Defender Michael Doyle insists Hamilton Accies should present extra braveness if they're to outlive within the Scottish Championship this season.
Accies fell six factors behind Arbroath on the foot of the desk, albeit with a sport in hand, after Jamie Gullan's ninth-minute striker inflicted a slim 1-0 defeat at house to Raith Rovers yesterday.
It's now six defeats on the spin and that has cranked up the strain on boss John Rankin, along with his aspect having picked up only one level out of the final 24 out there.
Doyle is aware of a second relegation in three seasons is on the playing cards for Accies if they do not cease the rot quick and he says it's right down to the gamers to haul themselves and their supervisor out of the mire.
Throughout a break in play, Doyle may very well be heard making an attempt to rally the troops and inspiring his team-mates to "simply shoot" as a substitute of looking for the right cross.
And requested about that second, Doyle mentioned: "As gamers we have to present extra braveness.
"The supervisor tells us that, and I do know in soccer the supervisor appears to get the brunt of issues, however we're males on the market on the park.
"The supervisor does every part for us.
"He's completely good, I have to admit, and thru my complete profession, he is likely one of the finest I've labored underneath.
"So it's the gamers on the park who want to start out repaying him.
"It is advisable be brave on the park. It is advisable take pictures.
"Pictures get targets. We need not rating the right aim, we simply must put the ball at the back of the online.
"And we have to begin realising how to do this sooner relatively than later.
"If you end up down there [at the bottom of the table] it appears arduous to select up outcomes.
"We've got labored arduous all week. We're going into the brand new yr realizing we have to begin selecting up outcomes, however I assumed though we had been respectable between two containers in opposition to Raith, it is about what occurs in each containers and we have to enhance our high quality.
"We misplaced a aim the place we should always do higher and we have had possibilities on the different finish the place the gamers, together with myself, must do higher.
"That's what appears to be letting us down in the meanwhile."
Accies mustered simply two pictures heading in the right direction through the conflict, one in every of which was when substitute Ryan One's flick pressured Jamie MacDonald into a very good cease within the 74th minute.
A giant likelihood fell to Andy Winter within the closing moments however he rushed his effort and fired narrowly broad.
And Doyle added: "If you end up down the place we're, you may overplay a bit.
"It is a lack of high quality, a insecurity and a scarcity of luck as nicely.
"Luck is a mad factor in soccer. The ball can hit somebody, rebound and it may be there sitting for someone to faucet it in.
"That could be a large factor.
"We're getting the probabilities, we're simply not taking them.
"I can not simply blame the strikers. Among the crosses I've bought to do higher with as nicely. On the different finish, if you'll undergo a complete sport with out scoring, it's worthwhile to ensure you do not concede on the different finish.
"That's one thing we have to do as nicely.
"I assumed large Fergus [Owens] for 99 per cent of the sport did nicely. He simply switches off for the one on the again publish and it's these wee margins that we have to enhance on."
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