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Greening wants to emulate Reading
Wednesday 13th August 2008, 12:29PM BST.
Albion captain Jonathan Greening has stepped up the countdown to the Premier League by claiming the Baggies can shock the division by “doing a Reading.”
Greening joined fellow top-flight skippers at the Premier League’s official launch event in London, as the build-up to Saturday’s big kick-off intensified.
The Championship-winning captain sounded a bullish note as he looked ahead to the Baggies’ return to the top flight.
He said: “We don’t want to be fighting relegation all year. It was like that the last two times we were in there.
“I think the gaffer wants to push on now and get the right players in to give more strength in depth to the squad.
“There are still a few weeks left of the transfer window and he will be doing all he can to try to get players in.
“The main thing for us is to work hard on the training ground and keep the team spirit that we had last season.
“I think that will go a long way this year to helping us do really well in the league. Hopefully we can do what Reading did when they went up.
“They had a really good season and finished seventh or eighth. If we can do that it would be a fantastic achievement.”
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Jono for England.
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Yeah then maybe Lenny Henry will come back and support you, instead of Reading with his mate Chris Tarrant.
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Reading? start off in a library then Jesus?
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Oh, that Reading – what get relegated?
LMAO – what an inspiration to you all!
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4)Dr Nookie stick to struggling against accrington stanly lads and leave the real football to us .
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yes yes do a reading and get RELEGATED
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Didn’t you lot just about beat Accy? :L
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4 – you may not be aware of this but some teams don’t come straight back down after just one season.
Reading had a great first season, and we should try to emulate that – however I see teams like Wigan, Fulham and Pompy as blueprints for success – but they all have mega rich owners who spend vast sums on the team.
The last team to yo yo between the leagues was Bolton, and if we can emulate them too we won’t be far wrong.
At the end of the day, it will be money that keeps teams in this league year after year – something JP has already admitted….
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3 an4 Dr. R Sole
However we get on this year, in the toughest leaugue in the world remains to be seen, but at least we are there…… AGAIN!!
Lets see how YOU get on against the relegated Reading and comment then.
Bit close to getting knocked out of the cup weren’t you and the dogheads last night, against the mighty Accrington Stanley. Lucky it wasn’t Morecambe, you may not have been so lucky.
Boing-Boing
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Where is everyone today then???????????????
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p.s anyone got any news on a sponsor as it really is getting late now????????????
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4 Comments 3 from the little club up the road who scraped an extra time win in front of 9500 big gate for a little city in staffs.Now lets talk football GREENING IS A CLASS ACT remeber him running the show at the custard bowl even though he was half fit with a groin injury.THE FURTURES BRIGHT ITS BLUE AND WHITE.
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Emulate Reading? How about Blues and Derby?
What a clown.
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correct johnno,we will shock afew this season under the great mowbray thats for sure,,mow will win alot of friends with hes style of football…everybody will love us like in the 70s ,,PLAYING IN STYLE THE MOWBRAY WAY,,OOOOOOOOOOOOH YES..
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4. Yawn.
Yes baggies fans think we all agree with not jesus but god, top half anyone????
That’ll do for starters..
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Sorry to change the subject but has anybody heard if there is any truth behind the Kris Boyd rumour, not a bad signing if you ask me.
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forget doing a reading lets win win a cup and get into europe for this season and mount a top three push for next season..THE CLUB IS IN SAFE HANDS WITH JP & MOGGA YOUVE SEEN THE LIGHT NOW KEEP THE FAITH..
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HB
I agree with you on Pompey but not Wigan and Fulham (true they stop in the premiership) BUT how boring are they?
BBBB
I’ll speak to you after the Reading game if you haven’t already hung yourself after your season ahead.
BAGGIE9
let’s not get into the “crowd size” debate cuz lets face it, you won’t win.
Not even top 6
I’m afraid you’ll have to type that one again.
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ha ha ha…….anyway you guys need all the luck!
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Dr, whose R are you slicking? Because it’s not your own team (‘You’ve let us down again’, “Booooo……Mick out!!”) and you certainly haven’t anything rational or positive to say about us, in fact your bitter posts are becoming a bit boring.
Why not concentrate on your own team who are, lets face it, hardly setting the world alight?
You might argue about big crowds, but you didn’t have big crowds in 1986 (Bury at home anyone?), and your record crowds are smaller than the Albion’s.
Jealous and bitter mate, sort your life out.
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To all you Jelous Dingles….Accrington Stanley! now go away and enjoy life in the fizzy pop league until you are relegated! Boing boing. You can only dream of being in our class! You will def be relegated with the terrible start to your season, how rubbish are you? lol
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Another story where our Captain states he wants to play football and aim for 7th or 8th, and the Dingles turn it into a slanging match…well done!
16 – No, not heard anything else personally.
I think we should try to sign that Vela kid on loan from Arsenal for the season…he looks like a real star in the making!
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12. coming from your much anticipated friendly with real mallorca and the championship trophy infront of 5000? charlton had 6000 last night. nobodys interested I was hoping we would go out.
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I don’t understand why poor Jonathan has been picked on.
We Baggie boys will be in Europe within 3 years. I reckon we’ll get 16th this year, 10th the next and then get into Intertoto or something like that in 2011.
We’ll actually do BETTER than Reading!
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The name is a reference to the annual placard that gets shown to the Wolves players each year when you fail to win promotion – by the way the marker pen will need re-touching this year – it’s been around for about 5 seasons.
Anyway Dingles – it’s a case of one club which had any number of millions thrown at it and achieved one miserable season in the top flight in 20 years and another club with no big backer that thrived on shrewd buying, superior support and a fan base that doesn’t turn on it’s players the minute they fail to get promoted (again).
There is only way to say it that won’t confuse your Bilstonite level of intelligence.
We….are…better.
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Warren
As I am a Doctor, you will know that I am an intelligent, professional person and try not to keep posting “bitter” words.
By the way, I’ve seen your medical records and even Hitler had one more than you.
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Albions new sponsor is set to be an American toy company that fits perfectly with WBA’s image . They manufacture YO YO’s.
Is that why you lot sing Boing Boing. Up down , up down. See you in September
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21. Wiseguy. Did you come up with the name and comment yourself? or was it a combined effort with you inter bred brothers and sisters? Back to school in September – more effort in the spelling classes!!!!!!!!! Ding Dong, Ding Dong – First it was stars in stripes now its boing boing maybe tossers?
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25)
Are you referring to STI’s?
Perhaps you could concentrate your resources on resuscitating that football team of yours before we have keep them alive like we did in the late 80′s.
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he laughs last,laughs the longest
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Don’t forget you lot scraped your way out of a poor league on the lowest point total for years, Emulating Reading is all you can hope for
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No.30, Well we haven’t finished laughing yet, probably won’t in your lifetime. Think about it, the 11 point overall (Haywood’s blabbering on the pitch), THAT FA Cup win, I watched it in YOUR seats (that would never be allowed to happen at The Albion, and the recent 1 nil win at the custard bowl (have you ever seen a more one sided 2nd half? nah, thought not).
Listen, the dingles are part of our past, you’re not even on our radar now, we’ve bigger fish to fry, so go back to your own board and stop being a keyboard warrior.
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30 – he who laughs last… didn’t get the joke.
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Word of advice to greening Reading only stayed in the prem 2 seasons, we have done that with Robson so lets have more ambitious than staying up 2seasons.Staying there and being more consistent is the priority
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