WBA53 match thread

[SwedishBaggie]

Sorry, but I don’t like Grant, he comes across to me as arrogant and lazy; there have been many matches where you wouldn’t have known that he was on the pitch, his work rate compared to Andy Carroll is non existent. His first touch is awful and he might well be 6th top scorer in the league (an amazing fact) but to my mind, he should have had many more. Overpaid and ‘over here’!

Agreed Mike!

[BaggieSingh]

I think Robinson, Grant, Dyke and Diangana could score shed loads but they need a good midfield and a decent defence and a manager who takes no ****

[wbaliquidator]

It is my hope that Bruce played Bartley and Philips as one last final chance to confirm what the rest of us know anyway. They must have known they were playing for their futures. Bruce was praising Mat Clarke this week but knows money will be tight again.

I’ll be more than disappointed if Livermore, Bartley and Phillips are with us next season even though they all have extensions.
The youth will be with us anyway and during preseason they will be integrated into the training camps and assessed again.
Even so could have put a few more on the bench.
Castro did get some more time on the pitch

In hindsight Harper, Field, Kanu , and Edwards who left last year were no worse than Reach, Mowatt, Hughill and Molumby and that is saying something. Add to that the ability to import players straight into the treatment room then it’s been a disaster all round

[kettering_baggie]

Don’t forget Romaine Sawyers, he’s still our player and I seem to remember Bruce saying what a good player he is; expect to see Sawyers back in the Albion stripes next season. Unless, of course, our far sighted management abandon the stripes for some other frightful kit!

[baggieal]

I don't completely agree with you Al regarding players like Mulumby, Grant and Robinson as I feel that with the correct additions to the squad they could be OK. Where I do agree is that we need to get rid of the 'old guard', the likes of Phillips, Bartley, Livermore who are now past their best.

My point Leicester is Grant is lazy and lacks desire - ask any Huddersfield fans. This I can’t forgive as should be the norm! 18 million for god sake - he’s not worth 2 million! Robinson has been consistently ****e in almost every match and does not get his white shorts dirty. Koumas and Sessegnon had fantastic quality but pointless showing it one match in every five!

Any boss/manager will say in any job - you can train a worker to be better/develop but rarely can you improve on work ethic - desire - fight - competitiveness - heart and passion!