"We've had a pasting this week and maybe rightly so, but you've got to go out and show a lot of character and sometimes the result of winning ugly is just as pleasing as winning free-flowing.
"It wasn't as ugly as that, but I thought the conditions were getting worse as the game went on and the ball was flying off all over the place.
"But I felt it was a well-deserved victory from us."
Jones is now counting the cost of the injuries picked up against Preston. Joe Ledley and Anthony Gerrard came off with injuries and Jones wil be without Jay Bothroyd against West Brom on Tuesday with the City striker suspended.
"Joe just rotated his groin and he couldn't carry on," said Jones " and with Anthony the wound was too big and they couldn't close it so we made the decision to change him."
The boss also spoke about the decision to play Joe even though he has a documented hip injury,
Jones said: "I said the other day that Roger (Johnson) played all last year, Feens (Warren Feeney) played three-and-a-half years with it.
"Joe, if you put him on a scale of one to three and three being the worst, Joe's a stage one.
"And Joe wouldn't play or any other player at this football club if they had an injury.
"If there's anything wrong with any player, no matter how small, if they can't play and they can't do their job then they come under the auspices of the medical team."
Jones says Ledley was asked on Friday if he was fit to face Preston and the player said "yes".
City go to The Hawthorns looking to close the 8 point gap Albion have
over City.
