West Brom fans make honest admission after Southampton defeat

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Jonny Drury caught up with Albion fans after their 2-0 defeat against Southampton. The home side fellow behind early on as Ryan Fraser volleyed the Saints into the lead. Albion rallied though and had a strong penalty shout turned down. But despite having spells in the second period they failed to test the visitors - who sealed the win through David Brooks' strike late on.

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00:00 Paul, frustrating evening obviously Slamdun a good side, was it a case of Slamdun the

00:12 better side or Albion just weren't at their aces tight?

00:14 I thought Serafamsen were the better team over the 90 odd minutes. I thought Baggies

00:18 had the moments towards the end of the first half, second half. We had our moments, really

00:26 the final ball let us down tonight with a bit of a lack of cutting edge. I thought I'd

00:31 rule Serafamsen were the better team but maybe on another occasion we could have possibly

00:35 got a draw there.

00:36 It was a case of them outplaying us slightly.

00:37 I think they were better in Baneleak to be honest, they played very well tonight.

00:48 What did you make of the lot substitutions in the second half? Taking Brandon Thomas

00:52 Assante off at half time, didn't have a recognised strike for a while there, did that bemuse

00:57 you a little bit?

00:58 I thought Brandon was largely defective in the first half. I do think the momentum changed

01:04 and went away from us when we made the triple substitution. I thought we were still in the

01:10 game up to that point and the triple substitution seemed to kill us really. Particularly perplexed

01:17 this evening at Mikey Johnson coming up who I thought was having a good game. So I thought

01:21 the substitutions were not really warranted. Hopefully with that new owner, because he

01:27 was here today apparently, he can look at it now and see that we need some money being

01:32 spent on it because we have got a strike and a dog has gone.

01:35 To be honest, it's not a diss at Thomas Assante, but I was hoping he'd come off at half time

01:42 for Wyman or early in the second half. He didn't seem much in the game in the first

01:49 half and just to mix it up a bit.

01:52 Just away from, I wouldn't say the football was secondary tonight, but obviously we've

01:54 had the news in the last 24 hours of a new owner. Just sum up your emotions when that

01:58 news was announced, relief?

02:00 Yeah, absolutely, absolute relief. I think it's good to draw a line under the Gooch and

02:06 Loy era. Let's see where we go from here. Obviously I think the feeling for everybody

02:10 is onwards and upwards. Let's see where we go from here.

02:14 Hopefully he spends a bit of money, because we need him to be honest.

02:19 Hopefully next season we're out if he wants to.

02:22 If it weren't for that coach, I dread to think, because our team on paper.

02:27 Yeah, buzzing, it's obviously good news. Everyone knows what's gone on in the last few years.

02:32 Yeah, it's all positive. It's a shame it was all those positive vibes. You kind of, you

02:41 don't want to say Albion, but you kind of thought coming into tonight, everything's

02:45 so positive. You just thought, at Southampton they're a very good side, you just thought

02:51 we're bad to lose tonight. But yeah, I think we've got a couple of away games now. We've

02:56 got to turn it around on the road. Hopefully we pick up a couple of draws or win one of

03:00 them. Yeah, got to turn it around on the road.

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