STAN Ternent turned his thoughts to a busy week after Burnley rose to the challenge to inflict Ipswich's first away defeat in four months.

The Clarets chief has set his side the task of winning a third of their remaining 15 league games to ensure First Division survival, starting at Reading tomorrow.

And Ternent is desperate to do everything in his power to make that possible by extending the three loan deals for Bradley Orr, Neil Wood and Paul Rachubka, which all expire in the next seven days.

Ternent said: "We have 37 points and we need to win a third of our remaining matches. That will give us 50 points and that will be enough.

"I know we are capable of doing that, but I will need some help from the managers who have loaned me players. I don't want them to take them back because I only have one loan player left that I can bring in, so I really need to extend those loans.

"Neil Wood tweaked his knee at the end of training on Friday and that means I only had 16 again (against Ipswich). So I need a little break there because it can get a little thin on the ground."

Ternent admitted the nerve ends were fraying as Town staged a late fightback that almost cost the Clarets two vital points in their quest to steer clear of the bottom three.

He added: "I thought we deserved to win the match, but obviously when it was 3-2 it's reasonable to assume it was nervy.

"But we got a break and the post did us a favour. But in saying that, I think they had a lot more breaks than we did and the ref did them a favour with Glen's penalty appeal.

"We knew they would come out firing in the second half because they have a lot of quality players and the third goal was a very important goal.

"We managed to get it, but we never do things simply at Burnley.

"We always make it difficult for ourselves and I think we can improve on our ball retention in situations like that.

"But overall I am really pleased for the lads. They have been having a good go since way back now and I thought they deserved to win the match.

"The only sad thing is that Ian Moore didn't get a goal. He worked his socks off again and was excellent. I would have liked him to get one, but he will do, sooner or later."

Ternent also had praise for several other stars who contributed to avenging the 6-1 defeat dished out by Ipswich earlier in the season.

He said: "Paul Weller was just getting into it nicely a few weeks ago and coming on nice and strong, when he had his injury. He's played two reserve matches though now and he did very well.

"I was delighted for Richard Chaplow too. He struck his goal beautifully, but his overall contribution was excellent for a young lad just turned 19.

"He is doing remarkably well, he's got a really good temperament and if he can just improve in the air we have got a complete player, because he has all the ammunition."

The Burnley manager was equally delighted to finally get the upper hand on Town boss Joe Royle, the close friend who has inflicted some of the heaviest defeats in Ternent's managerial career in recent years.

He said: "Every time Joe comes here he has given us some bad days with different clubs. The law of averages says it was my turn!"