Albion captain Jonathan Greening has challenged the travelling Baggies army to roar the team to victory at Hull on Saturday.

The injured midfielder reckons the 2,000-strong travelling contingent can make the difference for Tony Mowbray’s side in their crunch clash with the Tigers.

Albion are laying on 40 free coaches to ferry fans to the KC Stadium for a match that could see Mowbray’s men close to within three points of their hosts. City lost 2-0 at West Ham last night to make it six straight league defeats.

Greening will miss the game, but the skipper said: “The more teams we can peg back and drag into the fight at the bottom of the table, the better it is for us.

“We know we’ve sold all our tickets for the game and that there is free coach travel laid on by the club so we should have a great following to take up there.

“If fans can bring the same noise to that game that they have to The Hawthorns in the last few league games it’ll give the boys a great chance of winning the points.”

Greening will be sidelined for the next month with medial ligament injury – the first lengthy lay-off of his 14-year career.

He said: “I suppose that not having had any sort if injury that has kept me out for any length of time makes me pretty lucky.

“But it didn’t feel like that on Saturday night after the game ,when the medical staff were examining me and coming to the conclusion that it was a medial ligament problem.

“It couldn’t have come at a worse time with such an important period of the season coming up.”