1) Last season an unpopular manager left giving everyone an instant lift, we’ve seen it many a time in football. Honeymoon period now officially over.

2) The successful touch line coaching line up last season was Moore, Cutler and Shan. Now it is Moore, Jacobs and Jones. Cutler has recently joined his old mate Smith at Villa, is that the only reason? Shan fits in where he’s told, training the stiffs who don’t get a game and works with the attacking lads on finishing. In other words he’s been pushed aside.

3) Largly the playing staff hasn’t altered all that much from our ‘successful’ run in last season, however attitudes towards staying at the club have, ala messrs Dawson and Rodriguez, it’s showing big time.

4) Albion only really tick when the likes of Philips is on top form, of late he’s disappeared again. He gained national attention during a real purple patch under Pulis, he got injured and faded, it seems to be happening again.

5) Clearly our goal scoring prowess has been significantly blunted with the loss of Gayle, add to that the injured Gibbs and stop start form of Philips and our appalling lack of pace in the middle comes sharply into focus. Most people with half a brain predicted the potential for this, such was our obvious lack of of options and yet here we are, living out our prediction.

6) Graeme Jones’ insistence on players that are simply not good enough trying to play it out from the back. We said we’d get sussed, up front and at the back, now we have, another prediction made by many. Barnes has been sussed yet he’s a luxury that our desperate midfield can ill afford to have too far up the field.

7) The signing of Bartley has proven a poor buy.

8) Cheap option after cheap option by Lai and Co make me fume.

9) The personal abuse some of you on here direct at Darren Moore is uncalled for. We’re all angry, and our passion needs directing differently, if he needs to go at some point then he needs to go, but not with this kind of abuse.


10) To conclude, once our top performing most influential players are off form or injured (Gayle, Gibbs, Philips) we are less than average thus showing up our over reliance on them and weaknesses all over the rest of the team. We need a proven quality centre half, a right back, a decent centre midfielder and a replacement back up striker. Compare our owner with the poor chap who perished at Leicester, and here lies the heart of our problem.