TONY Humes wants his Colchester United players to use their excellent victory over leaders Bristol City as a springboard to climb the League One table.

The U’s moved out of the bottom four for the first time since last November following their 3-2 win over the Robins, at the Weston Homes Community Stadium.

Colchester are now a point above the relegation zone, after recording only their fourth league home win of the season.

And Humes, whose switch to a 4-4-2 formation against Bristol City paid rich dividends, has now called for his U’s players to produce the same kind of performances in their remaining 14 games.

Humes said: “We’ve asked for that commitment between now and the end of the season and we’re getting it.

“The boys put their bodies on the line and that’s what it’s got to mean to them.

“We want to be out of the bottom four and we have to make sure that we don’t drop back in there.

“It’s difficult because other teams are winning around us and it’s very tight.

“We want to climb the table as quickly as we can and results like that will help us do that.

“We just have to feed off that for the rest of the season and say ‘we know we can do it’.

“It’s got to give us confidence and belief, and now we have to build on that.

“We’ve shown in our last three games against top-six teams that we haven’t looked like our league position and that’s got to give us some confidence.

“We have to build on it heading into the Doncaster game and it gives us a big springboard now to do that, with two wins from three games.”