IAN STRAPS IN EXTRA TIGHT
PARTICK THISTLE boss Ian McCall admits the Championship is likely to get even tighter ahead of his side’s return to league duty with a trip to Hamilton tomorrow night.
The Jags head to the Fountain of Youth Stadium looking to end their first quarter of the season on a high – and with just four points separating second from fifth.
McCall said: “It is a game that looks like it will decide whether Hamilton have had a really poor first quarter and we have had a really good first quarter, or that we have both had an OK one.
“It is never easy coming down from the Premiership and Hamilton did ever so well to stay up there for so long. I know Stan (Stuart Taylor) as I had him as a player a couple of times and I know he is very well thought of in football.
“He has been at some big clubs, albeit not as manager, and obviously wanted to go out on his own and face the challenges we all face.”
McCall pointed to
Hamilton’s win over Inverness as a prime example of the competitive nature of the Championship and said: “If you examine the league after eight games, if we put two sitters into the net at Inverness and we won that game, it would be tighter and it will get even tighter still.
“It is hard to imagine Dunfermline will stay like they are and I don’t see one team running away with it like a Dundee United or a Hearts, so it is really tight.
“Wins are really at a premium and our target is to try and win five games minimum per quarter.
“If you do that then you will end up pretty high up the league. It is a very competitive league.”