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From a fitness perspective, I get some of the concerns.
Grant started just 17 games last season – fewer than the released Wallace (although he is also four years younger than the skipper).
The 14 games for which Grant was unavailable due to injury this season is more than he’s missed through injury in the previous five years of his Albion career.
At just 28, it’s easy to believe this
West Brom’s punishment late on Friday transformed the complexion of game at The Hawthorns, with the hosts’ status in the second tier back under threat.
And their approach reflected the renewed importance of the fixture, with the Baggies dominating the first-half chances.
A swerving shot from Ousmane Diakite and Dike’s quick thinking, as he pounced on a moment of defensive hesitancy, saw Ipswich goalkeeper Walton tested twice in quick succession.
Josh Maja and Daryl Dike scored as West Bromwich Albion beat Preston North End to extend their unbeaten run to eight games and climb five points clear of the Championship relegation zone.
Interim boss James Morrison has transformed the Baggies, who have taken 12 points during their undefeated run, to put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three.
Maja opened the scoring before Dike sealed the win with his
Bristol City struggled to pose many questions of Albion’s back line in the first half and, in fact, the visitors might have doubled their advantage before the break when Jayson Molumby fired a low drive just wide of Radek Vitek’s post when a long throw-in was only half cleared.
Robins boss Gerhard Struber, clearly bemused by his side’s first-half showing, made a triple substitution at half-time in the hope of
Steve Hermon, BBC Radio WM’s West Bromwich Albion reporter.
James Morrison’s appointment as interim head coach for the rest of the season is aimed at bringing some short‑term stability to The Hawthorns, but the club’s long‑term vision is now partly in the hands of another man in his 30s.
Dominic Price’s arrival as technical director had long been expected.
It was a role Albion hinted at in the summer when
West Bromwich Albion head coach Eric Ramsay told BBC Radio WM:
“Absolutely it’s a game that we should have won and out of the three of the four games that we’ve drawn in the league recently, that’s the one that you’re looking at and feeling like we created good chances in open play.
“We had a lot of territory at the top of the opposition’s box and where we needed
After a scrappy opening period, in which both sides struggled to maintain possession in wintry conditions, Baggies captain Jed Wallace produced the first meaningful effort on goal shortly after the half-hour mark when he carried the ball to the edge of the Stoke penalty area, but his effort trickled past Tommy Simkin’s far post.
The Potters, who are slowly gathering personnel in the midst of an injury crisis in recent
Saturday against West Brom was probably the best that the Fratton Park crowd have seen Pompey play all season. In terms of both performance and result I thought we were excellent.
John Mousinho’s side were at it from the off and consistently kept their levels, our sharpness and energy twinned with an opposition heading very much in the wrong direction meant for only one outcome.
You’d be hard-pressed to find
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Those gloomy financial clouds will hopefully begin to lift as soon as next summer. That’s because that huge loss from two seasons ago will be in the irrelevant distance from an accounting point of view.
Patel, who has covered the club’s significant debts since his arrival, also revealed in his June letter that Albion started the 2024-25 campaign with the highest payroll of any team not receiving parachute payments.
That
