{"id":617480,"date":"2025-12-07T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617480\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:33:14","slug":"the-right-time-ryan-mason-on-josh-griffiths-call-and-one-word-answer-on-if-he-faces-a-west-brom-keeper-decision-for-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617480\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The right time&#8217; &#8211; Ryan Mason on Josh Griffiths call and one-word answer on if he faces a West Brom keeper decision for Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albion&#8217;s <\/a>No.1 was dropped to the bench for Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/12\/06\/qpr-3-west-brom-1-dreadful-goals-conceded-as-away-woes-go-on-with-poor-defeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3-1 defeat at Queens Park Rangers<\/a> with Joe Wildsmith selected as deputy for the first time in the Championship this season.<\/p>\n<p>The decision could not help inspire the Baggies from their away woes as the hosts were gifted three goals from insipid defending to condemn the visitors to a sixth straight away defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Eyebrows were raised as academy graduate Griffiths, 24, was pulled from the starting line-up at Loftus Road. Griffiths had made an error for Swansea&#8217;s second goal in the previous weekend&#8217;s home clash, which Mason&#8217;s side rallied back to win. It was not Griffiths&#8217; first error of the campaign, but the shot-stopper has caught the eye at times with big saves in games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albion&#8217;s No.1 was dropped to the bench for Saturday&#8217;s 3-1 defeat at Queens Park Rangers with Joe Wildsmith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,93,79,16,15,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-617480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115677128833671371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}