STEVE Cotterill is urging his Burnley players to make one last push to squeeze into the play-off picture tonight.

The Clarets entertain West Ham United at Turf Moor in the knowledge that Championship safety is assured following the weekend victory over Watford.

But Cotterill is looking for a third successive home win that would carry his side past last season's 53-point total and to within four of the Hammers, who still harbour hopes of securing a top six spot come May.

The Burnley boss said: "We've probably done enough to be safe, but I'm not really looking at that end to be honest.

"I want us to look up and see if we can get onto the shirt tails of a few other teams and a win against West Ham will do that for us.

"It would be nice to pass last season's points total, but more importantly if we win we are on the shirt tails of a few teams.

"Then, with the run-in we've got, there's no reason we can't get more results so why should we give it (the play-offs) up?

"There are 46 games to play and we're not going to give up on anything.

"We take it game by game and if we can get another win against West Ham, it will be interesting to see what that does."

Cotterill, who has a full strength squad at his disposal tonight, accepts that beating seventh-placed West Ham would be a tonic for all the other play-off chasing sides.

But he is looking no further than number one and keeping the pressure up in case their Championship rivals slip up.

Cotterill added: "The idea of the break was to recharge batteries and make us go again and there is no responsibility on us now barring ourselves.

"If we happen to play better than West Ham and win, and that happens to do other teams a favour, then fine.

"But first and foremost, we have to do ourselves a favourand if we win, we're only four points behind West Ham and that puts another slant on things then."

The Londoners have spent the weekend in Lancashire preparing for tonight's game, following their impressive 2-1 win away to promotion-chasing Wigan Athletic last weekend.

And Cotterill believes the Turf Moor crowd can be the 12th man tonight to spark that late, later play-off push.

He said: "I don't think too many teams relish coming to Turf Moor because once the crowd are up for it, it's a difficult place to come to.

"That's what we need now. We don't want to find West Ham come here and out-shout us, so our crowd have got to be up for it.

"This isn't a sleepy game where they need to wait for the players to get them going - we need them to push us on and kick start the players so they respond back."