GOALSCORER Wade Elliott has backed Burnley to use the point against Sheffield Wednesday as a platform to build on.

The Clarets are still battling to end a wretched run of results, which has seen them win only once in the last 15 league games.

But winger Elliott, who hit his first goal of the season in the 1-1 draw against the Owls, is adamant the players still have faith in their ability, and the methods being drilled into them, to quickly rediscover their winning formula and climb back into the top half of the table.

"We're all desperate for a win, and everybody is grasping for that chink of light," the 28-year-old said.

"For whatever reason, it's not been happening for us these past few matches.

"Confidence ebbs and flows, but we have strong characters in the dressing room who have belief in the squad and the set-up.

"We always have that belief, and we know the squad and the team is good enough - that's not a massive problem.

"It's just one of those things, maybe when we get a break, something going in off someone's knee or something, that will hopefully kickstart us off.

"But it's not the kind of think where you can flick a switch and we will suddenly be brilliant again.

"It may be a dogged performance like the one against Sheffield Wednesday that is the foundation to build on.

"I've been through this sort of thing at Bournemouth, and I think a few of the lads have as well.

"It's frustrating, and everybody will go away and think about it.

"But our approach to games hasn't really changed since the first game of the season."

Burnley's buoyant start to this campaign led to them being embedded in the play-off places for the best part of three months from September to early December.

A very different picture has been painted since the Clarets recorded their last win on November 28, when they beat Leeds 2-1 at Turf Moor.

But Elliott insists the players will not surrender their fight for a change in fortunes.

"We all believe in the basic methods and ethics which have been instilled in us, and if we keep that, regardless of results, and keep plugging away and maintain those standards, things will start to turn for us - I'm certain they will do," he said.

"Everybody realises we have to keep battling away, and sooner or later we will get that win.

"When you go and reflect on the game when we get back in training, as ever you will look and say things could have been done better, but there were plenty of things we will be happy with, and there may be more positives than negatives.

"We will hopefully look back in a couple of weeks and see this game (Sheffield Wednesday) as a turning point."

The former Bournemouth wide man added that words of wisdom from his dad instigated his first goal of the season.

"It was a bit of a relief (to score, to be honest," he said.

"My dad has been nagging me about scoring more goals, and he has been listing all the number 11s in the Premiership who have been scoring, like Ryan Giggs and Didier Drogba, so cheers dad!

"It was nice to get that goal on a personal note, and hopefully there will be a few more.

"I thought I had got another, to be honest, later on, it was an instinctive shot, and I think it came off the keeper's arm.

"I thought he had palmed it into the net.

"It would have been brilliant to snatch a win, but unfortunately it wasn't to be, and now we go again at Wolves."