Should Ross County win at St Johnstone today, Staggies defender Jason Naismith will waste no time finding out if the result from Hamilton has moved his team off the foot of the Premiership.
County are two points adrift of second-bottom Hamilton Accies ahead of the trip to McDiarmid Park – the first of 11 games left their bid to avoid relegation.
If County win in Perth, a win for either side in Accies’ game against 10th-placed Partick Thistle would move County off the bottom as the Staggies have a superior goal difference to the Jags, who are three points ahead.
Naismith will be eagerly awaiting news from Lanarkshire but only once County have taken care of their own business.
The 23-year-old said: “It’s just natural.
“As soon as our game finishes on Saturday we will be sitting watching Jeff Stelling and the boys on television to see what the results are at the other football grounds.
“It’s just the way it is. It will always be the same.
“Hopefully, we will get a result against St Johnstone and I will then be watching their game against Rangers in midweek, but we just need to get points on the board.
“You can talk about games in hand but St Johnstone need to go and win them.
“They can be dragged into the drop zone. We need to get it into our minds that we want to drag as many teams into it as we can.
“If we win at St Johnstone they’ve then got a tough game in midweek against Rangers, which is one of their games in hand.
“We need to look to win on Saturday. It’s as simple as that. We need to treat every game as a cup final.
“If we win more of them than we lose, hopefully that will see us with enough.”
With the Staggies having returned to form with four points from six in their last two games, Naismith reckons other teams will be increasingly wary of Owen Coyle’s men.
The former St Mirren player added: “We’ve got nothing to lose. “We are bottom of the league but we’ve got them to catch.
“I’ve been on the opposite side where you play against a team that’s below you and they’re starting to get a bit of momentum.
“It’s just natural to look over your shoulder. Now we find ourselves within touching distance of the other teams.”
The Dingwall defender added: “We had these kind of fixtures in December time and we let ourselves down badly. We never picked up enough points.
“Hopefully we’ve got the right mentality this time to go and get points.”
