Ross County manager Derek Adams has been handed a vote of confidence from the club’s board.
The Staggies occupy the relegation play-off place in the Premiership after collecting 11 points from their opening 15 games with administration-hit Hearts 14 points adrift at the basement.
But chairman Roy MacGregor insists he has no intention of following in the footsteps of his trigger-happy counterparts in England by sacking the manager who has taken them from the the third tier of Scottish football to the top-flight.
County, who were only four points better off at this stage last season, finished fifth in their historic maiden campaign in the elite division and MacGregor is well aware that expectations have risen.
But he insists a run of six defeats in seven matches in all competition does not justify removing Adams.
MacGregor said: “Derek Adams has the full backing of the board at Ross County, there is no question about that. He has our support.
“We are lucky to have a manager who has brought the most successful times to the club nothing has happened to change our view about Derek.
“We have to look at what he has done in his time at the club rather than where we are just now.
“When you look at some of the decisions in England, where managers are hired and fired all the time, it is staggering and we are not that way at all.”
MacGregor, speaking in his column in the Press and Journal, added: “At the moment the manager is negotiating with new players to come in. There will be signings in the January window.”