Dundee may have a 12-point gap over bottom club Livingston, but Steven Pressley is adamant his side side still have plenty to prove and are "far" from safety.
Largely written off at the start of the season due to a dismal League Cup campaign and two wins from 10 games in the league, Pressley has won critics over with a few big scalps and brave performances.
But the boss himself thinks his side still have some way to go.
Pressley, whose side visit high-flying Falkirk on Wednesday night, said: "People are saying to me, you'll be fine. No, we're not fine. Far, far from it.
"We have to prove to ourselves, first and foremost, that we should be a Premiership club next season. That's the challenge for us, but we haven't proved that yet.
"Although people have talked of late improvements in us and in our performances, the season isn't over a three-month period. It's over the entirety of the season.
"We still have to prove to ourselves that we are worthy of staying in the Premiership, and that starts again tomorrow with a really, really tough fixture against a club I have a lot of admiration for because they're doing a lot of things right.
"They've got stability around the squad, they have stability around the manager [John McGlynn].
"They've been together now for best part of four years, and in that time they've had tremendous growth as a team and as individuals, and they have a real trust in how they do things.
"So when you look at results in the last eight, they've only lost twice and that's been to Celtic.
"But within that, they've won at Tynecastle, they've beaten Hibernian at home, they've beaten St Mirren away, they've beaten Aberdeen.
"So their form is really impressive. So, make no mistake, it's going to take another effort like we had on Saturday to have any chance of getting anything from this game."
