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Long-timers out there may vaguely recall that this time ten years ago I posted a thread on BBC 606 inviting everyone to share their Albion team of the 2000s, giving everyone a chance to honour the Baggies who'd defined our yo-yo years.  Well, with a month to go until the Roaring Twenties commence, it's time to give it another whirl.  Everyone's welcome to submit, and there's only one rule:

Your team of the decade must consist of eleven players who have played at least one competitive match for West Bromwich Albion first team between the FA Cup tie at Huddersfield on 2nd January 2010 and the upcoming Championship fixture against Middlesbrough on 29th December 2019.

Beyond that, it's your choice alone.  Formation?  Up to you.  The biggest talents or just your own personal favourites?  Up to you.  Take off-field shenanigans into account, or concentrate purely on the beautiful game?  Up to you.  If there are any nearly-men who didn't quite make the final cut and deserve an honourable mention, feel free to stick them on an unlimited subs bench.  Provided there are enough responses, I may even try around New Year to see if we can build a consensus based on the names that crop up most.

And so without further ado, I give you my XI:

Foster

Dawson --- McAuley --- Evans --- Gibbs

Mulumbu

Barnes --- Morrison --- Brunt

Odemwingie --- Lukaku


Subs: Olsson, Reid, Scharner, Yacob, Gera, Long, Rodriguez

Foster - just the best keeper we had in decades, full stop
Dawson - tempted to pick Steven Reid, but fond of the way we nurtured him from lower league player to Prem regular
McAuley - one of the great football rags-to-riches stories, and proper servant to the club
Evans - shite captain, but on talent alone he was our best centre-half since the Seventies
Gibbs - hasn't fully had chance to flourish over a couple of tough years, but probably our best LB since Statham
Mulumbu - iconic player at his best, always fondly remembered, scored the winner against Villa in 2011
Brunt - a game-changing player on his day, and one of the last loyal club men
Morrison - as above
Barnes - a five-month loanee in our team of the decade seems daft, but without his impact, we might have gone straight into a downward spiral after relegation
Lukaku - another loanee, but what a loanee; we'll always be his breakthrough club, and to his dying day he'll never celebrate a goal against us
Odemwingie - Molineux, February 2012; and all the rest


Let's hear your thoughts and your picks!