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Darren Moore: West Brom must learn from their mistakes



Posted Monday, May 14, 2018 by PA

Darren Moore: West Brom must learn from their mistakes

Darren Moore has stressed the importance of relegated West Brom learning from the mistakes they have made this season, but refused to say whether he hopes to become the club’s permanent manager.

Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace is the first he has experienced since being appointed on a caretaker basis, and though he takes pride in restoring the ‘feelgood factor’ Moore insists that that needs to be only the start.

Second-half goals from Wilfried Zaha and Patrick van Aanholt meant the Baggies finished the season bottom of the Premier League, and owing to the struggles that came through a lack of direction, Moore recognises they have much they still need to improve upon.

Tony Pulis was sacked as manager in November and in his successor Alan Pardew’s four-month reign results got significantly worse.

West Brom had suffered eight successive league defeats until 44-year-old Moore replaced him and inspired an improvement, but he said: “It’s important the club comes together to start to implement the right plans, procedures, players, people. Whatever that may be.

“It would be wrong for me to speak about Darren Moore now.

“We stopped the rot, showed pride and compassion for the supporters and offered hard work and endeavour. We’ve seen that over the final six weeks of a very difficult campaign.

“It’s about making sure the club moves forward and learns from what happened here this season. We’ve had eight years in the Premier League. Let’s learn from this season.

“Most of those players are under contract. We’ll analyse the ins and outs of this season and in the summer we’ll try and put things right for this football club.”

Palace manager Roy Hodgson, who remarkably has led his team to an 11th-placed finish at the conclusion of a season that began with seven successive league defeats, spoke of the sadness he felt at the demise of his former club before insisting his present one needs to build.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek again impressed in the final fixture of his loan spell from parent club Chelsea, strengthening his hopes of selection for England’s World Cup squad, and Zaha’s future remains the subject of speculation, but Hodgson hopes to retain each.

“We need a philosophy and a clear idea of where we want this club to go and to build on this success,” the 70-year-old said.

“We must not start thinking that, because we finished 11th, that’s where we are. We have to do what Burnley and Leicester did this season and make sure we are a Burnley or a Leicester.

“We’ve worked hard to get this team playing this way, so it would be shame to see that go out of the window. I’m hoping we get reinforcements but it will be exciting to keep the bulk of this team together and add in areas, and to make certain if we lose players to replace them.

“I understand people coveting our players like Wilfried Zaha but he loves playing for the club, he’s a Croydon boy and I don’t think he’s going to jump at the first opportunity.”

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