Stevie Crawford Post Stirling

"It is not as if we are losing games and on a bad run; teams have outplayed us....

Captain for the day Stevie Crawford fulfilled the responsibility by talking to the press after the Stirling Albion match. He agreed that things just don't get any better for the club:-

"No, and I am probably going to watch what I am going to say because after the last two weeks, I don't think a sorry to the fans or anyone connected to the club is enough for that.  I have been involved in football luckily for sixteen or seventeen years, it is embarrassing and that's not being disrespectful to Hamilton and Stirling because the two of them have deserved their victories. If we continue in this vain of form we are going to be in a bad bad way.

"It is hard because probably the emotions that are in there at the moment and you can maybe see things that a lot of us are feeling. All I can say, it's an apology but I have been involved where you are on the back of a heavy defeat and the next week you get a reaction - I have been with Dunfermline getting beat 7-1 at Hearts but then the next week.  But not taking anything away from Stirling, to come here and lose 3-0 after a 5-0 defeat is sore to take.

"As an individual you have to go home and look at yourself in the mirror. Work hard at the training ground and we did feel that there was going to be a reaction today but that's very, very disappointing."

Stevie was asked why that reaction just did not happen and he replied:-

"That's the worrying thing."

Followed up with the question, do you think you can turn it around he replied:-

"It is more worrying the fact that we are going to have to take every game as it comes. It is not as if we are losing games and on a bad run; teams have outplayed us and I know we put two or three victories before the Hamilton game but I don't think I deserve to be here at this moment in time talking about winning promotion to the Premierleague because we are far from that form.

"It is a sore one for the Manager and everyone connected as I say. It is not right for me to stand here at the moment and say it is the Manager, it is the players or criticise others. I wore the captain's armband today. I know that I am not officially the club captain but I come off the park and it hurts. It is embarrassing the two defeats but there is no point in fingering what's wrong, that's for other people at the club.

"The players are behind the Manager but you look at a performance like today, look at the performance last week. It has been bitsie all season, it is something that we are going to have to work at."

There was a suggestion that the team was injury stricken and that might be a reason for the results. This was not something Stevie was willing to accept:-

"It seems like we were making excuses last year with injuries but we have been very unlucky with injuries. If you look at some of the injuries we have got and those missing today, but without being disrespectful to anyone in the league, Stirling and Hamilton have probably had injuries and we can't keep using that as an excuse."