TOMMY CRAIG insists he still has the belief to turn round St Mirren's season from hell despite seeing his team slip to their tenth defeat in 14 Premiership games

TOMMY CRAIG insists he still has the belief to turn round St Mirren's season from hell despite seeing his team slip to their tenth defeat in 14 Premiership games

Yet it was the manner of their 3-0 drubbing at Hamilton that caused the most concern for those of a Buddies persuasion.

Saints didn't pose any genuine threat until the game was beyond them.

That disappointment caused a small band of travelling fans to make their feelings clear at New Douglas Park by chanting for change in the St Mirren dugout.

Afterwards Craig refused to comment on the heckling from the stands, but mantained that he is still the man to turn things around and haul the Paisley club off joint-bottom spot.

He said: "I think that if we play the way I know we can play we'll be okay. But we are making it harder as games go by.

"I suppose people talk about pressure but I have a job to do.

"I felt the first half was relatively even. It was a poor game until half-time.

"But they got a goal just before the break and came out with their tails up and made it more difficult for us.

"In the end they were quite dominant and we didn't get a foothold in the game. I'm really disappointed."

Craig was forced to reshuffle his pack for the match with Jim Goodwin suspended and John McGinn and Ellis Plummer both injured.

He gave a first-team debut to 18-year-old midfielder Stevie Mallan, son of the former Clyde and Queen of the South striker. The move worked for most of the first half as Hamilton's threat was largely stifled.

But Saints buckled as the game progressed.

Craig said: "Accies like to go through the middle of the pitch rather than down the sides, so I tried to counter that by putting in Stevie, who does that job for our Under-20s.

"For a period it was okay. It was just our way to try to stem the tide."