Ally Robertson: Some things are better left unsaid, James...

Sometimes what you think, you can’t say.

As a supporter, seeing James’s comments, knowing the players are getting paid big money, it really does not sit well.

The 29-year-old winger insisted ‘a lot of people’ will be looking to leave if the ‘inevitable’ happens – the Baggies dropping out of the Premier League.

And they would be doing so as you ‘have to look after yourself first and foremost’, while also looking after their families. He also urged fans not to label those who may end up going as ‘snakes’ who have taken Albion for a ride.

Of course you have to look after your family, but you look after them by giving your all for your team, for your club – giving your best in your job.

For the majority of this season, those players have massively underperformed – only picked up and started to show what they are made of after two managers have gone.

And a few fair Baggies fans have made the point to me since James made those comments that he cost the team several points with mistakes, late fouls, in games earlier on in the season.

It is probably the best squad – and best-paid squad – we have had, but where has that got us?

What we have seen in the past four games, that is what we should have seen over the past six months.

James says everyone wants to play Premier League but with how they have performed, in the main, there will not be loads of top flight clubs eager to snap these players up.

Hopefully one of the lads has pulled him aside and had a word with him as that is what would have happened in our dressing room.

Going back to my playing days, I was a defender and got paid half the money that other players were paid – that is part and parcel of life.

I would have loved to be a higher-earning forward player but I wasn’t good enough for that, and that’s fine.

What was great for me is the club paid me good wages, and I would have died for that club.

When you get on the pitch, you should forget everything else – you show commitment to the cause.

Professionals like Ben Foster and Chris Brunt have come out and said they are happy to stay as they realise they have a debt to repay the supporters for what, on the whole, has been an awful season.