St Mirren interim manager Craig McLeish insists his side will “fight till the very end” after their survival hopes were dented by a 2-0 home defeat to bottom side Livingston on Saturday.
The League Cup winners are 10th in the Premiership table, just two points above Kilmarnock in the relegation play-off spot with four games left to play.
But McLeish, who took interim charge following Stephen Robinson’s move to Aberdeen, insists the Buddies are up for the fight.
“They are and they will be,” he said.
“And one thing about any group that I lead is that they will fight until it’s absolutely over and hopefully it’s a positive outcome for us at the end of the season.
“But the one thing that we will do as a staff, as a group of players, is we will fight till the very end.
“We know we’re in a fight – it wasn’t like going into the game we thought we were in a comfortable position.
“We were in a fight before we went into the game, we were in a fight now.
“We’ve just lost one of our five games. We’ve got four to go to save our season.”