Hughes wants string of results to move Ross County up the Premiership
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Ross County manager John Hughes is challenging his team to pick up back-to-back victories when Dundee United come to Dingwall tomorrow.
The Staggies came from behind to claim three points against Hamilton on Wednesday.
Jordan White and Billy Mckay turned the game on its head after Stephen Kelly’s unfortunate own goal gave Accies the advantage.
County have not won consecutive Premiership matches since the first two weeks of the season, but with Dundee United in a poor run of form they will feel the opportunity is there tomorrow to do just that.
“That’s a good result for us on Wednesday, now we have to see if we can go back-to-back,” Hughes insisted.
“We play Dundee United on Saturday, and it will be a difficult match, but if you want to stay in this league you have to get back-to-back results.
“Since I’ve come in here, we’ve had good results and I’m a genius, and we’ve had poor results and I’m a mug.
“What I’m really looking for is consistency in performance from the guys.
“One game we’re great, the next we’re poor – or even one half we’re great, the next we’re poor.
“If we get consistency in performance, I think that could be enough to get us results.”
Hughes can rightly take some of the plaudits for the result on Wednesday night, with both goals being scored by substitutes.
Jordan White will grab most of the headlines from the match, but Hughes made sure to credit an unlikely figure in their midweek success.
“I’m going to dedicate the win to our groundsman, that’s for Davie Fraser,” he added.
“We’re very fortunate, we’ve got a big indoor arena up in Dingwall which is great, you can get a right good training session, but we’d never been on the full-sized grass pitch since I went up there.
“You can’t do games without that, you can’t do match practice, so we twisted Dave’s arm to keep the heating on and let us on it on Saturday.
“He did, and we got on it and played 11 against 11, setting up how we thought Hamilton would and it was the first time I really got to coach them, and it worked.”
