Managers post Queen of the South
Saturday, 24th Feb 2018Link to audio of comments from both Allan Johnston and Gary Naysmith.
- - Listen to Allan Johnstons post match comments
Manager Allan Johnston agreed that 0-0 was not the result that he was looking for:-
"Definitely not. In my opinion, although Gary will probably see it differently right enough, but I thought that we were the better team again. It has probably been too often the case in recent games that we have probably been the better team and not come away with three points. That is what we need to improve on.
"We need to put a run together if we want to make that top four. We can see that Morton got a result again today (2-0 win away to Inverness Caley Thistle), you can see how well Livingston are doing. We need to turn draws into wins. We are more than capable of doing that sooner rather than later."
Asked whether he was surprised that referee Don Robertson had only shown a yellow card to Kyle Jacobs for his tackle on Declan McManus in the 79th minute, the Pars boss replied:-
"I spoke to him after the game and he thought that Callum Fordyce was round covering but I have seen it on the video and he was two or three yards behind quite clearly. I don`t think it was a penalty but it was definitely a sending off.
"He actually tried to grab him at first but only managed to get a slight tug on him and then obviously it was the two hands on him. It was a clear sending off but we need to come to places like this and win. We are frustrated and obviously have another big game again on Tuesday (away to Brechin City)."
There was frustration that Dunfermline could not take any of the chances that came their way in the game.
"When you get chances like that and don`t take them, you are in good positions and don`t pick the right pass, sometimes it comes back to haunt you especially with guys like Dobbie on the pitch - he has that bit of quality.
"I think Lee (Robinson) had only one save throughout the match. Other than that he was pretty quiet. As I said we just have to make sure that we are ready for Tuesday night and start getting wins on the board."
There were a couple of times in the second half when Queens keeper Jack Leighfield kept out good Dunfermline attempts:-
"He had a great save from the free kick (from James Craigen). He didn`t know anything about it, it came through bodies and obviously his training leg was there. There were a couple of other ones as well when he dropped it at the corner and Nicky Clark had a shot.
"We had four or five chances in the second half, good chances in the first half but you wouldn`t say that they were clear cut chances. They were probably half chances.
"There were some decent performances there but I still think that we can take it up another level if we want to start winning games."
"To be fair to Queen of the South I thought that we were the better team in th first half and they probably started the first half better for ten or fifteen minutes. Then we changed the way we played and started dominating again.
"It is good when you have quality that can come off the bench. You are hoping that they can come on and make an impact and get the goal you need.`
Did the manager feel that the new shape deployed at Livingston and on Saturday was working, AJ replied:-
"I know that we are not scoring but we are not conceding goals. We are creating chances but we are not scoring even though we have a lot of strikers on the pitch - guys who can score goals.
"We all need to improve, goals need to come from everywhere, from defenders. There were a lot of good balls into the box from setpieces. I thought the striker`s had half chances and we just need to make sure that we are clinical when the chances come along. Hopefully at Brechin!"
Queen of the South manager Gary Naysmith said that his side`s performance only merited a point from the game. He reflected:-
"It looked like a game where both teams felt if they lost it would be a struggle to get into the play offs. That is how it looked, there were a lot of mistakes on both sides."
For more listen to the full interview.
- - Listen to QOS manager Gary Naysmith
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