Birmingham boss Alex McLeish admits there is still room for improvement despite celebrating three successful years in charge this weekend. McLeish steered City to promotion back to the Barclays Premier League in his first full season at St Andrew's after replacing Steve Bruce as manager in November 2007.
Then Blues then experienced their best ever top flight finish in being placed ninth last season. McLeish, whose side visit Fulham on Saturday, said: "You are never satisfied and I don't think that is a bad thing.
"I think it is good when you keep testing yourself, keep pushing yourself, keep pushing the players and asking 'can we do better' because you don't want to stand still.
"You are never happy. You always feel 'we could be doing a little bit better' given some of the points we have lost this season and we should actually be better off."
McLeish believes the team he wants at City is only now starting to take shape.
He said: "It was difficult to start building and it isn't an overnight project.
"We had the long term aims as well as the short term ones.
"The short term when we came was to do everything possible to stay in the Premier League which we just failed to achieve by one point.
"Then we have other aims and you try and do them within certain budget parameters and you've just got to keep building accordingly.
"Last year was remarkable but this season we knew we would be facing some other difficulties because of what we achieved.
"Teams would be setting up different against us, would be more on their toes maybe against us, but we are starting to adjust again."
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