Coveted titles up for grabs include Goal of the summer season, Funniest Chant 2012/13 and Worse Usage of Social Networking.
How ended up being your 2012/13? It has been a season where Albion professed their highest-ever points full, their best-ever finish, nurtured Chelsea's next ideal thing and the year people realised that footballers together with Twitter aren't always painless bedfellows.
Everton at home was named for the best display at a club's recent end-of-season dinner but Southampton away was the minute it all came together don and doff the pitch. Steve Clarke changed his side's formation, switching to your 4-3-3, to exploit Southampton's weak spot.
Let's get this one into position. It's the one topic everyone is actually sick of this year or so: the club's Facebook vote to consider which player's play-list will feature in the pre-match schedule.
There have been completely the odd choices (Youssouf Mulumbu want the Harlem Shake), the truly awful – Mary Foster chose 'It's a Groovy Types of Love' by Phil Collins – to the downright inappropriate such when Romelu Lukaku's hardcore gangster hip hop, with its awkward use of English.
Here's an theory: how about turning the degree down and letting the fans create their own individual atmosphere? It might only just catch on.
It would get too predictable to choose one of Zoltan Gera's long-range initiatives against Liverpool or Sunderland – so I'll go together with Lukaku's effort at Anfield.
It wasn't quite possibly the most elegant goal but the best way he drew the ball away from the defender and your poise of his finishing underlined why Lukaku is only passing through The Hawthorns, rather than permanent fixture.
Yes, you knew this blog was coming. We should have seen the indicators when Peter Odemwingie rattled off a number of angry tweets to that Nigerian football federation.
His two separate Albion-related cluster of Twitterbombs are the sole reason why a lot of Baggies fans want him nowhere near the club. The point of no return has longer since gone. What a shame for many concerned.
There are countless we could point so that you can – Lukaku at Looking through, Yacob in any with his first dozen video game titles – but surely nobody could beat Ben Foster's performance at Liverpool.
The Reds definitely couldn't. A succession of saves as well as a penalty stop were that highlights of another excellent year for any Albion No. 1.
You know you've witnessed some thing special when ex-Barcelona together with Real Madrid man Eric Laudrup describes the first half to be the best 45 minutes he's been with.
Football fans can end up accused of recycling old tunes for new chants but whoever put together the 'Popov' song (to a tune of Popeye Your Sailor Man) deserves to become rewarded with a family-sized might of spinach. Brilliant.
This is directed at the outfitting room sage who picked up a QPR shirt in addition to had Odemwingie's name using a No. 12 printed to the back, before hanging this on his dressing room peg.
Some fans just won't get Chris Brunt. But nobody inside the Albion dressing room embraces the notion of 'taking one to your team' more than him or her.
Signed as a left-winger, Brunt has featured on the right flank and using the centre – all to allow for others. He never complains. And he still has one of the best assists records. As a captain they are respected by all throughout the dressing room.
Consider this. In 2012 Albion displaced their manager, their showing off and technical director and additionally appointed a 'novice' management.
For Clarke to direct Albion to eighth identify, with a club record availablility of Premier League points among the backdrop of examples of the nonsense he's had to deal with has been commendable. He's become bold with team titles, innovative with formations/substitutions at times. They didn't always work - specifically a first-time boss, around his maiden year, it's a damn good effort and hard work.
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