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Lewis Cox on West Brom's FA Cup tie at Bournemouth & manager search latest
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10/01/2025
Lewis Cox brings you all the latest from Chris Brunt's press conference as Albion prepare to take on Premier League Bournemouth in the FA Cup third round.
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Baggies fans, welcome to a Baltic instead of Frost Albion training ground here on Friday
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morning. We've just had an early 9am presser with interim head coach Chris Brunt. It's
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actually despite the however many games he's managed, five tomorrow, it's actually the
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first pre-match press conference because of the busy Christmas period that we've had with
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Brunty. So a bit more of a relaxed, informal kind of sit down with the Baggies legend obviously
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and a chance to pick his brain and obviously plan for Bournemouth and ask him about tomorrow's
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FA Cup tie on the south coast. But also to reflect on this period. It's no secret, we've
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reported we expect the new head coach Carlos Corbijn's replacement to be in situ next week,
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appointed ahead of the next Championship game against Stoke. So it looks probably beyond
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after Bournemouth tomorrow in the FA Cup, this is the last chance we have to speak with
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Brunty really and ask him what he thinks about it all. It's obviously been a bit of a whirlwind
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for him, there's no getting away from that given the period it was. But I think now things
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have calmed down after Swansea last time and obviously the club have had this week and
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next week either side of the Cup game to take stock on a manager appointment. Obviously
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things have moved and we've obviously reported on a couple of names among the frontrunners
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in the last couple of days or so. So you'll have seen that on the website and obviously
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keep your eyes peeled on that for developments either side of this Bournemouth tie. A tricky
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one isn't it for Albion and Brunty made no secret of that in there. Look, they're seventh
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in the Premier League, the Cherries and Antonio Raiola, a really impressive young manager
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isn't he, the Spaniard. Bournemouth will make changes in tomorrow's third round tie, that's
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just the nature of the beast. Unfortunately some people might not like to hear it, I don't
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really like to hear it, but Albion will make changes as well and that's a whole other debate
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we can have about the stock, the place of the FA Cup. We know Albion's heritage and
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the competition, Albion know more than most what the competition means but that's just
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the way it is. Bournemouth will make changes but they've got Premier League options to
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come in haven't they, from the bench, in reserve. So regardless, that'll be a challenge from
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an Albion perspective, it's a really interesting one. I wrote that today and you can see Chris
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Brunt's thoughts on it as well on our website. It's interesting how they weigh up the changes.
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Fitness-wise they're okay other than Dawoud Dike and Shemi Ajayi, the long-termers, so
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they're no sort of absentees but there will be players that come in from the start tomorrow
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who haven't played as many Championship minutes as they want. I obviously don't know for definite
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but just speculating the likes of Wallace, Swifty and Garner, even Rakic of late hasn't
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played too often, you could well see them starting to be honest. There's other possibles
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to come in, your likes of your Caleb Taylor who's obviously brought back from loan. Does
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Frabata get a go? A rare chance at left-back Gianluca Frabata. Does Devante Cole get a
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run out up front? The territory you get into, which Chris Brunt has said there, is look
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we want to be competitive. Albion ideally want to get through, clearly they want to
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win the game but to think of wholesale 11 changes is totally out of the question against
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opposition like this. You need to find a healthy balance and that's a challenge for the interim
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team going tomorrow. Obviously the staff and squad will leave the freezing temperatures
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of the training ground behind them later on when they'll travel down south to the freezing
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temperatures down south and prepare as best they can for the tough test. As I say, I think
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once we get to five o'clock tomorrow, whether Albion progress or exit the competition, thoughts
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will very much be back to the head coach search and getting that finalised and done
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really and announced hopefully as soon as possible next week just for maximum preparation
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time for the new guy ahead of Stoke at the Hawthorns a week Saturday. So a lot going
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on, a lot to bring you from Chris Brunt. He, as you would expect, was quite tight-lipped
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and was not really able to give anything much more on the identity or the expectations of
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the new man or a time frame. He stayed steadfast in his message throughout that it's until
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I'm told otherwise I'm here doing the job. He wouldn't have been kept briefed on every
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cough and splutter of the manager search on candidates and stuff anyway. He's got more
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than enough going on when it comes to nursing a squad of players through that period we
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just had and seeing who is maybe at optimal fitness to go on Saturday and who maybe would
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benefit from another breather out the side. So nothing time frame wise anymore from this
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morning's presser but we wrote a piece today on certainly two of the strong foreign candidates
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among the final candidates for the job so have a read of that. Stay tuned, got all the
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pre-match build-up. Myself and Jonny will be travelling bright and early tomorrow morning
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down to Bournemouth, down to the Vitality to bring you all the coverage and the post-match
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stuff so check it all out at expressonstar.com.
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