West Brom Reserves 4, Bradford City Reserves 0: Anything the seniors can do, City reserves can do better - or worse.

The second string followed the script from Nottingham Forest on Saturday by shipping, not three, but four first-half goals at Halesowen.

And again most came down to defensive errors.

Three long-term casualties were expected to come back but Jamie Lawrence and Peter Atherton both failed to make the starting line-up, opting instead to regain more fitness in training.

So the only absentee returning to action was Claus Jorgensen, although it was evident the Dane - who has been out seven weeks with an injured knee - was still some way off being fully fit.

City fielded another trialist in goal, 19-year-old Phillip Straker from Sunderland. But within a minute he was picking the ball out the net from Jordao, who had opened up City with a clever one-two with Danny Dichio.

Albion keeper Joe Murphy brought off good saves from Graeme Tomlinson and Liam Flynn but otherwise he was rarely troubled.

The Baggies, whose side also included Lee Hughes, doubled their lead after 25 minutes when Lee Marshall robbed Craig Fishlock on the edge of the penalty area and lashed home.

Then an awful back-pass from Bolton trialist Leam Richardson let in Hughes to make it three 12 minutes later.

Right on the stroke of half-time Hughes turned provider when he ran down the right wing and crossed for Dichio who left Andy Lee and Craig Bentham at sixes and sevens to slide the ball home.

Just like Saturday there were no further goals after the break although Mark Danks missed a close-range header from Tom Penford's cross.