'One of the worst games' - James Morrison on West Brom penalty joy and Bostock 'intensity'
Caretaker James Morrison labelled Albion's penalty shootout FA Cup progress as "one of the worst games you could watch" but gave his side credit for digging in.
Albion - with Minnesota's Eric Ramsay waiting in the wings to be confirmed as the club's new head coach - prevailed to the fourth round of the competition following a rollercoaster 2-2 draw in Swansea.
It ended a run of 10 straight away defeats for the Baggies that culminated in Ryan Mason's dismissal, but Albion's ardent away following finally had something to cheer as teen star Ollie Bostock, 18, stroked home the winning penalty.
Bostock had earlier laid on what looked like the extra time winner for Jed Wallace, but Swansea hit back. The hosts had led early in the second half but Josh Maja levelled for Albion.
"(It was) Good chaos, yeah," Morrison smiled. "But I think one of the worst games of football you could watch really. It was hurting me on the sidelines.
"I said before the game about being together, digging in, and we certainly got that because we were under pressure at times.
"We had to dig in, we had to defend balls in the box, get blocks. In that sense it was pleasing, and then taking the goals like we did. Other than that, it was a bad game of football."
The interim added: "They stuck at it. How many times this season have we conceded in those silly times? Then we had to keep digging away, getting in front, and then we didn't defend the lead a couple of minutes after.
"Then we had to dig in for the penalties, got the right penalty takers at the right time because there were some good penalties.
"Credit to Ollie, stepping up like he did. It was nice for him."
It proved a day to remember for academy graduate Bostock and the Welsh youth international marked just his second senior appearance with a fine assist for Wallace and then the winning penalty. He was pushed forward by senior colleagues to take the acclaim of a delighted 1,000-strong away end.
Bostock was regularly an unused substitute under former boss Mason but the winger tasted just a few minutes of first-team action in a miserable defeat at Millwall in early October, where he was a bright spark.
He was not turned to by Mason, despite clamour from supporters.
Morrison, for who the shootout success made it three games unbeaten in caretaker charge, added: "He's been training really well, he's been in my mind over the last couple of days, so I wanted to give him a chance and I wanted to see if he can handle it, handle the intensity.
"He did that at times, I know it's tough when you're not playing and you get thrown in, but I thought he handled it well and he was involved in the goal and he stepped up when it mattered for the penalty.
"You get experience from that and hopefully it will kickstart him."
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