Colin Kazim-Richards today revealed he would relish a new role as Albion plot their assault on League One.

The Coca-Cola Kid scored two, created two and generally ran riot in this pre-season mis-match from a position ahead of midfield but behind a front two of Jake Robinson and Alex Revell.

Richard Carpenter sat deep in midfield with Dean Hammond raiding down the right and Doug Loft on the left With his ability to come deep, shrug off tackles and join play up, the in-between position looked made for Kazim-Richards, albeit against weak opposition.

But then little Dean Cox did not do too badly in his own, very different, interpretation of the role, scoring two himself in the last eight minutes.

Not for Albion boss Mark McGhee any Svenlike tendency to leave the experimentation for serious matches.

McGhee took the chance to have a low-key look at his 4-3-1-2 and was suitably encouraged.

He said: "Alex has proven so far to be a decent player and Jake is probably the most in-form player we have in the squad at the moment.

"We know what Colin can do so I think we are looking at whether there is a way we can maybe get all three players in the team and yet still be a defensive unit.

"It was okay. Obviously we would have to see it against stellar opposition but it was a starting point for it and we are quite pleased with some of the aspects of it."

Kazim-Richards said: "I love it there. I can run at people, I can slide people in or score myself, like I did in this game.

"If I had to pick one role, I'd rather play there but that's a harder formation to play.

"Sometimes the gaffer's not going to want to play it.

"I've just got to keep myself in the starting XI wherever I play."

Against a non-league side still two weeks from full training, this fixture always looked a potential landslide.

But Albion played it properly, went about their work professionally and reaped more benefit than they would have taken from a training-ground shooting session.

They used 22 players, including a re-introduction to action for Alex Frutos and a first look at 21-year-old Hungarian midfielder David Galantai, their latest trialist.

What unfolded before a smattering of spectators seeking any shade they could get from Gonfreville's only stand was a re-working of a cliche. This was effectively two 45-minutes of two halves.

Albion took 27 minutes to go ahead but were seven up at the break.

They then changed their entire team and managed only a good header by Jacques Williams from Sam Rents' deep cross until the last nine minutes, when Liam Marum produced an explosive right-foot finish and Cox drilled in from 20 and 25 yards.

It was hard to remember by then how they took so long to go ahead.

The breakthrough eventually came when Kazim-Richards won the ball, played a one-two with Robinson and finished confidently.

Revell's first was again the result of Kazim-Richards dropping deep before turning and picking a pass.

CKR added a solo effort, then sparked the counter which led to a Robinson tap-in before the hard-working Revell finished twice in three minutes and found Robinson at the near post for No. 7.

Kazim-Richards added: "You've got to get used to hitting the back of the net.

"It took us 20 minutes to get into it because the heat was pounding us but we enjoyed it."

It gets more serious from now on.

Albion first half: Henderson, Hart, Elphick, El-Abd, Bakayoko, Hammond, Carpenter, Loft, Kazim-Richards, Revell, Robinson.

Albion second half: Kuipers, Reid, P. Hinshelwood, Breach, Rents, Williams, Galantai, Frutos, Cox, Marum, Gatting.