Don’t get carried away with fourth place

Stevie Crawford:- “It`s not that we are lacking ambition here but our main aim is to stay in the Premier League this year.

"Against Rangers and Dundee we didn`t do ourselves any favours any justice away from home. We`ll keep our feet on the ground and it`s good that we got the break and come away with three points today and got ourselves into that position."

Stevie described his goal:

"I think Jason Dair started the move off down the left, he played the ball into Skins, a couple of passes between Barry and Junior flicks a nice ball through to me. A good turn and a good strike at near post maybe caught the keeper out."

He added about the second half move that the manager said deserved a goal:

"I think it was possibly one of the best moves of the game. Barry Nicholson flicked a good one over, then Michel Doesberg produced a great bit of skill and actually had the composure to pick me out. I couldn`t have hit the ball any sweeter, I`d probably been happier if I`d pulled the neck off it - you know sometimes they end up in the back of the net. But it seemed to catch the keeper on the backside and he was a wee bit fortunate that it didn`t go in.

"Against Rangers and Dundee we didn`t do ourselves any favours any justice away from home. The Aberdeen game at the start of the season we created enough chances to win two or three games. The matches against Motherwell and Dundee United we`ve come away, albeit only 1-0 victories, but we did lose goals and it`s the old cliche that you are not going to lose games.

"It was something different today, I haven`t been playing up front with Junior because he`s been injured. I wouldn`t say the two of us are the best in the air and the manager has put Mossy up there for his presence and given Junior a free role today. I thought David Moss was excellent today, holding it up, challenging for headers, putting his body about and giving me and Junior a chance to play something off him.

"With Dundee United playing with Jason De Vos, a big strong lad so I think you need someone like Mossy up there. It`s just the way the manager see fit, sometimes he`ll maybe play three up front so it doesn`t really bother me.

"It`s nice to be fourth top but we`re not going to get carried away. I was at Hibs three years ago when we started off on fire and people were saying you are going to end up in Europe. It`s not that we are lacking ambition here but our main aim is to stay in the Premier League this year. Anything else that comes with that is a bonus. We`ll keep our feet on the ground and it`s good that we got the break and come away with three points today and got ourselves into that position."

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