'Same old story': Lewis Cox & Jonny Drury react to West Brom's latest draw

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Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox give their reaction to Albion's latest draw at Preston. Karlan Grant gave Albion an early lead as he finished off a sweeping move, before Preston got back in th e game early in the second period. Albion never really looked like finding a winner and they were booed off by a section of the fanbase. Lewis and Jonny talk about the growing frustrations and who has to take the blame for the latest draw.

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00:00Hello Baggies fans, welcome to ExpressAndStart.com. We've watched another draw, we could have

00:14predicted that, couldn't we? Albin have drawn yet again. I've lost Kane, mate.

00:18Ten.

00:19Nine and ten.

00:20I knew you'd have the stats, mate. Frustrating, frustrating. Lewis, is that on the paper?

00:29Lewis, is that on the players or is that on Carlos Corbijn because there was a few boos

00:32in that way, wasn't there?

00:33You know it's serious when you call me Lewis, I'm not cocky.

00:35Not cocky, yeah.

00:36You phoned me there.

00:37Only my mum calls me Lewis.

00:38Yeah, your mum will be happy with that because I know she doesn't like me calling her cocky.

00:42Yeah, tough day, Johnny, really, really tough. Of this run, and maybe it's an obvious thing

00:48to say now, the run's extended so far, but probably the toughest day, game of this run

00:53I think. On paper, this was one where Albin needed to get back on the horse. He took a

01:01length about Tuesday being quite a welcome and valuable point for several reasons. This,

01:06look, Preston now wins this in nine. For bits of that first half, you could see why Preston

01:11are down there, they're up to four-side to me. Changed it around at the break, made changes,

01:17they worked, credit to Preston, fair play, but Albin just didn't get out of bed in that

01:20second half, did they? Did not turn up. That's the worry for me. Preston made the tactical

01:26change and it really helped them, I thought, get to grips with the game. I think Albin

01:32lacked energy and any basics really at the start of that second half, but there was no

01:37changes to counter it until the middle part of the second half where the head coach made

01:41a couple of changes. Albin had started the second period with a back three, back five,

01:47they made that change then and they just couldn't get to grips with it. They were sort

01:50of blown away at the start of that second half and Preston obviously got the equaliser,

01:54knocked the stuffing out of Albin a bit more, I'd say. He didn't really rally at all, really,

01:59until maybe about 20 minutes to go when it became a bit more of an open game, Jonny,

02:02but at 1-1, can you think of a serious chance for that second Albion goal in front of your

02:09head? Probably only the quick pass from Madrid and the Molumbi chance, but...

02:11Yeah, sorry, of course, that was a moment.

02:14Just talk about the difference in the first half. I was furious at the start of that second

02:20half because for me it looked like Albin might have had a directive to come out, sit in and

02:24defend and if they did do that, I kind of, on one hand, get it because Albin are unbelievably

02:29good at defending, but you can't be for 45 minutes. Was that the case or what have you

02:34gauged from Carlos Corbijn? Was it the player's inability to maybe get on the front foot in

02:39that second half and see out those waves that Preston attacked or, you know...

02:44Look, Corbijn's changed it at half-time too, like I said. Back three, back five, wing-backs.

02:50The Albion changes did not work to counter Preston. Preston probably got a rollicking

02:56at the break, didn't they, from Heckingbottom? You'd have thought they were seriously bad

02:59in that first half. And Preston have come out on the front foot, had a couple of moments

03:02straight away and let's be honest, they should have equalised before the goal. Look, Jonny,

03:08to be honest, no, I don't believe the directive is come out and defend second half. No, there'll

03:12be those watching that saying, well, he set them up, back five, wing-backs second half

03:17and that is a defensive move. Maybe. I mean, you've got more defenders, but that could

03:24be countered. The instruction could be, and he's not said this, and we said it in the

03:28first half to a point, use the counter-attacks well and they used the counter-attack very

03:34well for a goal. Transitions, as Corbijn said, real, really, really down day, Jonny,

03:41really, real struggle. Last two or more before we finish off, and it's a fan, so where does

03:48the next one come from? Yeah, well, games are not particularly easy, are they, coming

03:52up Sheffield and then Cove in that mid-week. Watford. Yeah, look, the post-match interview,

04:01Corbijn, I've just put this on social media, Corbijn looked like he was hurting to me.

04:04Yeah, this is very clearly the toughest spell of his period. What is it, one win in 12 now,

04:13nine draws in 10. The next draw, sorry, the next win, not the next draw, the next win

04:19has to come. You know when the next draw comes. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah. Look. It's a banker.

04:26You know, they're getting tougher, do they, Sheffield? They won last night, didn't they,

04:29at the top of the charts, probably. I haven't looked that high on the table, really, for

04:35a while. The next win has to come soon. There's no beating around the bush here. You mentioned

04:39at the top of the vid, the reaction of the away end to the late sub. You know, we need

04:43to speak about that, and at full-time as well. So for those who haven't seen it or were not

04:48here, sections of the away end, I would say quite a big part of the away end. I'd say

04:53the whole away end probably, big magic going off. Yeah, magic going off, and it was Wallace

04:57and Swift that came on for whoever else went off. I can't remember, Rackage maybe, whoever

05:02else went off. But yeah, I get it. The top scorer has gone off. This is a game they should

05:09be trying to win, especially late on. I get it. Corban, his addict put it to him there.

05:16He says he gets the frustration, but he says he has to make what he sees is the best decision

05:21with presumably what he's seeing and the information he has. There are nuances, aren't there? Look,

05:26Josh Madger's been Alvin's only striker this season. By and large, Grant has played. There's

05:31Devante Cole, who hasn't played. But Madger, for example, has had to play every minute

05:35of every game. I'm just using this as a possible reason. Madger can't be flogged all game,

05:40every game. I want to see Madger on all game, every game, and he's almost Alvin's only outlet

05:46of scoring, isn't he? Obviously Grant scored today, but you know what I mean. So at some

05:50points he's going to have a breather, but obviously at the end of a game, Alvin want

05:54to win. Doesn't look or feel like the right time, does it? I know there's similar murmurs

05:59sort of when Fellows went off maybe 10 minutes before that. Again, Fellows did 90 minutes

06:04at Sunderland, but there's no sort of dressing up or hiding the boos at full time. They were

06:11quite... You'd gone down by that point. I'd need to go and speak to fans. You'd have interviewed,

06:15but you'd have heard the boos at full time, I'm sure, from behind that away end. It feels

06:23like the most sort of vociferous and the loudest that the jeers have been so far, through core

06:28brands two years really, and a lot of frustration in there, a lot of wondering what next, where's

06:34the next win coming from. It's hard to answer that, I don't know. Need to win at home, don't

06:39they? Try. I'm not getting tired of coxing, I'm getting tired of draws, me yawning. Yeah,

06:45so yeah, the sounds from the away end says it all, reaction on social media, fans online.

06:52I sometimes take that as a pinch of salt, admittedly. That's different at times to fans

06:59in stadium, fans in away end, but we heard it today at Deepdale, and you read online

07:04and there's a lot of frustration. I get it, but 1-1 in 12 is nowhere near strong enough,

07:10is it good enough? Needs to be addressed fairly soon. I'm going to add, they haven't been

07:15beat, and they haven't been beat very much, but the draws are tiresome. They're sending

07:23you to sleep, as I'm probably I. Yes, they're not getting beat, but they're not getting

07:30out of it anyway, right? They're just going to continue to slide down the table until

07:35finally find a way to win games, and look, there's a lot of, core brands said it to me

07:38there, reflection, looking at themselves to do, because obviously this is a struggle at

07:43the minute. It certainly is a struggle. FanScore here at Deepdale, people telling our voices

07:48how frustrated we are, or bored. FanScore, Preston 1, Albion 1, all the rest of your

07:54reaction, you know where to go, ExpressingStar.com.

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