The title of this update is no mistake – Albion’s promotion challenge is now over. A second home defeat of the season leaves the Baggies some eight points shy of the top six with twelve games remaining. Not insurmountable in itself, but when you take into account the fact that there are another six clubs between Albion and sixth spot,…
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With eight of the remaining thirteen games at the Hawthorns, it is clear that Albion’s home form will be the key if they are to get back in the mix for a top six place this season. The Baggies dreadful recent form, which has seen them take just nine points from their last twelve matches, has left them eight points…
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Middlesbrough 2 West Brom 1 Just like the palindromic ambigramic date, Albion’s predicament looks the same whichever way you look at it. The Baggies may have avoided setting a new club record of six games without a goal thanks to Jayson Molumby’s first goal for the club, but a sixth successive defeat leaves them floundering in midtable with little sign…
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After almost eight hours of football without a goal, Albion finally scored but they were unable to hold on and fell to an eighth defeat in eleven games in all competitions to leave them still six points off the table and some nine points worse off than any other second tier Baggies team since 1999/2000. It is Albion’s tenth away…
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Steve Bruce pulled no punches in his assessment of his team’s second half performance at Kenilworth Road on Saturday and has made it clear that he is looking for a reaction as Albion take on Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday evening. The travelling fans may be looking enviously at the opposition bench where the manager that Albion should…
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Luton Town 2 West Brom 0 Steve Bruce described Albion’s second half performance at Kenilworth Road as “unacceptable” – while some of the words I heard in the away end were a little stronger. It was a second half capitulation that will have left most observers with the feeling that there is little chance that the Baggies can finish in…
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