ASHLEY Barnes has warned his Burnley team-mates they can’t be reliant on results going for them every weekend.

The former Brighton striker wants the Clarets to look after their own end of the bargain as they seek a second season in the Premier League.

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Sean Dyche’s side remain out of the relegation zone, despite a disappointing 3-2 defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday, with the rest of the bottom three also beaten over the weekend.

But while Barnes admitted they will take a boost from their relegation rivals also slipping up, he believes Burnley have to do their job most weekends, something they failed to do on Saturday when they saw a two-goal lead wiped out by Alan Pardew’s Eagles.

“We’ll take a massive boost from people losing around us, which is good,” said Barnes.

“But we can’t be reliant on everyone else, we have to do our job first, and first and foremost look after ourselves and the points that we could have picked up.

“It’s a fighting zone down the bottom and we knew we were in for a fight.

“If we could have picked up those three points on Saturday it would have taken us up a bit and dragged a few more teams in to it, but it wasn’t to be.”

Saturday’s defeat was the second time in four days that the Clarets had raced into a 2-0 lead, only to end up on the losing side.

Barnes admitted he was shocked at the way he and his team-mates had collapsed against Crystal Palace, with a performance described by Dyche as one of the poorest of the season so far.

Barnes said: “We don’t need to be told. We know ourselves that’s it our own fault. It’s one of those we have to rectify ourselves on the training ground.

“It’s going to be a little mental break now (with no game next weekend), but we’ll get together and regroup and do things as a group. We’ll go through the video and we’ll see.

“It’s hard to take that we’ve thrown it away.”

Despite the defeat, the silver lining for Barnes and his team-mates was losses for Hull, at West Ham, QPR, at home to Manchester United, and Leicester, at home to Stoke.

But the striker knows they have to take care of business themselves if they are to beat the odds and survive in the Premier League.

Barnes was a peripheral figure in the early weeks of the season, starting just once in the run of 10 league games without a win, but since scoring the winner against Hull on November 8 he has started the last 12 in the league, scoring four times.

During that run he has seen the spirit of Dyche’s side come to the fore in the comeback draws at Manchester City and Newcastle over the Christmas and New Year period, and he has no doubt that it is a trait they can call on again over the next 11 days, before heading to the North East for another crucial league fixture with Sunderland.

“You’ve seen it,” the 25-year-old said of the character in the squad.

“We’ve lost before and we’ve bounced back against good teams and we’ll do that again.”