tony pulis believes joey barton ` probably had a point ' when claiming west bromwich albion 's players 's *** themselves ' during defeat to queens park rangers earlier this season .
in december west brom were two goals up but lost to a charlie austin hat-trick , leading to barton 's scathing judgement and plunging alan irvine to the brink of the sack .
the outspoken midfielder -lrb- right -rrb- was commenting after west brom surrendered a two-goal lead .