And basically we took hay and crab apples and made barbecue sauce out of those two ingredients.

And to give you a simple example here as to what we actually fed these customers, there's a bale of hay there and some crab apples.

Little wonder disgruntled reactions were common at The Hawthorns, perhaps most notably after a diabolical 0 0 draw with Villa in late January, when the visitors looked the more likely.

The landscape has undeniably altered in the Black Country and not just at The Hawthorns, but a few miles north west in Wolverhampton, too, where new Chinese owners wasted no time in relieving Kenny Jackett of his services.