We were never at the races, even us fans couldn’t muster any energy,so much for early new years day kick off. The players from both sides looked like they were still asleep. For once Hodgson has to take the blame for this one as substitutions where needed to combat the ones Moyes made. Oh well lesson learned and time to move on, let’s hope Spurs have an off day Tuesday. Happy New Year to you all. Boing Boing.

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A friend commented at half time, “This is turgid stuff”. I corrected him, “I think you mean turdage stuff Martin”. Oh how we larfed!
I have seen some boring games since 1944, this was right up there with the very worst.
Changes were needed, we could all see that. So who on our side couldn’t? Players on the bench must feel helpless when they see junk like that and they can’t got on in spite of it. I can take losing. Just don’t bore me to death.

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The word going through my mind was: “predictable” – this was what I was getting at last week with regards to Albion’s historical mentality.

Serve me right for poking fun at Villa and Wolves recently. Apart from Morrison the majority of outfield players lacked both skill and imagination. Football is a team game and Peter Odemwingie needs to remember that next time he let’s his ego get the better of him.

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Absolute shocker of a game, I’ve had more fun at the dentist! Not one player did anything worthy of note. I never normally criticise Hosgson, but not to make a sub till 2 mins into added time is baffling to say the least. Tim Howard won’t have many easier afternoons than that.

Really poor, an opportunity missed against a poor Everton side.

Boing Boing!!

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Agree fully with 1 S/Bas they saw everything we had in the first half and smothered it, should have put a joker in the pack (Tchoy) on to give them something unpredictable.

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10 shots none on target that says it all no rael creativity to defencsive today we should have gone all out to beat the teams around us should have had a more attacking midfeild on there today against these sort of teams so disaponitting to lose in the dying mins buts we all have our own oppinions and its not the end of the world so pick yourselfs up and bring on spurs ay boing boing

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7 PLAYERS ON THE BENCH AND NO SUBS ? NO CHANGE, NO EXCUSE

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Very disappointed with the result, but more so with the performance. We never looked like creating a goal scoring chance. What was more surprising was that Roy never tried to change things with a sub or 3 especially with another game in 2 days time if not to rest some players at least. Moyes made 3 changes that duly won them the game. Our passing today was awful to say the least and the final ball simply not good enough for the premiership. I hope it’s just a blip as after the spurs game we have a run of games against teams in the bottom half of the table. I’m just worried we are not scoring enough goals. I believe the strikers are good enough it’s creating the goals we need to improve.

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Thankfully family commitments saved me the journey & time to attend today’s game. I am so glad. Sounded as though it was a cracker (not). TWO home wins this season and SIX defeats tells you all you need to know. We are depressing and so negative and boring at home. This was a good opportunity to put some more poimts on the board and move TEN points clear of the bottom three and we barely have shot in anger. Simple not good enough. Results over the weekend have not been kind but we only ourselves to blame. Don’t get me wrong, the away wins have been good but we must improve at home otherwise we may not be as comfortable as everyone is shouting about. Great start to the new year – thanks lads!

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Not a good performance at all I admit.
Dire first half by both teams.
We came out second half and first ten, it looked like we would take a grip of the game.
They get a corner and have a shot and their fans wake up and lift them on.
Odem puts a gift chance over from ten yards,why can’t pros get their head over the ball when they shoot?,teach you that at junior school.If that had gone in I’m sure we would have gone on to win.
They get a chance and take it.
Lots of moans about subs,well I can understand why,or did RH want to save what he could have used for tuesday.
Only Roy knows,we don’t know what happens in the week or what he has planned.
Only point I will make is Thomas needs a rest,too much time on his butt and too much moaning.
Moves breaking down and two players out the game with chins on the floor moaning, Thomas and Brunt(c),not good leadership.
Think it will be diferent at Spurs sure it’s a blip.
Oh thanks SKY again for moving it to such a stupid day/time KO.
The fans really don’t care anymore do they.
Hence no atmosphere.

BAGGIESBAGGIESBAGGIES

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please mr odemwingie…hand in your transfer request and go
your attitude and performances stink this season and you strut around like some big time charlie
i,ve said it before,i,ll say it again….zamora for odemwingie
also a message to JT…do you have bad legs? i,ve never known a player fall over so much as you. and what do you create?
on a plus point….craig dawson,great home debut

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We dident do our homework did we,if we had they would have known most of evertons goals have come in the last 10 mins they brought there 3 subs on to go for the win and we fell for the sucker punch.

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It wasn’t just me that thought we were rubbish then? If what we had on the bench couldn’tmake a difference, why were they on the bench? I have seen more than a few bad games since 1944 but they hurt more as I get older and older. Why? Because EVERY DAY COUNTS at my age and wasting 1/2 a day almost asleep out in the open in a cold bluster isn’t funny. Boring, boring, boring! Now FIX IT!

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A bad performance and all of a sudden the doom and gloomers are out. Yes I have an opinion that we could have changed things but on the whole what a great christmas we have had. & the odemwingie knockers who are out again, tell me how worse he was than any other attacking player today? Very good in the back 4 again which is a plus. And I do agree we must improve at home, but give them a break we are all albion and we are ok

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22points from 19 games is a start everyone would have taken. After Cardiff the next 7 or 8 games will define our season. Not to worry, we are not too far away from being a comfortable mid table team. 2 poor performances in Swansea & Everton isn’t a disaster.

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Very disappointed but we’d have taken 2 wins, a draw and a loss over the last 4 games. theres something positive in being disappointed with that return, Still the best Christmas results ever by a mile and I’m sure roy’s passion will demand a performance. Injuries biting deep now so hopefully we’ll get a couple in, esp a forward that can go past defenders.

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Thank God for people like Cyril because they remind me I’m not insane.

I’ve only supported Albion for 34 years so a mere novice by his standards and like him I’ve lived through the Bobby Gould and Ron Saunders eras too. Albion do surprise and break your heart on a regular basis irrespective of the Chair, coach or players – the reasons are many.

Nevertheless after seeing good performances against Blackburn, Newcastle and Man City, it was hugely disappointing to watch Albion lose to a poor side like Everton. Anyone with half a brain knew after 60 minutes that the line up wouldn’t produce a goal and Moyes, to his credit, changes things and as many have said, Hodgson didn’t. Forget Spurs, that’s a red herring – we were at Home against a peer club.

Bad day at the office, perhaps; but at least Fergie sought to save the day and attempt to win whereas Roy was prepared to settle for a draw.

I get sick and tired of the argument that it is wrong to criticise or that saying Hodgson got it wrong means people want him sacked. What stupid logic! As Cyril said, we paid money to watch that performance, made the effort to get there on time, made a commitment. If I had a bad day at the office my line-manager would let me know about it in no uncertain terms; I see no difference.

Football players are human beings, not gods: they make mistakes, screw up or they play well and excite. I’m not an Odemwingie or Brunt “knocker” – I assess what I see on the pitch and comment, isn’t that what supporters have always done?

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As I had to work yesterday and have only seen a recording of the game I didn’t want to comment too much but thank God for tumpa, sherlock and matt along with some other posters earlier.

I frequently have a look at the Wolves pages and have a smile at the delusional posts that lack any understanding beyond the superficial and react with a knee against the manager and whichever players happen to top the current hate list. Thanks to some of our ‘supporters’ I can now stay on here and have a laugh.

27 tumpa.
Great post in which you sum up the modern day supporter’s mentality ‘we won so we’re world beaters let’s erect a statue to everybody or we lost so let’s sack them all and start again.’
29 matt.
Puts it all into a reaistic perspective.
28 sherlock.
I agree with you except that the Jack the Hat post isn’t him as it doesn’t have his trade mark, it’s his Dingle tribute act. As is Stato’s unbelievably tedious brother.

I’ve no problem with posts like 19 Brierley Hill that come out with genuine points of constructive criticism but the one before which is basically just abusive I find a bit pointless as they offer no insight beyond ‘get rid of him, I don’t like him.’ It’s easy to criticise PO if he plays badly when we lose but would we have won those two away games without him? This is the Premier League and Everton have been frustrating teams like that for years. To say that a club of our stature should be able to just turn on the afterburners and dismiss them is living in cloud cuckoo land.

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PS: I forget to say: How many neutrals watching that tripe on Sky saw it through to the end?

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Missed the jerk out of knee jerk.

Hereford.
That’s another very good point that if you ignore which games they come from we would have been more than happy with those points. We are not Manchester City, along with two of the promoted teams we’re probably in the bottom three of the PL rich table and the fact that we’re nowhere near the bottom three of the actual football table shows how well we’re doing. This was a bad day at the office but how many of the knockers remember the 70′s and the 90′s when we had bad years at the office?

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28 Sherlock i think your outnumbered mate,do you really think a few songs would have made any diffrence to the result,not for the first time this season our home performances have been awful im sorry but they not giving us much to sing about.

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Bully,
Spotted mate, I believe you would have seen through it even if my trade mark had been present. That impersonated post doesn’t sound like me whatsoever. Thought we created pressure on ourselves by playing too deep for their goal , causing a “Too many cooks” situation. When our strikes got the ball there was no-one around to pass to. Mozza worked his socks off for us again, Our defence was sturdy. Now lets get forward with a few more numbers. To Cyril also, that’s as I saw it Buddy.

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

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John B,
The time to worry is if we only had sixteen points. What a great X-mas we’ve had, Seven points from a possible nine.

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

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worst performance of the season. dissapointing after the last few games, good job we have a few points in the bag already and hopefully we can get back to how we can play.

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Absolute RUBBISH! What a boring game with NO intention of trying to score a goal?

Perhaps Roy been texting MICMAC on tactics?

I will praise Jerome Thomas however who I have been critical of, he never stopped running and has started to put his boot in a little bit more. Craig Dawson also looked good and hope he can get a few more games in.

Substitutions on 90 minutes are pointless unless you are winning.

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Sherlock, many thanks for you comments that I would not be welcome at a club I have supported for the last 41 years since I saw my first game at the age of 4. I have held a season ticket for the majority of those and have lived down in Poole for the last 4 years and travel the 370 round trip for home games. Quite clearly that is not good enough for you and clearly we all have to agree with your opinion or keep quite. I stated that our home form is appalling and the facts of two wins in 10 would support that unless you believe that is good home form. We have scored seven goals at home in those ten games. Again, I would suggest that is not good home form. We have done better away from home and I believe that is because the onus is generally on the home team to attack. I am sorry if my views do not agree with your but generally I try be accurate with the facts and fair (try looking at some of my recents posts) & not always look at things with blue & white tinted glasses.

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I agree with Cyril and Baggiebob.
It was a very poor performance and a truly awful game. It was decided by a scrappy goal which summed it all up really.
In my opinion we play too negatively at home with a massive gap between the front two and the rest of the team. Away from home we can sit back and hit teams on the break but this obviously does not work at home. A bit more adventure please Roy. Given our inconsistency we could just go and get a result at Spurs. Let’s hope we do.

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Sherlock, I’m not sure what game you were watching but it obviously wasn’t the one at the Hawthorns! There are a few idiots on here (JTH Headmaster, Stato etc.) but we’re all all angry because of a performance that lacked any creativity or passion.

I don’t think Brunt should be captain, Olsson should be, he shows far more passion.

Come on Albion, some consistency please!

Boing Boing!!

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steve poole / cyril randle

the spoilt brats to whom i referred were the group of baseball-cap-clad teenagers around me on the BRE who relentlessly ‘carsoned’ odemwingie from first whistle to last. they seem to think he’s the worst front-man ever to don the club’s shirt. maybe i should have been more specific but if you choose to single yourselves out as victims of my anger (yes i was angry too and i had to pay too) then i make no apology and certainly don’t feel ‘thoroughly ashamed’

as for ‘clearly knowing best’, i do not. but i do think that Roy Hodgson clearly knows bester than any of you lot, however millions of years you’ve been going to matches

apologies to the real Jack the Hat for failing to spot the impostor

and cyril, as i’ve stated before, Sherlock is my surname and it’s not at all ‘gentlemanly’ of you to make cheap fun of it

next…

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Anybody got any ideas why when Roy was Fulham Manager they were rock solid at home but couldn’t win away for love or money while this season we are doing well away and struggling at home.

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“reason for our poor home record is our poor home crowd. pathetic again today, and don’t bother with the 12.30 kick off excuses”.
” but we won’t progress as a club while we’re ‘supported’ by eighteen thousand-or-so spoilt brats who don’t know they’re born”
Mr.Sherlock57. Read the quotes from YOUR post and then tell me that didn’t include me and the others you named.
I was not aware you used your real name and for the confusion there I apologise without exception. Few of us use our real names and yours could be deemed slightly unusual.
I will reiterate my comment, YOU CANNOT BLAME THE CROWD FOR A RUBBISHY PERFORMANCE. It is the duty of the players to lift the crowd’s spirits not bore them into a stupor. However, I do agree it is wrong to single out players for abuse. That is neither helpful or acceptable.

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cyril, i must confess that the 18000 quote was a bit harsh, can now see how that might have riled a few of you, and can only put it down to the frustration of having seen a game lost by a sloppy late winner and a little overindulgence in the christmas spirit

but i will argue until the proverbial dairy animals return to their abode that the crowd CAN and often DOES play a big part in a game. otherwise why would anyone want to go? if you’re looking for strictly visual entertainment then surely watching the game on telly would be an easier and cheaper option

cheers and all the best for the coming year

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Head Banger,
Not so bad as your lot, Back to your overworked keeper to hoof it up field again and again. Very entertaining.

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

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shropshire, no need for apologies i’m sure. i just like to snap back when cornered sometimes! i would actually agree with you that olsson seems to us mere spectators the obvious choice for captaincy, but the head coach sees it all from a better angle than us so i don’t argue with his judgement

as for the performance, well no it wasn’t our best, to put it politely, but some comments on here would be better suited to a game in which we were so awful as to be dead and buried by half time, such as swansea away

we were always in this game, i thought we were (just about) the better team, and i think if odemwingie’s late effort had hit the net and not the back of the brummie, and we’d gone on to win 1-0, some of the above posters would be celebrating the ‘grinding out’ of ‘an important victory’ and ‘another 3 great points’, instead of spouting on about ‘garbage’, ‘rubbish’, and other such ugly remarks

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68KennyH. I hope you are wearing a full set of armour with visor down! I thought your lot were badly done by the ref and you should have been playing against 9 men with Lampard and Cole having an early scrub. Yet on your postboard MicMac should be sacked. I felt truly sorry for the bloke.
We have come to expect better from our team and the disappointment for us was tangible. One day, when your lot play well, you’ll understand.

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Cyrille
I felt sorry for him myself, but i think he has taken us as far as he can, his luck has run out! As for the Armour its standard uniform for me, i live in Cornwall amidst glory hunters!!! As a Black Country boy i hope we both stay up (as long as we are above you lot)but with the sort of raw deal we both get off refs it wont be easy!!

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