Crystal Palace midfielder Neil Danns reckons it is time other teams in the Championship began to fear him and his colleagues.

The Eagles moved into the top half of the table after demolishing Blackpool 4-1 at Selhurst Park on Saturday, their third win in their last four games after a slow start to the season.

Prior to that game, Palace had only managed two league goals at home but Danns believes the improved displays of late mean the Eagles are again a force to be reckoned with.

"The points tally in the last four games tells everyone not to write us off," he said.

"We have proved we are a hard team to beat and a hard team to play against and every team we visit now are going to know they are going to get a game.

"It's obviously good to win and we are getting that feeling quite a bit now and the more we win the more we grow stronger and we want that feeling every week.

"We knew we were due a game like Blackpool where the goals will go in.

"We knew it was going to come that a team would come here and we would unleash on them and on Saturday luckily we did that and we are all over the moon."

Danns in one of only four players to score for Palace this season, all of which notched on Saturday, and was pleased to be back on the scoresheet.

"It's always nice to score goals," he said.

"I've been due one and the last few games I have had a few chances and I was gutted not to put them away.

"I've got two headers now this season and scored two in pre-season so I seem to be scoring more with my head than my feet at the moment.

"A lot of the lads have said I should get some boots for my head."

Danns strike followed Alan Lee's second minute header that ended a run of 19 games without scoring in the first half, a statistic Danns always knew would come to an end.

"It was nice to get rid of that record," he said.

"I have read bits and bobs about it but it wasn't something I was fazed by, I knew it was going to come in the end."

Crystal Palace next three matches: October 17 Cardiff City (a), 20 Leicester City (a), 24 Nottingham Forest (h).