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The West Brom Blog's favourite cartoon dog is Mutley, closely followed by Brian from Family Guy. It also likes Wallace, by the way, who it turns out is not the dog in Wallace and Gromit. But now onto formations and midfielders.

When Tony Mowbray left the club midway through pre-season, he left behind a penchant for creative midfield players. The likes of Robert Koren, Chris Brunt, James Morrison and Graham Dorrans stayed to fill the 'hole' in midfield and Roberto Di Matteo has since added Jerome Thomas and Giles Barnes just to make sure it was full.

Barnsley 1-0 Watford

We went into this game sporting, predictably, the same set up and personnel who thrashed Preston’s hide. It didn’t work out that way again because Watford came to try and end a losing run, and they closed us down quickly in their half, something Preston didn’t do. But, we did all we needed to do to raise ourselves up to a fantastic 9th place, just 3 small points behind 6th.
The majestic, flowing, spacious attacking was just not happening against an organized and disciplined Watford defence. They weren’t going to give us anything we didn’t fight for, but fight we did. Yet again Doyle was sublime, and together with Colace they wrestled control of the midfield zone, and gave our defence an easy job. They too were faultless, particularly Darren Moore, who put in one of those performances that just gives forwards nightmares. The pressure stifled much of our 3 man attacking midfield, and Anderson was poor. Andy Gray could rarely be found on the ground, and so his life was made much harder by a string of aerial balls. He did a great job despite this adversity, and was given help by Teixeira. The Tex was pure class yesterday. His skill left me at times incredulous, and his control and passing were second to none.

Plymouth 0, West Brom 1 - The West Brom Blog Correctly Predicts Another Result! But It Won't Be Mentioning That...

The West Brom Blog tried so hard to be someone that it forgot who it was - eventually it remembered though and it was pleasantly suprised!

West Brom's eighth away league win this season ensured that they kept pace with Newcastle at the top and came with a much needed clean sheet (one that the West Brom Blog did actually predict, but it wouldn't like to blow its own trumpet or anything). A sending off and a missed penalty also livened up a relatively dull game.

Newcastle 5, Cardiff 1 - Sometimes The West Brom Blog Dreams of Being the Newcastle Blog, Then It Reminds Itself That It Couldn't Do That To Its Loyal Follower

The West Brom Blog has had a long week, but it won't let that affect its writing...
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Some People Say The West Brom Blog is Self Indulgent, But It Doesn't Care Because It Likes Itself the Way It Is, and It Knows That's All That Matters. Oh

The West Brom Blog used its best material in the title. So now onto the victory over Blackpool.
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Giles Barnes Stars in the Best Thing The West Brom Blog Has Ever Produced - Plus A World XI That Manages To Include A West Brom Player!

The West Brom Blog had dreams once, then it watched Sky Sports News for five consecutive hours - it's never been the same since. Now onto Barnes and Blackpool.
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Sickened soccer sucker

It really is a queer old game. Togo get sprayed with bullets and all the sympathy CAF gives them is a four-year-long turned-back. In that same confederation's showpiece competition (one that gets stronger by the year), the winners are the world's 10th best side, triumphed for the third consecutive campaign, yet won't be making the trip to South Africa this summer. Elsewhere, we haven't even got the World Cup out of the way and already the game's organisers see fit to fondle the balls for EURO 2012. And a host of Russian sides, ourselves, Notts County, and Crystal Palace all look set to hit the 'Eject' button but defy the doom to start winning with character-bulging showings. So how is our media and its brainwashed public covering these unfortunate incidents; maybe even trying to instigate change? Well, y'know, it can wait until some story about John Terry getting his willy wet blows over.

Reading 1-0 Barnley, no positives

It's kind of hard to express quite how disappointing this was after the improvements against Leicester. It was back to how we were against Wednesday, just this time the defence couldn't play either. We never put two passes together, and we didn't even try many long balls, we just lost it again and again. The defence was disorganized and comical, and it's only testament to the fact that Reading were sub-clinical that the margin was just one goal, we deserved to lose by many more.

Schadenfreude is Difficult To Spell, But The West Brom Blog is Not Averse To It

The West Brom Blog may or may not have just eaten one of those giant Aero bars. But now onto the schadenfreude.

Nottingham Forest have just lost to Derby County 1-0. West Brom have just kicked off against Sheffield United in ...