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.
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.