CHRIS Hughton has urged Birmingham City not to rest on their laurels as they target a best winning sequence for 17 years.

Victory over Brighton at St Andrew’s tomorrow would equal the run of seven straight successes that Barry Fry’s Blues posted in the 1994-95 Second Division and Auto Windscreens Shield double season.

“You can’t rest on your laurels and we won’t,” said Hughton.

“If I look at the games we’ve had, Leeds was probably our toughest game at St Andrew’s and very, very close behind that one would have been Barnsley, where for 45 minutes we weren’t in the game.

“And that’s the quality you’ve got now in this league. Tomorrow we’re up against a team that has got real good momentum and have been together for a period of time now and know each other well and know exactly how they want to play.

“The same way we made the players aware of what Leeds were about, we’ll do with Brighton.”

In 1994, Blues’ sequence came at the beginning of a 25-game unbeaten run, in league and cup.

In that seven-game stretch, between October and November, wins were chalked up over Walsall in the Auto Windscreens Shield preliminary round in front of 10,009 spectators, and Slough in the FA Cup.

So considering Blues have won twice away in the Europa League, in Maribor and Bruges, and only played at St Andrew’s twice, this present spell would top that achievement should they make it a seventh heaven.

In 2001, Trevor Francis’ Blues recorded six successive victories in August and September, which included defeats of Southend United and Bristol Rovers in the Worthington Cup.

Alex McLeish’s ‘Unbeatables’ won five straight Premier League games in 2009 during a 15-match unbeaten period.