West Brom boss confirms Baggies will rally around goalkeeper after costly mistake

Griffiths, in his breakthrough campaign as Baggies No.1, has enjoyed some impressive appearances notably in wins at Norwich and at home to Preston the previous weekend.

But his error cost Albion dear in Suffolk on a day defensive Albion looked well-placed for the point they eyed - but did not manage an effort on target until stoppage time after falling behind.

"We need to learn. I think with Josh, this is probably his first full season in the Championship at this level, at this club," Mason said of his goalkeeper.

"And yes, we will support him. We're there for him. And we need to give the players the best platform and all take the responsibility together.

"So it's all of us. It's a situation that we deal with together. We try and improve on and, of course, make sure that it doesn't happen again."

Mason called on his players to learn from and improve from lessons in game management following last Wednesday's 2-1 defeat at Watford, having conceded shortly after opening the scoring.

But Albion showed little sign of heeding the warning in Ipswich with the manner of the late winner.

Mason explained that balls out from Albion's penalty box from the goalkeeper was not part of the game plan against the Tractor Boys.

"I think you see in the game, normally we play through the middle a lot from our goalkeeper," the head coach added. "It's a big part of our game, but we didn't today.

"We wanted to take that away from them their stadium. I think if you look throughout the whole game, I don't know how many times we played it in there because that wasn't what we wanted to do.

"But we did - it's a reminder that your concentration slips for a brief second, you get punished."