West Brom v Norwich: A six-pointer - Albion's biggest game in some time

The third-bottom Canaries occupy the final relegation spot, just four points below the Baggies. They have been better of late under November appointment Philippe Clement, with five wins from their last eight in all competitions.

For Ramsay in the home dugout there is precious little time to get comfortable in the Albion hotseat.

There is strong justification for labelling this clash Albion's biggest fixture for some time - probably going back to when Carlos Corberan took the Baggies into a play-off second leg at Southampton some 18 months ago.

This one is for the wrong reasons. Down the wrong end of the table.

But all hope is not lost and the hosts will target a first win in the new head coach's second game at the helm to put distance between themselves and a lowly rival and ease growing nerves and tension.

The Albion faithful will not need reminding that games against Norwich, Derby and Portsmouth, all before January is out, will shape the rest of the campaign. A positive return can bring about a push to mid-table obscurity and comfort.

More than one defeat, though, could spell big trouble.

It is an unenviable position for new boss Ramsay, 34, whose first taste of a head coach in English football is a daunting one, with little margin for error.

Prior to last Friday's late debut anguish against Middlesbrough the new boss had barely three days' work with his new squad. That is not a lot of time, considering an entirely new formation and idea of playing.

As Ramsay said himself - some of the plan worked and some did not. Players will not yet be in-tune with the head coach's desires.

Ramsay said of his style: "I want us to be a team that can handle the ball, I want us to be the team that is proactive, playing forward, showing that real courage and bravery bravery that we did in the second half.

"But I don't want to sacrifice all control and as you guys well know, this is a league where games can be chaotic, the latter periods of games can be chaotic and I want to avoid that. I want to make sure that we we are in control of games either with or without the ball for as long as possible."

He added on the new formation, and discrepancies between a 'back three' and 'back five': "I want to make sure that however we set up is it suits the players and their strengths and I would like to sometimes get the best of being able to defend in that system with the best of being able to attack with wingers as wide players.

"Obviously there's a huge difference between playing that system with five defenders versus playing it with three defenders and two wingers.

"And I really want to make sure that we are, particularly at home, very positive, very front-foot and I'm also one of those coaches that is largely more concerned with what slot the individual will end up in.

"While from week to week the maybe the system looks the same, certainly it'll be twisted for the qualities of the players, there were some teething problems of course (on Friday) but there was as much good as bad."