After Match Reaction - Stirling Albion
Saturday 11th September 2010
As you can imagine it was fairly sombre mood at full-time this afternoon. When players and coaching staff alike started to emerge from the dressing their was a deathly pallor to their faces. It is difficult to find the words that adequately describe the sense of disappointment that hung low over everyone.
Manager Ian McCall when speaking to www.ptfc.co.uk tried to make some sense of it all.
“That was just an awful result. We thought that when we lost to Cowdenbeath that that was as low as things got but while you could understand what went wrong against Cowdenbeath you couldn’t do that today. It was, as I’ve said, just awful.”
“When we went 1-0 up I felt that we were well on top and the least that we should have got at that stage was a 1-0 win but that habit that we have developed of losing goals just after we have scored ourselves continued. It is difficult to put the finger on why that should be. We certainly need to be tougher mentally. The thing is that it isn’t just players that are squad players that are lacking in that respect at the moment it’s some of the more experienced players, players that have done a job for us in the past.”
“I’ve stood up for the players in the past and taken the heat for them and I will continue to do that, the buck after all stops with me, but they have to stand up and be counted themselves. Prior to today we had been decent at home this season, losing just one game against Falkirk when we really should have won the game, so it certainly isn’t a case of pressure from the crowd getting to the players.”
“We’ve talked in the past about how tough it is for us this season but we can’t escape the fact that we have now lost to Cowdenbeath and Stirling Albion, the two teams that have equally as tough as we have. There is no doubt that we are in a dogfight with those two teams and possibly Morton, who lost to Cowdenbeath today, that’s the reality of the situation that we are in at the moment.”
