02-02-2025, 03:38 PM
(02-02-2025, 09:10 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote:(02-02-2025, 08:11 AM)Shabby Russian Wrote:(02-01-2025, 10:59 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote:(02-01-2025, 10:37 PM)WorcsWBA Wrote: It's amusing but bizarre to me how many Albion fans were saying how terrible the players were during that winless streak under Carlos. Now, without much having changed, they're now as good as any other team in the division?
I can only conclude that too many people have knee-jerk reactions to the latest result and whatever's gone before is chucked out of the window. This, of course, is boiled down into the saying "you're only as good as your last performance". It's better to keep a focus on the bigger picture in my opinion because, unless your club has a team filled with megastars, you're going to appear to be schizophrenic from one week to the next!
If predicting results was so easy, we'd all be rich through the football pools and/or the modern equivalent...
Eh? Those who have said we have a decent squad haven’t changed their mind all season. I haven’t picked and chosen when to say our squad is good bad or indifferent dependant on who the manager is. You can say I/we have but that’s a load of old cobblers. The squad is decent and whoever is in charge should be expected to get it to the Play-offs.
But results tell a different story Derek.
We are two thirds through the season, and excepting the first 6 games, which were clearly an outlier in terms if results, our performances and results are distinctly mid table.
And there's a reason for that we have a middle of the table squad. That we are still in the hunt for the play offs is down to how good the previous coach was and that there are a whole host of very average clubs in the championship this season.
I think Mowbray is also a very good coach at this level, but introducing him half way through the season is not ideal, I expect a turbulent transition.
I don’t agree that this squad is midtable it’s a lower placed playoff squad, particularly in a very average Championship beyond the top four. It would be a failure to not finish in the top six.
I agree. This squad has been either in the top 6 or just outside it for pretty much the last 2 years. Whilst we have made cuts financially this season, the majority of the other teams near us going for the play offs have also sold off their best players or operate on a much lower budget than Albion do.
To suggest that this is a mid-table squad is absurd given where they have been in the table since Carlos picked them from the Bruce era.
