Loy looking for more positivity from Pressley

Is Dundee boss Steven Pressley lacking ambition? Former Dundee striker Rory Loy wants to hear more positivity from the Dens Park boss. This season marks Dundee's fourth top-flight campaign in a row and after another summer of squad upheaval Pressley is targeting survival. Despite a tricky start to last season, Dundee ended the campaign eighth, having finished 10th and sixth in the previous two campaigns. Before Monday night's 1-0 defeat to Celtic in their Scottish Premiership opener, Pressley admitted Dundee "understand where we are in the food chain" and admitted post-match he has to be realistic about the club's ambitions. "There is a lot to like in terms of what Dundee have managed to do," Loy told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast . "I know it's not in his nature, but I would like to hear Steven Presley being a little bit more optimistic about what the goals and aims are. "I know most managers at Dundee, St Mirren, Kilmarnock, will talk about staying in the league. It's a fourth consecutive season in the league [for Dundee] now. "You say it's being realistic, it's not being down the dumps, but is it realistic that St Mirren finished in the top six three seasons in a row? Is it realistic that St Johnstone went on a wee run of finishing in the top six? "I know the league has a different landscape to it now, but at what point after four seasons in a league do you turn round and go 'Let's aim for sixth'?. If you finish seventh or eighth, that's not necessarily a bad season. It might still be a good season. "I just would like to hear him be a little bit more ambitious about what he's looking to achieve this season."