Jed Wallace slams his West Brom teammates after missing out on Championship playoffs

Jed Wallace slams his West Brom teammates after missing out on making the Championship playoffs, speaking after the draw at Cardiff.

The Baggies club captain expressed strong disappointment after the team failed to secure a spot in the 2024/25 playoffs, calling it “unacceptable” for a club of their stature.

West Brom, who were in 6th when Tony Mowbray replaced Carlos Corberan in January, won only five of 18 games under Mowbray, leading to his sacking.

With a maximum possible 64 points, West Brom will finish no higher than 9th, their worst Championship points tally since 1999-2000.

Wallace’s comments echo fan frustration, with some, like Express & Star’s Jonny Drury, noting they felt like “deja-vu” from previous seasons’ shortcomings.

Albion captain Jed Wallace says the players have to take responsibility for failing to reach the Championship play-offs.

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Speaking to BBC WM, after their goalless draw against relegated Cardiff, he said: ‘It’s been massively disappointing. That’s our first clean sheet since QPR at home (March 8) which tells its own story. At times like this when it hasn’t gone well you need to look at yourself. The easy thing is to blame other people.

‘I think as a group of players, individually, we need to look at ourselves and ask how many have had a good season? Because I know I certainly haven’t.

‘The benchmark for everyone is to play as many minutes as you can. I’ve started five or six games, been injured, and when I’ve played I’ve not played anywhere near well enough on the whole.

‘It’s the time to look at yourself. I think three or four people have had good seasons by our standards because I believe there’s a lot of good footballers in there.

‘But unfortunately for whatever reason we haven’t shown it enough individually or collectively, which is massively disappointing because we should certainly be doing better than we have this season.’

Wallace also shared his frustrations after the sacking of Tony Mowbrady, who spent just three months in charge.

‘The players have to take responsibility. We’ve not been good enough. You’ve got to look at yourself. Have you done the right things day in, day out?

‘Tony Mowbray is a great, great man. I only had the pleasure to work with him a short time, I was injured for a large part of his period.

‘​​He’s very well respected in the dressing room as a manager. We know football is a ruthless game. You look at the goal tally between the front players with the quality we have, not keeping a clean sheet for however many games. It’s disappointing.’

Fans recall Jed Wallace saying similar comments back in April 2023: “We had a massive opportunity over the weekend to make a dent on where we want to get to and, for lack of a better saying, we’ve bottled it to be honest as a group of players.

“We’ve shown such good character to fight and claw ourselves into a good position after our start to the season and I don’t think anyone can say they played well over the last couple of games.

“We’ve let ourselves down and the supporters down with our performances over the last two games.”

This is how fans reacted on social media as Jed Wallace slams his West Brom teammates after missing out on Championship playoffs…

@DarrenGuest7: Jed you are part of the problem, no offence, you ain’t good enough to get outta this league, your attitude is poor, showed that in the video you did regarding Carlos! We all need a clean slate and start from the bottom, do the right thing and move on

@MartinTully_: A good club captain would’ve got clips of Furlong & Bartley & their defensive ‘efforts’ over Easter games. Also the 20 seconds of pinball at Cardiff where Heggem throws his body on the line & Bartley just stands around. He’d have dished out a bollocking based on that. Jed didnt

@GamerSocially: Strange one with WBA this season. I’d say they’re the best team we played at Turf Moor, possibly tied with Middlesbrough. I thought they would easily make the PO’s on the evidence of what I saw that night.

@musicmonkey1966: Another head coach/manager thrown under the bus by this squad of seral bottlers. When there’s something to play for, they don’t show up. Been the same for years. Mass clearout needed

@Lukey_Stan13: Cheers Jed, maybe should’ve kept the ketchup ban 🚫

@martin1evans: So they should, continually rolled over for years when it’s needed and let us down, they let down a good man in TM and more importantly they let the fans down 🤬 we have far to many weak characters in our club, need all the back room gone and half the playing squad as a minimum

@MStephens1977: They should, but in a Morgan Freeman voice “they won’t” they rock up is mega expensive cars on ridiculous wages and give performances like that every week. If anyone in the crowd gave the same productivity at work they’d be sacked

@Wbafcleigh11: Will openly admit they’ve been shit, and underperformed, now if u really meant it you’d have all clubbed together and paid for the coach’s down to Cardiff or something like that 😴 #wba

@NostalgicBaggie: Always liked Jed – says it how it is pulls no punches. Always gives 110% and I’ll never knock a player for that. Good on him! 👏

@jimmythewhack: Rate him or not you have to admit he’s come across as honest as he can be. Fair play to him. He doesn’t go hiding from this. #wba

@Ryan91823: It’s boring now isn’t it. We’re better at putting out statements than what we are, creating, scoring, winning games.

@Rollsie7: More statements than goals and assists. In the bin you go mate

@Albion316: Empty, meaningless words. People will lap it up as “ pashunnn” but we hear it every season. Group of failures who can’t handle any bit of pressure #wba

@SamSmithBaggies: So so easy to say now. Actions speak louder than words. He’s useless like most of the team. Embarrassing he’s our captain #wba

@DexWBA__: Bang on. To be fair to Jed he isn’t the best of footballers but he always gives 100% when he plays and that’s all we ask, unlike the other lazy bastards in the team. #wba

@Etwhite91: Didn’t he come out and see something like this 2 years ago when we missed out on the play offs, less talk more on fight on the pitch please #wba

@LiamWBAFC: Jed is absolutely bang on. I have no issue with Wallace – yes, his legs have gone and he’s not the player he once was, but his effort is never in question. The others for that matter…