Quote Originally Posted by baggiematt View Post
Understanding our club is knowing that we haven't fallen below playoff places in the championship since 1999/2000 season. That's 22 years of expecting to be better than the rest in the championship. That's our expectation.

We have parachute payments that give us a huge advantage, so it's not unreasonable to want a decent brand to go with it.

Val may have been a good fit for you, but for us we were falling well below our standard and not scoring any goals. The side isn't the best we've had in this league, but it isn't a mid table side at all. They're capable of better than what Val was dishing up and if he had some flexibility he would have seen that.
Weren’t you in the playoffs though when he was sacked ? Not the best side you’ve had in this league - by your own admission, yet you were in your ‘expectation’ level of the playoffs , so in theory was over performing with what he had? yet he was wanted out?

So it comes back to it wasn’t the ‘West Brom way’.