Speaking to people in the game ahead of the weekend matches there seemed to be a consensus that apart from a game against Celtic, a trip to Hamilton was about the last fixture Paul Hartley would have chosen to try and end a truly horrendous run of results.
Accies were in form, the artificial surface is a huge advantage to the home team, Dundee hadn’t won there since they returned to the top flight and the physical and athletic side that Martin Canning has assembled isn’t a world apart from the Partick Thistle one that out-performed them pretty convincingly through the week.
Throw into the mix an injury to your goalkeeper and it wouldn’t have been the greatest shock in football if six defeats in a row became seven, with possible consequences for the manager’s employment.
As it panned out, this couldn’t have gone any better for Hartley and his team.
If it was an afternoon when everything they touched turned to gold, you could have come away thinking ‘it was their day, but could they repeat it?’
This was exactly the sort of performance that a side in trouble needs and Hartley would have dreamed about. Nothing fancy. Just players taking responsibility for their individual jobs and giving their all for their team-mates.
The beauty of Dundee’s win, and the nature of it, was they have it in their power to do it again and again.
