West Brom centre-back Gareth McAuley is already itching to help make amends for the club s poor Premier League campaign.
The Midlands outfit narrowly escaped relegation to the Championship this season, eventually retaining their top-flight status by finishing just three points clear of the drop zone.
That represented a significant deterioration on West Brom s eighth-placed finish in 2012-13, with head coach Steve Clarke dismissed last December due to the club s worsening performance.
Clarke s successor Pepe Mel kept West Brom up but departed The Hawthorns earlier this month, and McAuley has called on his team-mates to hit the ground running next term to avoid another relegation scrap.
Speaking to the club s official website, he said: The boys are talking about coming back for pre-season already.
They re talking about coming back and putting it right. We need to get off to a good start because last year we didn t have the best of starts and we never really got going.
We really need to get going in pre-season this year. Since I ve come here it s always been about improving on the last season.
We have to get that right now, get our heads down in pre-season the lads who are here and any new lads who come in get ourselves together and make sure we don t have another season like last.
