Mowbray backing Baggies’ big guns
Saturday 21st February 2009, 10:40AM GMT.
Albion boss Tony Mowbray believes the club’s extra new firepower will help them turn around their dismal away form.
The Baggies boss reckons a second away win of the season is “just around the corner” as he takes his team to Fulham for their return to Premier League action.
Albion have won just once on the road all season, but Mowbray reckons the arrival of on-loan strikers Jay Simpson and Marc-Antoine Fortune could kick-start their form away from The Hawthorns.
Three of their next four matches are away, with the only home game coming against Champions League-chasing Arsenal.
Mowbray said: “I think the team have got another away win in them. Now we are scoring goals on a more regular basis, I think there is an away win just around the corner.
“Hopefully it will be at Fulham. The players are looking forward to the challenge of the next four games. Fulham, Everton and West Ham away and Arsenal at home doesn’t look on paper like an easy run.
“All of those teams are in the top half of the table, yet I genuinely feel we’ve got another victory on the road coming- because the goals are now starting to go in.”
Mowbray’s men scored twice away for the first time in their last away game at Hull, but could only claim a point from a 2-2 draw.
The Baggies then produced a defensive horror show in a 3-2 defeat at home to Newcastle, and Mowbray revealed most of their four-day training camp in Spain this week was spent working on defending.
He said: “Even in defeat at home to Newcastle the other day we scored two and at Hull we scored to.
“We just need to tighten it up at the defensive end. That’s what we’ve been doing a lot of work on.”
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And it’s also an absolute disgrace that the st georges’ day march in West Brom has bin cancelled!
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whats ‘white’ got to do with it?? so anyone of a coloured skin is dirty?? get real sunshine. and dont tarnish reports of my beloved albion with your racist bile
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Frank and Clem – spot on, lets have the march without the roads being closed, lets get a bigger turn out than before and embarrass the council who would rather chuck money at the PUBLIC !!!!
Working on defending what ya been doing prior to this spanish break ?? unbelievable TM
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yes bring back st georges day, and remember piece n love for everyone boing boing
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NOT ALL BRITISH ARE WHITE STUPID
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As I understood it, the St.George Day Parade is back on, although modified to save face by the Politically Correct Fairies. The BNP got in down in Swanley Council but the Government will still be surprised when they get dumped next time round. There’s none so blind as those who won’t see. Good luck tomorrow for our team against Fulham. Good luck to Robbo too.
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I know I said the other day that the Baggies pages cover a wonderful variety of topics but this is ridiculous.
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1 – are you REALLY that thick ???
“my suggestion is very important”….??? Maybe in your world pal – In mine you are just another blight on society.
You sound like a real poster boy for the BNP and every other midless, thick, right wing bunch of morons that peddle this garbage.
I hope the day you need to go into hospital every hardworking, underpaid and undervalued person there will leave you to fester in your own stew of bile.
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My god its half time and we should be at least 3-0 down! but miraculously we’re hanging on to a nilnil. The defence still look all over the place at the wrong place at wrong time sad to say.
Our midfield is non existant. Our attack seem to be quite dangerous when a rare half a chance comes, but on the whole we look relegation certains, AGAIN!
Well I hope Mowbray gives the 2 loanees a chance in the second half cos we need to believe more. Just how on earth cant we play the sort of football we played spurs with last december? HOW!
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Where was the fire power today against Fulham, the fire power has gone out and it will not return until he buys players who can defend and players who can score goals, and that’s not this season so it is championship here we come
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