Albion Outlook: West Brom fans have their say

Tom Goffe

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse! Rooted to the bottom of the division cut adrift from everybody else, evident rifts between the owner and those running the club and senior members of the playing squad seemingly auditioning for an episode of ‘Brits Behaving Badly Abroad’.

It’s an absolute shambles and turned the club into a complete laughing stock. It’s also, in my opinion, now turned Pardew’s position into one that’s simply untenable. I personally cannot wait for this season to be over and done with.

It’s clearly evident that a major purge is needed within the club, regardless of what division we are in.

An overhaul of the players, coaching staff and those in player recruitment is vital in order to get this club ‘back on track’.

The club has been stagnating for some time now and it looks like this season we will get finally get our just desserts for what’s been a series of underwhelming managerial appointments and poor dealings in the transfer windows, arguably since Roy Hodgson was in charge.

A few weeks ago I claimed how proud I was to be an Albion fan after the brilliant Cyrille Regis tribute that was put on prior to the Southampton game. Well currently I’m utterly embarrassed to be one.

Lee Smith

I was prepared to give Alan Pardew a chance but I’ve finally lost my patience.

We didn’t get the new manager ‘bounce’ after his appointment and events of last week in Spain just tell me the players don’t have much respect for him.

Furthermore, we’ve lost to a poor Southampton team twice at home in the last two weeks.

Tactically we’re short and psychologically we’re just not competing.

For us to have any chance of staying in the Premier League we need to win five or six games out of the remaining 11.

This is a team that has only managed to win three out of 27 to date. The chances of accomplishing this mission are slim and certainly not with Pardew at the helm. That’s why I would move to relieve Pardew of his duties and bring in Gary Megson until the end of the season.

At this point we’ve got nothing lose and at least Gary will instil some fight and discipline into the team. I wouldn’t promise Megson anything, unless he kept us up of course, but just ask him to see the season out. I think it’s a move that would endear Lai to the fans and would at least give us a team and head coach to get behind. With Pardew, I’m not sure when the next win is coming.

Sarah Rudge

Just 12 months ago after 27 games we had reached the 40 point safety mark and were challenging for a European place. Fast forward to now and we are languishing at the bottom of the table with just 20 points and with the club quite frankly in disarray.

We thought the chaos couldn’t get any worse with the sacking of Goodman and Williams last week combined with our poor form in the league, but the situation which unfolded on last weeks trip to Barcelona was utterly embarrassing.

Despite the events of this season the fans have stuck by the team and turned out in their numbers to support the players but we were repaid with totally disrespectful behaviour.

Evans, Barry, Livermore and Myhill revealed themselves as the culprits of ‘taxigate’ with many supporters bewildered by the announcement. After the season we’ve had to endure us fans deserve so much better.

Alan Foster

I am still in a state of shock and disbelief when I look at the mess our club is in at the moment and find it hard to believe how far the club as slumped in such a short space of time.

I think with such an experienced group of players only a manager with a tough demeanour, such as Pulis would be able to manage them. But I cannot believe the four players who were involved in Spain, they are all experienced internationals and as well as letting themselves down, they have showed how little respect they hold for the current manager and in my opinion it as left Alan Pardew in a position that will be terminal.

At this moment I cannot see where the next win will come from let alone the five or six we need. As I have previously stated, and the last few days have confirmed my fears, the appointment of Alan Pardew was a complete mismatch for him and our squad of players.

In my opinion we must get rid of him and start preparing for the championship with a manager with a bit of vision and bring some badly needed youth into our squad.

Conrad Chircop

The loss of the CEO and Chairman, a football management team that is unable to install structure and discipline, and poor leadership qualities by a couple of our most senior players.

It has been effectively a fracas packed in a single week, sandwiched between notable league and cup setbacks.

Whatever the future may hold, drastic changes will need to be made come summer. This may include a change in Technical Director (Hammond has hardly impressed in this aspect), and in the football management team.

It should definitely include the 'taxi 4' whose insensitive and irresponsible escapade at such a crucial stage of the season has attracted considerable bad press.

It doesn't take much to realise that Pardew is increasingly becoming a periphery figure in a game dictated by senior footballers, their agents, and a club ownership based on making most of PL membership's financial benefits.

Last week's incident clearly flagged the notion that Pardew has lost the respect of part of his squad.

Results on the field have not helped either; 8 points from 13 games, including 4 defeats against fellow struggling teams, hardly compensate for Pardew's honesty and a footballing style that is pleasing to the eye.

While the club will apparently give him a two game lifeline, time is key in an increasingly steep relegation battle.

Our fixture list points to only 3 games against the top 6 from our final 11 game run in.

The decision whether to pull the trigger again, or rather when, will dictate our mid-term future.