SAUCHIE star Brian Morgan says it is about time the players start winning games because they owe it to their manager.

The home-grown talent has been an ever-present in the Fraser Duncan era at Beechwood Park and he has seen them suffer this type of slump in form many times before, but he reckons this one may have been the most damaging with their earliest Scottish Cup exit for many years.

Now the 25-year-old reckons the players should be going all out to make amends and ease the pressure on the gaffer.

Morgan told Advertiser sport: “We keep conceding early goals before we start to play football and that can’t keep happening. We have got to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and start taking our chances. It is almost as if we are too scared to commit to attacks for fear of being vulnerable at the back.

“The boys are all quite low, but I know that a win on Saturday would give everyone a real lift. It is not the manager’s fault. It is the players on the park who have not been delivering the goods and it is about time we give him something back for everything he has done for us.

“I think there was maybe still some lingering disappointment from the Scottish Cup exit to Largs the previous week because that has hit everyone at the club hard, but we need to pick ourselves up and kick on again. It is amazing what a win can do so we need to try to do that this weekend and then take it from there.” Morgan is well aware of the threat of this weekend’s opponent’s Dalkeith after a closely run cup clash last season where Sauchie need a late winner to emerge.

And the midfield maestro admits he would happily take the same result again this time around.

He added: “Dalkeith gave us tough time last year and it took a late winner to beat them, so we know it will not be easy and I would take the same outcome again if you offered it to me. It is almost a boost for them to be playing a super league team because they will see us as a scalp to take and we cannot allow them to get he momentum. We need the strikers to start taking some chances and maybe grab an early goal to settle us down and then we can build from there. We know it won’t be an easy game, but I am sure if we play to our capabilities then we will be alright.”