Wolves at door
Colin: Rovers will keep chasing down the leaders like I did at Molineux
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DAVID REID AT STARK’S PARK
COLIN CAMERON insists Raith will hunt down leaders Dundee United like a pack of Wolves heading down the home straight.
Goals from Dylan Easton and Jack Hamilton kept Rovers four points behind United in the title race with a game in hand.
Raith No. 2 Cameron knows what it takes to win promotion from his playing days at Molineux.
He joined the Molineux men in 2001 as they lost the Championship crown to Manchester City but Wolves went up the following season through the play-offs.
Now he wants to draw on his experiences for the Stark’s Park squad.
Cameron said: “I’ve been in both situations. I was at Wolves in 2001 and we led the way in the first three quarters of the season. It’s not easy getting over that line when you’ve got people chasing you.
“We failed in the end that season but came up through the play-offs the following season. We were chasing for large parts – all we can do is put pressure on Dundee United.
“There’s more pressure on them than there is us, with the biggest budget in the league.
“We’ve been able to go along quietly but there’s pressure now and players have to take a lot of credit.
“They have to embrace and enjoy it.
“At this stage of the season, it’s about results rather. You would like per formances to be different class but it was about not making mistakes, dealing with the conditions and taking your chances when they come along.
“It’s a big week as we’ve three home games. All we’ve done today is keep the gap the same and it puts a wee bit of pressure on United if we win on Tuesday heading into the last four games.”
Rovers dealt better with the wind and almost opened the scoring on 11 minutes as Sam Stanton’s cutback was met by Aidan Connolly whose effort was blocked by Sean McGinty.
Raith’s pressure told on the stroke of half-time.
Stanton passed the ball out wide to Easton and the birthday boy, who turned 30 yesterday, produced a thunderbolt that gave Josh Clarke no chance. Ayr’s Tangerines loanee Logan Chalmers looked to help his parent club and put the wind up their title rivals 10 minutes after the interval.
He ran onto an Anton Dowds knock- on before curling a neat effort beyond Kevin Dabrowski to level up the scores.
But Raith earned the win with a penalty on 65 minutes. Easton was fouled by Mark McKenzie and up stepped Hamilton to smash home.
Chalmers tried to cause havoc again with a powerful effort in injury time but it failed to test Dabrowski and went straight at the ex-Hibs goalie.
Ayr manager Scott Brown said: “There was no quality, the wind killed the game. It’s the team that makes the least amount of mistakes that’s winning games.”