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• Amelia Earheart.
  West Bromwich Albion FC 19 Apr 10:11 - WBA1955, 154 views 5 replies
  You don't know who Ronnie lane is? Tut!

• PREDICTION TIME Sun 21/04/18 WBA V LIVERPOOL
  West Bromwich Albion FC 19 Apr 07:55 - phild, 86 views 7 replies
  2-0 the baggies and swansea-stoke-southampton to all lose.

• Gone to the great supermarket in the sky…..RIP Dale Winton!
  West Bromwich Albion FC 19 Apr 00:10 - mickd1961, 128 views 4 replies
  Me trolley dash will never be the same R.I.P. Mr Winton.

• Danny boy has spent £150k on a key
  West Bromwich Albion FC 18 Apr 19:21 - soulman101, 351 views 13 replies
  I'm sorry, Calgary. But if the good people of Merseyside read this I just wonder how long before he gets robbed. And how much does it weigh to cost that much? He's no good to the Albion anyway now, and I wouldn't be surprised if Big Dave sends Danny Big Boots home. No worries.

• Berahino
  West Bromwich Albion FC 18 Apr 10:52 - WBA123, 335 views 3 replies
  Didn't know it was a river.

• Anyone Going to Newcastle?
  West Bromwich Albion FC 17 Apr 16:47 - baggieal, 169 views 4 replies
  Let us know but will be in the Terrace Bar from about 13.00 but if don't see you there - see you up the equivalent of Mount Everest! Good to have a catch up!

• Big Dave
  West Bromwich Albion FC 17 Apr 12:13 - WBA123, 512 views 16 replies
  but then we only survived after that great goal from Amalfantano at Norwich imo. I'll never forgive the idiotic mel for playing Lugano over Gmac against the vile when we lead 2 nil and lost 3-4. It wasn't his best goal during the season long loan. There were 2 better ones. The cheeky chip over the Cardiff goalkeeper from the edge of the box, but even better was his goal against Man Utd, when he broke from mid-field, nutmegged Ferdinand and then chipped over de Gea. Now that was brilliant. Perhaps Berahino's goal to win the game against West Ham was more in the keeping us up mode!!

• All time record against Newton Heath (Man United0
  West Bromwich Albion FC 16 Apr 20:03 - soulman101, 388 views 12 replies
  Second. First was Sheff Weds. My first ever game. 0-0. I should have realised then.

• Great to be there...
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 21:08 - Prando, 402 views 4 replies
  Yes mate been there twice, after first we knew how many steps there were, so for the last visit a couple of years ago my mate pretended to have a bad leg and we caught the lift up for the 1-1 draw game. Terrible view though, like watching ants on the pitch.

• Has anybody thought about this
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 19:08 - Calgarybaggy, 704 views 11 replies
  Not totally with you on this. I do agree that the players mentioned have been great servants and are the heartbeat of the club. I also believe Dawson is now our best player along with Jay Rod and I would try to keep them and hopefully we will, along with Hegazi and Gibbs. However, as Fergie was always quick to identify there is a time when the players need replacing and I think time is up for several of these great club servants. I don’t see Yacob or GMac being first choice even in the Championship so I would let them go. James Morrison is all about fitness - will he be back to full fitness next season, if not let him go. Foster and Brunty I would keep. We need to be more ruthless and not just in being quicker at sacking Managers.

• WBA PREDICTION LEAGUE update - 15/04/18
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 18:47 - phild, 70 views 1 replies
  4 more wins and i'm mid table.

• Despite our slim chances...
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 18:37 - boingy, 427 views 8 replies
  Good point Leicester. Thats different though. Its us. XD

• Today's game
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 16:59 - holmleighchris, 1151 views 21 replies
  Ive said before.....even a corpse can twitch and s h I t. Let’s not go overboard about today. I agree we won this one because Man Utd. were so many degrees under par to the point where Rondon was so much more effective than Clubfoot Lukaku who miscontroled so many times.

• World War 3
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 09:59 - WBA1955, 1199 views 39 replies
  Remember when we were kids and made fire cans and whizzed them around? A firecan and a feel of tit, easily pleased weren't we?

• Pity we didn't stick with Irvine
  West Bromwich Albion FC 15 Apr 08:33 - holmleighchris, 422 views 5 replies
  Say what?????

• When the yanks try to get us to bomb another country,
  West Bromwich Albion FC 14 Apr 22:19 - WBA1955, 197 views 2 replies
  Yeah she certainly told Trump and May where to get off. GSTQ, worth every penny.

• Karma!!
  West Bromwich Albion FC 14 Apr 21:06 - Evewolf65, 2034 views 47 replies
  It's only down to slow footfall on these boards that there is only this one thread! The banter/P!ss taking has been relatively tame TBF.

• O/T Have you had a flutter?
  West Bromwich Albion FC 14 Apr 14:15 - goodlordmurphy, 200 views 14 replies
  Yes I do 365 as well. I like the 4/1 offer because like you that is the sort of odds I like. Had one bet today £5 win with them on Thomas Patrick which I put on last night at 4/1. Had a free £5 bet in the next race but fancied Wholestone who got outstayed by Identity Thief. Kicking myself for not backing Tiger Roll today. Had him to win Cross Country after hearing Kevin Blake on ATR saying how Gordon Elliot said he was absolutely flying before Cheltenham. Ideal prep for a National and with hindsight made a daft choice but at least got down to 3 to win, Blacklion being the other one, and picked the wrong one from three. Unfortunately, something I do more often than like and that is why for ‘normal’ races I am happy to back more than one if the odds are appropriate and I believe there are only 2 or 3 who can win. Done that a couple of times on Thursday with success - We have a dream & saver on Apples Shakira, then, L’Ami Serge (5/1 on 365) with saver on Supasundae. That gave me a free bet on Balnaslow who won the next at 11/2. Unfortunately next free bet was on The Inval who came second. You don’t have to be a mug you just have to take the advantages the bookies do give you to your advantage and as you say be selective. Of course you won’t always be right. I thought yesterday the second race was between Vision des Flos (second) and Global Citizen (unplaced) and backed both and lost on both. Overall though the week will be an overall profit. No bets tomorrow/Monday and probably not many next week, although I will have a look just in case. Good luck in the future and keep enjoying it. Brilliant sport and better the more you get into it. Managed to make a case for Royal Claret who showed. a lot of guts to get up to win lto. Missed the 8's but managed to catch the 6/1 each way also did a rfc with Sahara Haze very small stake on that, Sahara is the rag but was second to the selection lto......Royal into 7/2 now.

• O/T Stop Waving Your Hands About
  West Bromwich Albion FC 13 Apr 22:53 - phild, 248 views 3 replies
  On the other hand if you tied up the Italians hands they would be struck dumb...

• Jay Rodriguis
  West Bromwich Albion FC 13 Apr 17:18 - soulman101, 593 views 9 replies
  Lol, Garlic helped with stinky breath claim.

• PREDICTION TIME Sun 15/04/18 MAN UTD V WBA
  West Bromwich Albion FC 13 Apr 14:27 - phild, 493 views 23 replies
  Well I got our bit right....but where were Man. Utd....quite frankly who cares...cuffed 'em and stuffed 'em again...boing boing

• Patrick Kluivert
  West Bromwich Albion FC 12 Apr 19:48 - viaductbaggies, 1402 views 25 replies
  To be honest what I have realised is every time we have a good or successful team then the team aspect is excellent. As soon as there is, or appears to be disruption in the squad, results go from bad to worse. Since I well remember an Albion team ably led by Big Dave which was greater than the sum of it's parts. It was managed by Sir Gary Megson B) .

• New Technical director
  West Bromwich Albion FC 12 Apr 15:53 - soulman101, 377 views 1 replies
  It's Super Mario !!! :D

• Good Riddance
  West Bromwich Albion FC 12 Apr 09:57 - Bombers right foot, 724 views 5 replies
  Has to be a move in the right direction. I'm feeling a little more confident step by step well done Mr Lai .

• Only cowards do this.
  West Bromwich Albion FC 11 Apr 21:11 - soulman101, 363 views 0 replies
  

• Darbys brewery
  West Bromwich Albion FC 11 Apr 20:20 - albion68, 501 views 18 replies
  Btw lads, Ive probably mentioned this before (in one of our many previous debates about beer & lager on here lol), that I do like a good pint of Abbotts beer/ale. I dont go for 'mad' strength to be honest, but if any lager or beer is 5% then thats a good one. Ive tried some of the cloudy scrumpy ciders as well which are 6% and more, and also those Polish beers which are 7% etc, and wow!!. They tend to take affect very quickly and very surprisingly, which Ive found out to my cost this past month. ;D

• Chadli not keen on playing in the championship.
  West Bromwich Albion FC 11 Apr 19:54 - soulman101, 844 views 16 replies
  I see on the official site that the tosser is likely to play against United....come on Albion don't give him any time to perhaps impress another sucker club... Good point Murph let's go with what we have If he's fit send him to run up some mountains

• Please No
  West Bromwich Albion FC 11 Apr 14:33 - Bombers right foot, 495 views 2 replies
  No chance. The only reason he's being linked is because the Dingles sabotaged a vote and all voted for him to be our next manager... Jenkins has even come out to say we are not interested. Won't happen. Yes a club spokesman last week confirmed mad mick would not be considered due to his past Dingle connections.

• The School Bully.
  West Bromwich Albion FC 11 Apr 01:35 - mickd1961, 548 views 4 replies
  I did not experience any bullying as such but saw a lot of general baiting by certain individuals. This was particularly bad at secondary and seeing it sometimes upset me. Anyway, when it came to being streamed at the start of the third year all the hard knocks, without fail, were put in the bottom stream. I had no desire to keep track of anybody but I can hazard a guess at the type of careers they pursued. I did hear one spent some time inside. I was walking across the playground once and was hit by a stream of flob. A very much bigger character had gobbled on me from an upstairs window. He just sneered with his mates at his clever action As a small boy just started at a big school you were practically helpless if picked on. He was generally a shi thouse and I just hope things turned out crappy for him.

• Not the royal wedding
  West Bromwich Albion FC 09 Apr 20:15 - soulman101, 382 views 3 replies
  You all moan about the Royals but you’ll all be having a lie in on that extra day off and tugging your plonker before spending the day getting p I s s ed. Even Des will be raising a glass to James Hewitt’s halfwit by mid afternoon. Tugging it for Meghan don't you mean Mick? :O :O

• Safe standing
  West Bromwich Albion FC 09 Apr 14:12 - soulman101, 500 views 8 replies
  Haven't Shrewsbury been granted permission for safe standing? We could be in the same league next season. How does that work? I sit in the Smethwick, i'm 6 foot 2. Anyone who says seating in safer needs to tell that to my shins.

• 'The Leave List'
  West Bromwich Albion FC 09 Apr 14:05 - WBA123, 1262 views 21 replies
  I think we would all be over the moon if all of your thoughts came to fruition 123. Dreaming? I don’t know but we will be in dream world if we can get £40m and save a fortune on their wages. Let’s hope you are right. P.S. in your dream did we still have our present lot looking after recruitment, contracts etc? I suspect not, if you have the dream again and they are there then I am sure the dream will quickly turn into a nightmare. Couldn’t organise a p... up in a brewery springs to mind. Also in my dream was Rachel Riley and Catherine Jenkinson. And a hot tub! >;)

• F.A.O Swedish Baggie
  West Bromwich Albion FC 09 Apr 14:04 - soulman101, 253 views 4 replies
  Ticket sorted, many thanks to Danny (Albionic 68). :)

• Ben Foster
  West Bromwich Albion FC 08 Apr 23:05 - soulman101, 935 views 15 replies
  agree totally,baggies never had a truly great keeper .( they say bob Roberts was good but I’m not that old) love him or hate him cloughie always stated you get the best keeper the best centre half best striker the rest falls into place can’t argue really.

• Pleased to see some spirit and commitment...
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 20:27 - Prando, 609 views 5 replies
  An opportunity missed. I felt sure some youngsters would have been given a crack.

• Partridge To Ipswich
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 19:53 - phild, 745 views 9 replies
  I would. Players respond to passionate managers like Atkinson, Megson and now Nuno at Wolves, not someone who stands with his hands in his pockets with a face like a wet Sunday. His football was great in the Championship, but he was badly out of his depth in the prem. We were only 2-3 points from staying up under Mowbray. The board gave him very little to money to bring in new players. Darn sight better than anyone we have had since, and I include Hodgson in that.

• WBA PREDICTION LEAGUE update - 07/04/18
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 17:47 - phild, 79 views 0 replies
  ****************** 940 GrimBlunder :star: __________________ 910 Q165 900 Tipperarybaggie 820 holmleighchris 820 SwedishBaggie 800 NoShotsOnTarget ___________________ 790 phild 750 WBA53 740 Yarmbaggie 690 BaggiefromStafford 680 WBA123 670 Pugmitch ____________________ 660 goodlordmurphy 660 sweeper5 610 Prando 610 nilocrm 600 stargazer1962 560 saltnshake 500 Epsombaggie 490 Pulisaurus 420 Wbatilidie 420 ozrod53 370 soulman101 360 Bombers right foot 360 boingy 160 stroller59 *********************** Tip is back in the frame. A former winner drops out the prem. Noshots takes his place BfS and 123 surge into the Championship. There are now one or two making a really valiant attempt to get out of the relegation hell hole. Oh the excitement!!! as the end is nigh ing. Anyway; - Albion away at Man U on Sunday 15th April. I suspect a few will get the CORRECT RESULT.

• No home wins...
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 16:58 - holmleighchris, 181 views 0 replies
  ... in the Prem so far today. I feel City will change that, though United won't like City winning the title by beating them.

• Topday's team and matchthread
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 14:54 - holmleighchris, 743 views 15 replies
  Nothing changes! Yes, we looked a little more organised and had a bit more spirit, but again we go into the lead and then lose it. I've lost count of the number of times that this has happened this season. When we went in front I sat there and knew in my own mind that we would concede at least one. I was just hoping that today would be different, but it wasn't! The most depressing thing is the repetition and ending with the same scenario. I will always stick by the Albion but this season has really tried my patience as I'm sure it has with the rest of you.

• Match day COYB
  West Bromwich Albion FC 07 Apr 11:57 - soulman101, 173 views 1 replies
  I'm afraid my optimism is at an all time low regarding the baggies...after all when we made safety we didn't win another match did we? When we won the champoinship years ago after we had won it we didn't win another match did we? Why should anything change now we have established we will be second division next year. Nothing to do with recent managers as you can see we have done it for years....>:(

• Eric Bristow
  West Bromwich Albion FC 05 Apr 21:56 - Johnny on the spot 1, 469 views 6 replies
  Have a look at these....

• RIP Frank Hodgetts-Our youngest ever player 1924-2018
  West Bromwich Albion FC 05 Apr 20:59 - mickd1961, 178 views 2 replies
  I was so sad to read about this in our local paper tonight. Frank made his first team debut at the age of 16 years and 26 days in 1940 and was at the club until 1949. Frank ate most days at the Hagley Cafe near Stourbridge and I often was in at the same time as him,a real gent was Frank and a very humble man. I chatted with him last year and showed him some pictures of himself on Google which tickled him....in truth he’d hardly changed and was still his playing weight! He only packed in playing a high standard of golf in his late 80’s and was chairman of Kidderminster tennis club for a long stretch I believe. Last year as I was leaving the cafe I felt a tad nervous as I could see Frank preparing to cross what is a pretty busy road......he stepped out and realised the cars were coming a little quicker than expected! As I held my breath Frank broke into a ten yard sprint a bloke in his 30’s would be proud of......it gladdened my heart to see such an old man who had so obviously taken pride in his fitness his whole life. He was not only our youngest ever player but up to last week he was our oldest surviving player and the club never forgot Frank and often invited him to special ocaissions. Such a nice man and so well liked. Very well played Frank.....you played a blinder! RIP old lad. HI Mick there was a tribute before the Burnley game. He was one of Bobby Hope's mentors, who also made his debut at 16

• West Brazil
  West Bromwich Albion FC 05 Apr 20:00 - soulman101, 841 views 13 replies
  It's horses for courses time now Boingy.[/QUOTE Maybe, but I still cant accept the fact that this club has no ambition. ££££££££££££££££.....MOOOOOO

• PREDICTION TIME Sat 07/04/18: WBA V SWANSEA
  West Bromwich Albion FC 05 Apr 18:20 - phild, 616 views 24 replies
  ************** :blue: 5 called the EXACT SCORE One called the CORRECT RESULT as the only one who called it. _______________ No one called the EXACT SCORE 16 called the CORRECT RESULT - Q165, Yarmbaggie, WBA123, holmleighchris, GrimBlunder, BaggiefromStafford, Pugmitch, NoShotsOnTarget, SwedishBaggie, nilocrm, Pulisaurus, Prando, sweeper5, stargazer1962, boingy and ozrod53 ****************

• Agents Fees Premiership Clubs 2018
  West Bromwich Albion FC 04 Apr 17:13 - Prando, 486 views 7 replies
  Tax Accountants, corporate barristers, and football agents: We should highlight their names and addresses, so that we can pop round and burgle their houses. Seems fair.

• RIP Ray Wilkins
  West Bromwich Albion FC 04 Apr 14:20 - mickd1961, 357 views 4 replies
  R.I.P Ray sad loss. Great story,this is how to treat the young players.

• Barry triggers contract extension
  West Bromwich Albion FC 04 Apr 11:54 - viaductbaggies, 1296 views 22 replies
  Hey, its late. I'll ask again tomorrow :)

• The Opening
  West Bromwich Albion FC 04 Apr 11:37 - 9goals2hattricks3pen, 227 views 0 replies
  Just watched about 10 mins of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games. Consisted of what looked like white folks in aboriginal make up singing and dancing aboriginal song and dance . What a load of tosh. Suerly something depicting more what Aus is today. How's about some Aussie men in baggy green caps rubing their balls with sandpaper and crying. That would do it for me. What's the difference between Australia and a pot of yoghurt? If you leave a yoghurt long enough it will develop a culture.

• When I get older..........
  West Bromwich Albion FC 04 Apr 10:14 - 9goals2hattricks3pen, 556 views 13 replies
  The last time i stood on a packed Hawthorns of over 40,000 was 1976, our first year back after the 73 relegation, the ground became 36,000, then 33,000, and finally 25,000. It doesn't matter if you can fill a ground or not,( look at Sunderland and Boro ), the size of a ground reflects your ambition. My grandad who was a West Brom miner, stood on the terraces in 40,000, 50,000 and on a few occasions over 60,000 gates. He died in 1975, the year before we began to shrink. The late 70's was our Swan Song as "The Albion", a club in decline even though we looked outwardly healthy. Peace promised 16 years ago to make the ground 40,000 capacity if we went up, instead he made it even smaller, he even nicked Chris's seat. Today despite our illustrious past, we are seen as as similar sized club as Swansea, QPR, and feckin Bournemouth. Players actually see the latter as a better option.

• Club Phylosophy and Template for the future.
  West Bromwich Albion FC 03 Apr 19:20 - mickd1961, 908 views 8 replies
  I agree too, even though i said staying in the prem was more important than the football. Scharner said we have lost our DNA. Time to get it back.

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