Worst team in the Prem.

[mickd1961]

That's us.

Regardless of others being just below us I see better quality in every other team around us,even those at the very bottom.....I would take the main two strikers off every other team in the bottom ten.

We've been sold a pup with every striker we've bought since Odemwingie,we couldn't spot a striker if we had £100m to spend.

We haven't even got the nous to loan a player like Batshuayi.

Five years ago I was strong in my opinion on here that Chris Wood was a class act but our "experts" at the club knew best!

We pay hundreds of thousands in wages to numerous recruiting experts like Hammond and the rest of his cohorts yet most people on this board could put together a better team than this bunch of f u c k I n g morons and we'd certainly find better strikers.

Mr Lai is going to lose his shirt having bought this "dog" and 18 months from now he'll be watching us in League One because I'll say it here and now,this ponderous outfit will not cope in the Champ.

I truly believe the only way we stand a chance of survival is to call on the trusted old guard of Brunt,Morrison,MacAuley and Yacob and to beg or fund two quality finishers in January.

This f u c k up has been long in the making,many of us have seen this coming for three successive years of transfer windows where we've failed to add any real youth or pace to our ageing squad.

We played a struggling Blues and first hand saw the talented Demari Gray....£2m.....that's all that was needed but no,not bright enough to spot a bargain.

Same previously with Redmond.

Matt Dougherty at the Wolves impressed me in a poor side last season,he'll be a good Prem player a year from now.

Barry Bannon runs the show for Sheffield Wed every week.

Ben Brereton at Forest will become a class striker.

Some good picks at Bristol City.

It's not rocket science but we try to make it so.

Well at least that's Xmas sorted for me......I'm not wasting my time watching this shambles again until I see what Lai is prepared to do in January.

Well done to all you away lot and those willing to suffer every week but I've done the third division and Woking and on the down slope towards 60 I'm not doing it again,not under this regime.

I'd rather start from scratch with a fan owned club in the West Midland League than suffer under this bunch of fools!!

[kettering_baggie]

I agree with you Mick. We will be bottom at Christmas and this time we won’t have a Great Escape. I must resolve to make a New Year resolution not to buy another season ticket until there has been a complete clear out at WBA, from top to bottom. I don’t fancy our future under the chinaman, either. I am seriously tempted to go and support the revival of Kettering Town......

[Johnny on the spot 1]

That's us.

Regardless of others being just below us I see better quality in every other team around us,even those at the very bottom.....I would take the main two strikers off every other team in the bottom ten.

We've been sold a pup with every striker we've bought since Odemwingie,we couldn't spot a striker if we had £100m to spend.

We haven't even got the nous to loan a player like Batshuayi.

Five years ago I was strong in my opinion on here that Chris Wood was a class act but our "experts" at the club knew best!

We pay hundreds of thousands in wages to numerous recruiting experts like Hammond and the rest of his cohorts yet most people on this board could put together a better team than this bunch of f u c k I n g morons and we'd certainly find better strikers.

Mr Lai is going to lose his shirt having bought this "dog" and 18 months from now he'll be watching us in League One because I'll say it here and now,this ponderous outfit will not cope in the Champ.

I truly believe the only way we stand a chance of survival is to call on the trusted old guard of Brunt,Morrison,MacAuley and Yacob and to beg or fund two quality finishers in January.

This f u c k up has been long in the making,many of us have seen this coming for three successive years of transfer windows where we've failed to add any real youth or pace to our ageing squad.

We played a struggling Blues and first hand saw the talented Demari Gray....£2m.....that's all that was needed but no,not bright enough to spot a bargain.

Same previously with Redmond.

Matt Dougherty at the Wolves impressed me in a poor side last season,he'll be a good Prem player a year from now.

Barry Bannon runs the show for Sheffield Wed every week.

Ben Brereton at Forest will become a class striker.

Some good picks at Bristol City.

It's not rocket science but we try to make it so.

Well at least that's Xmas sorted for me......I'm not wasting my time watching this shambles again until I see what Lai is prepared to do in January.

Well done to all you away lot and those willing to suffer every week but I've done the third division and Woking and on the down slope towards 60 I'm not doing it again,not under this regime.

I'd rather start from scratch with a fan owned club in the West Midland League than suffer under this bunch of fools!!

Mickd great post buddy & I for one back that up 100% it's so very true what you say ,

[WBA1955]

Spot on Mick, the truth is we are a skinflint club,always have been, always will be. Peace was a miser, Millichip was a miser, Gaunt was a miser.
We always do things on the cheap, be it signing players, managers or rebuilding the Halfords. Who did you expect to see when we signed HRK on a free, Wales answer to Gerd Muller.
All the best sides we have had were made up with players who cost feck all, then we cashed in by selling the likes of Cunningham, Robson, Moses etc.
The reason our crowds have dwindled is because our fans have realised the club has no ambition, and never will have other than making money. This club will never win another trophy, apart from best programme.
Feck the Albion, i've had enough of them and the money grabbing kents who have bled the club dry over the years. They will never get another penny out of me.
F UC K EM i say, the fat money grabbing ba st ards.

[Acido]

Goodness me lads, have you been reading our Tykes hymn sheet ?.
We're all saying and posting the same things about our clubs right now, and while we're not even in the same League of course, it shows that fans at the end of the day know what they are talking about when it comes to a possible or even probable relegation scrap.

[Q165]

Disappointment, embarrassment and pessimism continues unabated. Things look increasingly bleak. I cannot disagree with anything I have read. All the same, Up the Baggies.

[Leicesterbaggie]

I have to say that in the last eight years of Premiership football this is the lowest that I have felt. We haven't won a game since August and to be honest, don't look like doing so. We are completely devoid of confidence and even with a two goal lead, and this is not with hindsight, I had the feeling that we would mess it up, and we did.

Pardew has a massive job on his hands and I wish him the best of luck as he's going to need it. With the odd exception we are OK defensively but we just cannot score goals. We showed improvement at home to Palace and in fairness I thought we deserved to win, but again a lack of goal scoring power. Yesterday was abysmal again against a poor Swansea side.

I agree that as a club we don't show enough ambition, both on and off the field. Other clubs, who have a similar spending power, appear to be prepared to invest in the future. We don't. Lai seems to fit the mould of our, shall I be kind and call them 'cautious' owners? We don't have to 'splash the cash' in a cavalier manner but let's be blunt, if we don't buy well in the January window there is a strong possibility that we will be relegated.

[WBA1955]

In 78-79 we were in for three trophies and ended up with none. That was unlucky and down to bad weather, but instead of making the team stronger they sold Cunningham, followed later by Robson,and Moses. We went into decline, ending in the worst spell in the clubs history.
In 2005, against all odds we achieved the Great Escape, all for nothing, next season they sold our only two strikers in January and we went down again.
They still penny pinch.
Feck em, we have great fans but they are losing them rapidly, and they will never come back.
HRK MY ARSE.

[stripes39]

In 78-79 we were in for three trophies and ended up with none. That was unlucky and down to bad weather, but instead of making the team stronger they sold Cunningham, followed later by Robson,and Moses. We went into decline, ending in the worst spell in the clubs history.
In 2005, against all odds we achieved the Great Escape, all for nothing, next season they sold our only two strikers in January and we went down again.
They still penny pinch.
Feck em, we have great fans but they are losing them rapidly, and they will never come back.
HRK MY ARSE.

You say 'unlucky' 55 but had they invested in under pitch heating like a few clubs had back then, we might not have come off the rails in that 78-79 season. But I agree with your post. Who would have thought that having watched Bomber, Cunningham and Robson, we'd be watching the likes of Potter or Hackett strutting their stuff a few years later. We went from Giles, Atkinson and Allen to Buckley.

Regardless of who is running the show, we appear to penny pinch, want something for nothing and after numerous protracted negotiations, historically we end up going for a different cheaper target such as HRK. We shouldn't lose sight of what has been good but historically this attitude has been in our DNA.

What depresses me is that after all this time in the Premier League, we haven't really moved on from being touted amongst the newly promoted as relegation candidates. Year after year its the same. Any business that skimps on resource will eventually one day be caught out when various other factors all come together and WBA is no different. This might be the year. I hope I'm wrong as there are many games to go but a small part of me has started to ask, What is the point?

I'm not unrealistic in that I do not expect a top 6 finish but surely a consolidated 10 or 9th spot after our time in the Premier League and an occasional cup run is a realistic ambition? It just seems struggling is part of our club identity and a historic lack of ambition might well be the reason behind it.

[holmleighchris]

You say 'unlucky' 55 but had they invested in under pitch heating like a few clubs had back then, we might not have come off the rails in that 78-79 season. But I agree with your post. Who would have thought that having watched Bomber, Cunningham and Robson, we'd be watching the likes of Potter or Hackett strutting their stuff a few years later. We went from Giles, Atkinson and Allen to Buckley.

Regardless of who is running the show, we appear to penny pinch, want something for nothing and after numerous protracted negotiations, historically we end up going for a different cheaper target such as HRK. We shouldn't lose sight of what has been good but historically this attitude has been in our DNA.

What depresses me is that after all this time in the Premier League, we haven't really moved on from being touted amongst the newly promoted as relegation candidates. Year after year its the same. Any business that skimps on resource will eventually one day be caught out when various other factors all come together and WBA is no different. This might be the year. I hope I'm wrong as there are many games to go but a small part of me has started to ask, What is the point?

I'm not unrealistic in that I do not expect a top 6 finish but surely a consolidated 10 or 9th spot after our time in the Premier League and an occasional cup run is a realistic ambition? It just seems struggling is part of our club identity and a historic lack of ambition might well be the reason behind it.

You say this but others are in the same boat. Blackburn, Wigan, Villa, Sunderland and more would have also expected a consolidated spot. Of the current top flight Southampton, Palace and Newcastle could have the same reasonable aspirations. Everton achieve it but are well established. Fact is every season it will be any 3 from 13 to go down.
The irritating thing is our board should have fired Pulis in the summer, instead they looked at the 10th place league position and extended his contract. Most fans could see he was a busted flush by then,