Macca on Friday

19/12/08: "We certainly know we need to improve our home form if we want to maintain a challenge, so that is the challenge for us tomorrow and get a home victory.

Jim McIntyre was not giving anything away about his team selection and availability for tomorrow's game at home to Clyde. The Pars Manager played against Clyde gaffer, John Brown when they were both players and has no reason to believe that his managerial career will be any different.

"He was a very good player, hard as nails and a very good reader of the game.

The Manager did agree that both he and the Club have a good record against Clyde, but said that was in the past and each game you take on its merits:-

"They are the form team and we had a good victory last week so it has the making of a good game.  I think they have won their last four games so it will be a very difficult game.Obviously winning breeds confidence so they will be coming here full of beans."

Jim McIntyre is out to win every game but at the moment they are winning the away games and not winning the home games.

"We certainly know we need to improve our home form if we want to maintain a challenge, so that is the challenge for us tomorrow to get a home victory.

"I don't think we have been playing poor at home.We have hit the bar and the post a couple of times against Dundee and if they go in it's a different game, if Stephen Glass's goal didn't get chopped off against Morton - which was a perfectly good goal. It's just wee breaks and the rub of the green that we are not getting. The St Johnstone game could have gone either way, the Livingston game we hit the bar and Steven Bell has missed a chance, so we are not doing a lot wrong.We just need to get that wee break.

"I think it is important to get the first goal at home because teams come and they sit in and they get a goal then they tend to get everybody behind the ball and it's hard to break them down.That's something we have to combat."

The Manager now has the option of Rory Loy as he tries to break the run of three successive home defeats:-

"He's quick, he can stick the ball in the back of the net.I've watched him a few times, he can play a couple of positions although he is mainly a striker.He drifts into wide areas, he can run the channels as well so he is different to what we have got and I thought he could complement what we have.We are glad to get him and it's a chance for him show that he can play at a first team level."

Macca will be interested to see if Rory could cut it at first team level. He admitted that there was a big difference between first team football and reserve football.You don't get the same pace of game, sometimes the same commitment in games as well, added to that you have a crowd there as well.

"It was very encouraging his first 30 minutes last week, he did exceptionally well.He's had a good week's training with the lads this week. Last week was hard for him as he only met the boys in the morning of the game and to come on and do as well as he did was great.

"Sometimes you sign kids from the Old Firm or from any team and you never know how they are going to do because they have not played in that first team environment with the crowd on a Saturday. There is far more pressure involved, some relish it and some fall by the wayside, so you never know exactly how these things turn out.  The time to judge Rory will be after his six weeks, not after 30 minutes, but it's a very encouraging start."