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It feels to me too, like this is an optimum time for the Albion to take their chance, as said above, others will soon be emulating our playing style, and perhaps more crucially will be exploiting our recruitment methods thus squeezing markets that we currently have a headstart in.

But our system wasn't designed to cope with top 4 or Europe.. . this is a recently arrived possibility.

My gut feeling though is, if the club do want to take the next step, ie CL qualification etc, then they will need to insert the odd 'elite' player.

Now that we are generally considered serious contenders, with serious aspirational players on our books, I have started to consider the effect this weekends type of shenanigans ( and others previously of course), and the potential negative outcomes could/would have on our ability to recruit...