00:00Baggage fans, welcome to ExpressAndStart.com, my name is Jonny Drew, I'm here with Albion
00:12correspondent Lewis Cox after a bit of a chastening afternoon for Albion in the third round of
00:17the FA Cup, battered 5-1 by Premier League, Bournemouth outclassed, outplayed, not what
00:25you want to see from the FA Cup third round, Coxie, but Albion were taught a bit of a lesson
00:29today.
00:30Yeah, it's a bit of a, not down to earth with a bum, but it's a bit of a harsh reality really
00:37isn't it, I mean, obviously Premier League hosts today, it was never an easy draw, and
00:43I think we saw today why Bournemouth are 7th in the Premier League, why they're unbeaten
00:47in 8 Premier League games, winning 5 of them, we saw a Bournemouth side who made 6 changes,
00:54okay that's quite a few, but Albion made 7, I mean, it is a hypothetical one, if Albion's
01:01best 11 started today and played today, how would they do against that Bournemouth side
01:05with 6 changes?
01:06They would probably still lose, they would still lose just by not being 5-1, I just spoke
01:14with Chris Byrne in there, and that's probably the final game, almost certainly the final
01:18game, he's going to oversee as interim head coach, he said in there, look it was a hard
01:22assignment, it was always going to be tough, we were always, as he said yesterday at the
01:25presser, we were always going to make changes, I think really with the schedule they'd been
01:30managing some niggles, some knocks, and look, as a result, we were teased for half an hour
01:36weren't we, we were sort of, you know, lured into a false sense of security, and as that
01:42old saying goes, I'm sure the away end is the hope that kills you, although, you know,
01:46shout out to that away end, 2,000 of them because they didn't stop singing, the noise
01:50was immense, we'll get him in a nice moment at the end, but for half an hour, Albion,
01:56good value for the league, obviously Caleb Taylor, put him ahead of what, 14 minutes,
02:01what a story, first start, first appearance since his recall from on loan, started the
02:07game really well, looked really composed, and then, well he's massive isn't he, he's
02:10just an absolute giant, and he didn't even have to jump to plant that header in, didn't
02:15he, and you're kind of thinking, wow, what a potential story here, in fact, Bundy's just
02:19said to me that going ahead was probably the worst thing that could happen to us, because
02:24it, you know, it threatened Bournemouth, you know, they're almost, you can see Johnny looking
02:31menacingly at the mowers there, you know, it almost sparked Bournemouth into a response
02:38didn't it really, it did, it sort of, it woke them up, certainly, they'd started a little
02:43bit, you know, slumber, a little bit sloppy, and Albion punished them, it looked really
02:47sharp for half an hour, good value for that lead, but the equaliser came on half an hour,
02:51and then it was the two goals just before half-time, and the one just after half-time,
02:56all of a sudden you've gone 1-0 to 4-1 like that, and implosion looks like it could have
03:01been on the cards, to be honest, it was 4-1 at 47 minutes, you know, so I think, relatively
03:07pleased it finished five with that fifth coming in stoppage time, you know, should have been
03:10four, but, yeah, chasing in, like you say, a bit of a harsh reality, but, you know, other
03:17things are going on at the moment, aren't they, I mentioned, you know, Brundie's final
03:19game and all that, you know, the new head coach is on the way, head change is on the
03:23way, and, you know, in the grand scheme of fighting for the championship top six, I don't
03:28think this will be remembered too, you know, too, sort of, too much, or too damagingly,
03:36I think, you know, Albion can look to get over it pretty soon.
03:41Like you said there, positive early on with the goal from Caleb Taylor,
03:44returning, I thought it slotted in really well, you know, Albion have lost five on him,
03:47he's made some mistakes in the second half, there's no doubt about that, he got away with
03:51one, and, yeah, a lot of players in Albion's side did, but collectively, promising signs
03:57that he can step up in the championship? Yeah, maybe, yeah, look, we mentioned the
04:01changes to both sides, Albion's backline today, they're back four, they're missing two of
04:07their main back four, two of their best defenders, you know, Bartley hasn't travelled, he's been
04:10given a breather, and Higgins was an unused sub, you know, Holgate didn't have an easy
04:14game, did he, next to Taylor, involved in a couple of goals, really, Holgate, and there
04:20were others that had, nobody from Albion was brilliant today, but there were a few, weren't
04:25there, two, three, Rakic really struggled, who had really poor days, and you can't afford that
04:29against quality like this, you know, it shows, doesn't it, it tells. As for Taylor, yeah,
04:35I mean, the first half, the goal aside, he looked really, really good, didn't he, and
04:39really composed, we know he's dominant, we know he's massive and aerially strong, but
04:43the way he was with the ball, looked after it so well, you know, distributed it by and
04:48large, well, he had a wobble later on, but Albion were sort of pretty gone by that stage,
04:52weren't they, and credit to him, if he's needed in the championship, I think he'll do a fine
04:57job, I do, I don't think he'll be going, you know, I don't think he'll be ousting Bartley
05:01or Hegham to play at centre half any time soon, but perhaps if Albion have to change
05:05to about three, if there's a couple of knocks, which you're going to get, aren't we, let's
05:08face it, Bartley has to be managed these days, we saw that today, you know, Caleb's got every
05:14chance, really, of pushing his way. A lot of reaction to come, I know we'll cover it
05:19on expressandstart.com in terms of, you know, Madger and Bartley left out today and rested,
05:25try and wrap this video up soon before the groundsman gets anywhere near us. Before
05:29Johnny ends up fighting a groundsman. But finally, Coxy, Chris Brunsett has been asked
05:32about, you know, a new manager coming in, we all know they're covering an advanced talk
05:35to Raphael Wiki, the Swiss, who looks to be set to take over at Hawthorne, what's the latest
05:42we kind of know on that, is it moved at Thorne anymore, or is it a case of, we're hopefully
05:46expecting something early next week? No, we believe it's in advanced talks, negotiations
05:52now, there's still things to, as of it being checked last night, there's still things to
05:57be sorted and tied up, you know, you talk about legals and then obviously get on to contracts
06:01being drawn up and finalised and stuff like that, so if you're asking me do I expect an
06:06announcement tomorrow, I'd be surprised, really. Not just because it's a Sunday, but, you know,
06:11it feels a bit soon, but an expectancy at this stage, it feels like the early part of next week,
06:18to be honest. I think the sooner Albion can do it, get it confirmed, ratified, announced,
06:23get him working ahead of Stoke at Hawthorne next weekend, the better, because it gives him a few
06:28days on the grass, as they say, to work with the players, so I think there will be a rush,
06:33but they'll want to get it done as soon as, you know, they won't want to drag feet for the sake
06:36of it, so yeah, but advanced, and I'm intrigued and interested by it, like all Baggies supporters
06:43are, I think, you know, it's a fascinating profile, it's left field, it's exciting,
06:49the unknown is kind of exciting, isn't it? We're all looking into how his young boys side,
06:55you know, played, his double winning side, but young boys are the big hitters there at the
06:59moment, and they're expected to win the league, so let's not get overly carried away, and he
07:03managed in the Champions League against, you know, against Guardiola and all that stuff,
07:06and that was only last season, so he's, you know, he's a profile in the European game, certainly.
07:11It's interesting that the ownership honed in on him, as their, you know, main choice candidate,
07:16we know Rene Hacker, the Dutchman, and even Tony Mowbray, as we reported today, Johnny,
07:23were in the running, in talks, interviewed, certainly Hacker, so yeah, it's interesting
07:30that Vicky, I think if we're going by the sort of, yeah, V rather than the W, which I've learnt
07:38today, I think, so we'll sign off for the vitality from Vicky, but yeah, I'm interested, really,
07:45I'm interested as to Bilkow decided them as his man, he reports, and things I've read about him,
07:51is that he's a coach, a developer of players, we had that with Corbren, didn't we, and,
07:57and yeah, it's, I think every baggie that were here today, 2000 of them, probably yourself,
08:01I'm sure, and everyone watching this at home, reading that stuff, would agree and be,
08:07you know, be full of optimism about it, and you know, we have watched today, I have no doubt,
08:11um, and he'll have been very encouraged by the first half, some things to iron out, clearly,
08:17either side of halftime, he'll have been encouraged by the changes you saw in the second half,
08:21they came and stemmed it and steadied the ship, um, and look, this, this top seven side in the
08:26Premier League at the moment, it's a harsh reality, but it's a different kettle of fish,
08:28different, obviously a different league to what I've been battling for in the top
08:32six or seven, trying to get in the top six of the championship, that's the gulf, we know,
08:36but, uh, we know what the target is for this season, and, uh, and hopefully Mr Vicky
08:40is here ASAP to, to get going, hopefully so, uh, and important, and potentially because a few days
08:47come up for Albion, but today wasn't one to remember, final score here in the FA Cup third
08:51round at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth five, Albion one, you know where to go for
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