Mark McGhee has revealed his dream ticket - keeping Albion in the Championship until they move to Falmer.

And the Seagulls boss has emphasised his desire to achieve that goal by insisting he still wants to be in the hotseat when the club make the longawaited move to their new stadium.

The Seagulls hope to be playing at Falmer by hte start of the 2008-09 season and McGhee is determined to see the team survive in the second tier of English football at Withdean until then.

He said: "It's a huge relief that it's a yes to Falmer. I can now look further ahead than the next game and the next campaign.

"I think we have now got to plan for the future. When we look at the young players we have signed and re-signed, it gives us a real focus on why we should continue to do that, to build a squad and a team that is going to mature into the new stadium and hopefully take us into a challenge for even better.

"I would hope we can keep adding to the group of players we have got.

"In the meantime, we have got to keep working to maintain our position in the Championship. That is the dream ticket for me."

McGhee celebrated two years in charge of the Seagulls with Tuesday's 1-1 draw at home to Wolves.

By the end of the season he will be the longest servant in the job since Barry Lloyd's seven-year reign drew to a close in 1994.

No fewer than nine managers have come and gone in-between, more than half of those primarily as a result of stadium-related issues.

Micky Adams, Peter Taylor and Steve Coppell are prime examples, moving on because of the intolerable wait for a new home.

McGhee, though, committed himself to the club before the Falmer decision, signing a new two-year contract in the summer, and now wants to extend that so that he can lead the team into the new stadium at Falmer.

He has already made it clear he wants to sit down immediately and renegotiate a new long-term deal with chairman Dick Knight.

"I've now got the rest of a two-year contract left, this season and the next," McGhee said.

"When I signed it I discussed with the chairman the fact that, if and when the decision was made and it was a positive one, then I really do want to be the manager to take the club into the new stadium.

"Therefore I hope at some point to sit down with the chairman and discuss it. I want to talk to him about that now."

McGhee believes the long-awaited Yes verdict from Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is "a life changing decision" for Albion.

"As a football person I've seen the result of this sort of thing at other clubs," he said.

"Probably the one closest to me is at Reading, where it has transformed their fortunes having a state-of-the-art stadium.

"It has put them into a position where they are challenging seriously to go into the Premiership.

"I think that has now got to be a realistic ambition of ours, maybe not this year or next year but certainly not beyond 2008-09 or 2010 when we are established in the stadium and competing at the right end of the division.

"What it means for me now is that I can sell the club better to players I'm trying to bring in, particularly to young players like Adam Virgo and Dan Harding who we lost as a result of not being able to really give them something to look forward to.

"I can now say to players like Jake Robinson, Paul Reid and Seb Carole to stick with us, work hard to stay in this division and in a couple of years' time we will all be rolling into a fantastic new stadium which will give them the opportunity to go into the big time.

"That is just a fantastic thing for me as a manager to be able to sell."