Ayr United v Hamilton: Michael Doyle says Accies have quality to sink rivals and beat the drop

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Michael Doyle fully believes Hamilton Accies can escape relegation this season and says they head to high-flying Ayr this weekend with no fear of getting the win they need to boost their survival bid.With Accies on a run of six straight defeats and six points adrift of Arbroath at the foot of the Championship with a game in hand, they need points fast.Those have been hard to come by with Accies taking just one from the last 24 available, while the goals have really dried up as well with Accies failing to find the net in their last four outings.However, ahead of another tough test this weekend, Doyle says Accies have plenty of time to turn things around.He said: "Yes, we are on a bad run.

We know we are on a bad run, but do we focus on the six games we've just played and keep being down? Or do you lift your head up, fix one problem and hopefully fix another one."If you fix enough problems, hopefully that gets us there in the end."There are 17 games to go so there is plenty of time to get ourselves out of where we are."We've not had a great start but we need to start rolling up our sleeves and pick up points."It is the players on the park who can change it.

It doesn't matter if you are a 16-year-old coming on or me at 31, Easty at 35."We've got to change the game on the park and we need to start taking that responsibility."When Ayr and Accies last met in November in front of the BBC Scotland cameras, Hamilton gave the then league leaders a real run for their money in a 3-2 defeat.So Doyle insists his side have plenty about them to cause the Honest Men problems once again.He added: "The last time we played Ayr was on the TV and we were really unlucky."A couple of decisions in our own box cost us the game."But that was the