Would it be so bad?

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    DH54WBA
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    During a lifetime spent watching and supporting the Albion from schoolboy to old man I have enjoyed our great team from the late fifties, our cup successes in the late sixties and best of all the only side which ever came close to winning the league in the late seventies. In between and since they has been a good deal of dross to endure but in truth I think the decade of yo-yo years between 2000-2010 were just as exciting. Up, down, up survival, down, up and so on – every match and every point counted every season and much as I might prefer it not to happen, the thought of relegation doesn’t actually bother me that much.

    Playing every season with the single objective of amassing 40 points so that we can do the same again next season and ad infinitum is quite simply boring and the early novelty of playing the top sides again has long since worn off along with the attendances for such matches. We are now back in a dogfight for survival and every game and point and it is interesting and exciting again and it will stay that way next season if the drop is to be our fate.

    The timing however is awful with one certainly and possibly both of our oldest rivals likely to be moving upwards at the same time so even more reason to get behind the team and look forward to those local derbies which I for one have missed. In Pardew we trust? Not sure.

    #1569597

    Northwich Baggie
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    Nearest we came to winning the league (and becoming the first team to do the double) was in 1954 when we were runners up to the dingles. Injuries to key players cost us the title. I must be older than you if you’ve forgotten that!

    #1569611

    DH54WBA
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    No Northwich, never forgotten but it was the 54 Cup Final which started this process for me and by that time the league season had finished and I had no idea what had happened ( and no interest to tell the truth) so the ‘double’ chance missed my attention. I caught up on it all much later and how right you are – we wuz robbed by a combination of injuries and of all things, England call ups!

    The match records and stats of that season are well documented in Tony Matthews book and some of them are simply staggering. How we could do with a Ronnie Allen (27 goals in 39 games) or a Johnny Nicholls (28 in 38) today! Either of these will probably surpass the combined total from all our strikers this year. I wished that I had been part of it but not to be. So the team of the Robbo, the Three Degrees et al was the best I have ever seen in the stripes and the closest to winning a title. I remember going top at Christmas when we beat Bristol City at home in the snow and ice – them were the days!

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    derwentd
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    If Wolves come up and we go down. So what? All it would confirm is that they have been well-managed and we haven’t and that is a major problem, revenue-wise, for our owner.

    Like you guys I’m fed up with desperate football. And, if we are to go down, I hope it is playing attacking football with young players because if we’re relegated it will mean a huge clear-out.

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    northbaybaggie
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    i must admit for the first time in along time,i think were doomed,doomed yet apparently we have all these talented players out on loan ,young vibrant talented , who we may not see our first team if we stay up. that being said were now in bottom 3, were not going to beat liverpool ,utd ,or even stoke, so lets be realistic were going to be bottom at xmas ,no great escape this year , but if we do go down lets give those youngsters a chance to stake a first team place. leko for one ,kanes another , donnelan plus the other lad at exeter and the forward at walsall. after all isnt this why we develop young players. the albion are in my blood ,ill always cheer for them buti think this is the year were going down. pardew i think was the wrong choice as manager but its done and hes what were hanging our coat on .

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    ciaranwba
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    Insane

    #1570028

    sarky parky
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    Leko is one of the driving forces behind Bristol City’s surprising rise in the Championship. He made a few cameo appearances two seasons ago but was never played again – another anomaly associated with the Clown. Probably not defensive enough. I fail to see why people don’t have some faith in the current squad. Yes they’re playing like a rabble but what did Kane, Del Ali, Vardy, Rooney et al play like against Iceland when the manager had lost the plot. A team drawn from a male population of less than 200,000 reduced the best players in the PL to non-league status.

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