West Bromwich Albion can stay up says Tony Mowbray

Nov 20 2008 By Chris Lepkowski

TONY Mowbray believes West Bromwich Albion are still on course for survival and must take heart from their attributes – not become disillusioned by their league position.

The Baggies are bottom of the table after losing five of their last six games, three of which came against Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.

Albion are now preparing for a run of games against teams who are expected to be involved in the survival shake-up at the end of the season, starting with this weekend’s game at Stoke.

“When I have a look at it so far there are not many occasions, if I was predicting the season at the start, that I would give us many more points than we’ve actually got,” Mowbray said.

“Over the course of the season I’m pretty sure I would predict us with enough points to make sure we stay safe. For me there is only Hull City at home where I would have hoped to have got more from the game than we did.

“We were disappointed to only take a point off Blackburn at