Albion's run to the FA Cup semi-finals have left them with two games in hand on Championship leaders Stoke and second-placed Bristol City.

Victory over Charlton in the 4.45pm kick-off would put the Baggies within two points of the top of the table with a game still in hand on the top two.

But Mowbray claimed it would have made no difference if the game had been scheduled for Saturday and their rivals will not be affected by the result.

He said: "I am hoping we go there, give a good performance, win the game and then we'll see what happens.

"If we don't win the game it won't be the end of the world, we'll just have to keep going, we'll have another game coming the following Saturday and we'll try and take the three points there.

"Who's to say the teams around the top won't drop points again this weekend? I don't know."

Addicks manager Alan Pardew is optimistic his side can still reach the play-offs despite slipping to 10th in the table after taking just one point from their last four games.

"There are enough games to go for us to win a fair proportion of them and get up," Pardew told the club's website. "We still carry a major threat and I'm talking about a threat to go up. We must carry that threat to West Brom and get a result of any shape or form.

"We have definitely got a course for promotion through the play-offs, though. We have accepted that, but we still carry a major threat.

"The result could be very different against West Brom. We just have to keep playing and believing in ourselves.

"We want to believe that we can hit some sort of form and have a little bit of luck go our way here and there to put a run together and get up through the play-offs."