DEFIANT Ayr United boss Ian McCall is looking for a "miracle" last day win after Saturday's 4-0 home defeat against champions Hibernian left the Honest Men facing relegation.

They now must go to Starks Park on Saturday and defeat Raith Rovers by five goals to make the Championship playoffs.

The Fifers are ironically off the back of a 5-0 hammering away to St Mirren, but are still three points clear of Ayr going into the final game.

McCall had mixed feelings about the game and said: "Don't judge us on the Hibs game but over the season. The first half was awful, we were nervous. You can't set up a transition from defence to attack if you give the ball away 40 yards from goal. In the second half we did ourselves justice, got into the forward areas and could have scored one or maybe two goals, young players like Craig McGuffie came on and did well. But we were up against a side who will flourish in the Premier League."

Looking ahead he said: "If we can beat Raith Rovers 5-0 it will go to goals scored so we would overtake them. Let's not get ahead of ourselves but we will go there and have a go and see what happens. Miracles can happen in football, look at Hibs, they won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 114 years last year

"This game and the Raith game will not be the ones that relegated us. There have been too many draws and too many home performances when we should have taken more, against Dundee United we took one point out of six and it should have been four or six. If we go down we deserve to go down.

However he added: "If we do go down this year, we will be looking to bounce back and win League One next season."

Shattered goalkeeper Greg Fleming was disappointed with the result and said: "Hibs were relaxed, there was no pressure on them and they're a good team. The biggest problem for us this season has been not winning games, it's a simple as that. We have a had a lot of draws, especially away from home and we went a long time unbeaten away from home but we should have won some of those games and that would have helped us. Then at home we went from the end of October until January before winning a home game, that was a bad run."

Asked if the demolition job in Fife was possible, the goalkeeper said: "You never know, it could happen, stranger things have happened. We will wait and see."