'We're getting the worst end of fixture schedule'

Ryan Mason has won six of his 18 games in charge of West Brom

West Brom are getting the "worst end" of the Championship's fixture scheduling, according to boss Ryan Mason.

The Baggies host Swansea on Saturday (15:00 GMT) having drawn with Birmingham on Wednesday.

Swansea will have had an extra day to prepare and Mason believes it has happened too often to his side.

"I'm not sure why the scheduling has worked like this from the football league," he told BBC Radio WM.

"In the past six weeks we've had to play away from home twice Wednesday and Saturday and both times against a team who played at home on the Wednesday.

"Against Ipswich we had played at Watford on the Wednesday and Ipswich had played at home on the Tuesday and then we had the early kick-off on the Saturday."

West Brom have won just one of their past seven matches as they prepare to face Swansea and Mason feels they are being disadvantaged.

"When I saw this scheduling at home to play Wednesday and Saturday I was excited because I thought we'd have the advantage this time but for some strange reason we have to play at home to a side that's played 24 hours before us so I'm not sure why that's happened," he added.

"I've had a look at every other team's scheduling and fixture list and for some reason we're coming off the worst end of it but that's something where we need to pull together internally and need to stick together."