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Dave Mc on Twitter
at 11:21 20 Aug 2018

Mistakes have undeniably been made but its very early to start chucking the baby out with the bath water. Saturday we set up OK, frustrated them, got the equaliser. They kept coming at us, we couldn't stem the flow, when it went 3-1 we should have shut up shop, that was the mistake, we kept trying to counter, they had too much pace, too much momentum and we folded, feebly. It was a disgrace that last ten minutes but if we concentrate on the first 45 minutes instead of the last ten there were some positives. Not many teams are going to be getting points at West Brom. They are a Premier League team relegated despite winning four of their last six games last season under the manager now in place. They've kept most of their better players and added the likes of Gayle so perspective is required here. I was at least as disturbed by the capitulation against Sheff Utd as I was by what happened on Saturday and by McClarens reaction to it which was to praise our performance and blame the officials. There we were at home, ahead and should have won. Saturday we were always going to be up against it but we got a lot of things right in terms of setting up and keeping the opposition at bay early doors. Some places we are going to have to develop a siege mentality, we just don't have the players to go toe to toe but that doesn't mean we cannot pick up points. Had we played with the same mentality throughout the game instead of chasing rainbows second half we'd have lost, 3-1 maybe 4-1 which is bad enough of course but you can get over that sort of defeat. 7-1 you can't dress up, its a disgrace but its happened and thing to do now is work out why and stop it happening again, with 43 games to go there is plenty of time to do that. As for new faces? Well, I'm not sure we can realistically attract players on loan who are going to drastically improve things. New manager? Well my question there would be such as who? McClaren has vast experience, he deserves until Christmas at least.

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