Livingston boss David Martindale has confirmed that subsequent season’s price range gained’t be impacted by their failure to succeed in the highest six.
The Lions had been edged out of a prime half end after they conceded an injury-time equaliser to Motherwell on Saturday after being two objectives in entrance.
Ricki Lamie’s strike noticed Livi fall to eighth place and so they get their post-split fixtures underway on April 23 with a visit to Aberdeen.
That’s then adopted by residence clashes with Hibs and St Johnstone on April 30 and Might 7 earlier than a Wednesday night time journey to Paisley to face St Mirren (Might 11).
The season ends 4 days later at residence to Dundee.
Chatting with the Courier, Martindale commented: “The enjoying price range doesn’t change no matter whether or not we’re within the prime six or backside six or wherever we end.
“Satirically, the 2 seasons we had been within the prime six we didn’t actually see the advantages of it after which this yr we miss out with a final minute objective.
“The primary yr, the season received referred to as early and we misplaced out on £250,000 of the prize cash then final season there have been no crowds so that you don’t get the gates of getting these larger golf equipment after the break up.
“We’ve received a price range that we work inside and that doesn’t change so I wouldn’t have seen any extra money if we had grabbed that prime six place.”
The gaffer admitted that Saturday’s crushing late objective left him ‘upset’ however stated there have been a number of factors all through the marketing campaign that might have seen them wrap up a prime half end previous to the weekend.
He stated: “I used to be upset after Saturday however the actuality is there have been 33 video games performed and there’s numerous of moments you possibly can level to that if that they had gone the opposite method then we’d have been within the prime six.
“I really suppose we’ve performed quite a lot of good soccer at occasions this season. There was a purpose it took a final minute objective to knock us out of the highest six - as a result of we had performed sufficient to get ourselves into that place within the first place and we’d all have taken being in that place earlier than the primary sport.
“However no person can really feel sorry for themselves or let this influence the remainder of the season. The blokes have the week off from the membership to de-stress and been given health schedules to work on however quite a lot of them have nonetheless are available in.
“We’ll put all of it behind us and get ready for the following a part of the season after we come again in subsequent week.
“Something can occur in these final 5 video games and we should be at it proper from the beginning if we wish to safe our place within the league.”
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