Albion manager Mark McGhee today plotted a route to Championship survival which could condemn one of his predecessors to a relegation decider.

McGhee believes a first win in ten for the Seagulls at relegated Rotherham on Saturday may leave Micky Adams' Coventry battling it out with Crewe to beat the drop on the last day.

Albion remain in the relegation zone after Saturday's 2-2 home draw against West Ham, but with two games to go they are only behind Crewe on goal difference, a point adrift of Gillingham and two below Coventry and Watford.

McGhee said: "Of the three teams who I think are really under threat, we play Rotherham away, Crewe play Ipswich away and Coventry play Derby at home.

"If we win and they both lose, Coventry and Crewe then play each other on the last day of the season.

"That would mean we would go into our game against Ipswich unable to go down, so Rotherham really is the final of finals as far as recent history is concerned.

"We had the play-offs last year, but Rotherham is such an unbelievably massive game for all of us.

"It's going to be difficult. They are playing for a new manager (Mick Harford) and a lot of their players will be playing for their futures. We are going to have to play as well as we did against West Ham, if not better, to win."

Dean Hammond equalised twice with headers, the second in the last minute, to cancel out goals by Nigel Reo-Coker and Marlon Harewood for the Hammers.

Hammond, who has now scored three goals in two games and four in the last seven, said: "The gaffer and all of the coaching staff have been encouraging me to get into the box. Luckily a few have dropped for me and they have gone in. Long may it continue. The point is a big bonus. If we win on Saturday then there is a really good chance that we will stay up.

"We are all confident. We are playing well, even though we haven't won for a while. We have picked up three draws in a row."

A point was still enough to lift West Ham into the play-off zone, above Alan Pardew's old club Reading on goals scored, but the Hammers' boss said it felt like a defeat.