West Brom stars told to mature for Coventry City game
Oct 23 2009 by Chris Lepkowski
Eddie Newton
"It's about handling expectation that wasn't there last year and, up until now they've been dealing with it well.
"Everyone has to understand we’ve been churning out a team in the Championship with an average age of 23.
"To their credit, they’ve been consistently near the top since the start of the season.
"In my mind, that’s a fantastic achievement by the boys."
Newton explained how Albion are having to maintain standards.
"There is some naivety there and we have to address it every day," he added.
"That can be through communication, by talking things through in team meetings or individually with players and telling them what we expect of them and what we think they can do better.
"It’s also about reminding them of what they do well.
"We always try to give them as much praise as possible while trying to encourage them to add one or two more things to their game.
"We also address it by working on things tactically on the pitch as a unit.
"Things are going to go wrong, especially when you’re bouncing from game to game, because you’re not able to work on things in training as much as you’d like.
"But now there’s going to be a bit of a lull in the games, we can’t really focus and work on those things."
