Saints determined to end on a high at Love Street

Published on Monday 29 December 2008 09:16

CRAIG DARGO and his St Mirren team-mates are determined to bid a winning farewell to Love Street by making it five wins from five games as the Paisley ground stages its last match.

The substitute striker scored the only goal of the game late in the encounter against Hamilton to continue his team's incredible December run of victories.

Dargo insists confidence is flowing through Gus MacPherson's side, and that they are determined to channel that into earning another three points when Motherwell visit on January 3 in the final match before St Mirren move to their new stadium.

He said: "We've won a few games so we have a wee spring in our step and we can't wait until next week.

"It's going to be the big fixture, it's sold-out as we say farewell to Love Street, and what a way it would be to end things here with another victory to make it five out of five – that's what we'll be looking for.

"This was an excellent result for us; the past four games have been a great run and put us in a good position and set us up for next week.

"We had a wee bad patch where we weren't picking up any points, but we felt all along that we were playing well – there was just something lacking and we couldn't really put our finger on it, but we've now turned that into points and victories."

Dargo has had to be content with a place on the bench during his team's remarkable winning run, but is pleased that he was able to take his opportunity to contribute a crucial goal.

St Mirren are now just two points off the top six and have a seven-point cushion over the tightly-crowded bottom trio in the table.

Hamilton's Trent McClenahan, employed in midfield for a change, was disappointed that the visitors were unable to build on the previous week's Lanarkshire derby victory to move off the bottom of the table.

The Australian said: "It was very disappointing to lose a goal late on, because it looked as though it was fairly even throughout the game.

"Midfield isn't really my position per se but sometimes you have to adjust and do a job for the team."

And praising St Mirren's man of the match, he said: "Andy Dorman is a very dangerous player who comes alive in the final third and makes those late runs into the box – they're first class and he makes them so late that it's hard to track them in."