Jackie McNamara will not go into Saturday’s clash with Inverness Caledonian Thistle worrying about his job, the Dundee United boss insisted.
His Tangerines team dropped to second bottom of the Premiership after last weekend’s defeat to Kilmarnock, and next up are an ICT side they were unable to beat last season.
“I don’t go into games thinking about losing my job,” he said. “I think if I did that it would block my ideas of winning a game. It’s part and parcel, everyone goes through it.
“Just now it’s obviously a spell for me that’s not been great, it’s the first time I’ve experienced it, but like everybody else it makes me stronger and I deal with it the right way.
“To be honest if I was a quitter I’d have done it well before now. I was never that as a player, I’m determined, not to prove people wrong, but go with what I believe.
“I believe I have a great set of players in there. I see it in them every day, I see it in bits of games, I saw it on Saturday, they’re doing, probably about 80% of them, what I want them to do.
“It’s just getting that little bit extra, it’s thin margins as we keep saying between the games and seeing things through.”
He added: “I speak to the chairman all the time, obviously he’s under pressure as well.
“At the end of the day it’s a business to run and if things don’t go well the chairman will feel that first and it will trickle down to me but obviously that’s down to the chairman and the board making decisions.”
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