“You have seen since the bad result against Hamilton that there was a great reaction from the boys. It is something we have always done when we have had a negative result.

“We have received some criticism but that is football. I am used to it by now! I have seen it all before. When you are at a successful club and you are doing well you are going to get criticism so you just take it on the chin and move on. We know where we want to be, we know where we are at at the moment. Yes we had a bad performance in there against Hamilton which was unacceptable and we will make sure it does not happen again.

“We went back to basics at bit (regards defending). Before some of the recent performances some of the games were a bit like a basketball game, we would attack, then they would attack and then we would attack again. That is not want the manager wants. We have to be a bit more controlled. That is what we have to get back to. We have a lot of pace in the team and a lot of boys want to break forward and whilst we want to play attractive attacking football you need to keep the back door shut first and foremost. We were getting a little bit carried away.

“The manager has done well to get us organised again. We identified what was wrong and tidied things up a bit. Sometimes though you go through a few games here and there where you lose a few goals and maybe your back players lose a bit of confidence but we were still scoring goals and winning games through this point.

“We are now starting to move along and function and starting to play quite well again and there is hopefully a lot to look forward to in the months ahead.

“We have some good players here. We have a very well balanced squad, a lot of players of different ages, a lot of players at the peak of their powers. We also have some great kids coming through like Cammy Smith who is really knocking on the door at the minute. There are a few other younger lads pushing as well so it is good to have their enthusiasm and freshness around the first team squad.”

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