Ton up for Scully
Friday, 26th Apr 2019After 100 starts for the Pars, keeper is ready for visit of his previous club
Pars keeper Ryan Scully made 15 appearances for Morton in the early part of this season before leaving to join Dunfermline. On Saturday he hopes his 14th Pars appearance since his return will be a win over the club he left in January. He told this website:-
”We know that Morton had a good result last weekend, so they will be up for it but we will need to be up for it as well. If we can get the work rate back to where it was then I’m sure that we are confident enough to get the three points.”
Lee Kilday, Gregor Buchanan, Reghan Tumility, Jack Iredale, Charlie Telfer, Chris Millar, Jim McAlister, Michael Tidser, Gary Oliver and Bob McHugh are all former team mates that Ryan will probably be up against. However he feels that there will be a few different faces lining up for Morton since he was at Cappielow.
“In this league if you do not show up, you are going to get points taken off you no matter who you play. That is the way this league has turned out to be, anybody can beat anybody if you don`t turn up and put that work rate in.
”That has been drilled into us in training. The training has been very good. There has been a good standard and a good tempo to it. We need to bring that out on Saturday and we know if we can take care of ourselves and everybody turns up we will win the game.”
He accepts that things will certainly need to improve from the showing against Queen of the South last Saturday. He continued:-
“The performance wasn’t acceptable, we have only picked one point from the last six games. You could probably look at games like the Falkirk game that we should have won, we should have taken our chances. We were unlucky against Ross County but on Saturday everything was wrong.
“We fell well below the standards we have set in terms of work rate, desire to get into 50-50 tackles. It was nowhere near good enough. We were well told about it after the game and we had a meeting on Monday just to clear the air.
“We were told it was not acceptable especially after the five wins in a row. We were well short of that on Saturday now what we don’t want is to get dragged into the bottom zone by the last two games.
“We know that we have to go out and win, it is as simple as that. We need to dust ourselves down, the gaffer has told us to man up and we need give the crowd something to look forward to because we owe them for last week.
“Considering how bad the results have been for the last six games we are still in pole position to finish fifth. It is in our own hands so if you had given us that at the turn of the year to win two games to finish fifth we would have taken that.”
The 26 year old keeper who has now started exactly 100 matches for Dunfermline feels that training at East End Park this week has brought about a definite advantage ahead of their important final home league match of the season:-
”It is always good to get back to training on the park, ask anybody it is good to train on grass. It helps especially if you are doing set pieces and it us good to have the right dimensions of the pitch. It is just helpful to everybody to train on grass. It gives your joints a rest from constantly training on Astroturf.”
Since leaving Morton Ryan has been delighted with his Dunfermline return:-
”Credit to the gaffer, coaching staff and players, they have made me really welcome and of course it helps when you come in and manage to go on a good run of results and good performances.
”Hopefully we can just finish the season on a high now with two wins. The main thing for me was just playing games again. I have done that here and for the most part it had been enjoyable. The last few results have not been so if we get back to winning ways it will be happy days again.”
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