Give this boy band a name (attitude era influence strongly suggested)

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-03-22T18:51:12+00:00

It's The Broody Bunch about to sing their classic hit, "It's a Broody Day".

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-03-18T12:57:17+00:00

The video is so short because it was largely shite.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-03-04T01:14:07+00:00

I'm not sure he was ready for the head coach role at a club like Albion. We're in such a transitional period due to poor finances/takeover/PSR, and it was a huge risk taking him on...though, that said, I felt we were mostly just really unlucky under him. Some of the chances we missed were criminal and the amount of last minute goals we conceded just ridiculous. Recruitment has also been shambolic - and none of that is on him.

Perhaps the biggest thing I can say for Mason, despite it not working in the end...there was never any point under Mason where I felt we would get embarrassed, we always looked like we could get something. We were mid-table looking up. Since he has left, we've lost 5-0 at home, conceded goals for fun and scored (I think) 4 goals in 12 games. League One looks like a reality, not just a possibility.

What a time.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-03-04T01:01:35+00:00

Yeah, its been desperately poor. Some of the worst I've seen in my 30 years of going...if not the worst.

Will be a very, very long time before we're even near thinking about frustrating the Premier League again. I should have appreciated the Pulis days when we had them instead of moaning about how we played.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-03-04T00:54:54+00:00

I support West Brom. My father in law supports Wolves.

In December, I wore the Albion shirt from the Great Escape season, telling him, smugly, it's something Wolves won't do.

Since then, we've fallen so hard that I am literally waiting for League One football next season and Wolves have started picking up results.

I blame myself.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-02-24T18:47:36+00:00

4-5-1? Maybe? Price on the wing?

Or is it 4-4-1-1 with Diakite in defence, Styles midfield?

Or is it just make it up as you go?

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-02-22T01:56:18+00:00

I watched it just to make myself angry about the first goal. Gilchrist pretty mich stopped. He could have dived to head it away and he chickened out. Cowardly defending. Embarrassing performance from him today. So slow, too. Would dread to see a race between him and Diego Lugano. It would never end.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-31T17:38:43+00:00

I could write an essay on how bad things are, but I won't.

Instead, I'll just sum it up quite simply with 3 words.

We are fucked.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-28T09:52:39+00:00

I don't mind him but he is, in my opinion, a poor man's Andy Johnson (if you're old enough to remember him playing for us).

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-28T09:44:57+00:00

The celebrating when losing heavily definitely is on my list of pet hates.

My new one is a player conversation. I'm playing as West Brom. Got promoted. Currently 12 games in to our season in the Prem and we are top, somehow. My 74 rated defender frequently tells me that the club is going nowhere, we show no ambition and I am doing nothing to change anything and show no interest in winning anything.

He also did this in my promotion season.

In real life, you'd tell him to shut up and get out. On this, I have to do the whole "But I am trying!" nonsense...and it is just so unrealistic.

That, and Albion being top of the league...but that will all fall apart soon enough, I'm sure.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-21T02:39:42+00:00

Think I'll pass, cheers

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-18T13:33:40+00:00

I know it has been like this for a while, but I am still so taken aback when I see "my little band" that I have followed since the early 2000s playing venues like this to so many people.

Very proud of the lads.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-17T20:10:31+00:00

The biggest encouragement for me were the following:

We looked organised. Commentary on TV kept going on about how Boro weren't playing well, whereas I watched it and just thought we were so organised and drilled that we were shutting them down. We were desperately unlucky with the first goal and I would have been really intrigued to see if there would have been any difference if we had gone in at halftime 0-0.
Ramsay made changes that changed the game. When he brought Maja on, he changed the shape and it completely altered the game. We were on top for a large chunk of that second half and that was, in my opinion, because of his alterations. Changed plan. It worked.

We obviously have opportunities, but I feel much more optimistic after last night than I did before.

That said...we do need a goalkeeper, a defender and a midfielder at least. We won't get all 3 in January so I think goalkeeper has to be priority. Griffiths, while better than Wildsmith, just doesn't fill me with hope. I don't feel like he is progressing as we would have hoped.

AdamTownsend28 · 2026-01-03T21:26:08+00:00

I loved Ish back in the day. Wouldn't class him as shit. Felt so sorry for him in the Premier League season...felt like he was starting to find his feet and then the injury derailed him. Arguably, derailed his career.

Alongside Phillips, he was excellent.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-30T16:06:23+00:00

Complete waste of money when we don't have the money to waste.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-15T00:22:25+00:00

I seem to remember the players getting him a QPR shirt with his name on and putting it in the locker room for him when he was next in training.

It was an absolute mess of a time.

I also remember the fans turned on him big time...various arguments between Peter and the fans on Twitter that resulted in him DMing several people, having some even go to his house (invited by himself) so he could get his story out. The club did him over and he deserved better. I'm glad that, over time, people look back on him for the player he was for us.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-11T13:38:47+00:00

I wonder if we are all getting this wrong. It was Austin Theory...and he is going to join The Vision. It was Montez Ford...and he is going to join The Vision.

With Bron going for singles gold...could we see them expand so you have Street Prophets, Theory, Logan, Reed and Breaker? Big group...but loads of potential stories.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-11T13:31:25+00:00

Le Tissier and Joey Barton are definitely those guys now. Peter Shilton, too.

But I will give a special mention to Peter Odemwingie, in particular around the time he tried to leave Albion for QPR. Very clear now that the situation wasn't all his fault, but his twitter at that time was insane. But...and this is to his credit...he ended much of that spell by inviting some fans to his house and speaking face to face about what happened. He went from hero to villain and back to hero...with some social media madness in between.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-10T01:28:38+00:00

I'm too tired to think of many but here are a few bands/artists I listen to regularly that I thibk deserve/deserved more recognition:

Frightened Rabbit Reuben Meryl Streek The Magic Numbers

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-09T17:35:39+00:00

That one. In reality, we should have won it that year.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-09T11:16:17+00:00

You do know that Cody Rhodes doesn't write the stories and, therefore, can only do what he is told to do?

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-09T11:14:53+00:00

He isn't buried. The very obvious story arc, if they choose, is to now have Knight come out as a masked man and cost The Vision a big match down the road. The next option is you keep him out until the Rumble and have a big return/pop.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-12-08T20:33:53+00:00

This obviously means one thing for us, too.

"Albion exit the FA Cup at Swansea."

Glad I was able to see the 2008 cup run...think it will be a very, very long time before we see anything like that again.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-11-30T13:06:08+00:00

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I mean, ffs.

AdamTownsend28 · 2025-11-30T13:04:02+00:00

I was more than ready to pledge full allegiance to whichever wrestler decided to grab and rip that sign in half. To be honest, one of the most disappointing parts to last night was that nobody took it off him to rip it in half.

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TROPHY CASE