Partick Thistle Football Club

Last night’s fixture produced another disappointing result though the performance itself was much more encouraging. After the game manager Ian McCall expressed the view that he felt that Thistle didn’t get what they deserved from the match. It was an assessment that defender John Robertson agreed with when he spoke with www.ptfc.co.uk

“I think that we had more efforts on goal than they did and even they goal that they scored came as a result of a break of the ball. Ryan Flynn has had a shot that has just hit me and then fallen right into his path again. It’s that kind of luck that we haven’t been getting. If that break at the back didn’t go against us and if we enjoyed a little break at the other end then it would have been a different result.”

“Although we lost I think there were plenty of positive things to take from the game. I think we need to try and take our home form into away game. The way that we have been playing at home has been very positive but we need to try and do the same when we are away from home.”

Moving on from Tuesday’s defeat by Falkirk we are back in league action on Saturday with our first trip to Central Park for many a year to face Cowdenbeath.  It’s a game that we are naturally desperate to win but although Cowdenbeath are new to the First Division it is a game that is likely to be anything but easy.  

“None of the games in this league are easy, it doesn’t matter who it is that you are playing against. You just have to look at the results from one week to the next to see that. It’s an incredibly tight league and a very difficult one to get out of. In recent years Inverness have been the only team to come down from the SPL to go straight back up again which shows just how hard this league is.”

Saturday’s game is followed by two home games and the target from this series of three games is a simple one. Six points in the league and a place in the semi-final of the ALBA Challenge Cup.

“I know that it is an old cliché but I think we just need to take each game as it comes. We need to try and get away from the Jekyll and Hyde approach of good at home but poor away and get some kind of consistency into our performances. Whether that might mean having to sit in a wee bit more away from home we will just have to wait and see.”

Looking as the season as a whole so far, John feels that there has been more to be positive than negative about.

“The Raith Rovers game was a result of a lot individual errors and down at Morton I don’t think that there were too many shots at goal from either team and it wasn’t much of a game and you can’t help but feel for the supporters that had to watch it. Over the piece though I think there have been more positives than negatives to take from the games that we have played so far this season.”

Finally, in a season in which David Rowson and Paddy Boyle, neither known as prolific scorers, have managed to get on the score sheet when can we expect to see John Robertson do the same?

“I’ve scored, what two goals in four years? I’m maybe overdue a goal and I’m going forward at corner kicks this season so, touch wood, I’ll maybe get a goal at some point this season. I think you would get pretty generous odds on me for first goal scorer in any game.”