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Mediocre opinions mostly about the baggies.

[OHwba @OHwba]

We’ve been fortunate to have some good goalkeepers at the club for the last decade… and funny enough our decline has coincided with the last one leaving.

Nothing against O’Leary but giving Bristols backup keeper a 3yr deal as our #1 shows exactly where we are as a club #wba

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Okay now that they’ve spent three years selling their best players give them a points deduction and change the rules #wba #efl

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@Tgarratt10 Agree overall but where’s the line drawn? I’m a baggie but geographically Walsall have always been closer currently my local team would be Stafford Rangers… dunno where you’re from but guessing Halesowen or Kiddie might be closer. They could all easily call us glory hunters…

[David Piesing @DavidPiesing63]

@RobDorsettSky @JPercyTelegraph @GoldbergRadio @BuzagloToBalis @AliJones9 Hang on - the club had to borrow money BECAUSE Lai had literally stolen (I use that term without hesitation) money from the club with the Wisdom Smart “loan” that was made unlawfully by his stooge (then sole director of the club), Ke Xu, in blatant breach of his fiduciary duty to only act in the best interests of the company (being the football club) which that “loan” made to Wisdom Smart very clearly was not!

I sent several emails to Ke Xu about this (I have copies), pointing out his blatant breach of fiduciary duty and demanding to know as a shareholder what he was doing to enforce repayment from Wisdom Smart. Every email was totally ignored. I also sent emails about it to the club’s auditors, Azets (I still have copies) who were obviously very interested. Crucially I sent an email to Rick Parry (Chairman) and Trevor Birch (Chief Executive Officer) of the EFL on 20th January 2023 about Lai’s “loan”, which led to two video calls with their “very interested” colleagues Mark Rowan (Chief Communications Officer) and Nick Craig (Chief Operating Officer) in May 2023 about all the shenanigans. I made them aware of facts regarding the Chinese ultimate beneficial ownership of the club which neither they nor the Premier League (who originally approved Lai as “fit and proper”) knew nothing about. Because of those illegal acts by Xu, as Lai’s puppet, money unlawfully disappeared from the club, leaving it days away from going into administration.

If the club may potentially now suffer a points deduction some 3 years later directly because of the club having no option but to pay interest on expensive MSD loans taken out by Lai to literally keep the club in existence because he was unable to repay his own unlawful Wisdom Smart “loan”, then this would be a disgraceful gross injustice by the EFL and must be fully exposed and challenged. No sane person would deem that to a breach worthy of a points deduction. The EFL was made fully aware of the situation regarding that Wisdom Smart loan and if they cannot now locate their emails to refer to, I do still have them all.

The EFL has had an absolute stinker here on multiple fronts (as did the Premier League before them) and they need to recognise that and immediately dismiss any charge against the club.

[OHwba @OHwba]

That back four is criminal, mozza working with absolute scraps.

If we keep a clean sheet give him the job in league one #wba

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Is there genuinely a single non financial reason to keep him at this point? #wba

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@TheRainbowStand Put this together last night it’s rough

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A list of teams (I think) that have dropped from the prem to league 1 since 2010.

I now really think #wba will be next.

Two takeaways:

No one’s too big to go down

The dream of an instant bounce back and reset is exactly that… a dream. 58% of teams are stuck in league 1.

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@22Baggie99 @JonD09 @BurgerSight Side note - Cov 3-1 up against boro. We’re gonna get pumped on the weekend 😂

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@22Baggie99 @JonD09 @BurgerSight Start of the year lots of fans including myself & self proclaimed YouTube pundits had our squad as top 8. That team hasn’t changed.

If that’s the case then a good chunk of this squad is good enough for at least top 12.

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@22Baggie99 @JonD09 @BurgerSight Ajayi and Taylor walked into teams and had loads of success. Our club is just poison at the moment mate.

If Grant and Maja stay in the league I’d happily put money on them having 20 goal involvements between them. They’ve got 5 for us so far.

[OHwba @OHwba]

@22Baggie99 @JonD09 @BurgerSight Grant & Maja will be playing champ football next year (Maja maybe abroad) and look significantly better whilst doing so. Mepham was in a promotion defence last year and would play solid minutes elsewhere. Phillips and Dike more uncertain about but would get minutes. It’s a joke.

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@JonD09 @BurgerSight The squad thing don’t wash with me. Think 70% of our squad start for a lot of teams in this league.

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Unusually pessimistic about that tonight… there was tonnes of positives but just have no idea where our next goal let alone win is gonna come from #wba

[OHwba @OHwba]

Max O’Leary and Charlie Taylor who’d have thought 😂 #wba

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@EPLBible Issue is if a random third team lose out on CL football cuz city have +1GD then this decision is wrong and becomes huge. Game has well and truly gone!

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The club have actually got blood on their hands… why am i absolutely bricking it every time I check the Charlton score #wba

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@Elliottina86 @Andyjoneswrites @BaggieFans @leboufdebrief Can’t even remember how this started tbh mate, cuz I agree SIJ was pony and Bostock should have had more of a chance by now. Don’t think it’s exactly what we need but hopefully these new young lads offer something as well.

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@Elliottina86 @Andyjoneswrites @BaggieFans @leboufdebrief Sometimes professionals are completely wrong (Bruce with Palmer and Button) but a lot of pros have looked at SIJ and Bostock train and decided to go with SIJ. We won’t know until we see him play but it’s likely SIJ is currently a better player than Bostock.

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@Andyjoneswrites @Elliottina86 @BaggieFans @leboufdebrief I just think as a general the youth are overrated pretty much everywhere you go, he might have been slightly better than SIJ but don’t think he moves the needle enough to change anything.

Hopefully I’m wrong and he helps keep us up who knows…

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@Andyjoneswrites @Elliottina86 @BaggieFans @leboufdebrief Yeah I’ll concede that, I think mason made plenty of mistakes and there was a period where we scored 6 goals in 10 games and looked blunt as anything. The fact he didn’t get a sniff in that period especially after his relatively bright cameo at Millwall is poor.