NOTHING GOES RIGHT

Confidence is an important commodity and Partick Thistle need to unearth some soon if they want to excavate the kind of form necessary to escape relegation.

Hearts ran right over the top of them on Saturday, establishing a comfortable 3-0 lead by the time the match reached half-time and the fact that they offered little resistance is a justified cause for concern within the club.

“It’s very frustrating when we knew what we had to do and we’re fighting for our lives,” said Thistle midfielder Adam Barton.

“To start a game like that is just not acceptable. We can’t get away with that as we’re running out of games. We haven’t picked up points for a while.”

They have won just one of their last nine games, that victory coming at the beginning of February, and, on Premiership duty, they have won only once on the road all season, but with bottom of the table Ross County clawing back the gap on the Firhill side to just three points, they know that they need to find a way to turn that around, and fast.

“Everyone knows what they have to do,” added the 27-yearold, right, who last season helped the Firhill side to a topsix finish. “If we could pinpoint the problem then we’d solve it straight away. It’s not that people don’t care, it’s just a lack of

“If you’re flying high you’ll try things and they’ll come off. Right now even five-yard passes aren’t coming off for us”

ADAM BARTON confidence. It’s little things like making bad decisions or players not performing as well as they can in training because of confidence. If you’re flying high you’ll try things and