Scott Brown insists he deserves some of the stick he is getting from the Ayr Unitd fanbase.
The Celtic legend is under pressure from his club's support as the Honest Men have won just one of their last ten games. If the form continues, they could be dragged into a relegation fight as they sit seven points head of Ross Couny, who currently occupy the play-off spot.
Brown admits it hasn't been good enough from his side and therefore supporters are right to have grievances with him.
But at the same time, he points out they are only five points off the promotion play-offs and he is backing his players to get them there.
He said: “It’s important we get back to winning ways and get the supporters back on our side. What the fans are saying, they are entitled to their own opinions and they can say and chant whatever they want.
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“I prefer to take the pressure rather than the lads, but they are good players and I have 100 per cent faith in them. I’ve dealt with stick all my life and you have to be big enough and ugly enough to deal with it.
“Some of it is quite rightly so — I do deserve it as we’ve not won enough games. But we are still just five points behind Dunfermline.
“It’s not a huge gap and that’s despite us losing a lot of players to injury, especially in that final third, and it’s players who have scored a load of goals for us in the past couple of seasons when they have been fit and available.
“However, it’s my team and my responsibility whether we have ten or 20 fit players. I’m not going to lie, there’s always pressure. When I was a player there was pressure every single morning.
“While I’ve been here as manager, there’s always pressure. There’s maybe not as many fans here as at Celtic Park, but that means you can hear them directly.
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