“The last 20 minutes of the Hibs game we managed to turn it around and get two goals and salvage a point,” he said.

'Now we have to take the positives from it, and certainly by the looks of training this morning, everyone was excellent and on it.

“There’s no getting away from the results being stop-start and we’ve been dropping points where the small details have been going against us. It’s been frustrating and far from perfect. But we have to remember that as well, that in life, it’s never perfect.

“We’ve had a really successful spell with the club, the players, the management, the club as a whole – everyone who works for the club – and we’re all desperate to continue that success.

“And when I look in the dressing room, I see enough quality and enough hunger to go and have another successful season. We’ve had a little bit of a blip, but it’s now down to the players, the management, the club as a whole, everyone to rally round each other, and for the support to continue.

'The support’s always fantastic and that’s why the club has been built on so much success, because the supporters have stuck with the club through thick and thin, through good times and bad times, and they’re always there.'

"So in terms of the message, it has to be everyone going together, stay connected, stay together and we will go on and have another successful season – I have no doubt about that.”

And having gone through the month of November without a domestic home game prior to this Sunday’s League Cup tie against Ross County, the Hoops will now have four Premiership matches at Paradise in December, along with a trip to New Douglas Park on Boxing Day and the small matter of the Scottish Cup final at Hampden five days before Christmas.

“No season is ever perfect or ever the same,” McGregor said, “and I always touch on this when we have sticky situations throughout the campaign, that it’s how you react to the adversity in terms of bad results and bad performances. It’s how you react to that which is going to win you the league, and that’s what we have to do. We have to galvanise the group.

'The message from the club, from top to bottom, is that everyone’s together.'

"We have to work extra hard on the training field, extra hard in the gym, in the games to do that extra yard for each other and, like I said, I have no doubt that we have enough quality to be successful.

“That’s what we want to do, and for us now, we have to react and react in a positive way, and the only way that we’re going to have success again this season is if we react positively.

“We’ve got some home games coming up, so we have to make the most of them as well. Over the past few seasons, the home games are vital to the success, so we have to put a run together in this little period in December.

“And I think the good thing is that we won’t really have too much more disruption now up until March, so we’ve got a real run of three to four months with everyone training together, everyone playing together and, now we have to go foot to the floor and show that ruthless mentality that we have shown.”

Callum McGregor: We're united in determination to deliver more success