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Sorry I know this story is a few hours old but been at work and all .They can't be fu***ng serious .The guy has been in ...
07/01/2026

Sorry I know this story is a few hours old but been at work and all .

They can't be fu***ng serious .

The guy has been in the wales set up for a short period of time . And was a first team coach at United for a short period of time .

His job been in the MLS he hasnt even been there a year yet .

And now all of a sudden he is good enough for our president Nestor to be interested 😂

If Nestor thinks it is acceptable to be interested in this guy . Then we are doomed .

At least Mason worked at Tottenham for a few years and is a Europa league winning coach .

This guy played FUTSAL for WALES .

Sorry if this is a bit of rant and it may be short term rage

But the rage in my right now is sky high 😂

Of course he may not and probably won't be appointed

But the fact Nestor is even considering him . Just shows how clueless he is

Source and credited to - express and star

- brummie

07/01/2026

So I do try to be fair ( hence this status )

Of course I've blasted Mason and he isn't completely blameless in this situation because of how inept he was .

But in the interest of fairness . He should never have been given this job in the first place .

When he was appointed . Our goals would have been to sneak into the play offs . Imagine coming to the Albion . One of the biggest names in the championship with a target of getting top six as your first job .

He of course took on too much . But it was to good of opportunity for him to down .

I didn't want him in the first place in all honesty .

If we was mid table for a consecutive years I'd understand the experiment ( like boro did with Carrick )

But for a team that was aiming for the play offs . I thought we needed a more experienced head for that challenge .

Nestor has messed up the last 2 appointments. He really needs to get this right I feel .

If this third appointment goes wrong I think a lot more fans are going to be turning their frustrations towards him ( some already have like my self , but I mean a larger number )

But let's keep the faith , third time's a charm and let's hope he is the right man for the job

- brummie

06/01/2026

Ok so with us in search for a new manager I thought I'd give my input .

This is based off no inside knowledge what so ever . This is just me giving my two pence and what I think the club may do.

So with us paying Mason's remaining contract . I think it is fairly obvious we will be going for someone who is currently out of work .

And thinking with my Albion hat on . And thinking how we conduct business .

I would imagine the two front runners been garry O'neil and Carrick. Experienced enough the pair of them I feel if we was to go down that road .

Personally id rather us go down the O'NEIL road

However. I do think it will be Carrick in our dugout by months end.

Again no insider knowledge just my personal thoughts and predictions

- brummie

His gone - brummie
06/01/2026

His gone

- brummie

06/01/2026

Ok so I have slept on lasts nights performance . So I thought I'd go a little bit deeper into my thoughts .

Let me start off by saying we actually played really well after we conceded , we past the ball around really well . Played some really sleek , attractive football at times too . We had a fair few chances , for example price hitting the post . And there was a fair few more instances where with a bit more composure we score 1 possibly even 2 more .

Grants goal was excellent and I thought he played out his skin . I have always been an advocate for grant . Stretching back many years . So I was really pleased to see him score a quite frankly beautiful goal .

So in the interest of balance I have talked about the good now it's time I mention the negatives .

And I have to start off with Mason . Again questionable subs in my view . This is not the first time he has made subs that his made us all scratch our head . Indicating to me anyway he is tactically inept .

One thing I cannot wrap my head around is . How we have managed to turn 2 of the championships best center halves last season into chumps .

Yes Griffiths came out and maybe he shouldn't have for the first goal . But I believe it was nat Phillips when the ball was squared across just turned to stone and didn't move to intercept the pass .

Again Phillips was arguably Derby's staying up saviour and mepham got promoted and was in important piece in a very good Sunderland team that got promoted .

Is this down to the manager ? Have they gotten worse with Mason ? . They started very well , especially Phillips . As games have gone on the pair of them have got progressively worse . Is that down to a rookie coach not coaching them properly ? ( Phillips and mepham )

I am genuinely worried we could be in a scrap for relegation to league 1. I can't see our away form changing any time soon.

I know we don't really have the money to get rid of Mason . But surely it would be a worse financial undertaking to get relegated to league 1 then to sack Mason .

Disappointed we played really well . And in my view with a more experienced coach ( as I used to say with southgate for england ) I think we do better . I argue we win that game.

Your thoughts on yesterday's game ? fans

- brummie

05/01/2026

Annnnnnnnnnnnd

Back down to earth .

10 straight losses

For time in nearly 100 years

Credit where credit is due we have been the better team since we conceded . And arguably could have scored more .

In the interest of balance and fairness of course our decent performance has to be higlithed and credited

But the headlines will be 10 straight away losses on the bounce

First time in nearly 100 years

And in the bigger picture that is an absolute disgrace

- brummie

05/01/2026

First half

Albion 1 - foxes 1

A tale of two halves of the first half .

Foxes had been superb ironically until they scored .

Since Leicesters goal Albion suddenly remembered how to play football and scored a beautiful break away goal where the assist was just as sublime as the finish .

Hopefully we can continue as we ended the first half and somehow steal a win

- brummie

05/01/2026

It really drives me insane .

Since we have scored we have been superb .

Why can't we start off like this ?

Why does it take the opposition to score for us to suddenly remember how to play football

- brummie

05/01/2026

GOAAAAAAAAAALL

Brilliaint break away move .

Superb pass from mowatt and an excellent finish from grant into the bottom corner

Must have been a a good finish to force Mason into showing emotion 😂.

Well done granty

- brummie

05/01/2026

And so it begins

- brummie

05/01/2026

Fair play to the Albion fans

Loud as ever really hope the Albion give them the best result the traveling fans

- brummie

05/01/2026

It's a miracle Griffiths is in goal.

His finally realized . Took him bloody long enough

- brummie

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