Midfielder played through pain in last desperate push

feeling I got in the foot was exactly the same.

“I felt a click and then instant pain up the back of my leg, so I thought that was it again.

“Thankfully, I got an X-ray the next day and the break hadn’t healed 100% but it was OK.

“I think if you’d spoken to the club doctor before the game at Hamilton I probably shouldn’t have been involved but I was desperate to do anything I could.

“Even when I came on, I was in pain but I felt I could have done a job. Unfortunately I couldn’t quite do it.”

He’s also backing Ray McKinnon to get the team ready over the next few weeks for another go at promotion.

“The manager will be looking to bring in players.

“There’s a l ot who are out of contract, and he’s shown in his previous team at Raith he knows how to set up a team in this league.

“So I’ve no doubt his recruitment will be spot on again this summer.

“There’s always going to be pressure on a club the size of this to get promoted straight away and I think we did give it a right good go in the play-offs.

“But it was just one game too far, unfortunately.

“And in the changing-room after the game everyone was gutted and I think a few boys were trying to hold back the tears.

“That was last season, though. We need to have our break, come back and make sure we’re bouncing for next season.”

Scott Fraser broke his foot in a 3-2 defeat at St Mirren in March.