Stevie Lawless clocked up his 200th Partick Thistle appearance last week but admits he needs to win a trophy if he wants his name to go down in Jags history.

The playmaker joined Thistle from Motherwell in 2012 and reached his latest milestone during last week's defeat to St Johnstone.

He was part of the team that recorded the Firhill outfit's best league result in 36 years last term as they reached the Ladbrokes Premiership's top six.

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But it is a winners' medal which the 26-year-old really craves and admits without one he will not be able to take his place alongside the list of Thistle fan favourites.

He said: "My time here has flown in - it doesn't feel like I've played 200 games. I can't believe this is my sixth year.

"I keep saying this to the boys in the dressing room, though, that if we want to progress this year I think it's about time we did something in the cups.

"The lads are all the same, they want to make a mark and get to a final or a semi-final - or maybe even win one.

"That should be the target as a lot of teams round about has managed that sort of thing.

"The thing you always hear about at this club is the team who won the League Cup in '71, so that is obviously still the main thing in the fans' minds all these years on even though there has been some great players who have come along since then.

"There are two guys here who will go down as legends in Kris Doolan and Chris Erskine.

"But they will be the same as me and want to get their hands on a winners' medal.

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"I don't think their work for the club will go unnoticed but it will add that bit of sparkle to our records if we can win a trophy."

For now, Alan Archibald's men are just looking to get their league ambitions back on track after three straight defeats.

They sit alongside Dundee and Kilmarnock on zero points but Lawless insists the league table is not painting a true picture after they were handed three tough fixtures to start with against Hibernian and table-toppers Celtic and St Johnstone.

It does not get any easier this weekend as Aberdeen, who like the Hoops and Saints have a perfect record so far, visit Firhill.

"When you look at the fixtures is falsifies the results we've had this year," claimed Lawless.

"We've had a really tough set of games to start off with. I don't think we could have had a tougher opening.

"That continues with another really hard game this weekend.

"But we do need to start getting points on the board, starting against Aberdeen."