Gaz: 7 up tilt won’t go flat in Prem heat

GARY WARREN insists Inverness “will die for the cause” to stop seven games undoing seven years of hard graft.

The defender is gearing up for a scrap for Premiership safety in Caley Thistle’s seventh successive season in the top flight.

Richie Foran’s side are bottom of the table with 21 points still up for grabs and Warren is adamant they’ll fight to the bitter end to stay up.

He said: “It is a big ask but if we don’t win the games we are down so that’s our motivation.

“If we don’t win our games our season will be over and we’ll be playing in the Championship – nobody at this club wants that.

“We’ve worked so hard to establish ourselves in the top flight in the last five or six years and it is going to take a lot of hard work and effort to stay up.

“But everyone, from the players through to the staff, is committed and will die for the cause. We’ll fight to the end. We’ve become harder to beat but we have to start taking our chances and put teams away if we are to give ourselves a chance.”

Caley Thistle lost 1-0 at Aberdeen on Tuesday after Warren diverted the ball into his own net.

But he added: “If we play like we did at Pittodrie against the teams around us we’ll be all right. That’s the frustrating thing at the moment though as we seem to do okay against the teams at the top but struggle against the sides around us.

“And we have to beat the teams around us if we are to get out of this.

“There are no excuses now. Teams are fighting for their lives and we have to make sure we’re one of the teams that finishes outside the bottom two.

“We need to have more belief. We played against an Aberdeen side that put seven past Dundee and we ran them close.”