I've spent most of my life giving too much weight to games in hand, it's nearly always an overly confident approach.
St Mirren were 1 point clear of Dundee Utd with 3 games in hand and playing well, lost the advantage of 2 of those games in hand in no time at all.
We need to get into the mentality that we're in a relegation dog fight before it's too late, get the sleeves rolled up and play with tempo, cutting edge and belief.