Do West Brom have a stronger squad than last season?

Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox return with the latest episode of the Baggies Broadcast.

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00:00I would say, Coxey, numbers-wise, obviously, the squad is down.

00:05However, arguably, I would say the squad is maybe a tad stronger.

00:14It's not far away, is it? You go through there, I don't think there's much in it.

00:18And, you know, we're podding. I know it's the international break coming up, isn't it,

00:21after Swansea, and we're doing a couple of pods in the break.

00:24And I think once we've hit Friday night's deadline,

00:27it'll be a good, better chance to go through this, let's be honest.

00:30But I think you go through there, you've almost hit the nail on the head, really.

00:35And I don't think there's much in it. I don't.

00:37I mean, look, Kipra is a major blow, wasn't he?

00:41What a talent at this level, albeit only the one season, really, with Albion.

00:45But, yeah, let's look at Higgins.

00:48You know, he's already got fans chanting his name when he's playing out of position.

00:52That'll tell you a thing or two about how he's done so far.

00:54And again, we can't judge him until he plays centre-half, really, can we?

00:57So it's hard to assess the others because, as I said at the top,

01:03we haven't seen much of the other eight new boys yet, have we?

01:07We haven't. Some of them gave cameos at Stoke.

01:10You know, Frabata, Diakite, Dobbin.

01:13For the first time, it was like, oh, yeah, they're showing what they can do there.

01:17You know, the old adage I said in the video after the game,

01:21some baggage will have watched that.

01:22You know, you went out to speak to fans, didn't you?

01:25And you thought Albion had scored again to make it three.

01:29Where are we? Three-one.

01:31And it just turned out to be a Diakite midfield challenge in stoppage time.

01:36So, you know, Frabata did similar and Dobbin showed great pace to get up the pitch.

01:41So, look, some really good cameos.

01:44I'm really excited to see Rakic.

01:46You know, I'm intrigued by six or four centre-mid.

01:48He's had good pedigree in his career and needs to get his career going again.