Albion Outlook: West Brom fans have their say after fifth straight defeat leaves Alan Pardew on the brink

Tom Goffe

After picking up four points off Brighton and Everton and then knocking Liverpool out of the FA Cup, I honestly thought we would push on.

We were playing well and the squad was showing some fight.

However, five defeats later, it seems all is lost and that the club is heading in one direction and one direction only, down!

Pardew, for me, has been hung out to dry by the players. The majority blatantly don’t care if the club goes down and are obviously confident of being ‘snapped up’ if we did. I’m not saying he’s faultless.

He hasn’t been brave enough in his team selections in games we had to win and he’s been reluctant to drop certain players even though they are underperforming.

However, the majority of the players’ attitudes have been appalling of late and made Pardew’s job a hell of a lot more difficult than it already was.

For me the end of the season can’t come quick enough, which is a depressing thing to say when there is still 10 games left. A fresh approach in the post-season is desperately needed.

Alan Foster

If anyone was in doubt about the total lack of tactical knowledge that Alan Pardew has, we need look no further than Saturday’s game against Huddersfield. Again he persisted with two in the centre of midfield who were totally overrun for the fourth game in a row with everyone in the crowd with an ounce of knowledge could see.

It feels like the people who run our club are like the orchestra sitting playing their instruments on top of the Titanic waiting for it to sink and giving Pardew another game, they have blew another hole in the side just to make sure it does.

I can see no sense at all in leaving him in charge and wasting another game with time running out, that said I have absolutely no confidence that they could get the right man for the job with the decisions that are being made at the moment.

I can only hope the reason for the delay is they have taken time to get the next manager in before sacking the existing one, so he can finish the season off and gain a valuable valuation of the playing staff. My suggestion would be Nigel Pearson, a tough manager who won promotion with Leicester City.

Sarah Rudge

All we asked for was a little respite. Just some crumb of comfort to give ourselves a chance of avoiding relegation.

On paper, newly promoted Huddersfield at home provided a great opportunity to close the gap on the teams above us. Man for man, I think most people would agree that we have the better squad and better quality players.

However, on Saturday most of our players just simply didn’t turn up. As fans, we can accept being beaten by the better team or losing to a moment of brilliance – that happens.

What we can’t accept is losing to a team that cares more. Losing to a team that gave more effort and showed the fight and determination needed to wrestle yourselves out of the relegation mire.

Only Brunt, Foster and Rondon seemed to show an ounce of pride wearing the Albion shirt. Details have been leaked of the frustration from Brunt shown in the dressing room after the game which has been lauded by many supporters.

Tension between players and staff is never welcomed but if the rest of the players were as honoured to play for West Brom as Chris Brunt we wouldn’t be in this position.

Shaun Harrison

The defeat at home to Huddersfield offered more in the way of conclusion than hope.

If anyone was in doubt beforehand it’s fairly clear now that there are a number of Albion players who just don’t have the heart.

Dropped shoulders, faces turned away, eyes grounded, no-one showed any fight and spirit except for Mr Brunt who once again was perched on the bench for most of the game, a decision manager Pardew must explain.

Give the kids a run out if the senior players haven’t got the stomach for it, they can’t do any worse could they? Where is Sam Field?

This is a truly sorry state of a great club. It’s still possible we could produce a run from now but highly unlikely, so where now?

Do we wimper out and look for another manager, of course not, we get behind Pardew, we roar louder than we ever have, we bang the drum harder, we attack, and maybe just maybe the players might just get it. Blood, sweat and tears form part of the Albion strip they wear each match. It’s not over yet, although there’s a distant sound of a large lady singing...

Paul Chappell

Another game, another abject performance, another defeat, another nail in our coffin. I'll be honest, I can't wait for this season to be over.

The poisonous nature of our previous manager and what that has done to our fan base and players unfortunately looks like being too strong for us to recover from.

Add to this the ridiculous appointment of a serial failure who amazingly has managed to do a worse job and you have a recipe for disaster.

Make no bones about it, we deserve to go down. On paper we have a good enough team for a mid-table finish however the continual refusal to address the obvious failures within the squad over a period of three or four years has eventually, as we all suspected, caught us up.

The annoying thing is that the people most responsible for this will either be enjoying their new signing-on fees as they jump ship or be oblivious to how much this affects the club's dedicated following.

We are falling fast and unless we do something, and quick, I feel this relegation might not be the end of the bad times that are coming.