Grant: Don’t stop believing

Grant Gillespie says Hamilton should have enough quality to see games out, and must keep believing in themselves.

The midfielder was bitterly disappointed after Accies took the lead for the seventh time this season, without holding out for a win.

Alex D’acol’s goal for Hamilton was cancelled out by Sean Welsh’s strike on the hour-mark, and Thistle were maybe unfortunate to see a Callum Booth‘goal’disallowed for offside.

Gillespie said:“i’d probably say it was two points dropped. Having taken the lead again, it was different from last week when we said it was a point gained at Ross County, and it’s bitterly frustrating that we can’t hold onto a lead, which is probably the story of our season so far.

“We’ve just got to keep our heads down, keep working hard on the training pitch, keep believing, and hopefully things will turn for us.

“I don’t think there was anything between the teams. They came here and matched us with the formation we play, and I think that showed what they came to do, which was not to lose.

“There wasn’t much in the game, but again we took the lead and we feel that we have enough on the pitch that we should be seeing games out.

“We need to start learning from the mistakes that we make, and hopefully we can go and put it right.”

Gillespie refuses to say that luck is involved in Hamilton’s run of draws and defeats, and says if it happens more than once they have to look closer to home for the reason why they struggle to hold onto leads.

He said:“if it’s a couple of times that we’ve taken the lead and not gone on to win the game you could consider it to be unlucky, but for it to happen seven times I don’t think it’s unlucky.

“We’ve just got to keep going, come back in, analyse the game, see where we went wrong in the game and go and rectify that at Inverness.”