'A much healthier picture' - Eric Ramsay's West Brom assessment with crunch three-game week on horizon

Ramsay, who marked a month in charge at The Hawthorns last week, is now winless in seven games and his side have yet to lead under his reign.

Albion slumped a place to 20th due to results elsewhere and now sit two places and two points above the drop zone. Saturday's visit of Coventry kickstarts a crunch three-game week including key clashes against lowly rivals Charlton and Oxford as under-fire Ramsay hunts a first win.

"I'm sat here relatively comfortable with where we are on the back of the games against Stoke and Birmingham," Ramsay said of last week's successive goalless draws.

"I felt like no matter the outcome here (at Norwich) as long as we felt like we took some steps forward in terms of the depth of the squad there would be something that we could focus on.

"From a positive perspective and I wouldn't have let Saturday impact how those two games felt.

"I feel like when we get the group together this week we'll feel good about the progress we made in terms of performance and clean sheets and aggression and resilience and that sense of team and fight which was just huge.

"And then to be able to add to that a sense of competitiveness and players returning and players having minutes in their legs, that's a much healthier picture than I encountered a month ago."

Ramsay was content to rotate heavily at Carrow Road on Saturday with just two starters continuing from the Blues stalemate last Tuesday.

Albion were level at 1-1 with 20 minutes left but succumbed to two late Canaries goals.

Norwich was the scene of the Baggies' last victory in the Championship, all the way back on October 1. A 1,300 travelling cohort in Norfolk were once again left empty-handed.