Buddies star: Keep that up and we'll be relegated

Published on Monday 11 May 2009 10:01

HUGH MURRAY fears St Mirren will be relegated unless they can bring about a dramatic improvement in their play.

The Paisley side are just two points off the bottom of the SPL after a 3-1 loss to Motherwell, their second successive damaging home defeat. The Buddies now face a difficult trip to Kilmarnock on Wednesday, followed by Saturday's crunch visit to bottom side Falkirk.

St Mirren had conceded a late winner at home to Inverness the previous week in the first bottom-six game, and midfielder Murray said: "The last two performances have been nowhere near good enough and, if we put in similar performances (in the remaining three games), I've no doubt we'll be relegated.

"We've had a chance to put a bit of distance between ourselves and Falkirk, but we deserved to be beaten both times and quite frankly, if we continue to play the way we have in the past two games, we're in trouble.

"Our performances had been quite good here right up until the Inverness game and if I knew what was going wrong, I'd love to say, but we need to start winning if we want to stay in the Premier League, it's as simple as that.

"We didn't deserve anything from this game. Motherwell were better all over the park and every player needs to get their sleeves rolled up and fight if we want to stay in the league."

Seventh-placed Motherwell comfortably secured the points thanks to an early headed opener by Jamie Murphy and a double by David Clarkson, before substitute Stephen O'Donnell scored the hosts' late consolation.