Albion’s Promotion Campaign Season Comparison – 20 games

Published on: Author: Jon Want

However disappointing and frustrating the result against Brentford was, I don’t believe we should be reading too much into it given the way that Big Dave’s team dominated most of the match.

It took me back some fifteen years to a Tuesday night in October 2003. Gary Megson’s team, who were eventually promoted at the end of the season, welcomed Wimbledon to the Hawthorns. They were a troubled club who had just been moved to Milton Keynes and they were backed by a massive following of 28 (I counted them at kick off), but despite Albion dominating the game with numerous attempts on goal, they just couldn’t score and Jobi McAnuff scored the winner for the visitors with eleven minutes to go.

Like in 2003, Monday’s result was not a fair reflection of the game and, let’s face, Albion were probably due one of those having picked up a few undeserved points already this season. Megson’s team followed that result up with a 3-0 win at Rotherham, and I’m sure every Baggies fan out there will forgive the team if they take all three points on Friday evening!

Darren Moore’s team have the same number of points from 20 games as Tony Mowbray’s title winning team of 2007/08 and have scored two more goals. Megson’s first promotion winning team also had 35 points at this stage, but were unsurprisingly somewhat less prolific, having scored eighteen fewer goals!

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Home Away Season End
Pld W D L F A Pts Posn* W D L F A Pts W D L F A Pts Posn Pts
2000/2001 20 11 4 5 27 21 37 4th 7 2 2 18 11 23 4 2 3 9 10 14 6th 74
2001/2002 20 11 2 7 24 18 35 5th 6 1 3 11 5 19 5 1 4 13 13 16 2nd 89
2003/2004 20 12 4 4 31 17 40 1st 6 2 2 13 6 20 6 2 2 18 11 20 2nd 86
2006/2007 20 8 5 7 32 23 29 10th 6 2 1 20 8 20 2 3 6 12 15 9 4th 76
2007/2008 20 10 5 5 40 22 35 2nd 6 3 1 21 8 21 4 2 4 19 14 14 1st 81
2009/2010 20 11 5 4 41 19 38 2nd 6 1 3 21 9 19 5 4 1 20 10 19 2nd 91
2018/2019 20 10 5 5 42 28 35 3rd 6 2 2 27 14 20 4 3 3 15 14 15
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

 

Results

2000/2001 25/11/2000 Preston North End (H) W 3-1 Hughes (3)
2001/2002 24/11/2001 Bradford City (H) W 1-0 McInnes
2003/2004 29/11/2003 Nottingham Forest (A) W 3-0 Koumas (2), Louis-Jean (o.g.)
2006/2007 28/11/2006 Sheffield Wednesday (A) L 1-3 Koumas
2007/2008 04/12/2007 Coventry City (H) L 2-4 Bednar (2)
2009/2010 08/12/2009 Cardiff City (H) L 0-2
2018/2019 03/12/2018 Brentford (H) D 1-1 Barnes

 

Next Matches

2000/2001 02/12/2000 Wimbledon (A) W 1-0 Williams (o.g.)
2001/2002 02/12/2001 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) W 1-0 Jordão
2003/2004 06/12/2003 West Ham United (H) D 1-1 Mullins (o.g.)
2006/2007 02/12/2006 Derby County (H) W 1-0 Hartson
2007/2008 08/12/2007 Leicester City (A) W 2-1 Gera, Beattie
2009/2010 14/12/2009 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) D 2-2 Thomas, Cox
2018/2019 07/12/2018 Aston Villa (H)