When Steve Bruce was appointed as Valérien Ismaël’s successor in February, Albion were in fifth place, still in contention for the play-offs, but on a firm downward spiral. I felt that it was a sensible appointment given Bruce’s experience of winning promotion in the second tier, albeit uninspiring. Unfortunately, he was unable to arrest the Baggies’ slide and soon realised…
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The season’s end sees Albion finish in 10th place in the Championship, the club’s lowest league finish since the 1999/2000 season. The last time the club finished in 10th spot in the second tier was in the 1997/98 season, a campaign that started well under Ray Harford before he walked out on the club to join QPR when the Baggies…
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Albion’s worst season for 22 years will finally come to an end on Saturday with the visit of bottom club, Barnsley, to the Hawthorns. The Baggies have finished as one of the top 24 clubs in the country for the last two decades but the highest they will finish this campaign is 9th in the Championship should they win and…
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Karlan Grant’s sixteenth goal of the season earned the Baggies their first victory on the road since the same player grabbed a brace at Hull City in early March. It means Albion will finish the season with six away wins and just 23 points away from home, only three more than the 20 points they earned on the road in…
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With Albion now mathematically unable to reach the play-offs and Reading mathematically safe, this Saturday’s fixture at the Madejski Stadium, or the Select Car Leasing Stadium is the sponsors would like us to call it, is very much a dead rubber for the teams as a whole, but some of the players may have something to play for. The Express…
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Karlan Grant’s penalty miss meant that Saturday’s match finished as the sixth goalless draw of the season, the first time that Albion have had six goalless draws in a league campaign since 1999/2000. The last time they have more than six was in 1988/89 when they had eight including both local derbies with Walsall. It also means that Albion have…
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