Great result from our first REAL chance to get some points.Game in which our midfield dominated for long periods,and on chances probably should have made it more comfortable,yes there will be more lows than highs,but if we can beat the teams in and around us we will be ok.In R.D.M AND J.P. we trust,playing football the way it should be with style and flair

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3 points in the bag! And alot sooner than Mogger managed, shame we have such a form destroying away game shedule; all the big four away…. solutions easy, gotta make the hawthorns a fortress, draws and wins against tottenham, bolton, birmingham – go it boys!

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Well played BAGGIES, Olsson was a Trojan in
defence, Brunt was dymamic,ditto Thomas untill he was ” Taken out “. Carson played much better having a tighter defence in front of him, did everything required of him. Odem
Wingie superb pace the lot and stuck at it the whole match. Thoroughly deserved his
” Scalp “.

Now Bring in Tchoyi to partner Wingie as Morrison needs more time to fine tune his fitness And lets see 4-4-2 at home. Having said that there wasn’t a under performing player out there.

I felt the first little nudge in our box and the referee would have awarded Sheffield a penalty. We could certainly do with By-line
cameras the way the assistant referee flagged for a throw-in and the ball never went off the island. Maybe the fourth official should have sent him off.

~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.

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Sorry headmaster, Odemwingie.

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Great win for the baggies! Hopefully Tchoyi and Odemwengie will make a big impact. Lets take our positives out of todays game and put it into are next few games. Boing Boing!

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6 JTH
Keep out the pub Jack!do you remember who we played?

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At times and early on, we played against 12 and the sarcastic cheers said it all when we finally got a decision from the ref. The hard 50-50 challenges all went Sunderland’s way,
(Jack, how many 1/2 time pints did you ship mate, ‘Sheffield’ indeed), but later he improved. We may have found a two-footed gem in Peter Odemwingie and fast ain’t the word. Had that first one he missed gone in there would have been more space to play. As Shakespeare said, ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’.

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well done baggies, hope all the midlandz teams do well this season.

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Very pleased with this result.
1. Jonas needs to be sharper in the Premiership. Don’t think twice – CLEAR THE BALL!!!
2. The team is only 70 minutes fit. They all looked totally knackered with 20 mins to go.
All the more respect for winning.
Well done guys.

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Well done baggies, keep it up but not too much mind, still want you finishing some distance behing the wolves……

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first of all thanks for the nice posts wulfies,okay i think we have a diamond in odemwingie,what pace,i can see him getting double figures for us and with tchoyi added we will be a real threat,i think if we can sign fortune also then the future will be looking bright,i’de still like a few more quality players in though,lets go for the win at liverpool.

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didnt think i would ever say that.

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“On the other hand wolves are looking like a good middle table side with a away win at everton”

You drew at Everton (and your goal should not have stood for Guidieora’s challenge)

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If we play every game the way we played today we will have very few problems,the defence were so tight which gave carson more confidence,the midfield were well orchestrated with very few passes going astray,and the chances we created,i feel we played the cats off the park,and odemwingie is just what we’ve been waiting for-fast,lots of technical ability and he never even broke into a sweat,damn good signing,hope tchoyi is as good as he looks,well done lads,whole team really work hard today.
Many thanks to wigan for today,think a lot of teams will lose big against chelsea,and well done to wolves on your point.Boing Boing!!

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I crave your indulgence as I intend to have one BIG moan. Many times I have expressed my disgust with the maniac that runs the Hawthorns PA system. Yesterday he stepped lunacy and noise aggression up several notches. Having many years experience of audio engineering, I would suggest the level broke the 120dB barrier and probably infringed laws on noise abatement. It was impossible to even say hello to the people around us due to the racket. I will forego the criticism on his choice of ‘music’ because it isn’t my scene. Please, please, please, Mr.Peace, have a strong word with this employee. Better still, ‘ex-employee’ ?

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Two things sprang to mind yesterday.
If we’d defended like that last week we wouldn’t have lost 6-0.
If we’d had Peter Odemwingie playing like that last week we definitely wouldn’t have lost 6-0.

I’m a big fan of Roman Bednar but the one thing he’s not blessed with is pace. This meant Thomas was our only real threat from the wing which allowed the Chelsea defence to push right up and put tremendous pressure on the ball. With PO on the pitch they wouldn’t have dared to do that.

I’m a realist and we’d have still lost the game but a narrower margin would have kept the doom merchants in the media and amongst our own fans off the players backs.

I also hope that Ishmael will watch and learn from PO that it’s not all about how fast you run, it’s also about which direction you run in.

I’m listening to Talksport this morning. Cundy and Quinn have now been on two and a half hours and the only mention of us is when they list the ‘no hope’ clubs, ourselves, Wigan, Blackpool. Last week they couldn’t stop talking about our game. What a difference a week makes, you wouldn’t know we played yesterday because it wasn’t the result they wanted. Cundy is only interested in Chelsea and Spurs, his old clubs and Micky Quinn the same with Portsmouth, Newcastle and his beloved Liverpool. Disgustingly biased broadcasting.

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James Wolf
Everton were all over you and if it wasnt for
the keeper Wolves could have been 5-0 down before half time,Stoke city were all over you
before Jones injured so please dont tell us
that The Dog Heads could finish mid table.
How can you say its a game Albion should of
won at home,Sunderland are a proven Prem side
and shoudlnt be taken lightly.The mighty
Birmingham City HAH!HAH!HAH! just about managed a draw agianst them which woudlnt of
happend if Sunderlands 11 men were on the pitch.

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from russia with love aye boing boing

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checkout tchoiys utube vid, he looks pretty slick to me, lets hpoe he can do it here boing boing

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39. Sunshine.
I think you’re the one getting carried away by trying to decide who is going down after two games and the transfer window still open for more than a week.

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Although grateful for the points I’m not getting too carried away. What’s good is that we’ve tightened up at the back, but our new striker (or Bednar) will need better support from midfield as one goal will often not be enough. I was really pleased how Morisson set up the goal, as I thought some creativity in the middle was missing. The full backs didn’t get forward as much which added to the isolation of Odemwingie, but as 1-0 was enough in the end, job done!

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Thanks Villa for showing us our 6 goal defeat to Chelsea could have been worse.

Put into some perspective as well that it’s pretty much the same Newcastle team that we outplayed on three occasions last season.

Perhaps the PL isn’t as scary as we thought it might be. Referees apart.

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Wow just watched videos of Pete and Somen they
look awesome cant really believe weve got em
looking forward to exciting times at the Hawthorns I recall the black pearl have we another ??

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27 Jeevan-I’m assuming,judging by the sad predictable comments,that you must be from the dark side.You say you would hate to be a yo-yo club?So you believe you are ‘established’ after 1 season and 2 games?Also, you can’t understand why Albion fans are upbeat after 2 games, with one defeat away to the best team in the country,and one win?Maybe someone will explain it to you when the new school term begins,they will chalk it on the board,and explain it slowly so you can take it in.

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I fear for Villa after that display. It was riddled with errors and looked quite gutless.
Players want huge salaries and malleable managers, which Mar’in o’Neill never was. But they’ll be the first to run away if relegation happens. Mr.Lerner, you’d better learn fast. You’ve just let go a brilliant manager.
Wulfies, congratulations. Tode yer MicMac was a good un day I ?
27 Jeevan. The roller-coaster ride is one of the most exciting, better than a flat, dull, long-winded stroll round the nether regions.
40.mustgo. We don’t make too much crowd noise in the East stand mate, but my whole point is,
YOU CAN’T when that noisy idiot never lets up!
We’re a friendly lot at The Hawthorns. It’s nice to say hello again to the people around you after 3 months of deprivation. We’ve developed lip-reading to a fine art and ‘sign language’ classes may be next. Be honest, which would you vote for, quieter background
‘music’ with the crowd chanting and singing, or ear-bending, deafness-inducing blasts from a power mad DJ ? Is this why the BRE is now quiet?

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47 Mustgo Baggie
Is that supposed to be funny? if you are a Baggie I don’t think you should be knocking the efforts of fans on the Brummie to create the atmosphere of yesteryear.
The Smethwick,which is where you obviously sit give the team fantastic support and have been the more vocal over the past few yrs since it became all seated but if we can get the Brummie back to the volume of singing it used to enjoy,then the two ends would complement each other and go a long way to help keeping us in the prem.
I think fans on the Brummie have just got out of the habit of singing,for various reasons so I call on all fans to take a leaf out of Jack The Hat’s book and have a couple of Sledge-Ommer’s and help Martin in E8 section to bring the Brummie roar back.

If this post is my 2nd on the same subject I apologise,don’t know where my 1st one went so sent another,get a little confused by technology.
MustGo Baggie Sorry for having ago twice

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I tried to post on a couple of streams but it didn’t take, oh well.
First of all, what a crackin result. Bossed a decent side in Sunderland and should’ve won by more.
We seriously need to stop conceeding free kicks outside the area. All Premiership sides look to win them in this area and most (Stoke particularly) use this as thier main source of goal income. I hope PO or Tchoyi have a good free kick on them coz it would be nice to have a few genuine options in that department ourselves.
I know it’s early days but Odemwinge may just be the answer to the “are we ever going to replace Phillips” question. Fingers crossed on that one but on this display we definately found our main striker.
I can’t wait to see Tchoyi but from what RDM says I doubt we’ll see him against Liverpool.
The media (local media excluded) have written off the Baggies straight away this season. Certs to go down and “whipping boys” being mentioned by lazy, biased and unintelligent sources. But, biased though I am, I can’t see how this squad are being dismissed out of hand.
We have some great players at the club and I felt we only needed to fix the last pieces to the jigsaw to stand a very good chance of surival. I recon JP DA and RDM have done that and any other signings will be a bonus (although we might need anoher Striker).
We won’t win every week but we will surely win more this time round. We should score more and conceed less so this is a very optimistic (but within reason) Baggie saying WELL DONE ALBION, and Wolves and Blues to boot. I also hope the Midland sides kick on this year. Maybe some of that money will grace the second most populated area in the country.
Comisserations to Villa. I guess that shows how important MON really was, but they’ll be mid table at worst anyhow.
Boing Boing

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53. Sir Terry.
Don’t get too excited, he caught Kenwynne Jones alright last week didn’t he?

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No.47 Mustgo Baggie
A little harsh but I agree on the point.
No. 52 Kev in Mallorca
Again I agree. I know everyone goes on about Newcastle fans and it gets to be a bit of a cliche but they are so biased and ignorant of the opposition’s plight that they turn a lot of games for the Magpies.
No.44 TRBH is right. It was the same Newcastle side that we outplayed last season. A Newcastle side that didn’t lose a league game at St James’ all season, because the fans intimidated the referee’s. They weren’t that good last year, but they were loud. They beat Villa outright yesterday but the fans had the referee on the ropes from kick off.
The Hawthorns is much smaller but the acoustics are magnificent. As fans we should use this to our advantage.
Boing Boing

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I don’t think we had a weak link on Saturday, it was an excellent team performance. Did anyone else think that Giles Barnes seemed to grow in confidence. I thought it was his best game for us yet and his early crosses will cause problems for other teams when our players get used to them.

With Giles, JT, Chris Brunt and Somen Tchoyi we have an embarrassment of riches out wide and they are all very different in styles.

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Well done baggies and important but quite easy win. We looked quite comfertable in stages and my only regret is that we couldn’t add the that tally but a great performance all round.

As predicted JM will be instrumental in our midfield.

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A few comments :

50. Cyrille – totally agree re the announcements, but… not sure whether it’s the same incident or not, as the announcement was being made Campbell had just been put clean through on our goal, and the announcement put him right off !

Re the singing, I have to admit it takes me some time to warm up during the game. Usually I’m a bag or nerves for the first 20 mins or so. I didn’t think it was too bad on Saturday – I’ve certainly been to games where the singing’s been worse.

Just like to comment on Giles Barnes – when he played towards the end of last season, I thought his performances where a little tentative, possibly understandably given the nature of his injury – but I thought he was superb on Saturday.

Looking forward to Anfield now !

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Kev, your baccy and donkey pooh comment took me back to 1947. The better off at West Brom Grammar School could afford fags in the bike shed, so there tended to be a blue haze drifting out at break times. One lad got a reputation for scrounging fags or even nub ends to roll up again in those clever machines they had then. A naughty group rolled him a ‘special’ one day, a mixture of baccy and hoss muck. I swear it, he never noticed! There again, the oval shaped Turkish ones stank like that anyway. ‘Pasha’ they were called.

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Bully

I do not wish to rain on our parade regarding your “not a weak link on Saturday” assessment.

Whilst i agree (not unusual) generaly with you, there were nontheless a couple a minor irritations from my viewpoint.

Jara
I thought some of his distribution was poor, and sometimes put us under unnecessary threat.
I certainly dont think it`s a lack of skill thing with him, more of an overly relaxed training session no urgency thing.

Dorrans
Very un-Dorrans like first half, not as involved as we have come to expect, much more involved second half, i would question his fitness.

However some really positive signs in the main.

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Solihull65. You have not read one word of my moan post and understood. I LOVE the crowd noise, the chants, the singing, especially so when the ground is jam-packed solid as it regularly was back in the 50s when we all stood up other than Halfords posh. I invite you to stand by me in the East, second tier, near the front when the PA is going full bore, (which it always is). I defy you to say it isn’t absolutely deafening and almost surely breaks every noise-level law in the country. Maybe the speaker cones have all blown out where you are. Where we are, all the supporters complain about the level of noise. IT IS FRIGHTENING and what it is doing to folks hearing is bloody irresponsible. All the idiot has to do is turn the volume down.
We’re supposed to make the noise, not him.

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I even missed an apostrophe in that rant!

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Carson never put a foot wrong. Jara was as patchy as he was against Chelsea. Cech has decided tackling is fun and is now a fine left back. Olsson is bravery personified and had a good game. Tamas ditto. Morrison had a better game this time and is getting his form back. Dorrans looks 80% at best, but it will come. Mulumbu is a dynamo of destruction midfield and can play a good pass. Occasionally gets caught in possession. Brunt was very good although not his usual ball winner in the air. Thomas looked a bit worried by the strong tackling, not so fluid as last week. Odemwingie was excellent. Where did he find the energy after the travelling he’d had midweek? Barnes uses his centres quickly. Could be very effective in this League.

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Bully

Please let me assure you that my critisizms are but minor niggles, and the two players in question are both held in high regard by myself.
Indeed i have stated often that Dorrans is destined for the VERY top, but before the seasons opener against Chelsea he was assumed as a major doubt to appear, consequently he did and was subbed relatively early, followed on Saturday an unusally low key performance.
Regardless of his impact on games you are always assured of a high energy game from him, and Saturday fell short of his normal lung bursting effort, hence my doubt about his fitness.

Again with Jara, i have absolutely no questions about his abillity, just that on Saturday his laid back approach to passing or taking on “his man” became horizontal, and better teams than Sunderland would have punished his at times sloppiness.
Just a word from RDM to eliminate the risks and i`m sure all will be well.

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First, well done lads, great to see Odemwingie onboard. We have 3 points from beating Sunderland, same as last time around.

Both squads are stronger this time around, but I thought it was a more measured performance from WBA. A few personal observations:

One or two players still lack sharpness and want too much time on the ball. The day certainly belonged to Peter who put the work in! Thomas, Cech and Barnes worked the left well, but the one-sideness did concern me a little. I agree with 76 about Jara. The poorest performances over the 96 minutes were Friend and us supporters who stayed quiet for long periods during the game. The chant, ‘you only sing when you’re winning’ ought not to apply to us Baggies.

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79. OK Dan, you win and I’ll apologise for being too drastic. In my defence I will say this: When I sat in the Halfords, I spoke to Paul Thompson on many occasions on various subjects, one being the PA din and in those days, excess distortion caused by damage to the system. He would phone someone, it would be turned down for a while and then back up again. Repeated regularly and I even got up a petition signed by everyone around me. Total disregard for the crowd by YOUR man. We move on to now. I have complained on numerous occasions about this bloody racket, both on here and to officials, but VERBALLY so as NOT to get anyone into trouble. It went down for a while. Now it’s back to its worst and that is unacceptable. If by ranting on here something is done about it, I shall be happy as will the folks around me.
Lastly, someone made the point it takes them 20 minutes to get into full voice with singing. We don’t sing much in the East Stand because WE DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER ! The damn noise sees to that! We cannot exchange pleasantries, names, anything in fact. Ask your man why he does it. Sorry, I’m ranting again, but it is too important for him to win.

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