Alan Archibald: 'Partick Thistle must be more consistent'

Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald has challenged his team to perform more consistently following their dominant Scottish Premiership victory over St Johnstone.

Goals from Kris Doolan, Conrad Balatoni and Stuart Bannigan gave Thistle a 3-0 triumph over the Saints this afternoon.

"Obviously we've had a couple of poor performances here of late so we knew we had to start the game well and try to really get at St Johnstone and get the crowd behind us and it worked," Archibald told reporters.

"We're just looking after ourselves, I think there will be ups and downs towards the end of the season and we saw it a couple of weeks ago with the bottom half beating the top half and it can happen again, so we'll just look after ourselves and make sure we're taking care of our own results.

"The big word has been consistency all season and that's the problem we've got."

Thistle's victory was only their second win in their last six matches.