I sometimes think people want this partnership to fail just so they can say “I told you so” or to prove how much they “know” about football – or even to say that Peter just took the money and now isn’t bothered…. so it’s great to see Shane bringing a little reality into the picture.

You don’t “fluke” 15 goals at this level so PO is obviously a class player – but whether its due to injury or lack of confidence he has not played well recently – but will he get better sittiong on the bench ??

Shane has shown already that he is good enough at this level and the prospect of them both playing to their potential together is too good to just throw away.

I think we have to give them 5 full games to get things going and THEN make a change if needed, but they are 2 class players who can both score so I hope they get the chance.

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I don’t wanna take sides,but a lot has been said about Peter O.,and much of it could just be rumour and personal opinion,without knowing all the true facts.
We saw last season that he seems to struggle with his mental state,if things are going well he can find himself on a ‘high’,even being cocky and a touch arrogant,but if things aren’t going well,he loses all confidence,and had to have sessions with the shrink last season to rebuild his belief.

You can be a victim of your own success,and after spending much of his career as more of a wide midfielder,and not having a high goal scoring record,his goals for us last season labelled him as our main striker,and there was much expectation,and pressure,for him to repeat it this time around.

As I said the other day,we need to have players throughout the team contributing more goals than they currently are,and I’m sure Peter can settle down as an important ‘team player’,because we need as many quality players around the pitch as we can get,and he’s already shown us that he has natural skills.

Shane Long has asked us to be patient,and give it more time for things to develop,so I’m happy to go along with what he’s saying.

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Odemwingie was always going to find this season harder as he’s now a marked man. Just hope that the injuries lay off so they can both get a chance to play together.

my issue is that they are both so attack-minded. Traditionally, you have a playmaker sitting behind the striker, whereas these two effectively both play as a lone striker so it’s not really worked so far, but only time will tell…

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Total common sense written by everybody so far,I’d can only add one word,
TRAQUILOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Adéu

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Still not sure they can play together? PO’s best role is on the shoulder of the last man, running the channels, so unless someone is going to coach him pdq on how to play the support striker, he’ll be ineffective for us. How about offlodding him for c£5m in january??

Can’t rmemeber the last itme we beat Blackburn either?

Last time i went there, was so long ago, Simon Garner and Martin Bennett got sent off for fighting and i think we lost 2 nil?

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Are PO & Tychoi off to the African nations cup soon?

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11. Nar they got knocked out

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I’m not sure either what he has done to get so much stick. He was fantastic last season, got crucial goals vs norwich and wolves this season. Yes his partnership needs work with shane long but having such low confifence won’t help. He had a rough time with his club in russia, was blasted by his international manager and fans and is now taking some stick from a small minority of our fans. Just keep behind him, he plays so much better when he is smiling and its our job as albion fans to get behind him and the rest of our players, regardless of whether we agree with team selections or formations. We are all albion, let’s get boinging again

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I basically agree with CR78.

The racist abuse PO got in Russia was totally unacceptable and I can’t imagine it hasn’t left its mark. He’s had a stop-start season, but it is clear from his movement and body language, things aren’t right with him.

We can all speculate over the causes and I don’t wish to be callous, but the team needs players who can deliver and currently only Shane has hit the net on a regular basis. The “partnership” might require time but if that’s the case the midfield need to be getting on the scoresheet more than they are.

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TRBH – Ha. Are you implying we’ve found the new Carson?

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Cantello
Look on entertainment under reviews and I’m glad you’ve found employment but if you ain’t guna shave that beard off,you ain’t standin’ by me at the Robin.
Adéu

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21 Kev,

the only ‘entertainment story’ I can see on this eye phone is Brad Pitt talkin’ about his new film,but I can see your point,without his beard he does have an uncanny likeness to me.
So by ‘finding employment’,do you mean the job of keeping Angeline happy?

I take it that must be classed as ‘time and a half’,right?

Adeu.

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21 Kev,

me wife’s now been told she can work from home next week,it looks pretty definite,so we should be able to pick your mate up.
We’ll probably aim to get to The Robin for around 8.00,the gig’s there usually start at 9.00,so I only have to look at you for an hour before they turn the lights off,which is more than enough for anybody.
We can come off the Burnt Tree Island at about 7.45,so if your mate can get over that way,we’ll meet him somewhere in the area,I think there’s a Tesco,a retail park(?),or maybe a pub where you can park for a few minutes.Wherever is the best place for him to wait at.

Adeu.

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26 mboy,

you may notice at the beginning of these particular posts that they’re being directed to ONE person,and that person may not always be easy to contact in other ways.

You say why do you HAVE to read them-

well,DO you have to read them?

I doubt if anyone’s forcing you to,are they?

If they’re of no interest to you,then why not just ignore them,and move on to something else instead of complaining?

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mboy
I have considered doing that when I come back next week but didn’t want to do it on here for fear of being inundated by offers of marriage and plea’s for cheap holidays
I was also wary of nut cases so it took me some time to make my mind up about Cantello but now I know he’s sane’ish I will be swapping details if he’s agreeable, so please except my apology’s for boring you to death.
I’ll also look forward to reading the content of your future posts.
Adeu

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28 mboy-

the articles on here are obviously based around football,and those of us at the centre of your complaint have already made posts relating to this particular story,but some of us know each other personally,so we chat about others things while we’re ‘linking-up’ on these pages.
You may have noticed that Albion players have been visiting kids in hospital recently,that the club take an interest in various local community projects,and that Albion have a reputation of being a ‘family’ club.
The reason it that it’s also a sociable thing,with football fans making contacts and forming friendships,so sometimes we chat about other interests,and try to have a laugh or two thrown in along the way.
We’ve had others read what we say here,and then comment that they enjoy the banter,one regular on here said a while ago that reading our posts is better than watching his TV.

Like I say,you’re not forced to read every post if you don’t want to,especially when it’s clearly aimed towards one person,so if you don’t like what you see just ignore it,life’s too short to grumble about such minor things.

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30 sherlock.
That’s funny, love it.

mboy.
Can I add that other people often read anout these nights out or pre match drinks and decide they’d like to come and join in. It’s a social thing and the site is all the better for it. I know you’ll make a sarky reply but you would be made very welcome at any of these meetings as would anybody else. As Rocket says you can tell what the post is about from the first line so just ignore them if its not for you.

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30 Rocket.
Best ask Stan Collymore.

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