Wanderers pick up the reins of their promotion charge on Saturday with a warning to guard against the enemy within.
Colin Todd is confident his team has the ability to extend their current 11-match unbeaten run against Norwich at the Reebok and to ultimately bounce straight back into the Premiership.
But the Bolton boss knows there is a dangerous dividing line between confidence and complacency - a point illustrated by Chelsea's near-catastrophe in the FA Cup at Oxford on Monday, when Gianluca Vialli's blushes were saved by a controversial injury-time penalty equaliser.
"I've never known any team succeed on ability alone," Todd stressed as he tried to keep his players focused on their promotion goal.
"Chelsea are probably the club with the most talent in the Premier League but the other night they showed that, if you don't have the application or the appetite, you can have all the talent in the world and still come unstuck.
"They almost came unstuck and I've sat my players down and made the point to them.
"You have to have the ability first and foremost but on top of that you must have the capacity to work at the game too."
Wanderers resume after a fortnight's lay-off boosted by three successive wins and knowing they could be just one point behind second-placed Bradford, if they win their game in hand - statistics which justify their pre-season rating as favourites, along with Sunderland, to claim one of the two automatic promotion places.
"We haven't had a problem with complacency," Todd said assuringly, "and I don't expect there to be one. But it's something you know you have to guard against.
"You just need a reminder from time to time that things don't just happen; you have to make it happen.
"I'm sure we'll have no problem from the work point of view. We saw that at Sheffield United, where we had to dig deep - and on various other occasions this season."
Paul Warhurst, under treatment for a calf strain, missed training again yesterday but is expected to be fit to face Norwich in a game which sees ex-boss Bruce Rioch visit the Reebok for the first time as an opposition manager.
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