Experience of relegation battle will be vital for Ross County, says defender
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Callum Morris believes the experience in the Ross County squad will come to the fore now the Staggies have slipped to the bottom of the Premiership.
Results have gone against County in recent weeks, with St Mirren winning at Motherwell last Saturday and Hamilton beating Kilmarnock the week before.
The Staggies, meanwhile, have now gone nine league matches without a win, propping up the pack although just five points separate the entire bottom half.
Club vice captain Morris already knows what it is like to be involved in a battle at the wrong end of the table, having been relegated with Dundee United in 2016.
While nobody ever wants to be in a fight for survival, memories of four years ago could prove valuable over the next few months.
“I’ve been relegated from this league and I was at Aberdeen when they were in cup finals and flying,” he said.
“You take it all on merit. It’s not great to have a relegation your CV but when you look back now, the experience can be vital. Coll Donaldson was there at the same time and it’s horrific. It’s about stopping that rot – we have opportunities to do that and I know we will.
“We had bad spells last season and turned it round with back-to-back wins and we can do it again.
“We’ve got good heads, a mixture of youth and experience, and we’ll have to use each and every ounce of that to get ourselves out of this and I think we will.”
While Morris has faith that results will come, he is under no illusion about the need to improve performances.
“I’m not worried about the table, I’m worried about the way we are playing and the performances,” he added.
“We can’t look at the table and think we’re suddenly going to jump up without doing anything.
“It’s the games coming up we have to take care of and that’s what we are focused on rather than the league table.
“It’s only December and there are a lot of games to play. We’ve got a massive week coming up, both winnable games, and the Celtic game proved we can beat the best team in the league so we have to take confidence from that and put it into Wednesday.”
