I would like to thank all the fans who turned up in such large numbers to New Douglas Park last Friday night to support our team. When the players came out onto the pitch, the colourful display of claret and amber in the away stand provided by the fans was simply fantastic.
Your enthusiasm and vocal encouragement for the players were the most redeeming features of a game that had a very disappointing result for the club.
Following that result, there is no hiding from the stark reality now facing us. Our current position in the league tells its own undeniable story. We are second bottom of the Premiership.
From time to time, I think about games we played during the earlier part of the season. I imagine goals that should have been scored or goals conceded that should have been avoided in games that we should have won.
But I realise that there is no point. We are where we are and we all have to do something to change that.
So, if we have any chance of avoiding an unwelcome extension to our season we need to see more points on the board.
For their part, the manager and players know in no uncertain terms what they have to do. I believe that now, more than at any time of the season so far, we have to play our part by giving the team our unwavering, unconditional support no matter what.
Clearly, following the results at the weekend, our encounter with Ross County takes on greater significance than we would have wished for at this stage of the season.
But we can still avoid the drop and the play-offs. That is a distinct possibility. With Ross County and Kilmarnock dropping three points on Saturday there is everything to play for until the end of the season.
Together, I believe emphatically that we should remain optimistic, positive, mentally strong and steely focused on securing as many points as is possible between now and the end of the season, starting with the game against Ross County.
Please, don’t give up the fight.
Brian McCafferty
Chairman