BURNLEY'S staff and players refused to get carried away when they were beating all-comers in the early weeks of the season.

It is therefore no surprise that there is no panic in the camp after a run of one point from a possible 12.

Far from it in fact as everyone is looking forward to getting back on the winning trail against Barnsley at Turf Moor tomorrow afternoon.

And the fact that is the first home game in almost a month is not of great interest to assistant boss Sam Ellis.

"We look forward to every game anywhere, " he said. "I know we have had a poor run in terms of results but I think that we have played okay.

"Things haven't gone our way and we have still been trying to win every game. Sometimes it works for you, sometimes it doesn't.

"But we are happy with the performances adn the number of chances that we are creating. We just have to keep fighting hard to turn things around."

And he refused to blame the current bad run on the injuries to key creative players Alan Moore and Glen Little.

"We have still been creating chances but we have not been sticking them away," Ellis said. "We have got enough players who can make openings."

Moore is definitely out for a few weeks following his hernia operation but Little has moved closer to full fitness after a week of training.

But has he a chance of playing tomorrow?

"He's hoping he has," smiled Ellis, while being careful not suggest he is ready to return.

He was able to report some good news in relation to two other first teamers though.

"Both Graham Branch and Gordon Armstrong played a half for the reserves on Wednesday night and they have had no ill affects," he said.

One man who will not be involved is German trialist Thomas Sobotzik who has left the club after repeated problems about getting clearance to play for the reserves and show what he can do.

And Ellis insisted that it is the former Eintracht Frankfurt player himself who is to blame for the problems.

"The necessary registration never came through between the two international associations," he said.

"You would have thought that coming over here he would have made sure that he had everything in order."

Facing a team that has not taken a single point away from home may seem ideal but Ellis believes that tomorrow's opponents are suffering a similar problem to the Clarets, not being rewarded for their performances.

"How they lost 4-1 against Portsmouth no-one will ever know," he said. "But we have said before there are no easy games in this division."