Mowbray said: "The television crews have been down to see us and they are billing this game as the massively underachieving rich club, who are West Brom, versus poor old Wolves who have massively overachieved, But let us not get sucked into that, we are all intelligent people who can look at the Championship table. West Brom finished fourth but level on points with Wolves in fifth. It was only goal difference which separated us, so there has not been that much to choose between us over the course of 46 games in the regular season. I have two young sons so I end up watching a lot of cartoons and reading a lot of fairytales during my spare time and some of the build-up to this match has been just like that, just like a child's fairytale. What you need for a fairytale is a good guy and a bad guy who go to war and then the good guy come out on top. For some reason certain people have decided West Brom are to be portrayed as the baddies but a fairytale is just what that is - the real story will be written after the match."
Mowbray assured the Albion faithful his side would be on the lookout for plenty of goals against their fiercest rivals. "You could send your team out nice and compact, making sure they are all behind the ball when they are not in possession, making sure they do not concede, but that is not the way I want to play football. We have got to play to our strengths and our main strength is scoring goals. We have scored miles more than anyone else in the division and are just four goals short of having scored 100 for the season in all competitions. We all know what the stakes are in the play-offs but just simply getting to the play-offs is not achieving anything. In the past, some clubs have possibly got to the play-offs, thought 'what a massive achievement' and then found themselves getting knocked out in the first two games. So now we are in it, we want to make sure we win."