GAVIN BERRY

sport@dailyrecord.co.uk McIntyre last summer. Woods signed for the Jags three months into this campaign and now finds himself battling it out with some of his former team-mates.

And he said: “I have some mates up there and I get on well with the manager. There are a lot of good people there but I’m an employee of Partick Thistle and that is all I’m caring about.

“I want to get a result for us. I don’t think any of the boys will say if we win that I got them relegated – it’s over the course of the whole season.

“I will focus on my own job that’s all I can do. We’ve started the split well and hopefully a few more victories will get us safe.

“I don’t want a lot of my mates to suffer. It’s hard but I have to go out and get the victory for Partick Thistle. We have some good people here and the last thing I want to do is have them lose their job.

“We have people behind the scenes who work hard for us and a relegation could impact on them.

“You don’t know if we go down what the club will do. We have to take care of our job first for everyone connected with this club.

“We have to go and try to do it on the park and ease their worries. It’s something we’ve spoken about and we want to go out and do it.”

Woods admitted lifting silverware with County was special and he is still in contact with some of his old pals in Dingwall through a WhatsApp chat group.

But he admitted the situation is now too serious to joke about the consequences of