SEAN Dyche has hailed the team spirit within the Clarets camp this season as a ‘valuable weapon’.

The Turf Moor chief has sensed a renewed energy around his group this term and believes that spirit could turn out to be a huge asset this year.

It has helped Burnley produce some excellent backs-to-the-wall displays so far this season, particularly on the road where they have won at Chelsea and drawn at Tottenham and Liverpool, but they were also at their resilient best in edging a 1-0 Turf Moor win over Crystal Palace.

Dyche accepts there can be no true measure for how much togetherness and team spirit is contributing to the success the Clarets have achieved so far, but he’d certainly rather have it than be without.

“I don’t think good old-fashioned team spirit is forgotten, I think it’s a valuable weapon to have in any achieving group, whether it be in football, another sport or in business,” the Burnley boss said.

“If there’s a feel amongst a group and all noses are pointing in the right direction, I think that’s a very important thing to have.

“You can’t really measure it, but I know from years of experience of working in groups as a player, coach, assistant manager and manager when it’s right and I know when it’s not.

“It can be up and down, but I think we’ve shown for a long time that’s an important part of how we work, the alignment of the group, the understanding of the group.

“In my experience it’s important.”

Last week Clarets defender Matt Lowton said he believed there was a new found confidence within the Burnley camp, something he felt in the lead up to the opening day of the season at Chelsea.

Dyche backed his defender’s view and insists that can help his side build on last season’s top flight survival.

“There’s been a good energy about it, that feeling in a group and in the dressing room and that attachment to the team. It’s a very important thing,” he said.

“A lot of the talk nowadays is tactical, and that’s valid, supporting that is that feeling and connection as a group.

“That is a really important factor in the team achieving and that’s been good this year. It’s enhanced this season.

“I think every year players grow, particularly when things work. The experience helps, as does the experience that doesn’t go for you, such as when we went down and the players who were here have made sense of that.”