Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox give their reaction to Albion's latest draw at Preston.
Karlan Grant gave Albion an early lead as he finished off a sweeping move, before Preston got back in th e game early in the second period.
Albion never really looked like finding a winner and they were booed off by a section of the fanbase.
Lewis and Jonny talk about the growing frustrations and who has to take the blame for the latest draw.
Karlan Grant gave Albion an early lead as he finished off a sweeping move, before Preston got back in th e game early in the second period.
Albion never really looked like finding a winner and they were booed off by a section of the fanbase.
Lewis and Jonny talk about the growing frustrations and who has to take the blame for the latest draw.
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00:00Hello Baggies fans, welcome to ExpressAndStart.com. We've watched another draw, we could have
00:14predicted that, couldn't we? Albin have drawn yet again. I've lost Kane, mate.
00:18Ten.
00:19Nine and ten.
00:20I knew you'd have the stats, mate. Frustrating, frustrating. Lewis, is that on the paper?
00:29Lewis, is that on the players or is that on Carlos Corbijn because there was a few boos
00:32in that way, wasn't there?
00:33You know it's serious when you call me Lewis, I'm not cocky.
00:35Not cocky, yeah.
00:36You phoned me there.
00:37Only my mum calls me Lewis.
00:38Yeah, your mum will be happy with that because I know she doesn't like me calling her cocky.
00:42Yeah, tough day, Johnny, really, really tough. Of this run, and maybe it's an obvious thing
00:48to say now, the run's extended so far, but probably the toughest day, game of this run
00:53I think. On paper, this was one where Albin needed to get back on the horse. He took a
01:01length about Tuesday being quite a welcome and valuable point for several reasons. This,
01:06look, Preston now wins this in nine. For bits of that first half, you could see why Preston
01:11are down there, they're up to four-side to me. Changed it around at the break, made changes,
01:17they worked, credit to Preston, fair play, but Albin just didn't get out of bed in that
01:20second half, did they? Did not turn up. That's the worry for me. Preston made the tactical
01:26change and it really helped them, I thought, get to grips with the game. I think Albin
01:32lacked energy and any basics really at the start of that second half, but there was no
01:37changes to counter it until the middle part of the second half where the head coach made
01:41a couple of changes. Albin had started the second period with a back three, back five,
01:47they made that change then and they just couldn't get to grips with it. They were sort
01:50of blown away at the start of that second half and Preston obviously got the equaliser,
01:54knocked the stuffing out of Albin a bit more, I'd say. He didn't really rally at all, really,
01:59until maybe about 20 minutes to go when it became a bit more of an open game, Jonny,
02:02but at 1-1, can you think of a serious chance for that second Albion goal in front of your
02:09head? Probably only the quick pass from Madrid and the Molumbi chance, but...
02:11Yeah, sorry, of course, that was a moment.
02:14Just talk about the difference in the first half. I was furious at the start of that second
02:20half because for me it looked like Albin might have had a directive to come out, sit in and
02:24defend and if they did do that, I kind of, on one hand, get it because Albin are unbelievably
02:29good at defending, but you can't be for 45 minutes. Was that the case or what have you
02:34gauged from Carlos Corbijn? Was it the player's inability to maybe get on the front foot in
02:39that second half and see out those waves that Preston attacked or, you know...
02:44Look, Corbijn's changed it at half-time too, like I said. Back three, back five, wing-backs.
02:50The Albion changes did not work to counter Preston. Preston probably got a rollicking
02:56at the break, didn't they, from Heckingbottom? You'd have thought they were seriously bad
02:59in that first half. And Preston have come out on the front foot, had a couple of moments
03:02straight away and let's be honest, they should have equalised before the goal. Look, Jonny,
03:08to be honest, no, I don't believe the directive is come out and defend second half. No, there'll
03:12be those watching that saying, well, he set them up, back five, wing-backs second half
03:17and that is a defensive move. Maybe. I mean, you've got more defenders, but that could
03:24be countered. The instruction could be, and he's not said this, and we said it in the
03:28first half to a point, use the counter-attacks well and they used the counter-attack very
03:34well for a goal. Transitions, as Corbijn said, real, really, really down day, Jonny,
03:41really, real struggle. Last two or more before we finish off, and it's a fan, so where does
03:48the next one come from? Yeah, well, games are not particularly easy, are they, coming
03:52up Sheffield and then Cove in that mid-week. Watford. Yeah, look, the post-match interview,
04:01Corbijn, I've just put this on social media, Corbijn looked like he was hurting to me.
04:04Yeah, this is very clearly the toughest spell of his period. What is it, one win in 12 now,
04:13nine draws in 10. The next draw, sorry, the next win, not the next draw, the next win
04:19has to come. You know when the next draw comes. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah. Look. It's a banker.
04:26You know, they're getting tougher, do they, Sheffield? They won last night, didn't they,
04:29at the top of the charts, probably. I haven't looked that high on the table, really, for
04:35a while. The next win has to come soon. There's no beating around the bush here. You mentioned
04:39at the top of the vid, the reaction of the away end to the late sub. You know, we need
04:43to speak about that, and at full-time as well. So for those who haven't seen it or were not
04:48here, sections of the away end, I would say quite a big part of the away end. I'd say
04:53the whole away end probably, big magic going off. Yeah, magic going off, and it was Wallace
04:57and Swift that came on for whoever else went off. I can't remember, Rackage maybe, whoever
05:02else went off. But yeah, I get it. The top scorer has gone off. This is a game they should
05:09be trying to win, especially late on. I get it. Corban, his addict put it to him there.
05:16He says he gets the frustration, but he says he has to make what he sees is the best decision
05:21with presumably what he's seeing and the information he has. There are nuances, aren't there? Look,
05:26Josh Madger's been Alvin's only striker this season. By and large, Grant has played. There's
05:31Devante Cole, who hasn't played. But Madger, for example, has had to play every minute
05:35of every game. I'm just using this as a possible reason. Madger can't be flogged all game,
05:40every game. I want to see Madger on all game, every game, and he's almost Alvin's only outlet
05:46of scoring, isn't he? Obviously Grant scored today, but you know what I mean. So at some
05:50points he's going to have a breather, but obviously at the end of a game, Alvin want
05:54to win. Doesn't look or feel like the right time, does it? I know there's similar murmurs
05:59sort of when Fellows went off maybe 10 minutes before that. Again, Fellows did 90 minutes
06:04at Sunderland, but there's no sort of dressing up or hiding the boos at full time. They were
06:11quite... You'd gone down by that point. I'd need to go and speak to fans. You'd have interviewed,
06:15but you'd have heard the boos at full time, I'm sure, from behind that away end. It feels
06:23like the most sort of vociferous and the loudest that the jeers have been so far, through core
06:28brands two years really, and a lot of frustration in there, a lot of wondering what next, where's
06:34the next win coming from. It's hard to answer that, I don't know. Need to win at home, don't
06:39they? Try. I'm not getting tired of coxing, I'm getting tired of draws, me yawning. Yeah,
06:45so yeah, the sounds from the away end says it all, reaction on social media, fans online.
06:52I sometimes take that as a pinch of salt, admittedly. That's different at times to fans
06:59in stadium, fans in away end, but we heard it today at Deepdale, and you read online
07:04and there's a lot of frustration. I get it, but 1-1 in 12 is nowhere near strong enough,
07:10is it good enough? Needs to be addressed fairly soon. I'm going to add, they haven't been
07:15beat, and they haven't been beat very much, but the draws are tiresome. They're sending
07:23you to sleep, as I'm probably I. Yes, they're not getting beat, but they're not getting
07:30out of it anyway, right? They're just going to continue to slide down the table until
07:35finally find a way to win games, and look, there's a lot of, core brands said it to me
07:38there, reflection, looking at themselves to do, because obviously this is a struggle at
07:43the minute. It certainly is a struggle. FanScore here at Deepdale, people telling our voices
07:48how frustrated we are, or bored. FanScore, Preston 1, Albion 1, all the rest of your
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