PROFILES of West Brom's coaching, performance, medical and analysis staff.

WEST BROM Director of Medical Tony Strudwick has warned that new rule changes could mean players facing the equivalent of eight extra games a season.

WEST BROM’S players will wear black armbands during their match against Sunderland tonight in tribute to club doctor Julian Widdowson, who died from a heart attack at his home in Bath on Saturday at the age of 63.

SHEFFIELD UNITED manager Paul Heckingbottom has revealed that he was “pretty sure” how West Brom would set up on Saturday after they “put a bit too much on their social media channels for us to see.”

ARSENAL Head of Academy Performance Tony Strudwick has joined West Brom as their Director of Medical Services.

WEST BROM boss Steve Bruce says all his players must live within an hour of their training ground next season - although he will continue to commute from Cheshire.

NEW manager Steve Bruce has taken three staff with him to West Brom - including his son Alex.

VALERIEN ISMAEL has taken a trio of his former Barnsley staff with him to West Brom.

NICK DAVIES has left West Brom after three years as their Head of Performance. The decision follows the arrival of Valerien Ismail as Head Coach last week.

WEST BROM Sporting Director Luke Dowling has left after three years at The Hawthorns as the club “reassess how our football operation functions”.

WEST BROM legend Chris Brunt has returned to the club to become Under-23s assistant to Deon Burton.

ROBBIE STOCKDALE and James Morrison have joined Sam Allardyce's staff at West Brom as first-team coaches.

WEST BROM Head of Academy Sports Science and Medicine, Nick Irwin, is leaving the club to join the Academy Audit Company.

JIMMY SHAN looks back on his 13 years at West Brom, which took him from the Under-7s to first-team manager.

RICHARD STEVENS has left Coventry City after 12 years to become Academy Manager at West Brom.

JIMMY SHAN has ended his 13-year association with West Brom to pursue his managerial ambitions.

WEST BROM caretaker manager Jimmy Shan has completed his backroom team by bringing in Michael Appleton and Steven Reid as coaches.

WEST BROM caretaker manager James Shan charts his amazing 13-year journey from Under-7s coach at the club to first-team boss.

WEST BROM contributed more players to the England youth teams than both Manchester United and Liverpool during the October international break.

GRAEME JONES has ended an 11-year spell as Roberto Martinez’s assistant to team up with close friend Darren Moore at West Brom.

JAMES SHAN has been named first-team coach at West Brom - 12 years after joining the club as Under-7s coach.

WEST BROM Director of Performance Mark Gillett has resigned to take up a new role at Nottingham Forest.

WEST BROM'S Richard Garlick has been appointed as the Premier League's new Director of Football.

WEST BROM have sacked Technical Director Nick Hammond and replaced him with Italian consultant Giuliano Terraneo.

NEIL CUTLER, 41, joined Walsall in 2013 as goalkeeping coach before becoming one of Jon Whitney's assistants when he took charge in 2016.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have been the youngest side in the Premier League so far this season, according to analysis by Ben Mayhew of Experimental 3-6-1.

DARREN MOORE is to to continue as Alan Pardew’s first team coach until the end of the season.

FITNESS COACH Matt Green has left West Brom after 10 years to become Elite Performance Manager at the Premier League.

WEST BROM are the tallest side in the Premier League this season, with Manchester City the smallest.

DARREN BURGESS, the new Director of High Performance at Arsenal, has called on practitioners to “stick together and not publicly comment on what happens at other clubs” following a tweet from his West Brom counterpart.

WEST BROM boss Tony Pulis says he wants half his team to be homegrown within the next two years - even though they have been hampered by playing Academy football “far, far too long”.

ENGLAND rugby union coach Eddie Jones visited West Brom yesterday and praised Tony Pulis as ‘a coach who coaches’.

WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.