Did you see Stoke wanted to bring in Paul Scholes as­ player coach?

He turned them down as he doesn't­ know anything about throwins!

Drew, I'm not in Peace's pocket I just have a­ little common sense and can see the bigger picture.­ Unlike a lot of football fans who just want money­ thrown at a problem Peace is trying to create a team of­ staff who can work within budgets. Unless I'm very­ much mistaen pretty much every managment role in the­ real world involves a certain amount of people­ managment and also budget managment. Anyone can go to­ Man City, Spend 500M and challenge for honours, but­ what happens when the money, or chairmans patience runs­ out? Man City will go broke and not exist thats­ what.

As for Peace's investment, Jeremy Peace is­ the front man of a group made up of sheffield­ businessmen. Jeremy Peace owns about 10% of WBA it is­ the group who own the rest. Therefore as a group they­ are in this to make a profit and so can demand what­ they like.

Its called Business, read a book or a­ decent newspaper Drew and you'll learn something.

Marklaura is a potter then? fancy watching that @#$%­ week in week out, one Rory Delap away from relegation,­ what a class act you are!!
From bitter and twisted­ baggie. (bitter cos we aint got a numpty who can hurl­ the ball 300 yards, keep playing the great football­ potters!)

to answer 44 the potters stayed up because they are a­ better team than you as results show . and nxt year you­ will go down again .new players come in see the­ mongrels in the stands and cant be bothered you are a­ disgrace to midlands football.the ground should be­ leveled and the fans banned for life from every ground

Venus your talking through uranus. Mowbray did'nt­ listen to any advice,he basically bought a load of­ rubbish it was'nt as if the chairman did'nt­ give him any money to buy players last season,his­ choices were poor and the fans suffered for it. So now­ you say that it was a hard choice,well, words are easy­ to say,he still left and his sidekicks go with him. You­ say there was unfinished business there for him,well i­ remember not long ago Mowbray saying he had a job to do­ here,and i think it was the lure of cash for players­ and european football was the lure. I for one just pray­ we get a reasonable manager,Curbs or Coppell will­ do,then sell the wasters we bought from last year and­ start again.

mowbray made some awful signings,defence was­ terrible,if we had a no nonsense defender we would have­ stayed up,my two daughters could have stopped some of­ those goals last season.last year was our best chance­ so far of staying up,with the strength of the clubs­ finances,no debt,there were teams who we were capable­ of overtaking,but we didnt.i cant believe the potters­ stayed up.they are a disgrace to the division.

Who has the job? 3rd choice hahahahahaha

and lastly, WHICH three teams for the drop from the­ Premier next season ?
AS it cannot be , stoke, hull,­ wolves, blues and burnley now can it ???
i think­ burnley must be odds on, along with stoke and wolves­ ?
think hull have money to escape it again, and blues­ have pot loads of wonga, this time around they spending­ big time, though can they ever play passing football ?

MY choice for a manager would be who is available at NO­ compensation then that money can ALSO be used on new­ players, and wheres the PARACHUTE 15m going ??? in Paul­ C's mates Peaces back pocket ???
Anyway, A Irvine­ has been linked at the albion for the LAST 2 months so­ hes got to be up there BUT will cost them, i do not­ rate A Boothroyd at all, and he will have the SAME­ problem NO money for GOOD players
I still reckon either­ Curbs, or Coppell but would they come to a small club­ with no money and no way to buy players in january­ window ?
I think D McInnes is TOO green, as in not as­ much eperince in the job quite yet, maybe in one years­ time ? BUT then should we need a scottish manager who­ really are in leagues below our 4 divisions ?
D­ ferguson, well only see young man utd players being­ loaned then, and maybe we are a little TOO BIG for him­
BUT we AINT got a say, it will be ..... who will come­ on peaces demands and available funds which so far is­ NIL unless players are sold first !

Paul_C YOU are ALSO wrong Morrison ONLY cost us 1.5m­ !!!
AND you got to ask yourself THIS question ? WELL­ NO, 2 Questions :D
firstly, WAS the players Mowbray­ bought 'HIS' players ? as i do NOT believe­ MOORE was ever in the plans that was an agreement by­ Peace, the man you love, with the Curtis Davies deal­ !
secondly, My Mowbray like his predecessors ONLY were­ managers of the WBA on peaces terms of LACK of money,­ they werent paid fortunes, like the soccer players, so­ who would blame ANY of them if another club pays them­ TRIPLE ? after going to the press and stating squad­ must be CUT with more games to play BEFORE telling the­ man who WAS appointed the manager of the WBA ?
Peace is­ no good, it really is a BIG boys game, and not someone­ who when push comes to shove throws his rattle out of­ the pram, if he wants out then sell his holding at a­ REASONABLE sum ! AS IN NOT FOR PROFIT !!!

sherbert_d YOU are wrong, well, i guess Celtic are­ 'debt' free BUT that is BECAUSE you have a­ BILLIONAIRE FOREIGN owner so, thats not much swing in­ the arguement really, just you can use his money to buy­ any players and ANY managers !
BUT Peace, is a POOR­ business man HE wants OUT BUT wants TOO much for his­ 75% shareholding
and today soccer is for the BIG boys­ so he should leave quietly before the fans move him out

My simple reason for No to A Boothroyd is the way his­ teams play, they make stoke look like barcelona!

I too­ would love to see Curbs there, however whether he would­ drop into the championship is another story.

Strachan­ wouldn't come so it's pointless discussing­ him.

My top 4 in order: -

1: Curbs
2: D Fergusson
3:­ D Jones
4: D Mcinnes

Aidy Boothroyd as manager may not be that bad, he got­ Watford promoted and then never had any money for­ players and when they went down he was let down by the­ board who sold his players because of bad finance­ problems and of course resulted in him losing his job.­ Has Alan Curbs been mentioned again in the tabloids, he­ would be my choice or get Gordon Stracts, could do with­ somebody to breath fire up the bottoms of our players.

Not coincidence, simple mathmatics.

Megson got us­ promoted then asked for extra £40,000 a week to sign­ Hasselbank and Echiogu (Excuse spelling) Peace Refused.­ So Megson walked.

Robson kept us up (Or should that be­ the other very poor teams?) Then disappointed, As was­ the case @ Middlesboro he demanded more funds and was­ refused by Peace who had already given him 15M to­ spend.

Mowbray spent over 3M­ on:-

Morrison
Brunt
Valero
Carson
Moore
Bednar (Well­ 2.75M)
Zuiverloon

2M on Meite

1.4M On Cech.

All this­ money and we won 34 Points!!

We Spent the 9th Highest­ amount in the premiership and finished 20th!!

I feel­ Peace was more than justified in demanding that the­ playing staff was cut.

Mowbray then threw his toys out­ the pram.

The simple fact is that all three previous­ managers have had good moments and bad but all three­ have walked away when the going gets tough and peace­ has demanded more from them for the money WBA has­ invested. I once again refer to the fact that as a club­ we cannot afford to waste millions so Peace is just­ looking after the best interests of the Club at heart.­ The only mistakes continually made is having managers­ who don't have the bottle for the fight.

Good­ forbid Boothroyd, i will honestly return my season­ ticket.

It feels so good to be debt free playing scunny away on­ a wet tuesday night!! (no offence Scunny) Right, heres­ the deal, Tony flooded the club with midfielders so we­ could play with one up front every game. Great football­ in the middle of the park, no striker who knew where­ the net was, hopeless comical defending (Fulham away,­ Liverpool home for example) because of this Terry­ Thomas in goal was like a jigsaw (fell to pieces in the­ box) Relegation!
Tony Mowbray stuck to his methods but­ didnt get a defensive pairing sorted throughout the­ whole season!! Im not asking for 10 million players,­ just not loanees who can piss off back to their clubs­ after giving 50% effort.
40 years a baggie!

I stand by what I said. Peace may be a good business­ man, but the same mistakes have
been made, time after­ time, with three different managers. Or is that just­ coincidence ? Just heard on the radio Boothroyd may be­ top of the list.

I'm sick and tired of people mouthing off about­ Peace. We have spent nearly £35 million in the last 5­ years and recouped around £50M. That doesn't mean­ that we don't spend money just that we have a­ sensible chairman. Unfortunatly alot of people seem to­ think that football clubs are seperate from the laws of­ business and that they can continually run at a loss.­ The simple facts are that clubs that are run on peoples­ emotions tend to fail. See Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford,­ Southampton. Clubs that are run on a tight ship tend to­ succeed. See Hull, Stoke, Blackburn etc.

The facts­ remain that we are NOT a big club and we do not have a­ multi-millionaire backing us. We therefore have­ restrictions on what we can pay and the wages we can­ pay, yes this does caus some friction for managers but­ for TM to come out and blame it on Peace is­ disgraceful, his signings have been awful and in the­ main contributed to our relegation. He let phillips go­ (I think it was the right decision) but failed to­ replace him, his defensive signings were poor and­ considering he used to be a centre half he couldn't­ pick one out from 100 yards. No goalscorer, no Defence,­ No ball winning midfielder.

I enjoyed him while he was­ there but once again peace has managed to get 2.75M­ (Mowbray + Venus + Grant) for a trio who got us­ relegated!! Amazing

As for Valero, the best player on­ our books, if only we knew how to play him.... What­ Tony was thinking buying a 23 year old playmaker and­ trying to turn him into a ball winning midfielder­ i'll never know!!!

Tony Mowbray is a good manager,­ not great, and 100% not worth 2M.

We might not have­ millions spent on players with Peace but we'll­ always have a club that makes a profit, how many clubs­ wished they could say that?

Jim, what you are saying is correct. What disappoints­ me at the Albion is, we have had
several attempts at­ the Premier. With three different managers. Every time,­ the problems seem to be the same. i.e. we don't­ sign the right players in the summer, then in the­ window, only bring in loanees. When did we last make a­ decent signing in the
window ? What I am trying to say­ is, if we had "speculated to accumalate" a­ little,
during the last five years, then maybe we would­ have paid for the extra cost, by staying in the­ Premiership. Why spoil the ship for a ha'peth of­ tar ? I don't have
your great length of support,­ this season is my 40th as a Baggies fan. We have seen­ a
lot of changes since the glory days. Up the Baggies !

DETRICH - If you were familiar with these message­ boards, you would know why the term­ "windae-licker" is used, and precisely who­ that term is aimed at. It, quite simply, is an­ "in-joke" on here, so please get off your­ high horse!

window licker is a derogatory term used to describe­ disabled people, is not funny, but is an example of­ discriminatory language.

it is usually most often used­ by non disabled people preening their reflection in the­ local threshers store. Even then it remains unfunny and­ an example of discriminatory language.