Ryan Lamb told skysports.com that Gloucester are focused solely on beating Ulster on Sunday, live on Sky.
Gloucester are concentrating solely on ensuring they are in the quarter-final draw rather than getting carried away with talk of semi-finals or even a final appearance in the Heineken Cup, according to fly-half Ryan Lamb.
Victory over Ulster on Sunday, live on Sky Sports, would guarantee Gloucester a home quarter-final and such is their form at Kingsholm that many are predicting the Cherry and Whites are well on their way to the semi-finals but Lamb says the club can't afford to look too far ahead.
He told skysports.com that all the good work that has gone before to help them top Pool Two, including a 32-14 defeat of Sunday's opponents in round one, will be undone if they take their eye off the ball.
"We are just looking forward to this game on Sunday," he said. "If we don't win this, we don't go further in the competition so we are not looking past this Sunday.
"It is going to be a big challenge with Ulster coming to Kingsholm - they might be seething from what happened when we went down to Ravenhill.
"It is a big game for us and we are just going to concentrate on our performance."
Form
Gloucester raced out of the traps at the start of the current season, winning four out of four in the Heineken Cup and eight out of nine at the start of the Guinness Premiership, but recent defeats at Bath and Ospreys have led to speculation in the media that Gloucester might not yet be well enough equipped to win major honours.
But Lamb says the spirit at the club has not been dented by back-to-back losses and says the Gloucester squad has been working on overcoming the wet conditions that have hampered their free-flowing style in those last two games.
"I don't think our confidence has dropped as a squad," he said. "We didn't perform on those days and there was a bit of wet weather that ruined our running game over the last couple of weeks.
"What we didn't do last week was adapt to the conditions thrown at us but we have been working hard on that for the last week and a half. We have got the players to adapt and who can cope with the conditions.
"We are not out of the competition. People have been saying that because we have had a couple of losses we are out of both competitions but we are still top of the Premiership and in pole position to get a home quarter-final in the Heineken Cup, so the confidence isn't low. We just need to go out there on Sunday and put ourselves back on the map.
Forwards
"We just want to go back out there and establish some forward supremacy. If we can do that, we will win the game comfortably, but that is the big challenge for us, to go out and perform and do the job on Sunday.
"We are confident in the squad that we can win things this year. I think we have the squad and a team that can beat anyone in Europe. As a team, a club and the management, we all have confidence in our ability.
"If we go out and win this game, we will prove that later on in the Heineken Cup."
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