BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche knows his position at Turf Moor is not "set in stone", but has vowed to do everything in his power to get the Clarets out of the Premier League's bottom three.

After a season in which the East Lancashire club defied the odds to finish seventh in the Premier League in 2017/18, and play European football for the first time in over half a century, this term has failed to live up to the expectation generated by such a historic campaign.

But Dyche knows he cannot rely on past glories when their current position is so precarious.

“I think there is a bit of reality from the outside, people looking in, but don’t for one minute think I think I’m set in stone here. I’m not. Eventually people want change," he said.

"I’ve said it for years here, eventually they will want change, for good or bad reasons.

“Either I go somewhere else for the reason we’ve been very successful, or we haven’t, and my position changes."

But Dyche says it is not a cloud that hangs over him, or something that gives him reason to question his own commitment to the cause.

“Probably, I suppose, it’s not something that concerns me, I know the work we put in here, and I’m quite pleased - not with results - but the general work, the amount of work my staff and I put in, and the players," he said.

“If people do question it, that’s the way it goes. They question it on results, not on workload.

“That’s a reality. Eventually, if we don’t address the results business we’re in, eventually people will want change. That’s just the way it is.

“I’ve been through that before at my previous club, there’s certainly no worry about it, I just get on with my business.

“I know my business, how it works, the good and bad of it, so I think I have clarity in what the situation is."

At present, though, Dyche - who in six years in charge has won two promotions with the Clarets and kept them in the top flight since 2016 - does believe he has the backing of the board and the majority of Clarets supporters.

“I think he (chairman Mike Garlick) is understanding of the situation. Like any chairman the understanding can only go so far," said the Burnley boss.

“The fans have been amazing. Their understanding can only go so far.

“That’s just the nature of football, that’s not about this club.

“But there is a reality.

“Within all that, they’re not excuses, they’re the realities of this football club. I absolutely 100 per cent know we still have to get results. That’s my job, that’s the team’s job. I absolutely accept the responsibility for that and I will continue to do so. There’s no crying over it, these are just facts of the business that I work in here at this football club."

He added: "The fans know the journey of the club.

“We’ve got probably 12,000 who were here when I got here and have seen it radically change in six or so years.

“A few have come along the way, who have seen, probably, only successful periods.

“So maybe they are looking at the whole bigger picture, I don’t know.

“But I totally understand when they do get frustrated. We’re in a results business, and sometimes we’ve had results go against us when we’ve played well and the fans recognise that, and sometimes we haven’t played as well and they recognise that.

“Rightly so.

“There’s no sympathy, there’s no excuses. There are some challenges, but they’ve always been there.

“Now we’ve got to make sense of them and still get results.

“Simple as that.

“I don’t think it’s a forever thing, eventually people go ‘hang on, we’ve got to change something’.

“If that day comes, that’s the way it goes.

“All I know is, there’s a reality to the bigger picture of what’s gone on here, that’s inside as well.

“I think the chairman understands the challenges and where’s it’s at, but, of course, he wants us to be winning and not in the position we are, like we all do."