West Brom sacked head coach Eric Ramsay after simply 44 days in cost, with the membership sitting perilously near the Championship relegation zone following Tuesday night time’s 1-1 draw with Charlton.
Ramsay, 34, did not win a single league recreation throughout his transient tenure, amassing simply 4 factors from a attainable 24 throughout eight matches – a return that finally made his place untenable. Assistant head coach Dennis Lawrence has additionally left The Hawthorns.
In a statement, the club said: “West Bromwich Albion have parted firm with males’s first crew head coach Eric Ramsay. The membership wish to place on file its due to Eric and Dennis and needs them effectively for the long run.”
First-team coach James Morrison steps into the breach on an interim foundation for the second time this season, with a frightening journey to fellow relegation strugglers Oxford on Saturday his first task.
Ramsay inherited a facet sitting 18th however nonetheless seven factors away from the underside three when he changed Ryan Mason. That cushion has been virtually solely eroded, and Albion now sit only a single level above the drop zone with 12 video games remaining.
Supporter endurance ran out a while in the past. A 3-0 defeat at Portsmouth angered the fanbase, and through Saturday’s 2-0 residence loss to Coventry the terraces rang out with chants of ‘You’re getting sacked within the morning’ and ‘Eric Ramsay, your soccer is s***’.
Tuesday’s draw with Charlton, during which George Campbell’s header ended a 405-minute purpose drought earlier than Lyndon Dykes levelled for the guests, proved the ultimate straw.
Ramsay had appeared defiant in his remaining press convention, insisting: “I’m not sat right here on the again of 5 losses the place the crew has not been aggressive. Over the past 4 league video games, the crew has been aggressive, it’s combating and I don’t really feel there’s an absence of connection between me and the crew.”
