Hamilton Accies would be eighth if we'd held on to leads, now we depend on others for survival, says Dan O'Reilly

Defender Dan O'Reilly says with some better defending Hamilton Accies would be sitting in the safety of eighth place going into the last knockings of the season, but now they face an anxious wait to see if their survival hopes will be in their own hands on the final day.

Accies are joint-bottom of the table with Cove Rangers after Saturday's dramatic late draw with Partick Thistle means only goal difference has them just ahead of their rivals, who play their game in hand on Friday night away to leaders Dundee.

O'Reilly, who is the club's top scorer with six goals, netted a double against Partick and his 90th minute effort looked to have won the game, only for Steven Lawless to add to Brian Graham's opener in stoppage time.

It was a real sickener for Accies after watching a lead slip to Inverness last midweek in a 2-1 defeat.

And now O'Reilly must hope Cove don't take anything from Dundee to leave his side with the best shot of avoiding automatic relegation when they travel to Arbroath on May 5.

The Irishman said: "It was good to get the two goals but at the end of the day, we should have won the game - especially after coming from behind to get ourselves in a good position.

“That just seems to be our luck lately. We did the same against Inverness last Tuesday after going in front.

“If we had held onto those leads against Inverness and Partick, we would have been in a great position to finish eighth.

"But now we are depending on other results to go our way.

“The Thistle equaliser wasn’t the cleanest of strikes, it wasn’t a great goal. It was just kind of slack from us all over.

“We have to know how to see it out. We got ourselves in a winning position so late on in the game. To then shoot ourselves in the foot is quite