West Brom vs Manchester United : Official Match Thread : 14/2/20 2pm

Originally Posted by NedKelly

Everyone keeps forgetting about the Fat Sam effect too. It’s what he does - takes woeful teams, drills the defensive side of their game into them over and over until they’re horrible to play against and he gets the players putting in 100% effort on the pitch too. Name me an Allardyce team that has ever been easy to beat.

His Newcastle, Blackburn and Sunderland teams?

Originally Posted by dunk

Doubt we fancied spending any money.

that's pretty much the root of all of our problems. trying to do everything on the cheap, throwing a couple of smoke grenades.

Originally Posted by jem

that's pretty much the root of all of our problems. trying to do everything on the cheap, throwing a couple of smoke grenades.

Yep. Big, £#%&! off, useless smoke grenades.

Originally Posted by NedKelly

Everyone keeps forgetting about the Fat Sam effect too. It’s what he does - takes woeful teams, drills the defensive side of their game into them over and over until they’re horrible to play against and he gets the players putting in 100% effort on the pitch too. Name me an Allardyce team that has ever been easy to beat.

Watching the game back f***ing hell didn’t remember how many clear chances WBA had

We made the worse team in the league look good

Originally Posted by windy waffles

We've won 2 games out of 7 since being top of the league.

Baffling.

We had a brilliant run to go top of the league, almost by definition these things have to end at some point.

Its one of the respects in which our horrific start to the season has come back to bite us.

Originally Posted by Lok

His Newcastle, Blackburn and Sunderland teams?

Did we put several goals past them regularly?

Originally Posted by Tuco

A month into the job

Well we did beat his Blackburn side 7-1 once, but yeah.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Well we did beat his Blackburn side 7-1 once, but yeah.

Key word: regularly

You’re totally right though, Allardyce teams are notoriously soft as shite and easy to beat.

Originally Posted by NedKelly

Key word: regularly

You’re totally right though, Allardyce teams are notoriously soft as shite and easy to beat.

Mate they’ve been getting a hiding off everyone at home since he took over
Well everyone except us

They are the worst side in the league and will finish bottom of the table

Originally Posted by NedKelly

Key word: regularly

You’re totally right though, Allardyce teams are notoriously soft as shite and easy to beat.

Well the "but yeah" indicated that wasn't really typical. Still, whatever

Originally Posted by Cream

Two grown ups required in summer.

Nothing we didn’t already know.