Tate was speaking after the Swans 2-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday – a result that lifted them to 5th place in the Championship table<\/p>\n
He told the Evening Post “If you had asked me at the start of the season if I thought we’d be fifth at Christmas, I would have said no to be honest<\/p>\n
“When you considered what went on in the summer and looked at all the other teams in the league, I thought we would be 10th or 11th.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure other people were not backing us to do this well this season, and if you’d offered us fifth we’d have taken it.<\/p>\n
“It’s a massive improvement on where we were last year and that’s what you always have to look for.<\/p>\n
“No matter what team we seem to put out at the moment, everyone has the right work ethic and that’s paying dividends for us.<\/p>\n
“We are happy with how things are going and of course we’d be happy if we’re still fifth in May because that would give us a chance of reaching the Premier League.<\/p>\n
“That’s got to be everyone’s goal, but we’re not talking about promotion at the moment because that would be ridiculous.<\/p>\n
“There are so many teams in this league who have been through some bad form but have strong squads.<\/p>\n
“Sheffield United are one example, then you have Middlesbrough and QPR \u2014 they will all come right back into it between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n
“We got the perfect start with the early goal \u2014 that’s what you need when you are playing a side who have been struggling,” Tate added.<\/p>\n
“You could see their confidence drifting after that and then we scored a great team goal towards the end of the first half which pretty much killed them off.<\/p>\n
“All the lads deserve credit for another clean sheet. We seem to have things sorted defensively, so I think the key to staying where we are in the table is going to be scoring goals.<\/p>\n
“If we can get a couple like we did on Saturday, we will always be in with a chance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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