Last Updated: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:41
West Brom midfielder Graham Dorrans says the Baggies are determined to finish in the top two to avoid the play-off lottery.
The victory over Sheffield United at the weekend has seen the Baggies close the gap on both Nottingham Forest and Newcastle at the top of the table and the Scottish international has admitted the club do not want to play-off football.
"No-one wants to go through the play-offs," he told the Birmingham Mail.
"If we have to win the play-offs to go up that's what we'll do but we are in this to win the league if possible and that's what we'll be looking to do.
"Everybody in the dressing room wants to win the league first and foremost but if we finish second and go up we will take it. If we don't do that and we go up through the play-offs then that's great as well.
"The main aim is to go up but everybody in the team is aiming for the title.
"It's not really about Newcastle, it's about us. We've got to concentrate on our own performance and just get ahead of whoever is up there.
"If it's Forest, Newcastle or whoever, we've got to get in front of them and we will be looking to challenge them.
"It is teams like Sheffield United who will be in and around the play-offs and they will be hoping to push us and get into the automatic places.
"So it's teams like this that you need to be winning games against, as well as when the lower-league teams come, so Saturday's was a good result for us."