BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent is calling on his players to be positive and bounce back from Saturday's disappointing defeat at Sheffield United.

"We are still up there and we have got to look on the positive side," he said as he reflected on a tepid display against the Blades.

Two goals from teenage midfielder Phil Jagielka and a stunning strike from Laurent D'Jaffo earned the home side the points but Ternent is not going to press the panic button.

His side is still in fourth place and in a great position to make the play-offs with three games at home and two away to be played.

"We have got to take it on the chin because if anyone had said at the start of the season that we'd have 68 points from 41 games, we would have taken it," he claimed.

"No one said it would be easy and you have to expect setbacks but at the end of the season I still believe we will be in the play-offs."

After a dismal Saturday the Clarets position was strengthened yesterday when Coventry and Birmingham City took points off each other with a 1-1 draw and Millwall's poor form continued with defeat at Gillingham.

With five games to go before the end of the season the Clarets are four points ahead of seventh place although Crystal Palace, in tenth, are now just seven behind.

Ternent has a week free from first team games to get his team refreshed and ready for the visit of Wolves at the weekend having seen tired legs contribute to Saturday's defeat.

"We played three games in six days, the first with a quarter past six kick-off, so it is good to have a clear week," he admitted.

"We didn't play well by our standards but we will get back to it on the training ground.

"We have still got everything to play for and we have got to be positive. We are very disappointed to lose but we have will be positive.

"After we have played all 46 matches, then we will see.

"Whatever we do the players have been a credit to Burnley and to themselves.

"We have had a setback and that has not happened too many times this season."

Key to his thinking will be settling on the right formation to get the best from new signing Paul Gascoigne who looked lost as part of a three man midfield in the first half at Bramall Lane.

The attacking plan was obvious with the naming of three strikers but the failure to get the ball negated the threat of Gareth Taylor, Ian Moore and David Johnson.

Blades boss Neil Warnock was delighted by the win and unwilling to be drawn on the relationship he has with his opposite number at Turf Moor.

At the weekend Ternent claimed that the man who had labelled himself the Osama bin Laden of football was more like Harry Houdini if he could escape punishment for the farcical events against West Brom a week earlier.

"I don't want to comment," he said. "We don't like each other, everyone knows that."

Ternent agreed: "All that is of no concern to me, it was Sheffield United versus Burnley.

"You get set problems, you get over them and you crack on with it."