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Albion arrange La Manga trip
Thursday 5th November 2009, 11:29AM GMT.
Albion will head to La Manga in Spain for a mid-season training camp next week.
The Baggies players will jet to the southern Spanish resort for five days of warm weather training after Saturday’s meeting with Leicester.
The trip will be the Baggies’ first spell away from their Great Barr training ground since their three-match pre-season tour of Slovenia and Croatia.
But before heading to Spain, the Baggies will take on Championship surprise package Leicester at the Walkers Stadium on Saturday with summer signing Simon Cox looking to build on his first League goal for the club against Watford at the weekend.
Di Matteo defended the handling of the striker, for whom the game against Watford was only a second League start in Albion colours.
The head coach said: “We just didn’t feel he was right to start because we had other players ahead of him. When we thought the time was right we put him in and looks sharp.
“Obviously, a goal helps any striker. When you think he’s ready to step into team, score goals and help the team you select him. That goes for everybody.”
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can me n jodie come,aye boing boing Y VIVA ESPANA
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Terry of course you can but you will have to clean up
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at yates bar in walsall when theres a match on sky all beer is a pound a pint till first goal is scored,its wolves v arsenal on saturday may i suggest just before k/o you get 10 pints in,aye boing boing
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3. Tezza Im sure you are a wolves fan you going to watch them now?!
I have made a list of players below that need to stay in Spain:
Carson (not good enough)
Luke Moore (lazy, had too many chances)
Mattock (awful)
Meite (donkey)
Cox (not ready)
Reid (not good enough)
Brunt (lazy wants to leave)
On another note keep an eye on Roman Bednar the last thing we need is him causing problems again.
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cov baggie We won’t make much mess just a few empty cans and terry’s toe nail clippins
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1,of course we will clean up,Jodie you know that little black frilly maids outfit you got think you might need to bring it aye boingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
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Terry you know you packed it away with your grey overcoat last time. boing boing
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oh dear, still over 100 tickets remaining for our away match tomorrow, were 2nd in the league its not far to go and we still cant sell them all. Disapointing to say the least. Jodie you need to talk a few of these men into going tomorrow!
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Shropshire Baggie.
The latest incarnation of Laughing Wolf AKA Shadrag.
This person, he has claimed in the past to be a financial consultant, something we now find totally laughable. He obviously has, as Cyril has pointed out, a major personality defect and the amount of time he spends on here suggests he has little else in his life.
Laughing Wolf used to post on here under that name and was generally ridiculed, he now takes his revenge by trying to bore us all to death with his many guises. He occasionally catches out a new reader, he also ocasionally catches out himself when he forgets to change his header.
Laughing Wolf receives possibly more abuse when he appears on the Wolves site when he uses that name than he does on here and I’m sure he uses aliases on there as well.
Here is the crux of my appeal. We all have a different degree of affection for Shadrag. It’s like having your own personal village idiot that happens to be a Wolves fan into the bargain. However we must put these personal feelings aside and do our best to help this poor man. To do this we must totally ignore him. No matter how ridiculous he becomes, do not give in to the temptation, he needs our help. I admit I’ve been as guilty as anyone else of this in the past.
The only exception should be to explain a Shenanigan to any new readers that fall into his pathetic web.
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8, sorry to disapoint you shadrag,but its sold out,infact they had to send extra 600 tickets,youv been on albion web site aint ya shadrag,do you go on there often,aye boing boing
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8 worry about selling your own tickets dingle. You can get one half price,( if you have friend that is?)
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i aint wore that for ages Jodie,i,ll have a look under the bed,dont forget the nail clippers,aye boing boing stop tickling me feet
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Terry you do need to have a good look under your bed, seems to me there’s a few things hidden away that are way past their sell by date.boing boing
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jodie washing up, hoovering?!?! boing boing! If we cannot beat Leicester we do not deserve to go up. We have no sponsor and awful support, Im glad my ticket is near the back just incase Olsson comes over to have a go at us again!
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14 A real baggie knows we have the best supporters in the country, I for one am proud of my team and as for washing up and hoovering I did all that before I came out to work boing boing proud proud proud.
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14 boingboing are you the “village idiot” The Real Bully Hoo spoke of ( post9) by any chance? if so how thick skinned are you.
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16 Jodie he aint thick skinned just thick aye boing boing 2 short planks
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just looked under bed jodie,found a pair of blue n white striped thongs any idea who they belong to aye boing boing
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Jodie – you should know by now that shadrag isn’t thick skinned – just thick !!!
I used to post quite regularly on the dingles pages for a laugh – but always under my own name…. it would stick in my craw to type “happydingle” or some other moniker that suggested i was a wolves fan (ughhh).
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18 (saying this in a whispering voice so no one hear) Terry put them in your grey overcoat pocket and bring em with ya, don’t forget your clippers boing boing.
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Jodie told you to stop whispering you know it sends me all funny,aye boinggggggggggggggggggggggg
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19 I would never pretend that I was a dingle, I couldn’t live with the shame. I do go onto the dingle site under my own name because I am a proud baggie and also I like them to know it came from me. I only ever respond to the pathetic silly things thay have to say about WBA
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