Kris: Thistle can score their way to safety
Partick Thistle striker Kris Doolan believes the club can fire their way to Premiership survival.
The Jags moved off the bottom of the table with a vital win against Hamilton Accies but still occupy the relegation play-off spot.
They would have been in real trouble if Accies had managed to take the points at Firhill.
That would have taken the Lanarkshire outfit eight points clear of Thistle.
Now it’s incredibly tight – there’s just six points between the bottom four clubs.
Doolan made it a century of league goals with his equaliser for the Jags before Ryan Edwards fired home a winner.
The striker’s header ended the club’ s 595-minute goal drought.
He said: “Getting the 100th goal was the perfect way in the first game with the stand named after John Lambie.
“There couldn’t have been a more fitting way to score it than in this game.
“Albeit, it was in weird circumstances. An 18- yard header is not something I’m known for, but I would have taken anything.
“I hope he was looking down on me.
“I felt as if I could have scored every time the ball came into the box, I always feel like I could score from anywhere in the box.
“We showed that when we have an attacking line- up, how dangerous we can be going forward.
“We could have had a couple more but for good defending and Hamilton putting their bodies on the line.
“I think that’s the key for the end of the season, we have to go and score our way to safety.”
Doolan says the victory has immediately changed the mood at Firhill.
He went on: “If you see the changing room now, it’s completely different to a couple of weeks ago and the way it has been for most of the season.
“It’s actually nice to see everybody enjoying football again.
“We’ ve spoken in training about not taking it too sore when we do go behind, because we’ve been ahead and still got games and we know how quickly games can change.
“It was nice to see that the talking we have done off the park and the way we have trained was taken on to the park.
“It was a nice way to pay tribute to John Lambie.”
Thistle go to St Johnstone on Saturday and the 31- year- old is relishing a visit to Perth.
There’s bound to be more drama with just four games to go before one team suffers the dreaded drop.
He said: “I think we play better at McDiarmid Park against St Johnstone than we do here for whatever reason.
“It’s a pitch that the players seem to enjoy.”