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Albion 5 Watford 0
Saturday 31st October 2009, 5:17PM GMT.
Five-star Albion ended their goal drought in style as the Baggies gave Watford a Halloween nightmare at the Hawthorns.
A Jonas Olsson header and a Graham Dorrans penalty gave the Baggies a 2-0 half-time lead with Luke Moore, Gianni Zuiverloon and Simon Cox were all on target in the second-half.
Albion flew out of the blocks and led 2-0 after an impressive opening 17 minutes.
It took just five minutes for the opening goal to arrive, as Joe Mattock was fouled by Lee Hobson and Graham Dorrans’ resulting free-kick was headed in at the far post by Olsson.
The Baggies doubled their lead 12 minutes later when Luke Moore raced onto a high ball by Olsson and was clipped by Adrian Mariappa, sending him to ground.
Dorrans stepped up and smashed the spot-kick past a helpless Scott Loach in the Watford goal.
Moore thought he had another penalty just after the half-hour, when the striker went down under Loach’s challenge but the Albion man was yellow-carded for diving.
But Albion did become ragged for a spell just before half-time and were lucky to escape seven minutes before the interval, when Craig Cathcart flicked on a corner and Mariappa headed over.
But the Baggies held firm until half-time and then ran riot in the second period.
The home side survived a scare when Danny Graham put a good chance wide for Watford and Cox headed over for the Baggies, when the striker should have hit the target.
But the third goal arrived on 49 minutes when Moore saw his first shot saved by Loach, but recovered to bend a follow-up into the bottom corner.
Moore had another shot blocked by Loach before Gianni Zuiverloon made it 4-0, skipping across the area before drilling a low shot past Loach.
Cox capped an impressive performance with a goal of his own, collecting a knock-down from Moore and hammering a 20-yard shot over the outstretched hand of Loach.
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Oh ye of little faith. I thought Cox did well against stiff opposistion. Shame he was pulled off but he was tiring and looked a little limp towards the end.
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Tolja day I ? They wouldn’t dare lose because they’d have spoilt my birthday. Some son-of-a-silly-person said Tex didn’t play well. He was magical at times and that body swerve ought to bottled and sold in Boots The Chemists! Cox played a great part too. Moore showed what he does on the traing ground today. Now keep it up young man and you’ll go from zero to hero in no time at all. I was happy with Cox as M.o’M. mainly because it could have been almost anyone. There wasn’t a weakness anywhere. Dorrans was awesome, Olsson and Meaty Meite solid as a rock. Our sometimes maligned young fullbacks didn’t put a foot wrong. Carson looked unbeatable. If I’ve missed anyone out, sorry. I’ve had two bottles of cognac bought me…..Happy Birthday to me, etc……Trick or Treat girls ?????
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Happy birthday Cyril the wise Baggie boy.Great perfomance,I spoke to Cox before the match he said he was going to score today.Had my money on him for the ist goal.Luke Moore had one of his best games for us.TOP OF THE TABLE.
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WE R ALBION SAY WE ARE ALBION WE ARE ALBION AND WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE,YOW WAS RIGHT JARROD AYE BOING BOING GOING UP IN STYLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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5-0, dear me what an awful result! Mid table midiocrity for us!
LOL i dont think so – please can all the snark comment makers stay away this week nothing to complain about i think
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Had the score at ladbrokes for 4-0 so wasnt to
suprised. Could have been moore. We are 2nd top
scorers to Cardiff 21 of theirs coming from just 2
players ours coming from everywhere if their 2 get
injured what then?. Good to see young Cox geting
one. RDM not happy on radio interview what will
it take? has JP given him a wake up call.
If we can stay near the top till new year the
return of Miller should put us in a strong position.
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Some idiot on a phone in just said he thought Cox was poor. I agree he looked a bit stiff to start with but that’s down to lack of action in the first team. I thought his forward play was very penetrating. I hope he keeps it up
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Goal crisis…. what crisis???
Very good performance, with Luke Moore and Simon Cox very good up front. Movement, Pace, Workrate and two very good goals from two very young forwards.
They say don’t change a winning side, however, I think Roberto will play Roman up front with Chris and Marek coming into midfield.
Just finally, well done Abou Meite, another very good performance.
Luke and Simon, keep that up and you won’t be fa away.
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Died and just got back from heaven!!
Was it relly 5-0.
Wasn’t my birthday Cyril but a great afternoon eh?
Well done the lads.
Referee was a complete ………
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‘Relly’ was me using my posh voice!!
Should have been ‘reeeloiy’!
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1&7. Smethwick.
Not boasting but I got it yesterday.
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Just as I said the other day to the moaning baggies supporters, Patience is a Virtue.
Now the team have found their scoring boots again we will start to put some distance between us and the other teams, it might not be straight away as we have some hard games coming up but over the coming weeks and months we will do it.
C’mon you Baggies you did us proud keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!!
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5.London Throstle I hate to say it but we will still get some “moaning sods” on here they can’t help it, not to moan about a player or RDM they get on my t*ts.
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Don’t get too carried away you lot. Come Monday night you could well be back to third!!!!!
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The funny thing is, we had almost as much possession at Coventry and one goal there would have been enough, but would probably have generated more. That’s why Roberto isn’t too happy. The criticism was not truly justified. Somebody must tell him what’s said on here too, besides Jonas having a good go. If young Cox does what he did yesterday, he’ll do fine. He’s not a big lad but he gets in good positions and worries defenders. And he’s got quick feet, that’s a huge asset. Jeff, yow’ve bin watchin’ Black Country Alfie Bet ert ya? ‘Z’ is fer Stripey ‘oss is me favrit.
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Great Result and great goals 2 … what was the name of the electric/dance song we play ?(not Insomnia)
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is Smethwick Baggie (comment 1) Frankie Howerd in disguise.? Cox pulled off, looking tired & limp ?
ooooh shut that door Everhard !
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Apparently we are going for a loan deal for David Healy from Sunderland, happy days!!!!
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Forgot to say… Cox worked so hard especially in the first half.
Same team for Leicester.
Still top!
Cardiff held to a draw by Forest.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Real Bully Hoo and Perth Baggie. I’m not Frankie Howard and no more Cox jokes I promise. I’m just pleased we’ve got a player who likes to get in the box and shoot. I hope he has a lengthy spell in the team
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Has anybody got a clue what ‘C’ is for in the Black Country Alphabet? There’s a lock and key and I think the word ‘Council’, but my ears aren’t up to it. I’ve passed the site to everyone I know everywhere and it’s created great amusement. Bay gooin’ t’ Leicester. £23 fer ode gits! Tay fair.
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14 muppet, OH NO WE WONT aye boing boing top of the league
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hey Cyril its 27 quid for us younger gits,tay fair either,robbib gits,aye boing boing i,ll b there tho
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21 Cyril.
Hope you’re fully recovered from your Bacchanallian carousing. C is for Council Pop and it’s a tap on the T-shirt..
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It’s worrying that RDM appeared so subdued after a thumping victory. He’s quite right , no team is going to walk away with this league , two of Albion’s rivals Cardiff and Forest put on a very good show yesterday and showed just how fierce the competition is in the Championship. The reason that we were so good this week is that the players had no midweek game last week and had a complete week to train and rest. There are so many midweek games plus international duties that it is no wonder that they look jaded at times. The last thing we need is for RDM to become unsettled by fans overeacting to the occasional below par performance which are inevitable in this league.
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Cyril,C IS FOR COUNCIL POP.Tap water.
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21. I think it stands for “Council Pop” (meaning water). It will need to be changed to C for Champagne come the end of the season!.
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We took our chances on Saturday.
Cox was like perpetual motion personified on Saturday and was very impressive.
The difference was that we scored early, so Watford couldn’t just sit there and hope to sneak it 1 – 0 and we took our chances.
With players coming back from injury, I hope that this is the start of another lengthy unbeaten run and when you look at the bench on Saturday it looked VERY strong.
Kiely, Martis, Koren, Wood, Bednar, Brunt and Cech are all international players and would walk into 90% of teams in the Championship.
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After watching RDM’s interview on the TV, my missus asked why he was so negative after winning so well. Quite obvious I thought, he wants money for a loan striker and/or a new striker in January. He’s hardly got a compelling argument after thrashing Watford 5-0 now has he?
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We can only beat who is put infront of us and we did convincingly but lets be honest that is the worst team I have seen at the Hawthrons in many years, Watford were absolutely awful. A real test is the Leicester game if we get 3 points there then we can start to dream but with our inconsistency we never know! Cox worked his socks off and scored a great goal.
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What a win! Glad the strikers finally found the net, hope they can kick on now.
As for Watford being really poor, are we sure it wasn’t just Albion being so brilliant?? At least they had a go, even at 4 & 5-0 they kept havin a pop. They didnt just roll over & die like a lot of teams would.
The only slight criticism was RDM’s interview after. He seemed unhappy & quite negative after such a result. I can understand he may be frustrated with the recent critics and he is probably right in saying they over-reacted but he looked dispondant! Please dont take it to heart Robby. Its just the pressure that comes with a relegated team that wants promotion.
We understand u need time and are still gaining experience but we have faith in you.
Also wasn’t quite sure on the “would rather win five games 1-0, than one game 5-0″
Yeah but wouldn’t u rather win five games 5-0??
Okay so ur not gonna win 5-0 every week but lets say scoring 2,3 or 4 goals in those five games is sureley better?
We dont wanna go up Stoke’s boaring way of winning 1-0 all the time. Whilst theres nothing wrong that, and I dont mind the odd
1-0…. especially if u need to grind it out.
But winning 1-0 wont give u the same boost a 4 or 5-0 thrashing of someone will! Those players should be on a high now and well up for the next game. Especially the lad Cox.
And I was glad to see the strikers contribute.
More of the same please
BOING BOING!!!
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31. Stoke beat us more than 1-0 on 2 occasions last season. I wouldnt complain at a 1-0 win at spurs either! They did exactly what we have always failed to do and thats build a premier league team and club.
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Wooooohooooo my new Albion flag is flying in the breeze of the Chelsea heartland! The last one was destroyed and ripped to shreds by the elements over last season, finnally blown away not long after relegation – maybe this flag will stay strong as we boing up up up!
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baggiebob – you can protest that you are an albion fan all you like mate – but you are a dingle through & through… who else would post such negative rubbish after watching us score 5 goals to go top of the table.
I know that even if we put 5 past Leicester next week you would find some stupid reason why it wasn’t a good result – give it up !!!
Why not stay on your own page an celebrate not winning another game….
Great to see some of the forwards enjoy a confidence building performance – and with Brunt & Cech on the bench we are looking very strong. Watford came to us unbeated in their last 6 away games – and we destroyed them….. just need Sheff Utd to do us a favour tonight.
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34. ‘Im never coming on here again’ happy_baggie rears his ugly head again. I am just saying lets not get carried away as I have not seen a worse side at the hawthorns but as I also stated we can only beat who is put infront of us. The manager wasnt getting carried away either because it was a good performance against a poor side. Leciester would be a great win but I would be over the moon with a draw. A long way to go and we will have many up’s and downs I just hope we can be more consistent than happybaggies promises of never posting on here again!
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Cheers gentlemen for the ‘C’ = Council Pop = Werter. I was born in Great Bridge St., we always said werter. A catapult was a flerter, cuz it flerted bricks. A warehouse was a ‘weruss’ (unless the boss asked, then it was the ‘werussouse’. Yow gorra be posh with the boss. Roberto will soon learn that the Black Country is built on ‘avin’ a moan and we don’t mean any harm by it. As my aunt used to say when the babby was crying, ‘Lap ‘im up an’ ‘e woe mek no mourn’.
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35 – dinglebob…. moaning for no obvious reason about our past results against Stoke and stating that yet another team we beat are “the worst in years” and your petty and pointless campaign against Bednar all just prove that you are either a moron or a dingle (or both).
If you insist you aint a dingle I will give you the benefit of the doubt and just consider you a moron !!
I also reserve the right to post against nonsense like yours and not be driven from the boards by your ongoing drivel.
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Cyril – if you are still stuck for a C word – try post 35 !!!
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Great result and performance suddenly we looked full of goals…one note of caution remember our sequence of results after we thumped Boro. I still think our strikers will not show consistant form throughout the season and I am still not convinced RDM is the man for the job, Foxes will be a real test and would hope to see investment in Jan or I fear we might end up in lottery of play offs.
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Have to agree with Happy
Baggiebob you irritated the hell out of every Albion fan on here with your traitorous vendetta against Bednar and I for one would have loved to bump into you and told you where to stick your clip board! Now you’re on here moaning after we’ve won 5-0 against a team who were unbeaten in their last 6 away games…makes me wonder whether it’s shadrag playing up again!
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37 – Happy
U cant have a moron, Or a dingle, Or both
Its either just a moron Or a moron dingle :)
U are starting to convince me baggiebob is the above, I was quite suprised at his negative comment after a great weekend, we all know how Stoke have had the upperhand over us the last few years and are still in the premiership.
But I know for a fact and I have heard many fans say this
That I would rather watch our style of football in the championship than watch Stoke’s boaring, ugly, unskilful, dross they play every week in the premiership.
And I suppose they deserve their respect and are going well in their 2nd season. But mark my words, their time will come…. maybe not this season but they will come back down again.
Baggiebobs just probably annoyed cuz I bigged up Stoke over the dingles this weekend as much as it hurt to praise Stoke it was worth it to wind the Wolfies up. Now he’s just probably trying to do the same thing.
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Oh & another thing Stoke only beat us by more than 1-0 only on the one occassion baggiebob.
They beat us 1-0 at their place in what was described as the most boaring game of the season.
And that was only cuz Robinson got sent off!
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