Jonny Drury caught up with Albion fans after their side were trashed 5-1 at Premier League Bournemouth in the FA Cup third round.
Albion made seven changes but went ahead when Caleb Taylor nodded in early on, in his first appearance since being recalled from a loan spell at Wycombe.
But the Cherries hit back with two goals in seven minutes, before adding a third moments before the break.
And the tie was all over just two minutes into the second period as they went further ahead, before a late goal compounded Albion's misery.
Albion made seven changes but went ahead when Caleb Taylor nodded in early on, in his first appearance since being recalled from a loan spell at Wycombe.
But the Cherries hit back with two goals in seven minutes, before adding a third moments before the break.
And the tie was all over just two minutes into the second period as they went further ahead, before a late goal compounded Albion's misery.
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00:00Richard, having come third round, you were always expecting more, but what did you make
00:11of that heavy defeat?
00:12Right result in the end, better side, quicker up front, quicker in the field, I think when
00:17Dirk Eaton and Maluma came on it was a bit more of an even contest, but I think for me
00:24people like Micah Johnson offers more than people like Grady for me, so yeah, that's
00:27just my view.
00:29They're quicker than us, faster than us, and the other point I would make is, you look
00:34at the foul statistics, every time we get on the ball they commit a foul in the middle
00:39of the park, and all the Premier teams do that, we don't do it very well, we don't foul
00:45enough.
00:46I know that's an awful thing to say, but professional fouls, it's part of their game, it's not
00:52part of ours.
00:53You made seven changes today, still relatively strong, did you just expect more from them
00:59today?
01:00Possibly, I think we got punished on the break a few times, and I think their class showed,
01:06I don't think it was a bad performance, first 25 minutes, but I think their class showed
01:10at the end of the day.
01:11I think the two guys who came on in midfield were a massive improvement on the two guys
01:17who had started, but I don't think that explains the whole thing, yeah.
01:22I think Diakite and Molumbi were very good, but the two guys on before were not quick
01:29enough for it.
01:30That was going to be the next question, was it a case of a few players being off it, or
01:34was it more a case of the golfing class between the Premier League and this level?
01:37Golfing class, yeah.
01:38I think if we're going to go up, that's what we're going to face every week.
01:43The difference in, I think there is a principle in life that the team with the most money
01:51wins, yeah, and it happens in football, and it happens in life in general, so it's annoying,
01:59but they're just quick.
02:01They were all over us all the time, we couldn't settle on the ball because they were all over
02:05us, yeah.
02:06Potentially going to be a big week, hopefully new players are coming in, you know, Raphael
02:09Wickie is on top of the betting odds, and he's in advance talks, excited about that,
02:15kind of an unknown appointment, but happy with that.
02:18It's interesting to see someone new, who knows what we're going to actually come up with
02:22at the end of the day, but I'd rather see that than the old Bruce's and Pardew's and
02:25people like that, so yeah, give it a go, we'll see where we go with it, might be interesting.
02:30I mean it's still, it will take us five years to catch this lot up, yeah, and this is a,
02:39can I swear?
02:40No.
02:41This is a poxy little club on the south coast, yeah, and we are underdogs to them, that is,
02:46you know, just difficult to swallow, difficult to swallow.