Mowbray saw his team lose 2-0 at injury-hit Everton on Saturday, leaving them rooted to the bottom of the remier League.

A first-half header from Tim Cahill, the result of shocking marking at a free-kick, was followed by a cracker from substitute Louis Saha in the second period to clinch victory for Everton.

Everton have now lost just three of their last 23 games and will head into next Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final against Middlesbrough full of confidence.

Albion have won only two of their last 11 and look to be heading back to the Championship.

But Mowbray was defiant, saying: "I've been asked if we are up for the fight. But you will never see a scraping, spitting, fighting, muscular team from me. You will see a team that passes and moves.

"What is right or wrong? I know what is right, and if you get relegated, take it on the chin. We will play exactly the same next season, you do what you believe in.

"Lack of fight? What does that mean. Is it how many fouls you give away?

"I'm more concerned about whether a striker can hit the target and how good we are on the ball. Those are the things we work at on the training ground.

"This is the team I coach. Some people judge you on results, I judge teams on the way they play. I want to keep our stadium full and people wanting to come and watch us.

"I want to make my players better and we will keep going. We are not too far away from being a good team."

He added: "There was some naivety in defending, the free-kick was the main point.

"But I do enjoy watching my team play, it is the way we coach and we want our players to perform.

"Everton, like a lot of teams in this division, do the ugly side of the game better than we do. We have to learn to deal with difficult free-kicks into our box and make better decisions in those situations.

"When you make silly decisions defensively in your own box, you do not deserve the points.

"We have to get some sort of form now, maybe winning four or five. It will be difficult against teams like Arsenal on Tuesday, but we have Stoke and Bolton at home back to back and they are the games we have to win.

"We must get belief and confidence. But we were expected to be in the relegation zone and we are."

Everton boss David Moyes admitted that he was searching for a way to compensate for the loss of injured playmaker Mikel Arteta from his side for the rest of the season.

He said: "The result was important, and we got it. West Brom played well and made a few opportunities, but our keeper and defenders were in good form.

"Cahill does what he does well, he scored again, and Saha likewise, he scored a cracker.

"We can play better than that, but it was our first game without Arteta who is out for the season and I wanted to see how we handled the situation.

"It was always going to be possible that we would find it difficult, and West Brom certainly did enough to add to that concern."

He added: "I am having to try to fill a gap left by someone who has really been making us play well, and that is my job as a coach.

"But I also want to make the way we play much better. But we do not have an artist like Mikel. We will have to mould someone else into the role.

"But when we lost Yakubu we did not have anyone on the squad who could score goals like he does. But we have found ways of coping with that too.

"It is not easy to find alternatives to players like that and I needed to see what I had.

"But I have seen things that give me some confidence, players having to do things they are not expected to do."

Moyes also explained the omission of Joleon Lescott from his starting line-up.

He said: "I left out Lescott because he was one booking away from a ban from the cup quarter-final. Phil Neville was in the same boat and he did get through the match OK.

"But I could not have afforded to lose a couple of players of their quality for the Middlesbrough tie next week. I would have liked to have left out Neville too, but I did not have enough bodies around to do that.

"But we are over that problem now, they are both clear to play in the quarter-final."