GOALKEEPER Jack Hamilton has refused to take the credit for Morton's crucial clean sheet against Ayr United.

The Ton stopper made a few important saves late on to prevent the Honest Men taking all three points.

Hamilton says registering a first clean sheet in over a month was down to a collective effort and he believes that his job is made easier by the hard work of his team-mates in front of him.

He hopes that a run of poor goals has now come to an end ahead of four tough games, starting at home against Arbroath on Saturday before travelling to Montrose, Inverness and Queen of the South.

He told the Tele: “It’s always nice to get a clean sheet in a game like that, especially when you’ve gone a few games without one, but I think that the full credit has to go to the defence and everyone in front of them.

“Let’s be honest, it starts from the strikers defending from the front. Everyone works their socks off for the team, everyone puts in a shift in the hope of us being solid and hard to play against.

“I think that we’ve been unfortunate over the last couple of weeks, losing out to some poor goals.

“It’s all about trying to nullify that and pick up some points along the way and hopefully we’ve given ourselves a good platform to go and do that now.

“It was massive for us to go down to Ayr and to not be beaten, especially when you look at how tight the league is and then the run of games that we have coming up.

“Every game is tough and you want to pick up points everywhere that you go and we might not have put in the best performance, but we managed to pick up a point which hasn’t happened in the last few weeks.

“We’ve got to keep on putting the work in on the training pitch and hopefully turning that into getting points in the tough run of games coming up.

“Hopefully we can go on a wee run now but we don’t want to look too far ahead, we’ve got to take these things just one game at a time.”

Hamilton believes Morton won't be the only team to go through a barren run due to the cut-throat nature of the Championship.

He added: “To be honest, when you look at the games - they’re all so close and so hard.

“I think a run of three or four games without a win will happen for to few teams this season, not just us.

“When you put it like that - a run of four games without a win - it’s not nice, so we obviously want to do all we can to avoid it.

“We’ve just got to stick together.”