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Thursday, 20th November, 2008

Published: Friday, 22nd August, 2008 12:30

Hard work can pay off

By Roger Graham

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RALLYING CALL: Injured Stewart Greacen feels his team-mates can get a positive result at Dundee on Saturday.

INJURED Morton centre back Stewart Greacen believes his team-mates can bounce back from defeat against Livingston last Saturday at Dundee tomorrow.

The big fellow, who will miss the game at Dens Park, said: “The boys have been in every day at training this week. Saturday was disappointing, because we fancied ourselves.

“We got off to a terrible start. It was disappointing after making a reasonable start to the season.”

For Greacen it has been a frustrating last few weeks. He missed most the of the pre-seaosn training after a hernia operation. He managed to get a game against Clyde for the league kick-off — and ended up man-of-the-match — but then followed a toe injury and, most recently, a groin strain.

Greacen said: “It’s been murder. I feel I haven’t got the season started. Getting the game against Clyde was a bonus, it was earlier than I thought I’d be back. Then the toe injury hampered my training. I think the groin injury was a result of not being able to train for a couple of weeks.

“I’ll miss Saturday, as well as Tuesday [against Hibs in the CIS Cup], but I hope to be back on Monday and get myself fit for the following Saturday.

“There’s a lot of competition for places.”

As for tomorrow, Greacen said: “Whatever sytem the gaffer chooses, we have to make ourselves hard to beat.”

Last season Dundee won all four league meetings, plus one in the CIS Cup, but Greacen said: “There wasn’t much in any of the games. It’s a fine line. Three points would be great tomorrow, and even a point would be a decent result.”

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