Tumilty: We aim to avoid close shaves
REGHAN TUMILTY wasn’t letting Scott martin anywhere near his tache but insists hamilton’s crocked captain isn’t trimming back tips for his team-mates.
accies face annan looking to move within five points of an idle Falkirk side ahead of facing the leaders next week.
John Rankin’s boys are having to stay on the Bairns’ coat-tails minus their skipper due to a hamstring injury, albeit his influence is still being felt.
Tumilty raised more than £5000 for movember, only for his captain to declare “that tache needs to come off soon” and “i’d give him extra money if he let me take it off for him!”.
asked if he took martin up on it, the defender laughed and said: “no chance, i would rather put it in myself!
“With being the captain he has been around and most of the other injured boys have been around as well. mentally too they need to be involved.
“Scotty has a big say on the team and he helps a lot as he’s vocal. he has been there talking to boys and we have to get our arms round the injured boys as well. To keep them involved is what they need. he’s getting there. everyone’s still in and around on the day of the game.” accies, who have only lost once in the league in three months, are hunting down a Falkirk side yet to be beaten.
Tumilty added: “We’ve just dropped points at home when we shouldn’t have. But in any other season, 48 points in 22 games is a good haul.
“We can’t let our heads dip. head-toheads are going to be pivotal. We know what we need to do in every game – win.”
annan are 12 points off bottom but 10 adrift of safety after a 3-2 defeat by alloa. asked if they can take confidence from the last couple of games, midfielder Dom Docherty said: “We can.
“Before last week we had a couple of draws and a win. last week there wasn’t much between the two teams.
“This is going to be a tough ask but they came down to us last time and we competed well. We’ve always said if we can get a wee run going, if we can get maybe three wins on the bounce, that brings us right back into it.”