West Brom's deeply concerning form runs beyond 451 painful minutes

West Brom’s shambolic form continued at Luton Town and the scale of the job on Steve Bruce’s hands was only magnified after Cameron Jerome and Allan Campbell inflicted Albion’s latest defeat.

Jerome’s header after half time and then Campbell’s measured strike in the closing stages settled the meeting, on the latest afternoon when Albion failed to score and were turned over on the road.

Quite how it was goalless at the break will forever remain a mystery. Don’t be mistaken, for large periods it was pretty drab and the quality (or lack of) on display reflected the pretty miserable conditions that the game was being played out in.

Albion’s season is rapidly falling off a cliff on this basis and, right now, mere mid-table mediocrity looks far more likely than a return to the top six any time soon.

Here are the talking points from a drenched and blustery Kenilworth Road.

The new manager mightn’t have got the results he’d have liked in his first couple of games in charge, but in the days leading up to Luton it was the first real opportunity for him to get a few days of training and preparation into this group.

He tried to implement change, by switching back to a back three, but the same problem which has dogged Albion this season rose to the surface once again here - when they go a goal down, they shrink.

Bruce was livid with the response to falling behind.

“The way we just fell apart was blatantly obvious to everybody and to the travelling supporters I can only apologise,” he said. “I will do my utmost to to make sure that doesn’t happen. Yes, I know we’re on a bit of a bad run and confidence is a bit low and I can understand that but we have to have a better reaction.”

What happens at Middlesbrough will be telling.

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