Ryan Mason makes 'not what West Brom should be doing' claim and 'pain' confession

Mason has been able to source any consistency or momentum in his debut campaign and has recently referenced the struggle of building a squad off the back of key player exits during the summer, brought about as the club continue to rebuild under owners Bilkul from the Guochuan Lai era.

The head coach underlined he is not looking for excuses to the unacceptable form and "pain" the club are feeling.

"I understood that before I came to the club," Mason said when discussing limited squad options. "I know the situation very well.

"For what it's worth, I think the ownership have done an incredible job the last couple of years to get this club into the position we're in now.

"West Brom - to be selling our best players to Championship rivals is not what West Brom should be doing, but we're in that position because of what we've inherited, which wasn't a good situation.

"The ownership and everyone are turning that ship around. They really are. There's some pain at the moment, there really is."

The Baggies were once again undone by basic costly individual errors at Hull as Oli McBurnie's penalty on the stroke of half-time made the difference after a bright but wasted first period.

"I think we understand the situation very well, but it's not about making excuses," Mason added. "Far from that, I'm never one to make excuses for anything.

"I think we all need to take responsibility, all of us. Me, first of all, but then as a group. We shouldn't have lost that many games away from home. We just shouldn't have.

"Some of them in the nature that we have, it makes it a lot more difficult to understand. It needs to change, it needs to change for sure."