taking over in late February<\/a>, when the Baggies board opted to finally go ‘in-house’ to stick with their long-serving former midfielder following two highly questionable appointments, Morrison has proved to be a lot more than just a caretaker.<\/p>\nHe has presided over just two defeats in 15 games \u2013 and smiles are back on faces at The Hawthorns.<\/p>\n
Fuelled by the fine form in particular of Price, already expectant fans are beginning to remove the shackles of doubt and are starting to wonder about how far they can go if they continue to get it right, six seasons on from their last one-season stay in the top flight.<\/p>\n
In the short term, they now face two tough trips to the North East, the Carabao Cup trip to Newcastle on Wednesday, 26 August, and the lunchtime kick-off at Middlesbrough three days later.<\/p>\n
Albion then do not play again until 2 September, at home to Charlton, the day after the summer transfer window closes. And Morrison has already said that his main concern is replacing Alex Mowatt following the midfielder’s move to Derby County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life as West Bromwich Albion boss is so far going very smoothly for Morrson. Since taking over in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}