WEST Brom's troubles this season prove that clubs like Burnley can take nothing for granted in the Premier League, according to Clarets boss Sean Dyche.

After finishing 10th last season the Baggies have struggled this term and they are seven points adrift at the foot of the table and 10 points shy of safety ahead of the clash with Burnley at the Hawthorns.

West Brom collected 45 points last season but they've won just three times this term and only once in their last 29 Premier League fixtures, but Dyche believes any top flight side outside of the big six can suddenly find themselves on the wrong end of a difficult season.

"I think the big surprise in Premier League world would be the real giant clubs (struggling)," Dyche said

"I think anyone outside the top six (can struggle) and it’s really on show this season. I know Arsenal had a couple of ups and downs, but generally speaking the top six are up there as being what everyone would write down on paper as the top six.

"The rest is a group that can all be competitive in any given run of games. I think it’s slightly different this season.

"My point is that there are no gimmes, not even for the top six, although they are likely in any given season to be strong enough not to be down there near the trouble.

"But the rest have a chance, I think, of being down near the trouble.

"The rest you could argue that in any given season, with recruitment, injuries, suspensions, loss of form, it’s tough to come out of all those things. If you get a run where a lot of those things go against you, and it’s the wrong stage of the season or you haven’t got enough points early on, and even worse, if you’re going well and you can’t nick those results, and then all of a sudden you do hit a patch of those injuries, then that’s even more drastic. The lines are fine.

"There aren’t runaway teams in the rest of the league, other than the top six, and I think that’s shown really clearly this season. Statistically, it’s shown this season, how different that is. It’s the top six against the rest."

Burnley are set for safety this season and a third successive campaign in the Premier League.

But Dyche insists being an 'established' Premier League club is a different term to quantify.

"I’ve been asked here if I see us as an established Premier League team. How can you decide when that comes?," he said.

"Apart from the top six, and Everton have been in for a long time, so we can add them in purely on stats, but then who else is there? I don’t think there’s a club where you can say: They’re the club who will never be in trouble."