Dejected Davie blames errors

"To look up and see yourselves three nil down after 13 minutes makes you think 'here we go again!'

For Davie Graham relegation is a new experience. After winning SFL First Division medals with Gretna, Hamilton and Dunfermline he reluctantly now adds it to his CV and it is not something anybody wants. He told the website after the Hibs match:-

"It has to happen to somebody and unfortunately it has happened to us. The boys are dejected and feel that they have let themselves and the club down. The fans have come out in their numbers to support us but unfortunately we couldn't do it for them on the pitch.

"It wasn't to be. Our whole season was summed up in the first fifteen minutes when we shot ourselves in the foot by giving away three easy goals.

"All the boys were up for it, there was no question of that. We both come out of the blocks raring to go but I thought we were the better team. We were knocking the ball about better than they were but they took their chances when they came and obviously we never.

"To look up and see yourselves three nil down after 13 minutes makes you think 'here we go again!'

Dunfermline weren't relegated at Easter Road, Davie felt that the blow really came with mistakes made some time ago. He recalled the disastrous 3-3 draw with Aberdeen but that was just one of several poor results:-

"The whole team has been making mistakes defensively all season. Monday night was just the culmination and it showed why we were at the bottom of the league.

"Maybe the Aberdeen game at home when we were 3-1 up. If we had won that, you never know, it might have been a different story. But we continued to make the same mistakes, everybody was doing it and it was just not good enough. It has been a learning curve and if we ever get the chance to play at this level again we need to learn from that and not make the same mistakes."

The SPL experience was all too short for the Pars who complete the diet of 38 games at home to Kilmarnock on Saturday. He looked ahead saying:- "The First Division is a hard league to go into so it is not going to be easy to bounce back up."

Davie who will be 29 years old next month, is out of contract at the end of this season and he is resigned to waiting to hear what can be his next career options:-

"There are only nine left under contract so it will be up to the gaffer to decide who he wants to keep and who he is going to bring in. You just have to hope that you are one of the ones that he wants to keep and wait by the phone."

Jim Jefferies was appointed Dunfermline Manager on Wednesday 21st March but Davie feels that the team continued to make the same individual mistakes as they had made to let down Jim McIntyre.

"No matter who is in charge you cannot account for that happening. It doesn't matter who is shouting at you from the sidelines, if you are still making the same basic errors then that's all that matters."