Tammer Bany latest as Jonny Drury brings West Brom update ahead of Oxford

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Jonny Drury brings you the latest from Tony Mowbray's pre-match press conference ahead of Albion's clash with Oxford. Albion are looking to get back to winning ways, and Jonny brings you the latest from his conversations with Mowbray ahead of the game. He talks Tammer Bany and whether he could feature for the first time - while looking at Gianluca Frabotta and whether he could come into Mowbray's plans after featuring for the under 21s in midweek.

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00:00Thank you, fans. Welcome to ExpressingStyle.com. My name is Jonny Drury. I've just been to

00:07the West Brom pre-Oxford press conference to speak to Tony Mowbray in the absence of

00:13Coxey. And yeah, as always, Tony Mowbray had an awful lot to say. I had a good half an

00:19hour chat with him ahead of Saturday's game and some really interesting lines, interesting

00:24stories to come to you on ExpressingStyle.com over the next few days. But some big standout

00:29talking points. Talked a little bit about Jed Wallace and his injury and we'll bring

00:33you that online very, very soon. He also took, the main headline really is, is a new signing

00:40Tammy Banning. He's been working up to fitness, having basically been in the off-season at

00:45his old club, Randers, before he signed for Albion. He is in contention to be in the squad

00:51on Saturday. That's the main talking point from the press conference. He certainly won't

00:57be in a position to start, but we may see him make his debut off the bench on Saturday.

01:03We've got a lot more to bring you on that. Tony Mowbray, very complimentary about what

01:06he's seen in training, believes he will bring some fresh quality to the Albion side. So

01:13all good on that front, exciting really. I'm sure fans will be sort of chomping at the

01:16bit to see what he can bring to this baggy side. And he was asked a range of things,

01:22you know, basically about the process of turning Albion from a kind of defensive unit

01:28under Carlos Corbijn to a more attacking side, saying it's a tough process and they're continuing

01:34to work at it and hopefully being able to build some momentum, starting with Saturday

01:38at home to Oxford, because it's a very tricky run of fixtures after that, starting with

01:42Leeds away and there's Burnley away, lots of QPR and Sunderland still at home as well.

01:47So a lot to divulge from that one. He talked about Albion's under-21s. He went down to

01:54watch Albion's under-21s against Wolves at Agbrook, Kidderminster on Monday. Gianluca

01:59Fibrotta, the left-back coming from Juventus last summer, hasn't really featured at all

02:05in the first-team sort of side, been in squads but rarely got off the bench. Talked about

02:09him, talked about his qualities really. I know he had a tough evening against the Wolves

02:14but he talked about what he could potentially bring to Albion in the last 13 games. A little

02:18hint that we may see a little bit more of him moving forward. So that was an interesting

02:24line. Also talked about Dal Dike and Shemmy Ojai, who came back last week, came through

02:28unscathed, all good. He talked a little bit about Dike's training schedule being a little

02:33bit different to the other sort of Albion players. He's reiterated this, well reiterated

02:40what he said in the past that he's not ready to start yet but he again obviously will be

02:45in the squad. I'm pretty sure we'll see him off the bench at some point. Talked with

02:49Lancashire, happy with what he's sort of seen from him and said we will be seeing a lot

02:55more of him between now and the end of the season. The loanee from Spurs. And talked

02:58about the challenges that Albion will face on Saturday. Sees it as a very similar one

03:03to Blackburn in terms of facing a side that will come in and defend and sit and it'll

03:07be your responsibility to break them down. That's what Albion are going to be trying

03:14to do. But an awful lot that he spoke about in his press conference today and you can

03:18see all of it today or in the next few days on expressandstart.com.

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