00:00Baggies fans, welcome to ExpressAndStart.com. My name is Jonny Drury. I'm here with Mr.
00:12Lewis Cox at Kenilworth Road. Albion have drawn for a, what is it, Coxy? Fifth game in a row.
00:17If you want to make a bit of money now, lump on Albion Drawing because they've drawn here again
00:22at Luton. Dire, terrible, awful, turgid first half and then Josh Madger goes and produces some
00:29magic to get back on the goal trail. Albion hand Luton a way back in. Albion have to strap on the
00:36tin hats, head everything away and then they've had a few, a few sort of hairy moats, well Luton
00:42have had a few hairy moats at the end and Albion could have snuck it themselves. Coxy, I've just
00:45said to you and then you just reliably informed me that Carlos Corbrandt said the same thing so
00:50that's me. Great minds. That's me gonna tap myself on the back and say I know what I'm talking about
00:54but I'm sure a few of you baggers disagree. Albion at times might not look like winning
01:00games at the moment, however, they don't look like they're gonna lose them. Yeah, yeah, hence
01:05five draws in a row. Yeah, your point was and it is a good one and I think very relevant at the
01:11moment. If you're not playing well, if you're not good enough to be winning, don't lose and you use
01:16the word resilient didn't you and probably this is no surprise under Corbrandt but it's a very
01:22defensively organised, well-drilled side that are repelling not everything but a lot of what's
01:29coming up against them at the moment isn't it? I mean obviously Albion were poor in the first
01:33half, really, really poor, let's be honest, really poor. The first time they got into
01:37Luton's box was the goal as you say at the moment, a magic for Maggio and
01:42they gifted on the hour Chong, that equaliser, Moas, bit of a blind pass wasn't it? I think
01:49Corbrandt said in a nutshell there that he was much happier in the second half generally,
01:53quite ironic in a really poor first half, they weren't happy with an improved second half that
01:57they were happy with but obviously conceded the goal. He sort of said it was a pattern of play
02:05that we're trying to do to build attacks really, that's what we want to see. Obviously you rely on
02:10the likes of Moas and reliable use of the ball isn't it and it didn't come off that time.
02:14Albion defended everything else tonight, even with a makeshift back four,
02:18sort of pulled and pushed together but you're right, no one wants to hear this after five
02:26draws in a row, it's not an overwhelming positive is it? You can sort of half-jokingly say unbeaten
02:33in five, which they are, but drawing and drawing and drawing is not going to get you anywhere
02:38quickly. However I think for the side and the squad this season as a whole in the bigger picture
02:44it's a good sign that they're not being beaten. They've been beaten twice this season, that's it,
02:48from what 13 games now I think, is it 13? You know Sheff Wednesday away, obviously shouldn't
02:54have lost that and Borough at home, a late defeat 1-0, narrow game but obviously they have to find
03:00a way to win games again. I mean those first six games of the season feel like a long time ago,
03:04it's now seven without a win. They could have won, could have lost tonight but it feels like
03:11they should have won tonight. Luton are a good side, they're third bottom, they were third bottom
03:15then half-fifth bottom but they're a good side, they've got some top, top, top players at this
03:19level haven't they and we saw Chong is quality isn't he and Harris, we go through them all.
03:23They're in a false position aren't they? Yeah, yeah and Albion got their noses in front tonight,
03:29barely deserved and then should have seen it out, they should have taken three points tonight and
03:32that would have done a massive job in putting to bed the sequence, the run of no wins. To me it
03:39looks like an edgy side, they're just a little concerned about the run and all of that. I mean
03:44Corbijn sort of didn't agree with that and maybe he wouldn't but yeah it was a fair result tonight
03:52and I don't think it's the worst point in the world here isn't it? However look, they just need
03:59to find a return to winning ways swiftly because the pain hunters, the ones that travelled here
04:04were quite supportive on full-time but not too much good to be positive to be said sort of
04:09elsewhere is there among the fan base and I totally get that. Hopefully it can change soon.
04:15Yeah hopefully it can change soon, we're going to wrap this video up in a sec because we want
04:18to get out of Coward's Road. Home quicker than it is to get in. Certainly as listeners of the
04:24Baggage Broadcast know it's not my favourite ground in the world although the people are
04:27lovely here so I will say that. Positives which we'll talk more about on the podcast,
04:31Higgins was immense, Holgate did well, back four were great, Devante Cole showed something,
04:37Mikey Johnston, the mess we've seen from him so far, came on strong late didn't they?
04:41Subs did really well, yeah just finally Coxsey, like we said they're you know,
04:47I think out of all these games maybe bar Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough the two defeats,
04:51there are you know solid positives to take but they are draws at the end of the day.
04:57The discontent, not discontent but you know disgruntled fans in the fan base
05:01kind of get a little bit more annoyed at how they continue to draw and you know they could
05:07have really nicked it at the end and that would have been massive because they've got tough
05:10run coming up now. Yeah seven games without a win Johnny, you know you can't, five draws in a
05:16row doesn't dress that up or doesn't paint too much of a positive picture over seven games without a
05:21win, that's a really, not a great run of form is it? Four points from 20, five points from 20.
05:29It's made more extreme by the fact that the first six games were so extreme, you've gone from one
05:34polar, one extreme. I think what makes it worse is well I know there's games to play tomorrow
05:38when the table will change and I'll probably, I'll be, could drop, well will drop out of the
05:42play-off so it still looks at the moment. But up to this point you know six games and seven games
05:47without a win, it's still only a stone's throw off the top. Which is the one, maybe a one small
05:53crumb of comfort to take from it but it needs, the wins need to stop. No I get it and I don't
05:58fully disagree but I think a lot watching this will just be thinking oh but you know if we'd
06:03have won a few of these we'd have been right on the top two. You know tonight there's a lot,
06:10I know we're wrapping it up now but there's a lot to sort of break into, Corbijn tried something
06:14new tonight in terms of the attack, he kind of played it, he confirmed to me they had
06:18two twos behind each other with Maggio in the deeper two and he said it was kind of on our
06:24looting play so it wasn't something he'd worked on for the long haul, it was reactive to the
06:29opposition and I think that's fine. He made a point to the Sky interviewer and to me that
06:34played with a lot of competitiveness tonight and what he means is that there was almost a mindset
06:39more, I'm not saying this is what he intended from his players but not to be broken down,
06:44not to lose than to win. That's not necessarily the idea because they went on strong late on at
06:491-1, they didn't park the bus and take the points did they but I think that's all part of this
06:54winless run, this edginess with starting games and maybe starting them poorly because they're
07:01worried about falling behind and not making that right decision in the midfield to final third,
07:06you know, having a shot when it's on, I can think of so many times where they should have taken a
07:11shot or a more quality ball, I mean how many of the starting attackers played well, Grant played
07:16well, did any, I mean Maggio got a superb goal but it was a struggle otherwise wasn't it? It was,
07:23the defence deserved credit but there's much to do for the midfielders to forward line, a lot of
07:27stats during the round about attackers who haven't scored or assisted aren't there? A lot to improve
07:32on in that area and look so many of these draws have been decent on paper without the context of
07:38the season, this is another one as the lights go out, this is the very last few words, make a pun
07:45out of that, the lights have gone out, yeah we won't go there but yeah this is another decent
07:50point on paper in the context maybe but Albin needs to put an end to this run because seven
07:58games win this is not a good look for anybody really isn't it? It's not and as it stretches
08:02longer we'll, this video isn't a very good look at the moment is it? Yeah not a great look,
08:08enjoy your weekend, yeah, shall we end it, shall we end it pretty simply because the lights have
08:12gone out, lights gone out on us, hopefully the lights will come on for Albion's attackers and
08:17they will get three points in the coming weeks, final score, Luton 1 Albion 1, all the rest of
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