Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter is targeting a consistent finish in the Aviva Premiership to fire them back into the Heineken Cup next term.
The Devon club return to action after a three-week break when Leicester Tigers visit Sandy Park today (5pm).
Baxter's men were in fine form before two fixture-less weekends, due to the resumption of the LV= Cup.
A five-game run without a league win was brought to an end when they defeated London Welsh and they followed that success with an impressive victory at Harlequins.
Baxter said: "We have to make sure we consistently play well against the top two and top-four sides. We are starting to show those qualities but we have to make sure we ram them home on a regular basis.
"You can look at our results and you could say we would be a little bit further up the table and be a real contender in the league if certain results had gone our way.
"When we have won, we have almost thoroughly deserved to win and have been comfortable in the last ten minutes of the game. That is a little bit frustrating because it doesn't feel like we have won a lot of close games this year."
Unfortunately, Tigers were one side that managed to pull well clear of Chiefs this season during 30-8 win at Welford Road in September.
Baxter said: "We let the game slip away from us a little bit up there. We never really got control of the set-piece for various reasons.
"We have worked hard on that all year and we have different players available now.
"Carl Rimmer came in and did an absolutely fantastic job for us at the start of the season at tight-head.
"The game up there was very early on when we moved him to tight-head and he was still getting used to it.
"We lost a little bit of the control and momentum of the game and that is something Leicester are very good at.
"We have to make the game about how we want to play. That is what we have to fight to keep going."
Lock Dean Mumm and prop Hoani Tui are both recalled to the starting line-up, having missed out on the trip to Quins through injury.
Baxter is also boosted by the return of prop Brett Sturgess and Chris Whitehead who will take a place on the replacements' bench alongside Craig Mitchell and James Hanks today.
England Under-20s fly-half Henry Slade, whose impressive displays in the recent Six Nations tournament, is also in a Premership matchday squad for the first time.
Exeter Chiefs: Arscott; Nowell, Naqelevuki, Dollman, Jess; Steenson, Thomas; Rimmer, Yeandle, Tui; Mumm, Welch; White, Scaysbrook, Baxter (capt). Replacements: Whitehead, Sturgess, Mitchell, Hanks, Ewers, Chudley, Slade, Whitten.
