR, ok fine, only 2,800 of us were allowed to go, but Southampton at home cost a TENNER. If people wanted to show their appreciation for a great season it would only cost £10.
Just a quick point, how are so much of the squad on holiday when it was only truly confirmed at the weekend that we were promoted? We may have slipped into the playoffs until last Monday and the season would not have ended till the end of May, did all the players on the strength of that go out and book holidays last week? Sounds like a cop out to me.
I don’t really care that much I am a Home season ticket holder and couldn’t get a ticket for QPR would have been nice to see them lift the trophy after all the TV coverage we had from the Championship, Central and BBC not to mention Sky was a joke. Anyone would have thought Stoke City had won the league. Mind you Don Goodman probably had a word with Sky and told them not to bother with the Albion the turncoat!!!!
Boing Boing
doesn’t bother me,were i live i couldn’t make it because of work,plus it costs me £50 every home game in petrol,but wembely was a nice day out,nice to get home before my mates in sandwell,just next season to look forward to with all the late kick off times
Let’s get over this. It’s a sign of how far the club have come as a highly professional outfit that we are planning for next season instead of milking what is , at the end of the day winning promotion.
I’m sure there will be at least one pre season friendly at home with plenty of empty seats, so those those that want to see the players can come along and have a look then
As a season ticket holder and been in blistering heat in Iraq and Afghanistan for 6 months, I managed to get 3 weeks off and then back to work!!! That is considered a well earn’t rest at 18k per year as opposed to 18k per week. I also take the time out to travel from Gloucester to watch them. Where is the Payback?? Come on WBA, get a life, two hours of anyone’s time on a bus ain’t a lot to ask. You have lost the moment forever and a generation.
no 24 costa blanca baggie-
“Hopefully we can silence some of the mouthy ex-pat supporters of the big four out here”
i second that mate
Would have been nice to have had the parade. But at the end of the day it isn’t the end of the world. We have achieved what we set out to do - now bring on next season!
Let the good times roll!
No need for a parade, full house last home game of the season, 30000+ at wembley, 3000 fans at QPR. All the fans that wanted to be there were there, we all know the ones that weren’t they will be ones wanting tickets MAN U CHELSKI ETC , and for all you that are complaining about prices there were plenty spare seats at games this season gone when it was kids for a quid and adults £10.The club should crack down on these so called “fans” with a loyalty system.
Fair play to TM and the boys, they gave us a trip to wembley and got us im the prem league. let them have their well deserved break to recharge the batteries and come back fighting fit to take on the next leg of the journey to be one of or even the elite team in English football. so cheer up everybody it could be worse. just look at the shower of s… in wolvo.
Absolute disgrace, what a kick in the teeth for the fans who spent their hard earned cash all season. I’m not a Baggie but they are my other fave team and I can only feel sad that the club deems fit to ignore the very people who without they wouldnt even exist.
32 alfie, i agree with you mate,theres no way i can afford 2 away season tickets ontop of 2 home tickets,but we all know the ones that hardley went to a game last season will be first in the queue for the so called big games,surely there must be some sort of loyalty points scheme from last season carrying on over to this season,plus id already brought this years season tickets well before we was promoted,boing boing
don’t blame mowbray,i’ve heard the fuel for the bus will bankrupt the boggies if they drive around sandHELL.
Pity about no parade - I live some 90 miles away from my REAL home and I would have walked the full 180 round trip to come see the lads get the full benefit of the cheers and appreciation from the “party faithful” - they so deserve it for the fantastic season we have had. What an honour - they have done us proud. However, after such a long season - all those cup matches too - they have the right to a good long period of R & R so I respect their decision and that of Tony “yes, he does walk on water” Mowbray. All the best to them all for next season - can’t wait!! COME ON YOU BAGGIES!!!!!
not having a parade is an insult to the fans again they have taken our money for season tickets for next season so they dont need to sell themselves to the fans anymore this season as for the excuses of players being on holiday theres a few ways of looking at it last season ours finished late due to the play off final so there getting extra rest there or some players will be playing in the european championships or the other matter of they wont get no bonus and it would cost for doing it
No Parade… Boooooooooooooooooo!!!
Its simple really it’s our first trophy in 40 years…Yes its only the champions of the 2nd Division but c’mon they could have done it and sent the boys of on holiday in style. There really is no excuse. They could have managed the logistics and got everything in place ready for a parade on bank holiday Monday pending our winning the championship. All this about the players booking holidays is rubbish as well as they would have needed to leave May free just in case we missed out on automatic and needed the play offs which was always in Mowbrays mind given his comments on a regular basis in the final month of the run in. Its been a massive season in every way and so it is just a massive own goal by the club. It means so much to have finally won something…