“….if it was up to me, I would not make any wholesale changes”.

I might be being mischievous, but err, it is up to you isn’t it Roy?? Perhaps he’s speaking in terms of not knowing the finalised budget outline as opposed to having transfers dictated to him.

“Players to make everyone else sit up, look over their shoulders and worry about their place in the first team”

Wolves fans will be relieved, that rules out cherry-picking any of their players……

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1) Why? Peace has made monies available for EVERY manager at some point, how that manager chooses to spend it is down to him, if Roy chooses to spend £3-6 million on one class player, rather than half dozen fringe players, that’s down to him.

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Now it seems that we have all but secured another season in the prem, us Albion fans will be nervous in the close / transfer period. All too often when something good has happened, something bad overshadows it. I am praying that we hold on to our prized assets and build around them. This is the only way to progress. If not, then we will be cast into the unknown with replacement players that may not cut it. Common sense to reward the best that have got us to where we are!!

Staying up – the Woy Way

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Stinky

Another really constructive piece of criticism for JP, well done…….

Wall Heath

I’ve been trying for weeks and months to remind him but they never print it!!! I’m not 100% it was December but I was fairly sure it was around the time we were due to play them and just starting a bit of a slump.

You’re spot on with what you said, he seems to have a tendency to throw an irrational swipe our way on each blog, a bit like our friend Lone on his recent posts!! Not that they’d be bitter or jealous of such a small, insignificant rival……

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8 warren well it wont be the first time that peace as said sell to buy in the premier ask yourself over the last ten years wheres the transfer money, the premiership and parachute payments gone and dont tell me on signing players tot it up and see for yourself

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Wall Heath

I just checked and it was November and it was West Ham not Wigan!!

“A few improvements here and there and we’ll start climbing the table, because there’s no doubt in my mind that there are three worse teams that us in this division – West Ham, Blackpool and Albion”

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I have noticed the ‘glass half empty’ men remind us that Roy bought Greening and poached Gera. Then it is pointed out that both are bench-warmers at Fulham. Maybe if he were still at Fulham they wouldn’t be. I use as my example Mr. Meite who didn’t look good in our reserves, yet now….I feel sure he won’t go mad and bankrupt us.

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Should read GHE – oops !

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Is it me or is this a similar story to the “Hodgson give cash warning” headline of a couple of days ago?
In that story nowhere did Roy give anyone a warning and in this one he has not once mentioned top players. All he has said is quality over quantity which is a non story and a no brainer. I think it is the E&S sensationalising things again. I thought the clayheads performance was pretty sensational though! Hopefully we can beat the Villa on Saturday and I trust Roy will do what is neccessary in the summer to consolidate Albion in the Prem. he knows what he is doing.

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Stinky

I’m not going into this again, I’ve bored enough people with this in the past, but do yourself a favour and read the accounts, ‘Wages and Salaries’ takes up about 70% of it, it does with every football club.

Then ask yourself how we bought Carson, Myhill, Zuiverloon, Jara, Haas, Hoefkens, Gregan, Marshall, Gaardsoe, Barnett, Meite, Olsson, Robinson, Cech, Shorey, Morrison, Brunt, Koumas, Valero, Gera, Greening, Moore, Miller, Odemwingie, Fortune, Hughes, Horsfield, Earnshaw, Ellington, Cox etc etc etc. We spent £11m in Mowbray’s first season (in the Championship) and £23m the year after.

I’m not saying JP’s not tight or that he doesn’t make decent money out of the club (no more than the top-paid players), but he hasn’t got £20m sitting in a bank. The independently audited accounts tell us we’re roughly breaking even when every club around us isn’t. Give the bloke a bit of credit. You mention 10 years ago, where were we then?

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Robin Brittain

“We would have had a few points less had PO been injured”

Absolutely spot on, and why anyone who has suggested we should sell him needs to lay off the bottle.

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I don’t think Roy would need more than £10m tbh to get say 2 good players for us, and in any case I think we desperatley need another good striker and goalkeeper. Obviously I’m being very optimistic in thinking £10m is ready available.
Maybe a defender as a cheap option but other than that why worry.

Hopefully as mentioned Dorrens will be back on song and Meite & Ollson will have a better understanding of each other.

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Stinky (apt)
You are so wrong…We all said in August last year this is the best squad we have had for along time’. We had the players the then manager wanted / got. It just went a bit (lot) wobbly mid season. Roy has almost rescued that situation so lets build on that and stop knocking JP & DA. I wonder if you have achived as much as the chairman has in your life time (comments on a stamp please)

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I like how Roy reasons, course it’s better having quality in to go with our nucleus of Premiership players. Our capable staff will come up with the goods to build a superior squad, to consolidate in this league. Not like another club I know, They’ll put there money in a new NETTO-GHETTO, so their owner can sell up and move to his “First love” Liverpool.

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

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Roy-

I can sympathise with your dilemma-

tomorrow morning,when you look at the Baggies squad going through their training session,I can see you scratching your head,and saying to yourself-

‘where on earth am I going to find players better than THESE guys? I’ve had some challenges over the years,but to improve on these lads is mission impossible.
Maybe now that I’ve realised my life’s ambition of managing West Brom,I should just retire.

Once you’ve reached the top,there’s nowhere else to go’.

So if anyone does watch the next training session,as soon as Roy scratches his head,just watch his lips.

And remember you heard it here first.

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Very good sense from Andy, 11, and Warren, 20.

We can only spend what we earn – and just look at the once powerful clubs which forgot this simple formula.

Take our Midlands area alone: Derby County, Leicester City, Coventry City, Nottingham Forest… Then there’s Sheffield Wednesday, once so powerful, but now so weak. Leeds? Their finances remain a total mystery, even as they struggle to get in to the play-offs. But nothing can beat poor Bradford, languishing in the fourth division, after wages of £40,000 a week when they were in the premiership. And if Bolton were to go down? Current debts of £93 million according to accounts published just before Christmas. Their gates are no bigger than ours. There is no way they can begin to service this debt without Sky gold. If West Ham go down this year, even the chairman tells us it will be “financial Armageddon.”

We’ve not made many mistakes in purchases or sales in the last ten years. Zuiverloon, perhaps, but he looked a world beater when he joined us. We’ve clearly lost on Barnett and Moore, too. But, against that, there were draw-dropping profits on the injury-prone Curtis Davis and the strange Kamara. Biggest transfer mistake of all? Tony Mowbray, who let Kevin Phillips go, when the chairman was willing to sign him on for a further two years. JP took the manager’s advice.

So don’t be negative and keep on lamenting “lack of ambition.” There is ambition aplenty, in getting good players in for sensible prices and on sane wages. These are good times.

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ROCKET, your back. Thank the Gods.
Hope you enjoyed your Brighton holidays. Also hope you never got stung by a jelly fish or had a dodgy crab-stick.
Ive had far to much of my own way in yours, and Mr C the moderators absence. ( im sure its just a coincidence you both seem to holiday at the same time )
But by the by, old lone, through no fault of his own, is again persona non grata. Even Bullys had a pop.
Nothings changed, Albion are still punching above their weight, while Wolves are still un-lucky.
Just 1 thing mucker,, why do you always favour Brighton for your solo “walking” holidays ??
Anyway, glad your back.

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Of course JP will be doing the tried and tested sell to buy routine once more this summer. But these days he can point to the Premiership quota system rather than the bank balance. Nothing a baldy accountant loves more than abiding by rules that suit.

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34 Lonely-

I did mention I was in South Devon,so if they’ve moved Brighton over there,nobody told me about it.
And I don’t know what you’re getting at,but maybe you should ask the new guy on here,’I love Cox’,he might be able to help.

Anyway,I did keep a watch from a distance,and it looked to me like you got a battering,it WAS brutal even by your standards,so I hope you’ve learnt your lesson.

Some of us know what makes you tick (God knows,there’s not much to study there),but others take offence to your wind-ups,so you need to walk a fine line when you come over here.

Look on the bright side,at least you managed to survive,but as for your club,well……..

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34 Lonely.
You’re still going on about me having a pop. I thought I was very kind and understanding of your plight.

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32 ATS.
Add yourself to that list. A really good post.

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21 Warren.
It’s not often I stick up for the Wulfies but they’ve suffered with the mischievous headlines as well ie ‘We’ll teach Fulham a footballing lesson.’
In the article I think it was Stearman that said ‘We want to show Fulham that we can play football.’
Totally different meaning but it brought down a load of abuse from a section of their fans that only seem to read the headline just like some of ours do with the ones you mentioned as well as the ‘Scott Carson angry at being dropped one.’ Where he actually said he was upset at the way he was told he’d been dropped.

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Heard Brunt’y pulled up in training yesterday,hope he makes it we need all the help and luck to beat the hoodoo that they do.

Cantello.
Welcome home and thanks from the all the rest of Baggie fans for the opportunity to express their views on the Dingles in your absence,you know how you tend to monopolize.
I know it was Devon but did you bring any pasties back?

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46 Kev-

thanks,but you seem to be doing a pretty good job of ‘dingle bashing’ without my input.

I wouldn’t go near the pasties,because there’s a bigger war going on down there than with Albion-wolves,over where the pasties were invented,in Devon or Cornwall.

If you buy one,it gets inspected,and you then get accused of taking sides.

Although I did end up having some good grub and plenty of ‘guest real ales’.

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I see that money grabber Peace has frozen season ticket prices instead of reducing them. What a way to run a club.

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49 TRBH-

I was getting concerned when I heard his howling,followed by the foaming of the mouth,and aggressive behaviour.

I thought,at best,too much sun on his head,at worst,possibly rabies.

Either way,he’s been a very naughty boy.

I think we’ve just shown him too much compassion over here,because it’s in our nature.

And I also think he’s already been neutered,explaining Mrs. Lone’s volatile temperament.

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38 CantelloRocket

Im not sure I could offer help, but Lone Wolf will probably be able to make more informed comments on the subject next season when he visits – he may even have time for a walk, but the defeat will certainly prohibit it from being any kind holiday

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53 TRBH-

I think all of them,including Lone,were always quietly confident that eventually wolves would fly up the table,and overtake us.

The fact that this hasn’t happened,and we’re approaching the end,has affected them in different ways-either quietly sulking,or turning nasty,and bearing their teeth.

If they want to come over here and try winding us up,personally,I either aim to slap them down,or string them along for fun,but in truth I originally came here just to find the latest Baggie news,so I’d prefer it if we didn’t get ‘intrusions’ from outside.

The rivalry can be entertaining,but it can also turn nasty,and in reality it should be fun,so we could do without the unpleasant side of things.

Maybe the next couple of weeks will decide everyone’s fate,so we can all then calm down,and take a break before preparing for next season.

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Andrew Johnson (Fulham) has the Premiership experience we need. We can trust our medical team to sus out any injuries and fitness levels.

From the dark side. Mick has admitted to being worried about wolves plight (Cee-Fax). So Mick you’ve been telling porkies all along.

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

P.S. Ten the most and five will be.

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57, Rocket. Me thinketh you doth protest too loudly.
I can now begin to see why you have your love of BRUT.
Very musky !!

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