Dundee After Match Reaction
Saturday 20th February 2010
Three times this season we have played Dundee this season and three times we have been left with a deep feeling of disappointment, not to say injustice, at full time.
While this afternoon we didn't perhaps match the same level of performance we produced on our last visit to Dens Park but neither did we deserve to return to Glasgow with nothing to show for our efforts.
As the players and coaching staff trooped miserably onto the bus the pain of defeat was etched across all of their faces.
Manager Ian McCall was no exception and he was clearly still angry over what most observers felt was a clear penalty denied when Ryan Conroy was sent crashing to the ground with the game all but over when he spoke with www.ptfc.co.uk.
"I think that we are owed some really big decisions between now and the end of the season. As far as I am concerned we were denied a clear penalty. The reaction of the Dundee players tells its own story. Not one of them has made a move to Ryan to complain that he has dived. Rather they have all looked to the referee who I thought was on the verge of blowing his whistle for a penalty."
"It's all very frustrating and it comes hard on the heels of important decisions going against us in the matches with Dundee United and Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The number of decisions that have gone against us recently only serves to increase our sense of frustration right now."
"Looking at today's game I think the least that we deserved is a point and probably more. To have gone in at half-time 1-0 down was an absolute travesty. If we had been 2-0 up at the break I don't think that would have been an injustice. Their goal has come via a deflection while we have been in behind their defence a couple of times. Right now our forwards aren't doing it for us and that is disappointing and today I was also disappointed with the standard of our crossing. Both Ryan Conroy and Paul Paton are good crossers of the ball but today they didn't demonstrate that."
"The second half was a more even game but I still thought that the bulk of the game was played in Dundee's half with Dundee trying to catch us on the break."
