Baggies fans travelled to Swansea on New Year's Day in the hope that 2026 would see Albion resolve the away-day blues which dogged them for so much of 2025.
However, the 90 minutes in South Wales were more of the same in so many ways.
Much as they did in their final away day of 2025 at Hull, Albion had the better of the chances but ended up on the wrong side of a 1-0 scoreline.
That was The Throstles' ninth consecutive away defeat and their 10th overall for the season.
To put the latter stat into perspective, despite only having played 56% of their total away games, the Baggies have already lost two more than they did in the whole of last season.