The Seasiders have plunged into danger after winning just one of their last 13 Barclays Premier League games. A year ago Holloway's men staged a remarkable late push to sneak into the Championship play-offs and then go on to win promotion at Wembley.
They maintained that momentum to make a flying start to top-flight life but form has deserted them since January and last week's loss to Wigan left them in the bottom three for the first time.
Holloway said: "It is just a run. Lots of teams have gone on these type of runs and in this league it is really difficult to get out of it. We have got to look back at the times we have played and scored and won games people would never have believed we could do. That is still there.
"Every good run starts and stops and every bad run starts and stops. I can't control whether someone is a bit nervous or the occasion gets to them, but I have got to believe now that our lads, with the run-in we had last year with 10 games to go, why can't we do that with five games to go?
"We don't need a mountain of points. There are probably five teams still in it and we are one of those five. We have got to try to clamber out up to the two that are going to be lucky."
Source: PA
Source: PA