BURNLEY'S players never had any doubt Stan Ternent was going to be their boss for the foreseeable future, Glen Little claimed today.

"We all know the gaffer is never going to walk out on Burnley because he has so much more he wants to achieve," admitted the winger.

"We all know what he wants to do here and he has no desire to be the manager anywhere else. I am sure that he will be around for a long time to come."

Little admitted this week is not the first that there have been suggestions that Ternent might have had enough and be ready to walk away as he explained: "We have heard that before when we have had bad runs in the past, and we have heard stories like that over the years.

"But all in all the club has done very well under the gaffer and he wants to do even better. He has made no secret of the fact he wants to manage Burnley in the Premiership and it is a goal he still thinks he can achieve.

"It might not be possible this season but he will not give up without giving it a really good go."

And Little believes that the manager was right to have a go at the whole team last weekend when they lost at Walsall although he promised fans that the players never take their support for granted.

"I would never hammer any of the boys because we always try," he said. "I think we have shown that over the last couple of years.

"The gaffer gets frustrated because we seem to be in situations where everything is going well and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, we can't get a win.

"But I think we have also shown that we can turn these things around. I remember losing 5-0 at Blackburn and everyone wrote us off for promotion but we came back and beat Preston in the next game and finished the season as strongly as anyone else, something like five wins, two draws and a defeat in our last eight games.

"This season we lost three on the bounce to Portsmouth, Grimsby and Preston and then bounced back to beat Tottenham. That is the character that we have got in the squad, we can turn things around.

"All the games we have lost recently could have been so different. Sheffield United were a good side but we might have taken the lead. Then we were well on top against Walsall, in no trouble, but we missed a couple of chances and they took the lead out of nowhere."

"Even against Leicester, I think that everyone there will say that we had been the better side. Again the first goal was vital and I thought we should have had a penalty when Ian Moore was tripped in the first half. The problem was he got his shot away and the ref probably thought he was okay.

"If we had scored we would have won it but then we got done by two corners."

But Little and the rest of the players have taken heart from the improved display on Tuesday night and now they can't wait until Saturday and the chance to finally get three another points on the board.