PAUL STURROCK is trying to eliminate complacency from the Saints camp, so he's banned the 'e' word - Europe.
After the 4-1 romp at Wolves earlier this month the Saints boss admitted his side still harboured a realistic hope of qualifying for the UEFA Cup.
Saints' European dream took a beating when collapsing to defeat at Middlesbrough on Bank Holiday Monday (James Beattie is pictured left after that game) but the weekend win against Manchester City has revived those hopes of a second UEFA Cup campaign in succession.
Saints would need to finish fifth to claim the sole UEFA Cup spot unless Newcastle won the competition this season and also finished fifth or if Middlesbrough, already in Europe via the Carling Cup, finished fifth.
Saints remain five points off fourth with only five games left - but they play fellow Euro hopefuls Villa, Newcastle and Charlton in their last three matches.
But this time Sturrock's playing it cool. He said: "After the Wolves game, I was asked the question about Europe, then after Middlesbrough we were disasters, so we're going to just keep going.
"If we start looking ahead, this team seems to get very complacent at times and it's a very dangerous thing to do.
"We've got a very difficult game this weekend against Bolton at home and they won last week as well. They will make it very difficult for us.
"Then we have got Chelsea away - so we've got difficult games coming up.
"It's nice to be in the chasing pack as I'd hate to be at the other end and scrapping.
"We've got that wee gap, which allows us to relax and play games with confidence.
"But we've now got to change our whole mentality from three away games to becoming a team that goes out to do what Man City tried to do against us - win a game at home.
"It's something we've been working on in training - to try and get the psyche right.
"The players have to appreciate that we are now the offensive team rather than the defensive team."
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