Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox discussed Devante Cole on the latest episode of the Baggies Broadcast.
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00:00a lot agree with you. I think many listening to this would agree with you.
00:04I'm going to be semi-controversial and not saying I disagree, but I'm not surprised by this. I'm not
00:12surprised by this. And I think everyone's asked, you know, sort of saying, what's the crack here?
00:17To me, it seems obvious. You know, I just think if he was deemed to be good enough for Albion's
00:26struggles at the moment, for what Albion are missing at the moment, to come on for
00:30Madrid later on in games, my view is he'd be getting on, simply because there's no one else.
00:35There is that, although the only yardstick we've got from it is Luton,
00:38and I thought he did really well for Bench.
00:39Yeah, I thought he was okay there. I mean, he didn't,
00:45he didn't sort of set, I didn't think he set the world on fire.
00:48He didn't set the world on fire, but he had the ball up well, he got into some good areas.
00:52Yeah.
00:53I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of worse strikers at Albion in the last three or four
00:57years than Devante Cole's cameo at Luton.
01:00Yeah. And again, I asked Carlos about him that night and he said he was, you know,
01:06pleased enough with it. But again, I feel like, I feel it's pretty clear as to why we haven't
01:13seen him since. I remember the one time Carlos had been asked about it, about him semi-recently,
01:18he went on and spoke about how he, you know, Devante's called to him, he's not, you know,
01:23not, and not expecting to be a starter. And okay, fair enough, people will be saying,
01:28well, get him off the bench more. But the head coach, obviously not even seeing enough or not
01:34rating him enough to give him the cameos. And some will perhaps rightly say, well, you know,
01:39you may be only going to be able to judge him properly in a game if you give him these cameos.
01:43But, you know, head coaches, managers live or die by the decisions of picking team,
01:49team selection, what they see in the week, what they know behind the scenes, the data,
01:54physical levels. And I just feel like it looks like, and he may deny this and disagree with
02:03me, that just looks like he does not fancy him.