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May 24 2009 by Robert Tanner, Sunday Mercury

Mowbray is more Charles Darwin than Che Guevara in his approach and said this summer will be more about evolution, rather than revolution.

Although some players will inevitably leave, Mowbray aims to keep the promising core of his squad together.

“You never stop building your side,” he said.

“It is a very young team in terms of the time they have been together. It is a year and a half ago that most of this team was built.

“The likes of Camara, Koumas, Perry, Quashie, Davies, McShane and Ellington all moved on. It was practically a whole team that left and we started again. This group has been together a short space of time and if we can keep that core together and add to it as we lose some of the periphery, then the team will continue to grow. I want to continue to improve this football club.”

That improvement will inevitably mean the arrival of some new faces, but it will be the emergence of another arrival at the Mowbray household that will particularly excite the Albion boss.

Mowbray is set to become a father for the third time and it promises to be a busy time for wife Amber and his two young sons Lucas and Max.

“Babies cause disruption in your family but they give you so much joy, excitement and love,” he said.

“I try to help as much as I can but this summer all our hands will be full in our house, as well as having the right decisions to make in the football world.

“The other two are looking forward to it. We have communicated that to them. I think they would like the baby to come pretty quick so they can have a holiday, but I don’t think that will happen.

“The baby is probably going to come when we are just coming back to work.”