NEW West Brom boss Roy Hodgson will settle for another final day ‘Great Escape’ if necessary.

Hodgson was unveiled to more than 50 journalists, cameramen and photographers at The Hawthorns yesterday having taken his first training session earlier in the day.

He outlined the realism of the task that awaits him in the final 12 games of the season.

The 63-year-old intends doing all he can to keep the club in the top flight, starting with this Sunday’s derby against Wolves.

“I will settle for staying up on the last day, anything,” said Hodgson.

“I don’t care how we stay in the Premier League as long as we stay there.

“If we stay there with people saying we’ve done fantastically well, like they did at Fulham, and saying we played some good football that would be lovely.

“But if people say ‘they were lucky’ that will do for me as well. I don’t mind being lucky, I have nothing against it.

“I had 18 games at Fulham supposedly in charge, here I’ve got 12 games so that was a big difference, but otherwise I think the similarities are palpable in the sense that Fulham were not looking in aparticularly good situation and people were talking about relegation and the same is happening here at West Brom.

“It’s important that the players get behind what we’re trying to do and in particular what I am trying to do in terms of turning them into a football team.

“And then they’ve got to produce the performances because all the talking in the world and the sensible statements you might hear from people at the club count for nothing.