DAVID Hopkin believes his Morton players need to come away with a positive result from this weekend’s clash against Ayr United ahead of a gruelling away schedule.

The Ton chief believes that his squad are in a good place despite last week’s minor blip in the road at Dundee.

Now he wants to make home advantage count.

He told the Tele: “It’s going to be good to be playing back at Cappielow tomorrow as it will be our last game here for a few weeks.

“We know its going to be a tough game against a very good Ayr side, so we’re looking forward to it.

“Hopefully we can pick up some more points at home before the run of away games that we have coming up.

“There’s a lot of positives that we can carry into the game tomorrow - I thought that our shape was good last week and the way that we reacted after going 1-0 down was really good.

“Even when I was in the dressing room at half time last week, I said to the boys just to keep going because I knew that we would create chances the longer it stayed like that."

Hopkin says there is a feelgood factor at the club just now which he wants to capitalise on.

He told the Tele: “As a club and as a team we’re in a good place and I think that you can see that in the atmosphere in and around Cappielow.

“I’ve been delighted with the intensity that we’ve played at so far this season.

“We’ve got a really good group of players here who work hard every day in training.

“It’s just been one lapse of concentration that’s cost us so far, and we’ll look to rectify that tomorrow.”

Meanwhile the Ton boss is unhappy at online criticism of Robbie Muirhead from fans, following his red card last Saturday.

The Ton manager maintains that his player was treated harshly by the referee and says some of the comments made about him online overstepped the mark.

He said: “Robbie has been fantastic since he’s come back after pre-season and we’ve got a duty of care as a club to look after our players.

"I thought that the decision was a bit harsh on him.

“It was blatantly our throw-in, and it wasn’t only Robbie who was angry at the decision, I think it was four or five players having a go at the referee.

“These things now are so important because people can have a go at the players and staff or anyone for that matter, but my biggest issue with it is when it becomes personal.

“I think if it’s a criticism about how you’ve played that can be expected and be accepted, but it’s when it becomes personal that we as a club can't sit by and watch that happening.

“Criticism comes in all ways, shapes and forms, we’re judged every single day of the year as professionals but we can't allow it to become personal like that.”