The next five games are all that matters to goalie

incentive to impress and keep their place,” he added.

“I’ve definitely seen a more competitive side in training and I think everyone has bought into what the gaffer’s been saying. We’re fully focused on the next five games.

“I think one of the first things the gaffer said when he first came in is forget everything that’s happened before, concentrate of these games.

“At the end of the day it’s going to be a six-team league, if that’s how you want to see it.

“We want to win that league, we want to win every game, be seventh and get as far away from the bottom of the league as possible.

“I think anything else is irrelevant and there is no point thinking about the poor results we’ve had and the bad runs we’ve been in, because it really is a fresh start and we need to take advantage of that.”

That philosophy even extended to a remarkable last visit to Fir Park at the end of February.

That day Dundee looked top-six bound after a 5-1 victory that saw all the goals come in the first 45 minutes.

Bain, though, stresses that will count for nothing unless exactly the same kind of success is repeated.

“Obviously, we’ve had a good record against Motherwell and the last game in particular was a very good performance.

“But just like we forget the bad things from the past, we can’t spend too much time on the good.

“It’s a fresh start, like I’ve said, and our approach has to be if we go into this and play to our capabilities we will be fine.”

Scott Bain clutches a cross during Dundee’s 5-1 win over tomorrow’s opponents Motherwell.