Jonny Drury caught up with West Brom fans after their defeat to Watford.
Albion went to Watvford looking to end the Hornets' long unbeaten run at home.
It was an entertaining first period where both sides had chances, but Watford led at the break through Vakoun Bayo.
Albion started the second half poorly and fell further behind as Bayo bagged his second - before Jayson Molumby got the Baggies back in the game.
But they could not find an equaliser and they fell to their first defeat since October 1.
Albion went to Watvford looking to end the Hornets' long unbeaten run at home.
It was an entertaining first period where both sides had chances, but Watford led at the break through Vakoun Bayo.
Albion started the second half poorly and fell further behind as Bayo bagged his second - before Jayson Molumby got the Baggies back in the game.
But they could not find an equaliser and they fell to their first defeat since October 1.
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00:00Harry, first defeat in a very long time, how did you see that one?
00:11I wasn't expecting a win, I was expecting a draw to be honest. I think a few decisions
00:17definitely went against us, but there were times where he didn't deserve to score definitely,
00:23so I think we deserved a draw, but a loss, it was a long time coming to be honest.
00:30I think we were our own worst enemy on that one, we quite clearly had some chances in
00:35the first half we could have put away, like we didn't, which has been a failure for not
00:41just this season, but for a while now we haven't had a regular goal scorer, but they worked
00:47hard today at the Albion, created chances, didn't take them, but we also were a bit sloppy
00:53on them, especially for their first goal I think. I'll be thinking to myself, Palmer,
01:00he could have done better with that, but he's had a great season and as I say, I'm not despondent,
01:10but I'm a little down at the moment.
01:13First half, both sides had spells, maybe unfortunate to go in at the break one down,
01:18but that first 15 minutes of the second half seemed to cost them, what do you think went
01:22wrong for them? They looked like a different team at the start of the second half.
01:24Yeah, I think we switched forward to back, which in theory would have been better, as
01:30we had a lot of time, I think it was just a mix of us changing at a time when they were
01:35quite strong, just to work our teams together. For me, we just let them dwell on the ball
01:44too much and they were dictating things in the second half, whereas in the first half
01:49we were dictating and we needed that bit more in the middle, somebody in the middle to take
01:58over and dictate. I think he tried the gaffer there, bringing Swift and Wallace on to do
02:04that. Unfortunately, it didn't quite come off. So I'm not despondent. Looking back to
02:13this time last year, we weren't sure we'd have a club. I'm glad the new owner and I'm
02:23glad all that. It'll take a while. We'll settle into it and we'll build and build and build
02:31and build. Hopefully this season we'll still get into the play-offs.
02:36And heading into Christmas now, the January trance window is coming up. Where do they
02:41need to strengthen? There's probably a few positions, but what are the priorities for
02:45you?
02:46The same as the past few years, an out-and-out strike that can score goals. We've not had
02:51the same sort of goalscoring rate since Dwight Gale and Jay Rodriguez. We scored a load just
02:56like we did against Liverpool in 2002. If we can get that again, it would really up
03:00our chances.
03:01Again, when we are in ascendancy and we do have the players to do that, we seem to lack
03:13that killer touch. It's that final ball, the killer touch. I saw a little bit of that Liverpool
03:24game last night and they were down and out and down and out. Finally, somebody twiddles
03:29away and they've got a... alright, that's a Premier League, I know, but if you have
03:36that type of player, which we haven't had in my mind now, of our own, we haven't had
03:41that type of player since Kev Phillips, really. If he'd have had that chance at the death
03:46there with the header, he'd have put that away, you see.
03:49And that's... I've still got his book at home. My dad gave it to me when I was growing up.
03:55It's bloody old and it was way back in the 50s, but the title of the book is, it's goals
04:01that count. Nothing else but goals that count. But, as I said, I'm not despondent, but we
04:08will rebound. We'll come back.