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Cardiff Blues skipper Paul Tito admits their Magners League play-off hopes rest on winning their last five games, starting on Friday at the Ospreys.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Blues lost 16-15 to Munster at Cardiff City Stadium on Friday to leave them fifth. <\/p>\n

After the second-placed Ospreys, they travel to Connacht, host Treviso then journey to Newport Gwent Dragons and play-off rivals the Scarlets. <\/p>\n

“It looks like we have to win them all,” said the Kiwi lock. <\/p>\n

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“And it’s no easy feat going down to the Ospreys and winning – and the Scarlets and Dragons as well.” <\/p>\n

The Blues’ end-of-season run last term took them to the Amlin Challenge Cup final in which they beat Toulon in Marseille. <\/p>\n

Tito hopes they can produce a similar effort this time around. <\/p>\n

He said: “It’s there for us. If we know we can turn up and perform like we did at the back end of last year we can win these games.<\/p>\n

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“But things aren’t really going for us at the moment, but we’re a tight team and we’ll stick together and we’ll turn up on Monday and put our hands up where things didn’t go so well and soldier on for next week. <\/p>\n

“We’re still there or thereabouts. We know we’ve got a fight on our hands and we’ve got a tight squad and we’ll give it our best shot.” <\/p>\n

But the 32-year-old acknowledges their form must improve after falling to defeat by Munster <\/p>\n

“It was very disappointing,” said Tito. “We had a couple of weeks off and trained well, we just probably didn’t take it out on to the field. <\/p>\n

“I think the attitude and commitment was there, but once again our finishing and our set-piece let us down so there’s a tough five weeks to go. <\/p>\n

“We didn’t start well, but I thought we fought back well. We were only down by one point and they most probably deserved to be ahead at half-time a lot more than that. <\/p>\n

“So we did fight back well and we just couldn’t really convert it in the end. <\/p>\n

“At crucial times we turned the ball over and at this day and age in the game that loses you matches. <\/p>\n

“If Parksy Dan Parks had got that drop-goal over in the end we’d all be patting each other on the back. <\/p>\n

“But it was a quiet dressing room in there as it should be and we’ve got a big battle to make the top four now.” <\/p>\n

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