Defiant East Kilbride boss Stuart Malcolm insists he doesn’t feel under pressure as he clings to his job at K-Park.
The defending Lowland League champions lost again on Saturday, as they slumped to a shock 1-0 defeat at home to Stirling University.
With one win in his last five games and three defeats in the last five home outings, Malcolm is running out of time to convince the fans and the board he is still the man to take the club forward.
They are currently 13 points off the top of the table in seventh spot and Malcolm has presided over their worst-ever start to a league campaign.
However, the 32-year-old, who received a vote of confidence from the board earlier this month, is determined to stick it out at K-Park and try to turn things around.
He said: “Do I feel pressure? No.
"It’s a case of I’ve got to get more from the team and get results that will push us forward.
“The club has come out and backed me, so nothing changes for me.
“I’ll continue to work hard to turn this around and get us into a better run of form.
“Nobody can fault the effort that gets put in to the preparation and the training.
“We are in this together. We are going through a very sticky spell and we need to turn it around quickly.”
Despite a huge gap separating EK from the summit, which could stretch to 16 at the weekend if they lose at home to leaders Kelty Hearts, Malcolm is not giving up hope of a miracle.
He added: “You can never say never.
“It’s going to be an unbelievably difficult task now to try and do that [win the league].
“Our form right now, you don’t know what it’s going to be from one week to the next.
“But we’ll keep going, give it our best, keep trying to win games and put some kind of form together to see where it takes us.
“It’s difficult. Every team playing us treats the games like a cup final.
“Stirling University were celebrating like they’d won the European Cup and that’s what it means to them to come and beat us.
“We have to stand up to that and at times we haven’t been as forceful as we were last season.”
