29-12-2016, 22:40
Very much looking forward to this game for plenty of reasons, one of which is that St Mary's is a great away day and I have to take my hat off to the Saints fans and the club in general for making it such a great place to visit. Further to this Saints have even gone one further on the current away ticket price freeze and only charge £20 instead of the £30 that all other clubs agreed on. Great gesture by the club and I hope others follow their lead.
I'd like to think we have the advantage with having had 2 extra days to prepare the players for this one, but Saints are no pushovers and I'd expect they will rotate and still be competitive all over the pitch. The one thing I'm hoping for is that there's not a repeat of the borefest when we played them at home last season.
I also think we need to collectively applaud Tony Pulis for his time here so far as I generally feel what he's achieved in terms of getting us stable and now moving up the league on the budget we've worked on has been quite remarkable, and also not acknowledged as it should be by us fans. We suffered through the "Workin' 'Ard" early days but I can genuinely see progress now - bright future ahead for all Baggies I sincerely hope!
COYB!
I'd like to think we have the advantage with having had 2 extra days to prepare the players for this one, but Saints are no pushovers and I'd expect they will rotate and still be competitive all over the pitch. The one thing I'm hoping for is that there's not a repeat of the borefest when we played them at home last season.
I also think we need to collectively applaud Tony Pulis for his time here so far as I generally feel what he's achieved in terms of getting us stable and now moving up the league on the budget we've worked on has been quite remarkable, and also not acknowledged as it should be by us fans. We suffered through the "Workin' 'Ard" early days but I can genuinely see progress now - bright future ahead for all Baggies I sincerely hope!
COYB!