Stevie Crawford Post Clyde

"We are scoring goals but we are also creating.That's the pleasing thing.

Stevie Crawford felt that his team finished the game off in the first half although he knew that Clyde playing the wind would come at them.

"Conditions were terrible to tell you the truth.I came off with a knock and when you are sitting watching the last 15-20 minutes you don't realise it's as bad as when you are on and you see the corner flags.

"I'm not making excuses for ourselves, Clyde came at us in the second half, fair play to them. They got the penalty but we've held on in the end.

"Burchie's done great, a good strikers goal after a good strike from Scott Morrison. Burkey has put in a great ball and an opportunist header from Simmy. There was a couple of other chances, Nicky towards the end, I've had a couple of efforts, one in the second half. We are scoring goals but we are also creating. That's the pleasing thing. We have just shown that there is a wee bit steel there as well. We have ground it out in the end as well, it wasn't a case of pretty football in the second half.

"We knew that Clyde had done well here and that they would come at us. Your worry is if you lose an early goal in the second half and then you end up clinging on for the whole of the second half. Conditions weren't great but the boys have done well as a team."

Stevie could not elaborate on why he was given a yellow card by referee Charlie Richmond after a 27^th minute incident with Clyde's Craig McKeown.

"You'll have to ask the referee that. Me and big Craig were having an argument. You know I played with Craigie when he had his spell at Dunfermline - we had a few tussles on the training ground and I felt that he had come across me. I was thinking just get in the box because young Nicky Phinn had the ball out on the right. I think the referee's booked me for not complaining at him, but just having a go at Craigie."

Just good friends!

Dunfermline's performance at Broadwood on Saturday was in contrast to possibly one of their worst away performances of the season when they lost 2-1 to bottom of the table Clyde on 22 September.

"Without saying too much about the past manager, he has come over from Irish football, I think what Macca's done is he knows the game and he knows what is required. He has got the experience of Gerry McCabe and Stephen Wright. We know we are not going to win the league now but there is hope there. Young Paul (Willis) who has come in has looked good in reserve games and when he has been training with us and he has shown that he is not afraid to give young boys a chance.

"Last week I said it was disappointing when we drew 1-1 with Partick at home and it could be two points dropped. The other way to look at is we drew the game in the right fashion. You could see on another day we would probably have come away nine times out of ten winning that game.Today we have come and done the business in the first half, hung on second half, but come away with three points. There is pride in every game and that is something that was a wee bit hard to take earlier in the season. There didn't look as if there was pride and as players that was hurting. I think now we are getting a chance to show that we have got a wee bit about us and there is boys that want to be out there playing and proud to be wearing a Dunfermline jersey.

"A new manager is going to have ideas about who he is wanting to bring in, but I think there was a frustration earlier in the season and we feel that we want to show the supporters that we want to be here. If it doesn't happen that there is a few of us that don't get offered contracts, I don't think there is anyone here that will grudge Dunfermline going on and doing well next season. The Club has been good to us, and it was just frustrating earlier in the year the way things had panned out. There is hope there for the next couple of years."