WHILE David Moyes is hoping to make it into Division One at the second time of asking, Burnley counterpart Stan Ternent is also looking for two years' hard work at Turf Moor to bear fruit in May.

Moyes took control at Deepdale in January, 1998 and Ternent followed him into a hot-spot of East Lancashire football six months later.

The Clarets had just survived the drop but Ternent had a vision of turning them into promotion candidates, a dream that would become a step nearer reality if his side were able to beat Preston this afternoon.

"This was my intention. I had a lot of sorting out to do and I had to make some unpleasant decisions but I never lost sight of what I was trying to do and trying to achieve," the Burnley boss said ahead of today's sell-out clash. "Things do take time and on the back of what happened to Burnley before I came and the first eight months of it, it was hard work result-wise. And the fans, rightly, were impatient.

"I realised that, I accepted that but I still had to do what I knew was right.

"I had to take some flak along the way, but that's the job."

And having got this close, Ternent will do everything in his powers to guide Burnley the final step out of the Second Division.

"We're going to do our very best but there are a lot of things that come into the equation," he added.

"You need a little rub of the green, you need the players to stay fit and away from suspensions, the sort of things that stop you fielding your strongest team." "So you need a little break in that respect and then we need to maintain a level of performance and a level of consistency.

"And, if we can do that, I think we've a fairish chance."

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