SYNOPSIS

It's that "difficult" season four as they say in box set land.

All the early seasons when everything is new and there for the shaping have gone and you realise that you've got to hunker down for the long haul if you're ever going to get to season ten - hell, even 'The West Wing' only got to seven.

It was a year of hard knocks and harder characters, men battling adversity and coming out the other side with their noses bloodied but their status intact, the Premier League and all its weaponry unable to land the knockout blow.

We are Albion and we will be back for season five. Here's how . . .