Darren Moore pleased it’s a happy Hawthorns

Albion have already scored 27 league goals this season, just four fewer than they managed throughout the whole of the last campaign.

That dismal season ended in relegation from the Premier League but Moore’s men go in to today’s home fixture with Reading one point off the top of the Championship and unbeaten in six league fixtures.

Although the Baggies boss is still eager to improve, he’s glad the fans are enjoying the entertainment value.

“It’s a bonus,” he said. “If it brings smiles to their faces then happy days.

“We’ve tried to find a system here that we feel is suited to the team and the players we’ve got.

“The players have bought into that and shown individual brilliance and collective brilliance.

“There’s also aspects of that we need to work on and develop even better, in and out of possession.”

Albion have been electric going forward this season, but not so solid at the back, where they have kept just one clean sheet in the league.

However, Moore is seeing signs of encouragement from his back three.

“I’m very pleased with them,” he said. “As the games are going by they’ll get stronger, better and more of an understanding.

"Not just as a back three, but the whole group. It’s the team effect. As a unit I think they are getting better in and out of possession of the ball.”

Albion slipped to fourth after two late goals rescued a point at Sheffield Wednesday in midweek, and Moore admitted his team still needed work.

“There’s different shaped teams and areas of the team we want to strengthen,” he said. “On and out of possession.

“There’s new personnel in the building - new staff, new players, new system. Everything’s new.

“To implement all of that and to get the team dynamics right takes time.

“When the opportunity presents itself, we’re inching and clawing a way to get better and the only way we’ll do that is on the training ground.

“We’ll try to put the right ideas into the players and see the team develop as best as it can.”