Peterhead manager Jim McInally is putting his faith in his players to haul the club away from the relegation mire.
The Blue Toon’s hopes of challenging for promotion this season have been forgotten for now with the immediate aim of arresting the club’s slide down the League 1 table now top of the agenda at Balmoor.
Peterhead lost 2-0 to Stenhousemuir on Boxing Day to find themselves entrenched in a dogfight at the bottom of the table and McInally warned his players will have to dig deep to get the club back to winning ways.
The Blue Toon manager, who takes his team to Brechin today, said: “I’ve told the players we are getting sucked into a relegation fight and the first thing we have to do is get results.
“I don’t care how we do it.
“If we have to win ugly then so be it, but we need to get some wins to get ourselves going again.
“There’s no getting away from the fact we need to start picking up points.
“I told the players after the Stenhousemuir game the worst we should have had was a point.
“Every game is big for us now and the players realise that, but they’ve shown their quality in the past and it’s up to them to get back to that.
“A lot of the goals we concede come from individual mistakes and when confidence is low the decision-making is not so good.
“That was why we were letting in a few cheap goals and it’s clean sheets and some wins which will change all of that.”
