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side who also play a bit of nice football at times but I felt we more than matched them for a lot of the game.

“We need to take that i nto the Hamilton game because it’s the biggest of our season so far.

“We win it and we give ourselves a bit of freedom to go out and play in the games to come. Then we are only worrying about ourselves.”

And while he accepts the approach from now on has to be that every game will be a battle, a quick return to winning form can change that perception.

“Every game is a six-pointer between now and the end of the season but, if we win the next couple of games, we can give ourselves a bit of breathing space.

“If we do, we can then be targeting seventh place because that’s the highest we can finish now.

“It would mean we could concentrate on playing the football we know we’re capable of.

“That’s what we want to do and as early as possible, so we need to be targeting those wins.

“For a while there we showed what we are capable of but then we had some bad results — from some very difficult fixtures it has to be said but the fact is we are where we are.

“But a couple of wins in this league and you can jump right up the table and get to safety quickly.

“That’s our aim.”

Tynecastle despite the fact the Dark Blues returned home empty-handed.