The 27-year-old midfielder admits that he feels “depressed” looking at the table that lists the pre-season title favourites languishing in seventh place in League One and certain to remain there for a third season.

Geggan’s Pars career has had its fair share of highs and lows since he arrived in the summer of 2012 but he admitted that he found it difficult to decide whether the club’s plunge into administration two years ago or their promotion failure in this campaign felt worse.

It has been a tough campaign for the former Dumbarton and Ayr United man and his team-mates, who at this stage 12 months ago were preparing for a tilt at promotion to the Championship after finishing the season 12 points clear in second place.

He told Press Sport, “The boys are absolutely gutted because it’s been so disappointing throughout the full season. I actually don’t really know what to say to be honest because I genuinely thought at the start that we’d win this league.

“I don’t understand why it has gone the way it has but there have been games where we’ve needed to dig out results and haven’t done that enough. We’ve not been good enough, which I can’t believe when I see the squad we have in that changing room.

“It’s been a shambles and I’m stuck for words. I don’t even know whether going into administration or this season is worse; before the administration we were flying and who knows, we could’ve been playing in the SPL. It’s been one of the toughest seasons of my career but it makes me more determined for next season.

“A lot of teams who come here do up their game but when you look back at certain games there were some things that never fell for us. Last year, there was no pressure on us to win the league because Rangers were there and maybe that has affected us a bit this season, or maybe we needed a bit more experience in the team to help us. I don’t know.

“We’ve not seen enough games out when we were winning so at times we shot ourselves in the foot. We haven’t scored enough goals either but it’s definitely not a case of anybody not playing for the manager or anything like that, because we definitely are. The training with the gaffer and Neil (McCann) is good but we haven’t done it on the pitch.

“It’s been disappointing but we want to give the fans something to be cheerful about in the last couple of games and look to next season.”