Ayr United - After Match Reaction
Saturday 17th April 2010
It's difficult to quite find the words to adequately describe the sense of frustration and bewilderment surrounding yet another defeat. A defeat that saw chances created with regularity and missed with the same level of regularity.
www.ptfc.co.uk caught up with Thistle manager Ian McCall a short time after the final whistle and he found it difficult to find anything new to say.
"It's like Groundhog Day", moaned the Thistle manager.
The manager continued;
"The really galling thing today was that the chances were even better than previous ones that we have had. Today we have had five one on one chances and couldn't put the ball in the back of the net. It has to be a psychological problem and one that will be sorted for next season."
"The one thing that gives Kieran Burns a right good chance to make a career in football is his finishing. Kieran is an excellent finisher and twice today we thought the fairy tale was on but he too missed the chances. It would be less of a worry if it were only one player that was missing the chances but it seems to be a problem that is afflicting everyone. Even Liam Buchanan before he as injured was missing chances that a player that has had a ratio of a goal every other game since he has been here was missing chances."
"It typified the way things have been going that Ayr scored with their one serious chances and it was a superb goal that won the game. And that is a problem that our poor finishing is causing. It is putting a lot of pressure on our defence. It is creeping into the mindset that a team needs to score just once against us to win a game. I don't like to lose goals at any time but if you are 3-0 or 4-0 ahead it doesn't really matter if a team scores 12 minutes from the end and we could, and should, have been that far ahead when Ayr scored."
"I can fully understand the boos at the end of the game. My only hope is that those boos are directed at me and not my players."
"We've a game here on Monday night against Raith Rovers and it is my job to try and lift the players for that game. It's too early to talk about what team I will play but we will need to try and freshen things up somehow."
