Stoke City manager Mark Robins has thanked the Championship club's fans for their "incredible" support as the team look to kick-start their promotion challenge.
The Potters have lost six of their past eight matches and have slipped to eighth in the table, two points adrift of the top six. In early November, victory at Oxford United had taken them second.
"It is imperative that the fans are like this, and they have been incredible, so I thank them for that," Robins told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Human beings being what they are today, its really difficult in this climate, in this world.