Predictable Team For Baggies Encounter

Still no Tomkins so Ginge continues at centre back, O'Brien at left back because of McCartney's absence, O'Neil and Taylor start, as does Cole.

To be fair, Allardyce doesn't have many options as the subs bench shows. True Tomkins is benched, but the other outfield players are Spence, Lletget, Moncur and Maiga. Thre's even an untaken shirt!

Any more injuries and we are in desperate trouble. Vaz Te, Carroll, McCartney, Collison, Diara, Diame and Benayoun are all missing and would all strengthen the team if available. Even the top clubs would struggle with seven first choice players out. Maybe we should have kept Morrison, Hall and Potts at the club?

It's a chance for Clarke to prove a point to Sullivan and Gold. Let's hope they can throw him a bag of bibs at the end of the game and say, "Get back to what you're good at!"!