West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Liam_Baggies]

What an awful game of football - West Midlands football is in a seriously shite state of affairs.

Absolutely fuming with Tony Pulis - I cannot ****** stand him at times. Why we settle for a 0-0 against a team who aren't far off dead and buried and cannot win a game of football is beyond me. You were by the far the better side and should have won the game. In hindsight, it'll be a better point for us than yourselves.

You should have had a penalty (stonewall) and Richards should have been sent off too. Lescott and Okore were very good and bullied our forwards although Rondon was left isolated with no support whatsoever.

Aside from that there wasn't much else to comment on. We were a typical Pulis side and you had plenty of industry but very little quality. Despite all your possession I never feared that a goal was coming, thankfully.

[Liam_Baggies]

#AVFC team v #WBA: Bunn, Richards, Okore, Lescott, Cissokho, Bacuna, Gana, Westwood, Gil, Ayew, Kozak. #WBAAVL

Now adding Veretout and Gestede who by the way was only on the pitch for a few minutes can someone tell me where the £84m of talent is there?

Is he taking the piss?

He is just deflecting blame

He also mentioned amount of games they played and they are looking to stay in the league so every point matters...

Ignore him.

He comes out with pointless rubbish every week purely to deflect the blame.

He patronises supporters every week to dumb down expectations and drag everybody else down to his mind-numbing style of football.

And then we get the standard "first class" and "worked very aaard" to cover up how shite we are.

[kippaxvilla2]

Fair enough.  His comments about our £84m squad somehow reminded me of Sherwoods bullshit about deliberately playing the long ball against Blues in the first half of the Cup game.

[SoccerHQ]

Albion spent money than us in the summer given they didn't sell Berahino in the end.

Rondon was about 12m wasn't he? Good striker who should do well in this league but being stifiled by PulisBall.

And they also have an 8m defender who can't get off the bench, James Chester.

Johnny Evans was about 7m aswell although he's been excellent, would've loved him here.

So yeah 30m.

The trouble with Pulis is he's very much from the MON mould of spending huge amounts on limited safety first British players. Yes it's good enough to keep you up and I respect him for that but eventually fans want more.

You see that at Stoke. Despite always keeping them in the premier league, they didn't once finish in the top half under him. Mark Hughes comes in and comfortably does it despite spending way less than Pulis and playing much better football.

[The Edge]

What an awful game of football - West Midlands football is in a seriously shite state of affairs.

Absolutely fuming with Tony Pulis - I cannot ****** stand him at times. Why we settle for a 0-0 against a team who aren't far off dead and buried and cannot win a game of football is beyond me. You were by the far the better side and should have won the game. In hindsight, it'll be a better point for us than yourselves.

You should have had a penalty (stonewall) and Richards should have been sent off too. Lescott and Okore were very good and bullied our forwards although Rondon was left isolated with no support whatsoever.

Aside from that there wasn't much else to comment on. We were a typical Pulis side and you had plenty of industry but very little quality. Despite all your possession I never feared that a goal was coming, thankfully.

I'd have to say thats a fair assessment of the game and of the shocking state of football in these parts. I don't see Pulis lasting too long. He is good at setting teams up to win and that's it. He doesn't care that football is meant to be entertaining. But your board knew that when they gave him the job. He does what it says on the tin.

[Liam_Baggies]

Albion spent money than us in the summer given they didn't sell Berahino in the end.

Rondon was about 12m wasn't he? Good striker who should do well in this league but being stifiled by PulisBall.

And they also have an 8m defender who can't get off the bench, James Chester.

Johnny Evans was about 7m aswell although he's been excellent, would've loved him here.

So yeah 30m.

The trouble with Pulis is he's very much from the MON mould of spending huge amounts on limited safety first British players. Yes it's good enough to keep you up and I respect him for that but eventually fans want more.

You see that at Stoke. Despite always keeping them in the premier league, they didn't once finish in the top half under him. Mark Hughes comes in and comfortably does it despite spending way less than Pulis and playing much better football.

I agree with you here.

Pulis laid a solid foundation at Stoke for Hughes to come in and build on. The spine of the Stoke side and back four was largely built by Pulis and hasn't needed any major repair work. Hughes simply managed to come in, spend some money on some forward players and Stoke have been better for it.

I'm hoping Pulis will do the same here - I don't think I could stomach five more years (as he wants) of this mind-numbing football. Unfortunately, he is pretty much a guarantee to keep us up and that will please the chairman. The fact that fans won't be renewing next year (I'm debating mine) won't bother him at all.

[SoccerHQ]

The thing is though Pulis kept on banging on at Stoke about not having the funds to kick on...and when he did in summer 2011 he spend 10m on Crouch (done a good job for Stoke but still not going to get anything back given his age), 6m on Jerome and 8m on Wilson Palacios.

His range of targets is so narrow, he'd never have signed people like Bojan and Arnautovic in a million years.

[Ads]

Typical fucking Albion too. A massive queue to get through the turnstiles at five past three. Every single time we go to that rat hole of a ground, they can't handle a crowd.

[The Edge]

I would however, much prefer their league position

10/10 for stating the obvious.

Lol...

So would I, but not if it meant being managed by Pulis

Pulis is the footballing equivalent of the anti-Christ.  I can sum this up in one.
I would rather have McLeish back. There I've said it.

[LeeB]

I would however, much prefer their league position

10/10 for stating the obvious.

Lol...

So would I, but not if it meant being managed by Pulis

Pulis is the footballing equivalent of the anti-Christ.  I can sum this up in one.
I would rather have McLeish back. There I've said it.

You know, so would I. At least he didn't wear a fucking cap.

[The Edge]

I would however, much prefer their league position

10/10 for stating the obvious.

Lol...

So would I, but not if it meant being managed by Pulis

Pulis is the footballing equivalent of the anti-Christ.  I can sum this up in one.
I would rather have McLeish back. There I've said it.

You know, so would I. At least he didn't wear a fucking cap.

Lol. It is annoying that fucking cap.

[LeeB]

He is from Newport, has spent a chunk of his life in Stoke and is now in West Bromwich, where such attire is considered haute courier.

I cut him some slack if he wasn't such a knob.

[LeeB]

What an awful game of football - West Midlands football is in a seriously shite state of affairs.

Absolutely fuming with Tony Pulis - I cannot ****** stand him at times. Why we settle for a 0-0 against a team who aren't far off dead and buried and cannot win a game of football is beyond me. You were by the far the better side and should have won the game. In hindsight, it'll be a better point for us than yourselves.

You should have had a penalty (stonewall) and Richards should have been sent off too. Lescott and Okore were very good and bullied our forwards although Rondon was left isolated with no support whatsoever.

Aside from that there wasn't much else to comment on. We were a typical Pulis side and you had plenty of industry but very little quality. Despite all your possession I never feared that a goal was coming, thankfully.

There's not a thing I'd disagree with there.

[tomd2103]

Albion spent money than us in the summer given they didn't sell Berahino in the end.

Rondon was about 12m wasn't he? Good striker who should do well in this league but being stifiled by PulisBall.

And they also have an 8m defender who can't get off the bench, James Chester.

Johnny Evans was about 7m aswell although he's been excellent, would've loved him here.

So yeah 30m.

The trouble with Pulis is he's very much from the MON mould of spending huge amounts on limited safety first British players. Yes it's good enough to keep you up and I respect him for that but eventually fans want more.

You see that at Stoke. Despite always keeping them in the premier league, they didn't once finish in the top half under him. Mark Hughes comes in and comfortably does it despite spending way less than Pulis and playing much better football.

I agree with you here.

Pulis laid a solid foundation at Stoke for Hughes to come in and build on. The spine of the Stoke side and back four was largely built by Pulis and hasn't needed any major repair work. Hughes simply managed to come in, spend some money on some forward players and Stoke have been better for it.

I'm hoping Pulis will do the same here - I don't think I could stomach five more years (as he wants) of this mind-numbing football. Unfortunately, he is pretty much a guarantee to keep us up and that will please the chairman. The fact that fans won't be renewing next year (I'm debating mine) won't bother him at all.

He'll be gone this summer.

[Liam_Baggies]

Well I for one, would be very happy.

I'm half hoping that Jeremy can pull off one of his specials of falling out with a manager and getting them to resign.