STEVE PATTERSON has revealed that Yorkshire’s players are chasing picture perfect success.

The White Rose seamer and his team-mates want to be part of a golden era at Headingley, where they want to see their names and faces up in lights in years to come.

Patterson says it is a motivator for the current squad that it is the likes of Boycott and Close who are pictured around the ground and not Bresnan and Bairstow.

Not that he is criticising the club’s choice of decoration for their home ground. He wants the class of 2014 to make it impossible for them to be ignored.

“It’s no secret that the lads find it a bit frustrating at times walking around the ground and seeing pictures of the teams in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, but there’s no sign of the current stuff,” said Patterson.

“If you look at our team at the moment, there’s probably eight lads in it who have played for England in the last few years.

“It would be nice if we can have a sustained period of success so that people can recognise us as a great team in our own right, on a par with those sides.

“That’s not taking away from anything that other teams have done, but we want to be recognised for the success we’ve had.

“We have a very strong side who played a very high standard of cricket, but winning one Championship doesn’t define a team.

“We’d like it to be (a golden era). If we are going to be talked about as one of those teams, you’ve got to win more than one Championship title and perhaps provide something in one-day cricket as well.”

Yorkshire would seem ideally placed for the sustained success Patterson and company crave.

A quick glance at their squad list tells you that only Ryan Sidebottom, at 37, is closing in on retirement, and there is plenty of cricket left in the vast majority of their group.

“I know Ryan is a bit older and probably won’t play that much longer, but you’ve got Liam Plunkett at 30, me and Jack Brooks at 31, Tim Bresnan 30. You’d like to think that bowlers come into their prime late twenties and early thirties,” Patterson said.

“You’d like to think that there’s at least two or three more years of keeping those lads together. Adil Rashid has played forever, but he’s only 27.

“Then, we have a lot of young batters, Jack Leaning, Alex Lees. There’s no reason why we can’t have a similar team for the next four or five years.

“We’ve got a lot of hard work to put in over the next however many years.

“We’ve got to keep trying to be better and wanting to better, not sit back and say ‘ok, we’ve done it once or twice’. We’ve got to be hard on ourselves because that’s the only way you keep moving forward.”

Yorkshire play their penultimate NatWest T20 Blast match tomorrow night against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.