An excellent performance from the Baggies did not result in the three points it deserved but Steve Bruce’s have negotiated two very difficult opening fixtures against sides expected to be challenging at the end of the season and remain unbeaten. The last time that an Albion side opened a league campaign with two draws was under Alan Irvine in 2014…
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Steve Bruce’s team kicked off the new season with a creditable 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough thanks to a debut goal from John Swift. It is the third time in successive Championship seasons that the Baggies have started their campaign away from the Hawthorns and they have earned at least a point on each occasion. The last time Albion lost an…
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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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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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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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Albion’s biggest defeat of the season has surely now ended any faint hopes that they retained of making the top six. Everything went wrong for Steve Bruce’s team in the first half, not all of them self-inflicted, but the game was over as a contest when Colback’s attempted cross flew into the net. Furlong’s red card was Albion’s seventh of…
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