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games he didn’t get involved on our side of things.
“The people who influence us as players are ourselves and the coaching staff. Anything in the boardroom is not for us to worry about.
“When I was at Cardiff, Sam Hammam was the chairman and he used to be in the changing-room at half-time every game.
“It was a bit odd for me because I’ve never seen it before or since in football.
“Stewart Milne, when I was up at Aberdeen, I probably saw him twice a year. Every chairman is different but I preferred it that way.
“And if we, as players, are doing the business on a Saturday, it doesn’t really matter who the chairman is.”
And Flood knows wins are now all that matters. He hasn’t given up hope of automatic promotion yet but, realistically, knows another involvement in the end-of-season play-offs is looming.
“It’s going to be a tough ask to catch St Mirren now but we’ve only ourselves to blame for that,” he went on.
“What we have to do is get winning games. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing from now on, all we have to think about is winning.
“If we do that we can see where it takes us but, if nothing else, it can get us a bit of momentum.
“And, if we are playing well, we’re a team no one wants to be playing.”