Lawless looking forward to league opener

Partick Thistle playmaker Stevie Lawless insists there will be no regrets when he lines up against the club that wanted him.

The 25-year-old was heavily linked with a move to Inverness but spurned the advances of former Caley Thistle boss John Hughes at the end of last season when he decided to stay put at Firhill.

Richie Foran is now in charge at the Highlands outfit and takes his new charges to Glasgow for their first Ladbrokes Premiership fixture of the new campaign on Saturday.

But Lawless has not spent the past few weeks wondering what might have been had he decided to make the move north.

He said: "I have no affiliation to Inverness. Obviously there was a bit of talk about me going there but I'm still a Thistle player and it's now just another game.

"It's wasn't nice at the time when I was sitting during the summer not knowing what was happening with my future but once I spoke to the club here we managed to get things sorted and that was the most important thing.''

Lawless said: "There were no talks with Inverness. The first I heard of their interest was when John Hughes came out and spoke about it, so it didn't really go far. "There was interest there but I don't think an offer was made.

"I was not really looking at that as an option anyway - no disrespect to Inverness but it was a bit of a sideways move. They will be round about us more or less this season I believe, so if it wasn't going to progress my career I was happy to stay where I am.''

Alan Archibald's Partick men failed to win any of their opening 10 games last season but Lawless considers them already up and running this term after winning all four of their Betfred Cup group games.

"We managed to get a bit of momentum build up during the Betfred Cup so now it's all about taking that into the Inverness games,'' said Lawless.

"We want to get off to a good start, which we didn't manage to do last year.''