East Kilbride Thistle co-boss sets target for final games as he makes 'story of our season' admission

East Kilbride Thistle co-boss Russell Craig has set his sights on wins in their last two West of Scotland Conference C clashes, to end the season on a high.

The Jags take on St Roch’s at James McGrory Park on Saturday before hosting Vale of Clyde in their finale on May 7, knowing that six points will take them above Larkhall Thistle and into 10th place.

Having beat Larkhall 2-1 on Saturday, Craig says that would represent a decent end to the season.

“Larkhall are above us in the league, so it was important that we got the victory on Saturday,” he said.

“We’ve only got two games left before the end of the season and they’re not massive for anybody else apart from us, but it’s important that we try and win them.

“If we win the two games we move above Larkhall, but St Roch’s on Saturday are a team who are sitting fourth, are a quality team, and we understand it will be a difficult game, because they’ll want to win their games as well.”

Craig says Saturday’s win was justified, but should have been a lot more comfortable.

He said: “We should have been at least 3-0 up at half-time, but as has been the case all season with us, we scored a goal, two minutes later we conceded an own-goal, and about five minutes later we went up and scored our second goal, which turned out to be the winner.

“They went down to 10 men when Josh Lindsay was sent off and it was a wee bit backs-to-the-wall for us, we were under a wee bit of pressure.

“We had the man advantage, but they got on top of us a wee bit, as sometimes happens.”

Craig added: “That has been the story of the season for us, and it’s frustrating.

“We know we can perform better than what we have, and we should have killed the game off when we were 1-0 up, but let them back into it.

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