New Headline: West Brom's Spa Retreat Seeks to Unleash a Thrilling Season

[Getty Images] West Bromwich Albion interim boss James Morrison said giving his squad the spa treatment was a factor in ending their long search for a win. As well as time on the training ground and in the gym, Morrison sent the players for a spa day on Thursday as part of pre-match preparations in an attempt to calm tension. The team responded by beating promotion-chasing Hull City 3-0 at The Hawthorns to end a 13-match winless run in the Championship stretching back to 29 December and move out of the relegation places in the process.

"I just tried something different," Morrison told BBC Radio WM. "I want them to be able to breathe in this time because it is pressurised. "I'm trying to take it (pressure) off them and let them be free and trying to play free as well like you've seen today.

"The spa day was only at a hotel just up the road but it seemed to work. " It was also the Baggies' biggest margin of victory this season and just the second time this year they had scored more than a single goal in a game. "Goals have been hard to come by of late and one of the things we wanted to put right was how we can get better in front of goal," Morrison added.

"Having more people in the box, working on the crosses, getting down the sides of teams with the full-backs. Also being resilient so we can stay in games and give ourselves the best chance. "