As they used to say “I’m over the moon Brian”. To all the doubters who have expressed their desire for a “big name”, give the man a chance. We have’nt kicked a ball in anger yet there are so called supporters writing him off. See where we are at the end of the season. Onwards and upwards.

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I’m surprised that Peace has gone down the technical director route, its been met with a lot of opposition everywhere else and percentage wise hasnt worked.
However Di Matteo has the say on team affairs, he may not have a CV that reads winner winner winner as a manager, but his experience on the field of play, should be motivation enough to get him through.

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My old memory is playing up this morning. Does this mean the fitness coach we had from Blues is no more? Delighted Appleton is kept on. He will be ‘yer man’ in the future and you never know, he may stay for years. We should breed our own managers/coaches like we are doing the players. It’s the way forward for stability because football is SO volatile.

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Football is about excitement and disappointment. We had the disappointment last season with relegation, but now comes the excitement and this is an exciting appointment. Congratulations to JP on being bold and not going down the Curbishley type of manager route. I wanted a young hungry manager and Di Matteo will do for me. Good luck to him

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Jp As got another yes man again hope he does the biz for west brom

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i am very upset about tony going to celtic but we have got a new/good manager that will hopefully get us back were we belong THE PREM so lets get behind all of the board and the players cause we are a great club come on lets boing back to the prem

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This was my 1st choice also. Big fan as a player and he did a reasonable job last year at MK. I know he has not got pedigree at this level as a manager but he knows the game well. JP has edge the bet by giving a rolling contract. My only concern is if he does well then will he be picked up like ToMo necxt summer or will he stay. I presume that my application was one of the other 40 who finished in 3rd place. still mustn’t grumble
Boing Boing T!!! p.s. a big hi to the A&T Baggies massive!!

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After the initial shock quite pleased to see
Roberto as boss. i live close to preston (burnley to be exact imagine my summer with wolves b’ham and Burnley going up nighhtmare)and when you listen to Irvine on local telly very dour an uninspiring we would have lost our best players. Would still heve prefered
Ferguson but this will be exciting times
One more thing JP usually so tight with money trying to buy a league one player for 2 million with no manager appointed very strange.

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16 – not sure in what way your comments are made – every manager is employed on the terms you describe…. Alex Ferguson was nearly sacked due to lack of achievement, Scalari went, Strachan went, Real Madrid change managers every year ect ect….. so your comments seem odd.

I hope that when RDM leaves its because he’s been poached by Italy to manage the national side after leading albion to amazing european success.

I like his (RDM’s) thoughts on hard work – it sounds like he’s coming in with a plan and will work his socks off to get success !

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18 – You don’t remember Bryan Robson, Gary Megson, Brian Little, Denis Smith or Alan Buckley then?

Porbably not thinking about it, as you’re more than likely a Dingle posing as a football fan as you lot tend to do so very often on here.

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Spot on 19 and 20. I’ll bet they were all fully paid up before they went too. JP appears to be totally honest in his dealings. Long may it remain so. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, just one bad deed to lose it.

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22 to true you can’t take the dingle out of the dingle, keep on believing. The cream will always rise to the top boing boing.

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