Thanks animallittle.
A good manager will play to the suitability and strengths of the players he has available.
Us Albion fan's like to see good football, but when we played that stuff in the fifties, sixties and seventies we had the players who were some of the best in the country.
You aren't going to play like Barcelona with the likes of Sawyers, Livermore and Karlan Grant.
Mowbray had the last Albion side that played the beautiful game, we won the championship but were totally outclassed trying to do it in the premier league. He knew only that way of playing and couldn't or wouldn't adapt.
Megson on the other hand produced a winning side that didn't concede many but wasn't that easy on the eye.
But when we went up the second time he signed Kanu, Gearer, and was after Aruna Dindane. I don't know who else was on his list but those players alone suggest that he intended changing the style.
Instead of Dindane we got Geoff Horsfield.
Our problem has always been a reluctance to push on.
A manager can only try and get the best out of what he has at his disposal.