Thursday Sep 29 2005 16:13
Partick Thistle goalkeeper Kenny Arthur has called on his team-mates to replicate the form they showed during the 3-1 defeat at Rangers if they want to climb off the bottom of the SPL table.
The Jags are still without a league win this season, but Arthur believes that they can take confidence from the display at Ibrox even though the result went against them.
"The way we played on Saturday has to be the standard for the rest of our games," he told the Evening Times.
"After our poor display against Hearts the previous week, we had to give a good account of ourselves against Rangers. We have to keep it going now.
"If we had got turned over at Ibrox following that Hearts result then everyone would have been saying how bad we were and they would have had us relegated already.
"Confidence goes into a downward spiral when that happens, but instead we picked ourselves up and played well, despite losing.
"We have to draw a line under the Hearts game and everything before it and get on with playing as we did at Ibrox. If we do that and take our chances then we will not be going down."
Meanwhile, Ricky Waddell is a major doubt for Saturday's trip to Livingston after twisting his ankle in training.
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