Each home game Graeme Shinnie sits down with the Red Matchday Editor to do his column for the magazine. You can watch this week’s conversation which took place on Monday.

“Taking four points from the last two games, and backing up the win at Motherwell has been really important.

“Against Ross County we felt the importance of the game when we were out on the pitch. It was one of those where the win was more important than the performance. We weren’t great in the first half, a bit better in the second half with our attacking play, but the massive thing was the three points. We got that.

“At Livingston, the pitch and the conditions meant it was always going to be a pretty tough 90 minutes. The astroturf is different and then you had the high winds, so it was not an ideal afternoon for playing football.

“We thought we’d won it in the final seconds, but it wasn’t to be unfortunately. With VAR we maybe have had a few decisions go our way, but we have certainly had some very frustrating ones go against us, and the goal from Bojan on Saturday would certainly fall into that category.

“If we had managed to nick the 1-0 win it would have been massive for us. But it is still seven points out of nine and we move on from there.

“Dundee will be another tester. The last time we played them it was tough because Neil Warnock had just left and he had his ways of playing and Peter did not have too long with us before the game, so I thought we were stuck a bit in between. That night we were very poor, but after the game we came together and Peter laid out how we were going to play going forward. It was important to have that clarity and since then we have picked up some important points.

“Peter knows the squad, and the players have taken to him. The training is very good. It is specific to how he wants us to play on a Saturday. So far, so good.

“We’re unbeaten in the last three games and there’s confidence to be taken from keeping a second clean sheet in three games. Every team needs to be built on a good defence and that is not just the back four or five and a goalkeeper. It’s the whole team and it comes from the front, with the forward players pressing.

“We have to defend as a team and it is an area where we have let ourselves down. The opposition have scored too easily against us, and so we have been too easy to beat in a lot of the games, which has been very frustrating. So it’s pleasing that side of things has been a lot better, but we have to carry that forward. We know we can score goals, so it is important to keep them out at the other end.

“Being in the bottom six is not good enough. The league campaign has not been good enough. We know that. But we can’t change the past. It is important that the players build on what we have done in recent weeks and in the last few games and focus on finishing the season as strongly as we can and putting as many points on the board and doing well as we can in the Scottish Cup. There is still a lot to play for. It is important for the squad to carry that pride into these games and do it for the fans.”