Mark McGhee wants to push for the Premiership with Albion, by keeping them up while they wait for a new stadium at Falmer.

Albion go to Leicester tonight in search of a first away win after joining thousands of fans in yesterday's seafront March For Falmer.

The manager is determined to ensure the Seagulls retain their Championship status during his current two-year contract and to still be in charge when the club finally moves into a new home.

"I think we've got to stay in the Championship, not just from the point of view of the down side, it's the potential upside," he said.

"If you are in the Championship you can get into the Premier League and that's what we have got to be working towards. If we do get permission for the stadium and they build it, I want to be the manager that takes us into that."

Albion would, in normal circumstances, have travelled yesterday afternoon after training in preparation for tonight's match.

McGhee happily delayed the departure to the East Midlands to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with supporters in a final plea to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to give the stadium the thumbs up.

"To ask the fans to turn up and be marching on our behalf and for us to be sitting at home with our feet up would have been ridiculous, even though we have got a game," McGhee said.

"Marching with the fans for half-an-hour isn't going to do us any harm. It's very important we are seen to be behind the chairman (Dick Knight), as the fans have shown. The players feel very strongly about it, we all feel very strongly about it."