hypochondriac

Why? He is extremely lucky but he didn't force anyone to give him a contract.

Q1: What were your opinions of your first season back in the Premier League? Very satisfied. We had a terribly difficult start and it took us a while to adjust but we pulled off a few shocks once we got going. Sad to see Adkins go midway through the season but we seemed to become a bit more ruthless. Lost our way a bit towards the end once safety was almost concerned so will be interesting to see how we start and if Pochettino has a plan B if our pressing game fails us. Q2: What are your expectations for the upcoming season At the moment I would expect a mid table finish and would be happy to be safe from relegation for the season. If we do manage to get a striker and maybe a left back and wide man then I would expect something a bit higher (maybe 8th) Q3: What are you expecting from West Brom this season? If I'm honest I would expect you to do worse than last year. Losing Lukaku must be a big blow even if you didn't expect to keep him and lots of other teams have strengthened significantly from last year and your manager may have a touch of the second season syndrome. I think the league in general will be harder so I think West Brom may be lower mid table. Q4: Happy with the clubs transfer business so far Pretty pleased. I'm glad we got the two players we have. Lovren seems pretty good and will definitely be an upgrade in a position which was our weakest area last year. Wanyama looks very exciting and to be honest could easily have signed for a top team. I think he will be very impressive this year. Our most important business this summer has been to sign up all our decent players on long term contracts. We wouldn't have been able to sign anyone as impressive as the likes of Shaw and Schneiderlin. Q5: What other positions need adding to before the close of the transfer window? I'm a bit disappointed we haven't strengthened up front yet (although there is still time) and I don't want us to rely on Danny Fox at left back, especially since Shaw was injured yesterday. In a perfect world I would like a striker, a LB who can play CB if needed and a wide man to compete with Puncheon. I expect we will get a striker though and that will be it. Q6: Favourite memories of games against West Brom? The year in the championship where we drew with you away and stayed up on the last day against Sheffield United. Lallana scoring in the last few minutes was a great highlight and I went mental and bruised my shin. Q7: Worst memories of games against West Brom? Probably last year. We were extremely poor and Lukaku kicked our butt. Q8: The previous game between the sides finished 0-3. What were your opinions on this game? That we were very poor and switched off. Oh and Lukaku is awesome Q9: And finally, score predictions Historically we aren't great on the first day. I reckon 2-2 seems fair. Thank you to those which take part and I wish those traveling to the Hawthorns on Saturday a very safe journey.

I expect the Olympic values have something to do with it. Not that I agree with Fry's call for a boycott anyway.

It's also pretty much ottery and pap on one side and every other poster on the other which sort of tells you something.

I think most people haven't bothered to reply on this thread for a while as it was obvious how it was going to end up. I think any sane person can read it and draw their own conclusions about who is the loony faction.

Made my day. Great news.

It is always worse over the summer and there are always threads complaining at about this time. Glasgow and Barry will become less visible once the season starts and then people can get annoyed at me instead who is an actual fan of the club. IMO Barry and Glasgow should be banned as they do nothing but post WUM comments that mostly have nothing to do with football.

I totally agree.

From POL

And to think some people were wetting themselves just to be linked...

We aren't aiming for tenth.

I think he will do a job but I don't think it really matches with our ambitions of a high finishing position. If either get injured longer term then we have a really problem.

Another CB other than Yoshida. I don't think Fonte and Hoovield were good enough and Yoshida is not good enough imo to be a permanent starter this season.

Can someone put it in the forum suggestions section?

I would love to see this replace the facepalm smiley.

I don't actually mind not signing a striker until the last minute as long as we get someone in. I remember last summer being certain we were going to get a CB and being left disappointed.

Meaning of life innit.

The whole amount is only made available once they have converted the pledge so Erm yes it would.

Grey crabs would be my guess

Really hope we beat palace so we can sing the having a laugh song.

Holloway is a great example of someone who can dish it our but not take it. No sense of humour and basically a complete d*ckhead.

It's his forum USP.

Avenue saint called him a bellend not me.

He might be a bellend but he's our bellend.

No need to be harsh on Nicola I thought it was a well crafted interview asking the questions that people want to hear. Kudos to cortese and to sky.