WBA v QPR Friday 24SEP21 2 - 1 FT 12pts/10th

to be playing the 18th, 21st and 24th this early in the season is a joke

i really hope we can pick up at least a point against high flying west Brom lets face it will be as big a test as the everton game was

question is what will the team be?

i will go first

3-4-3

Dieng
Dickie De Wijs Barbet
Kakay Johansen Ball McCallum
Gray Dykes Willock

for what its worth

McCallum picked up what could possibly be a nasty looking knee injury. Hopefully he was just removed as a precaution but he'd be a massive loss as he's improving game by game and seems to be getting on the same wavelength as Chair and Willock down the left.

As for the line up I think Warburton needs to play a team very specifically to counter what West Brom will throw at us. And by that I mean literally throw at us via Darnell Furlong's Rory Delap-esque long throws.

Every clip I've seen of West Brom this season has involved long throws. They are a big physical team and we need to select our team to make sure we don't just lose 3-0 to 3 long throw routines.

I'm going to assume McCallum is missing out. To give us more height I'd like to see Dunne start with Barbet at left wing back. Dykes will also start as he can come back and offer an aerial presence. Add Ball and we've got 6 tall, strong players in the side.

I would go:

Dieng
Dickie De Wijs Dunne
Odubajo Ball Johansen Barbet
Chair Willock
Dykes

Arguably Odubajo could be Kakay but he had a nightmare against Bournemouth and the fact he didn't feature in the cup speaks volumes.

With that team we have Austin and Gray to come off the bench.

I will not be updating the Thread title as the game progresses tomorrow night as we have tickets to see Ben Fogle at the local theatre. When they shifted the match to Friday I was less than pleased! I am hoping to take a quick peek at the internet during the performance though....

He still calls it a setback though. I will be very surprised to see him against West Brom. Surely he wouldn't have called it a setback if he was fit and raring to go again?

Just twigged that tomorrow is a kit clash no matter what kit we wear. West Brom home has a lot of white on the shirt, white shorts and navy socks.

We can't wear our away kit all black.

Unless West Brom wear their away kit or we come out wearing last seasons away kit the best I can come up with is we will wear home shirt, blue shorts, white socks. Even that will still be a clash of shirts in my view.


UPDATE > The club have confirmed we are wearing black and gold. Very strange.

How is this not a kit clash? Perhaps we will wear blue shorts/white socks to give a greater contrast.

I was asked by the West Brom News website for my thoughts ahead of our clash tonight.

You can read the article they put together here:

QPR West Brom Preview Part 1

QPR West Brom Preview Part 2

Totally agreed with the piece you wrote for West Brom news. Also agree with them referring to you as a Super Fan.