Craig Levein believes he's still the man to fix Hearts ' woes and insists he won't quit Tynecastle.
A section of Jambos fans have seemingly lost patience with the manager and called for him to go following a 2-2 draw with Hamilton Accies in Gorgie.
The disappointing result - during which Hearts led twice - extends the club's winless Premiership run to 11 games.
But, with his side already languishing near the foot of the table, Levein has told his critics he needs more time to turn it around.
"I feel that they're frustrated, like I am," Levein told BBC Sportsound when asked if he still had the backing of the support.
"I also feel it's something that I can fix, the defending side of things is much easier to fix than the attacking side.
"So we can do work on the training ground, and if we get better performances defensively I'm confident we can win matches.
"As far as I'm concerned I want to fix this and get up the league, so that's what I'll do."
A George Oakley double twice pegged Hearts back as goals from Sean Clare and Christophe Berra were cancelled out.
The atmosphere grew increasingly hostile as the match wore on and chants of " Craig Levein , we want you to go" could be heard around the ground.
And Levein admits his backline's sloppiness robbed his side of three points as he insisted there were positive signs going forward.
He added: "There were some really good things in the game that I was pleased with but our defending was very poor.
"Scoring two goals at home I'd expect us to win this match today but we just didn't defend well enough and that was the basic problem.
"We had players who didn't perform at the level they usually perform at.
"We made mistakes which led to their goals, and normally I can't point my finger at my defenders and say they've underperformed but certainly coming to Tynecastle and scoring two goals we shouldn't be drawing the match.
"From that point of view I'm terribly frustrated.
"The fans are angry, I'm angry, some of the players are angry at each other and it's important for us that we get a good run of home form."
