Dundee midfielder Colin Cameron is itching to feature against his first club tonight.
Having started only a handful of games all season and with his contract up this summer the 38-year-old is desperate to try and catch the eye of Dark Blues boss Gordon Chisholm.
However, he he has said that he dreads adding to the woes of the team for whom he made the best part of 200 appearances in the early 1990s, winning the Coca Cola Cup, promotion to the SPL and playing in Europe along the way.
The Kirkcaldy-born former Scotland player said, “I want to play the next three games but would hate to help condemn Raith to relegation.
“Stark’s Park is where everything started for me and I really hope they find a way to stay up.”But there’s no room for sentiment in football.
“We’ll be going out on Wednesday to win and then try to follow it up likewise on Saturday and hope for the minor miracle it would take for us to still be in with a chance of the league.”
According to Cameron the remaining fixtures are anything but meaningless even if, as he admits, the title is all but gone.
He said, “There’s a lot of us with a lot still to play for. A lot of our contracts are up in the summer, and if any of us have any intentions of trying to get a contract for next year we’ve got three games now to try and do that.”
Cameron was brutally honest on where it went wrong for Dundee.
He said, “It’s not down to one specific thing, but I certainly don’t think we worked hard enough as a team. That togetherness wasn’t there on the pitch.”
“There’s not been any fallout, but maybe we didn’t do enough for each other on the park in certain circumstances during games.”Cameron admits he has no idea what the future holds but he has no inclination to hang up his boots.
He said, “I’m not Mystic Meg but obviously I still want to play on next season. I feel as though I’ve got a lot to offer.”‘Keeper coverThe Dark Blues may have to call upon 49-year-old goalkeeping coach Rab Geddes tonight after being hit by a goalkeeping crisis.
With first choice Rab Douglas ruled out for the season after a knee operation, Dundee had relied on Tony Bullock and Derek Soutar.
However, Bullock has injured his ankle and Soutar called off training yesterday because of a bug.
Chisholm is hoping that one or both will make it, but has placed Geddes who last played a senior game 10 years ago on standby.
Chisholm said, “We’re struggling for goalkeepers. We’re hoping that at least one of Tony or Soapy will be able to play and we’ll assess their fitness on Wednesday.
“But if not then we’ll have to look at the possibility of playing Rab Geddes.”
Up to seven first-team players may be missing for Rovers as they try to scramble together the points they need to guarantee their first division survival.
With Craig Wilson and Mark Campbell sidelined for the season and Laurie Ellis, Iain Davidson and Stephen Simmons injured, the spine of John McGlynn’s team will be missing for yet another crucial game.
With forwards Graham Weir and Johnny Russell rated no better than 50/50, Raith are not so much down to the bare bones but through to the marrow for their seventh match in 18 days.
McGlynn said, “It’s a terrible situation for us. Another game, another load of injuries at Raith Rovers.
“We’ve not been helped by the fixture congestion but we’ve got to go out and try and get some points.”
He added, “After the cup semi-final I thought that 40 points might do it for us and we’re still five away from that.
“We’ve done well to accumulate the points that we have already and with five games left we can even get up to the 50 mark.
“It’s hard to predict what results for ourselves, Ayr and Morton are going to be, though, so I’m just concentrating on Raith Rovers.”