Ally Robertson: Strong West Brom start and I hope more to come

I’m very positive after the first two games in that regard having taken four points from six.

We’ve not seen too much of the new boys yet for that reason with them getting up to speed. It does get time and games for new players to settle together and start to understand each other as a team.

When the players can get to know each other a bit better and settle that is when you hope we can go on some sort of run – but it’s great not to give anything away in the meantime.

I think it could take around four or five games of the new players featuring more regularly – which would take us until at least the break next month – for things to really settle down.

Some of our pre-season friendly results were not the best but we’ve started well in these games.

The one new face we’ve seen regularly is Torbjorn Heggem, playing out of position at left-back.

When I met him at The Hawthorns a few weeks back he said to me he was a centre-half and Carlos might want to play him at full-back, but that he would rather play at centre-half!

He looks like a good one. He looks like a real solid defender and from left-back he has been happy to try to get forward.

Myself and the supporters all said the same thing at The Hawthorns on Saturday – at least the bench is looking a bit more stocked now.

Jed Wallace and Grady Diangana came back into the squad, new boy Paddy McNair too, and it made a difference and it was great to see the two attackers make late cameos.

Even though we won so well at QPR we didn’t really have anybody to bring on, it was mostly kids.

But what a victory it was at Loftus Road! Josh Maja could not have done any better could he? Everything fell for him and he finished it all well. It was brilliant to see how lively he was, with a great first touch.

Against Leeds we defended absolutely brilliantly and gave them nothing but the problem was we didn’t attack much ourselves.

We look a solid side, though. We had more of the ball and more passes but we only had one shot on target. At home we’ve just got to go forward a little more.

I think the gaffer looked for us not to get beat.

He’s building a solid team, that is what he wants as a head coach.

We’ve got to wait for the transfer deadline to really assess the squad. We’re linked to loaning a powerful midfielder, I’ve seen he’s massive at 6ft 4in so that will be very useful for attacking and defending set-pieces.

I’ve said all summer we need another striker and Carlos has said he wants to replace Brandon Thomas-Asante, so let’s see how that goes next week.

We’ve got Stoke and Swansea before the international break. If we could take four points and stay unbeaten that would be brilliant.

I’d like to say how brilliant it was to see our owner Shilen Patel meet with fans and fly over to attend the game.

It’s great because what we’ve had for the past few years is owners that didn’t care and didn’t bother.

To come in and show the interest he has is brilliant for supporters and brilliant for the club.