‘Fraser probably best player in this division’

He warns United should not be written off and, while he doesn’t hide from the drop in performance levels over the last couple of games, he knows what the team can do.

“Of course we don’t want to have dropped eight points behind St Mirren and Falkirk was an embarrassing result.

“But believe me there is a long way to go. At home we’ve been battering teams this season and that’s a fact, so you look at the away results and we have not been playing well enough.

“We need to rectify that, keep our home form going and make sure St Mirren are in for a big challenge.

“If we want to get close to them, we need to win games back to back and the sooner the better.

“With the ability we have in this team, and with the one or two more who maybe come in, we could win eight games on the bounce.”

And while the draw with the Pars saw United lose more ground on the Buddies, he does believe there was one big plus from the game.

“We stuck together and ground it out on Saturday and that was a plus.

“I’ve felt since the manager’s come in we either play really well and win well or we don’t play well and don’t get a result.

“We’ve never ground out a draw or a win and that was a big thing from the Dunfermline game. Like I say, we didn’t play well but it was a big plus.

“We looked a tight-kit group and we stuck together.”

Willo Flood reckons the Tangerines’ squad will pull it together in the run-up to the title despite missing players like Scott Fraser (above).