Jed Wallace makes 'toys out of the pram' suggestion after West Brom axing

Wallace continues to lead by example in the West Brom dressing room despite seeing a huge drop in his involvement on the field.

The 30-year-old has been on the bench for all six Championship fixtures so far this season and has played merely 94 minutes as a substitute. It’s been a stark contrast to the 42 league games last term and the complete 46 the campaign before that, but Wallace has taken the change well.

Many players would throw up a fuss about being effectively axed from the starting XI, but Wallace is instead seeing the positives. The versatile forward’s focus is not on his individual numbers but rather the success of the team – and notably the success of excellent 21-year-old winger Tom Fellows.

“I’ve started 45 games a season for seven or eight years so I’m not going to throw my toys out the pram or have a ding-dong after four or five games on the bench,” Wallace told BBC Radio West Midlands.

“If I sit and come on for 20 minutes and we win every game I’ll be a happy man at the end of the season. Everyone in the dressing room has their individual targets. My target was not how many minutes I could play, it was how could we get this club promoted? "That’s my primary target. Tom [Fellows] is playing that well you could probably take any other right winger in the whole league and they’d be sat there watching, because he’s at the top of his game right now. "I’ve been playing different roles in the last seven or eight months, coming on for Josh [Maja] or playing up front last season, I’ll do whatever the manager asks me and will always support him,” Wallace continued.

It’s a mentality that will have earned the former Millwall and Portsmouth man the captaincy in the first place – and the reason he’ll probably keep the armband for as long as he’s still at The Hawthorns. The togetherness at West Brom is in a terrific place and Wallace is pivotal to that.