[DevilDave]

Albion have run off a few decent results and remain in a promotion spot not far off the top of the table. But the allegations of low morale from Danny Dichio - who has been "thrown to the Lions" - is still bothering me somewhat, especially with Ronnie Wallwork and Lee Marshall wanting to extend their respective loans away from the Hawthorns.

Jason Roberts wanting a permanent move we could understand, but then Dichio and now Wallwork and Marshall are willing to go to clubs lower in the table or in lower divisions in order to get first team football. If that is their priority, so be it. But it just appears, on the outside, to be a rather negative trend. I just hope it doesn't reflect the general mood in the dressing room.

[John Boy]

Sorry Dave haven't checked around here for seemingly too long. There's some responses from Megson about Dichio's comments on morale in the matchday programme, which didn't appear to get picked up by the media (web or paper). I'll try to get them on here tommorow for you.

Boing Boing.

[John Boy]

Only two days late

Finally, as you read these notes, Danny Dichio should have left the club and we wish him all the best in his future career at Millwall. Danny, who had been on loan at the New Den, recently came out with some comments about morale at West Brom which I, and everybody else here, totally refute. The morale is terrific and enabled us to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win with just 20 minutes to go at Bramall Lane, and also enabled us to convert a 1-1 draw into a another 2-1 victory in the final five minutes against Cardiff seven days earlier. I have my own thoughts about what Dichio was trying to achieve and if I am correct, I find it beneath contempt. On our pre-season trip to Denmark last summer, all of the players were told they were there to work on behalf of West Bromwich Albion and that it wasn't a holiday and yet three of them still went out nightclubbing, arriving back at the hotel at 5am. Two of those players have since left the club.

[DevilDave]

Thanks for that quote, John Boy.

This is purely a case of 'he said/he said'. I suspect that morale among the players may have been down a few weeks ago, but things are quite improved more recently.

It's clear that Megson's line, 'I have my own thoughts about what Dichio was trying to achieve' is referring to what appears to be a blatant attempt by Dichio (and earlier Jason Roberts did the same) to attack the psyches of players at the Albion as he moves to a rival First Division club. Simply reprehensible.

Players who have nothing to do with the club anymore should not try to antagonise their previous employers, lest their taunts have the opposite of the desired effect.

So, two of the players who have 'since left the club' treated Denmark as a holiday, did they? Fairly simple to pick out the two.