[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Victory over Oxford last weekend, however hard-fought, kept Albion well in the running of a playoff race which increasingly looks like it might involve every team not threatened by relegation, and even one or two that are. But between our indifferent away record, our win-one-lose-one form and the sheer gulf between the sides on paper, Saturday's early visit to Elland Road feels like a Shakespearean date with destiny, highly liable to result in comedy or tragedy, if not both.

Table-topping Leeds, who've lost just one of their last eight league encounters with Albion, are presently on a five-game winning streak in addition to winning thirteen of their last fourteen home games with an aggregate score of 38-3. The Baggies, meanwhile, have enjoyed no success at Elland Road since January 2007, and to hang our hopes on the fact that said win occurred under the stewardship of Tony Mowbray would require clutching at more straws than a randy scarecrow.

If there are hopes to dangle at all, then they lie in the general unpredictability of things, and us having nothing much to lose. We've got to be someone else's banana skin every once in a while, and it'd be nice to think it might happen here. But realistically, anything - including a narrow margin of defeat - is a bonus in this hardest fixture of our run-in, and if the winter clouds that lour'd upon our house are made glorious summer by the sun of York, then the Ides of March may not look quite so rough after all.

[Lord Snooty]

Come on you Baggies.

[drewks]

Can't see this fixture without thinking of the one (1970ish?) where, again, we were thought of as cannon fodder but won, thanks to a highly controversial goal by the King not being flagged offside.
A similar outcome today would be great - without the near riot from the Leeds morons

[Lord Snooty]

Can't see this fixture without thinking of the one (1970ish?) where, again, we were thought of as cannon fodder but won, thanks to a highly controversial goal by the King not being flagged offside.
A similar outcome today would be great - without the near riot from the Leeds morons

Never offside!

[Salopbaggie]

Wow only 5 minutes in and this does not feel good.

[talkSAFT]

1-0 Leeds (9 mins) Bo**ocks!

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Get in there!!! Furlong makes it 1-1 (38 mins)

[Salopbaggie]

Passing is not tight enough against a team like Leeds to keep this trying to play out every time, sometimes you just have to put your foot through it.

[talkSAFT]

Certainly can't complain.
Quite happy to shut the Leeds lot up. Spent a good few years up in Leeds, and the folk were really nice. But put 'em in a Leeds shirt/scarf and they're obnoxious - a bit like the Vile.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Another damn good result, when all's said and done.

[drewks]

Just seen the highlights..... looked like a Premier League fixture to me!
Furlong's header was out of this world.... and he very nearly got a second too.
On what was shown - admittedly not that much - it was a strong showing from us, away from home at the league leaders.
Good times are back!