Albion midfielder Jerome Thomas knows all about Wembley – the flying winger was born there.

But Thomas has no interest in a homecoming at the end of the season.

The 26-year-old even watched his brother Karl in action beneath the famous twin towers of the old Wembley Stadium., but has not set foot inside the new stadium.

And the wide man will be delighted to keep it that way, at least until next summer.

The former Charlton winger knows the Baggies might need to prevail in the national stadium to secure promotion through the Championship play-offs.

Yet Thomas insists himself and his Hawthorns team-mates are not allowing the end-of-season promotion lottery to divert them from their mission to claim a top-two finish.

He said: “That’s my mindset and I think a lot of the players and staff feel that way as well. It’s not an option. When I signed here we were favourites to go back up and that is one of the reason why I decided to sign and play in the Championship.

“That is my mentality and that is how it is going into any game, whether we are at home or away, whether we are in a bad run of form or whether we’ve just lost our last game or whether we are playing one up front or three up front.

“I think our mentality needs to be to get three points in the game. I was born in a hospital in Wembley and I was brought up in Harrow, which is about 10 minutes away.

“I have been to Wembley Stadium. I remember going to see my brother play there when I was younger. He didn’t play professionally. He just played for local teams but when they got to finals they got to play at the old Wembley.

“But my dad was a QPR supporter so I used to go there, and I didn’t see a lot of games at Wembley.

“As for the new one, I haven’t been there actually. If we get into the play-offs we will go from there and aim to win. Promotion is the main priority and if we have to go through the play-offs then that’s what we’ll do, but that’s not our mindset. Our mindset is focusing on a top-two finish.”

The Baggies take on Watford tomorrow looking to return to winning ways, after defeat to Swansea at home and a low-key goalless draw at Coventry.

Thomas is urging his team-mates to look forwards.

He said: “Swansea wasn’t good enough, being a home game, especially coming off the back of a good win against Reading.

“Then Coventry was two points dropped if we are honest with ourselves. But it happens in so many games and you can’t dwell on it. It’s about picking yourself up and focusing on the next game.

“I just think we need to start being more clinical with our final pass in and around the box. I think the goals will come, I think it’s just one of those phases.

“We are not panicking, certainly not yet anyway.”

Thomas still believes he has yet to produce his own best form, as the winger re-acclimatises to regular football after injury destroyed his season at Portsmouth.

He said: “It’s gone from no games in a year to three games in a week so my body is feeling the effects of it. But the staff here are working with me and I’m doing the strengthening to make sure I don’t pick up any injuries along the way.

“So, hopefully now that we’ve got a run of Saturday-Saturday games, I’ll be feeling good.

“I was happy with the win against Reading and my two goals. Middlesbrough was a great game as well, to go there and annihilate them like the way we did and to get a goal in that.

“You are only as good as your last game and I wasn’t good enough against Swansea and I only showed glimpses against Coventry as well.”

Tomorrow’s match will bring Albion face-to-face with their former striker, Nathan Ellington, who bagged his first goal of the season in the Hornets’ recent 1-1 draw with troubled Ipswich.

Despite admitting publicly he could leave Vicarage Road soon, Ellington remains keen to add to his goal tally.

Ellington, who is likely to start among the substitutes, said: “Everybody has been saying to me that, once I get one, they should all come flooding in as I have been unlucky not to score more already.

“But the more goals I score, the more confidence I will gain. Now instead of thinking when will I get that goal, I will be thinking about getting more and more goals.”