Dunfermline Athletic

Managers Post Partick

Tuesday, 23rd Mar 2010

23/03/10: - JM "At crucial periods of the game chances present themselves and you have got to put them away. We never did that and it came back to haunt us."

Dunfermline vPartick Thistle

 Jim McIntyre accepted that his team had lost their scoring boots on Tuesday night:-

"We had plenty of chances to win it, the game was there to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck at half time. At crucial periods of the game chances present themselves and you have got to put them away. We never did that and it came back to haunt us."

The loss of the first goal will certainly haunt Greg Fleming who let in a soft opener:-

"It was an honest mistake, it is just a poor effort. Everybody makes mistakes but keepers are there to be shot at when they make them because nine times out of ten they generally result in a goal, what can I say?"

Macca's enforced substitution early in the second half almost paid an immediate dividend when Ross Campbell might have scored with his first touch.

"Ross had to score, we must score from those type of chances. There were one or two others, Nicky Phinn had two or three efforts where we could maybe have done better. We have not taken them. Thistle had periods in the game as well when they had a few near misses as well so it was a tight game. I thought we created enough but just weren't ruthless enough."

David Graham leaves the field with hamstring injury

 With Graham Bayne and Andy Kirk sidelined the Manager confirmed that he had lost another striker:-

"Davie Graham has done his hamstring, we will need to see him in the morning and see how he is. It is a hard thing because we were struggling to field a bench tonight - we were really down to the bare bones. We will need to assess ourselves over the next couple of days and see what we have got for Saturday."

Jim McIntyre also commented on Calum Woods who was substituted when his calf tightened up. Calum was confident that he would be OK for the visit to Dumfries and with some luck Alex Burke and Graeme Holmes will be fit to be in contention. Willie Gibson can return from suspension but Steven Bell will be serving one more of his.

Partick Thistle gaffer Ian McCall reflected on how his team had absorbed first half pressure from the Pars without really hurting them:-

"They had a couple of great chances at one each although we got some good chances ourselves. We showed terrific spirit and I thought we played far better in the second half with the changes we made.  Simon's second was a terrific goal - I am not saying that we deserved to win but after the four 1-0 defeats we did deserve to win and so I don't really care."

MARCH MADNESS ?£15

 



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