Thommo out to impress

"It was good to get back in the starting eleven and I hope to stay there."

Two goal hero from the first game against Cowdenbeath in August, Ryan Thomson is hoping that he can help his team to a second win over their local rivals this season. He is very philosophical about it all clearly interested in winning more than personal glory:-

"As long as the team wins that is the main thing. If I could score two again that would be the best option for me; hopefully I can do that. I have personal goals to help the team out by scoring "

The midfielder who has chipped in with 5 goals in 6 league appearances this season knows that the Morton match, his first start since 25th August, could have been very different had he accepted a good first half chance:-

"In the first half it didn't really happen for us; obviously I failed to put a good early chance away and if I had scored that, you never know what kind of game it would have gone on to be. We showed good spirit to get back from two down; it has shown how good the team is but we don't want to make a habit of that.

"I think we have done well because we were a new team; to be up there near the top and challenging is a good start. We are confident that we can do something but we need to prove it."

To be back in the starting eleven for the game against Morton was a great relief for Thommo:-

"It was great to be back in the starting line up because coming off the bench is hard when you are just getting five, ten or fifteen minutes. I knew that I had to wait my turn because the team had played so well. It was good to get back in the starting eleven and I hope to stay there."

And of course for Ryan it was a case of friends reunited with Morton fielding his former team mates - Martin Hardie, Kevin Rutkiewicz and David Graham:-

"I spoke to Hardie, Dinky and Davie; they were giving me a bit of stick about the stuff a while ago. I just need to take it on the chin and move on with it."

Dunfermline have dropped four points in the last two league games but the 21 year old felt that two draws were well worth having:-

"They have been hard games - away to Falkirk is a derby and anything can happen in games like that. Morton were on a five game winning streak so they have not exactly been poor results. After going 2-0 down it was great to get a point but now we need to get back on a winning streak.

"There is good quality on the bench every week now. In the last two games it has been the last twenty minutes when we have scored the goals and that's when the subs have come on. It just shows you that everybody can step in and do well."