[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Our campaign commences (and in accordance with time-honoured custom, probably concludes) against Derby tonight. All weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth can be wept, wailed and gnashed on this thread.

[4evaabaggie]

Our campaign commences (and in accordance with time-honoured custom, probably concludes) against Derby tonight. All weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth can be wept, wailed and gnashed on this thread.

No gnashing of teeth.
Cup run over.
Leading until the 96th minute.
Conceded from a free kick.
Lost 3-2 on penalties.
Wallace, Maja and Grant all missed / saved.

Always next year.
Should have done better with our 21 shots on goal.

[Salopbaggie]

What a joke!!! Dominate the game, only to concede 8 seconds from time at 95:52 from a free kick, which Taylor had absolutely no reason to give away. With Wildsmith in goal you just knew we were about to lose our 5th consecutive penalty shootout, awful penalties and shocking goalkeeping just throwing himself to the ground. hoping for the best. All that said it will give us a slight edge in the league with more time to rest and we did play OK during the game.

[BaggieSteve]

What a joke!!! Dominate the game, only to concede 8 seconds from time at 95:52 from a free kick, which Taylor had absolutely no reason to give away. With Wildsmith in goal you just knew we were about to lose our 5th consecutive penalty shootout, awful penalties and shocking goalkeeping just throwing himself to the ground. hoping for the best. All that said it will give us a slight edge in the league with more time to rest and we did play OK during the game.

Let’s face it, Salop, it wouldn’t be the Baggies if we didn’t get knocked out in the first round of every cup competition we enter

[Slick_Footwork]

To be honest I thought the actual performance was better than Saturday. We played more football and created more. However, that might just be because it was against Derby's second string.

Should've won easily really. But fair play to Derby, they stuck in the game and hit us with the sucker punch to get the draw at the end.

I'm not really sure how they were able to score a direct free kick from that angle. Don't get me wrong, it was a nice strike, but surely that has to go down as a goalkeeping error. We really could do with signing an experienced, steady keeper.

In terms of positives, Williams did well on his debut and I liked the look of George Campbell. He looked quick, committed and accomplished on the ball.

Obviously we have to take the quality of opposition into account, but what I saw of Campbell far exceeded my expectations for what we paid.

Going forward, Price was good again and Johnston was exciting. Good to see Maja back and Heggebo get on the scoresheet.

I appreciate Johnston can be frustrating at times, but IMO that's because he's always trying to go forward and create, rather than picking the "safe" ball. When you keep going at your man, it's not always going to come off. But personally, I wish a few other players had the same desire to play forward like he does. Hope he can work his way back into the starting XI soon, I think he offers a lot more than Karlan Grant.

Result wise, not overly bothered tbh. While it would be nice to have a cup run, I don't think it's really worth it with a paper thin Championship squad. At least now we can concentrate on securing our spot in the division.

Also assuming Heggam is off as he wasn't included at all. Fingers crossed that frees up cash for additions.

[valpayne]

2005 play off final ring any bells? Outplayed them and lost 1-0 Derby it seems are becoming a bogey team