Cowden aim to climb

Loan striker believes only way is up for Dee

from the bottom of the Premiership but what Leitch-Smith sees in the dressing-room is a group of quality players who are only going to get better.

“We have been down the table but I believe we have not picked up the points we should have because a lot of the time the performances have been good.

“It’s disappointing but even when the results were not going our way we always believed we would turn things round.

“There are good players here and the way we’ve played we’ve always felt the results would come.”

Against the Jags, Dundee showed a dominant display that secured their biggest league win of the season, one that could have been even more handsome than the 3-0 final score.

Leitch-Smith, though, was happy to settle for the three points he feels were earned by a fine team showing, one he also concedes vindicated Neil McCann’s post-match blast after the defeat at Hearts last midweek.

“First half I think we looked very dangerous and they had to change their shape.

“We came out with the win we needed. As well as the goals I thought we looked solid at the back.

“They didn’t look like they were going to score and credit to the boys in defence for that.

“It showed what we are capable of. Tuesday (at Hearts) wasn’t good enough and the boys wanted to put it right — we did both defensively and going forward.

“Now we have to play like Saturday week in week out.” C OW D E N B E AT H are hoping to beat the weather and get themselves off the bottom of League Two.

Gary Bollan’s side sit just two points behind Edinburgh City, despite not playing in the past three weeks, and the Blue Brazil boss is hoping the Central Park pitch gets the OK for t o n i g h t ’s c l a s h w i t h Stenhousemuir.

He said: “Saturday’s game with Clyde was correctly called off as the surface was frozen but this one could go ahead.

“The frost is beginning to lift and hopefully that will continue as we want the game played.

“Stenhousemuir are a good side who have

Gary Bollan experienced players that know their way about this league. However, we will be going out looking to win. “It will be difficult but, if we can get the three points and climb a place, then everyone at the club will take a lift.”