Morton After Match Reaction
Saturday 20th March 2010
Nobody ever said that following Partick Thistle would be easy. Supporting Partick Thistle has always, and probably always will, been about taking the frequent rough with the less than plentiful smooth. Acknowledging that fact though doesn't lessen any the pain that recent defeats have produced.
Today is was a third successive 1-0 defeat, our fourth straight such defeat away from Firhill, and it is difficult really to find the words to adequate express the frustration and anguish that our current run is producing.
To manager Ian McCall fell the entirely enviable task of trying to account for our most recent defeat when www.ptfc.co.uk a short time after full time.
"I've never known a season like this one in all my time as a manager. I'm not going to say that we dominated this game or that we deserved to win it but I will say that we had the chances to win the game. We had two great chances in the first half and then Paul Cairney and Liam Buchanan have missed sitters in the second. I suspect that I don't have to tell the Thistle fans that as those two chances were right in front of them. "
"I don't know whether it is becoming a psychological thing when it comes to chances because it isn't just one player that is missing these chances. It is difficult to legislate for those type is misses. In many ways it is absolutely bewildering why we have this problem in terms of scoring goals. All I know is that it is not an enjoyable time being Thistle manager at the moment. As manager though it is my job to try and lift the players ahead of Tuesday's game with Dunfermline Athletic."
"I wasn't quite sure what happened at the Morton goal as I was just stunned when I saw the ball in the back of the net. Jonny Tuffey though came into the dressing room at the end of the game and immediately held his hands up and admitted that he should have saved it. Ultimately though it shouldn't have mattered as if we had scored those two great chances we would have won the game."
"We had heard that Dundee were losing 3-0 and at that point we decided to try and really push things on because in this division you never know what might happen. In doing that we did leave ourselves a little vulnerable to what happened at the finish but that doesn't make it any less painful."
