Dargo puts Pars top

"Credit to the boys they kept fighting away and got a clean sheet which makes up for the last two games that we had."

Craig Dargo scored his first Dunfermline goal on Saturday but he insisted it was much more important for the team to win:-

"The fiasco with losing the referee at half time and trying to get another official retracted the momentum a wee bit. We weren't as smooth as we were and it might have helped them a bit.

"Once we got the second goal I felt the boys relaxed a bit and it was good to get the third as well. Cowdenbeath made it difficult for us; obviously Colin and Lee have them well drilled. They are a good outfit, I quite like Cowdenbeath.

"They sat in and made it difficult for us. They were basically saying 'come and break us down and we will hit on the counterattack". That is what it felt like from the side. They did well but it needed someone like Joe Cardle to unlock them. He cut inside and he made a great finish.

"We got the penalty. Hubby tried to dink the goalie and if it had gone 2-0 then it might have been over. But at 1-0 they always have the chance to come back into it. Credit to the boys they kept fighting away and got a clean sheet which makes up for the last two games that we had."

Craig was warming up outside with the rest of the substitutes when the Manager spoke to his players at the break so didn't know what Stephen Husband had said about his penalty on the half hour but he was willing to give his views:-

"Obviously you want him to strike it and if he is going to dink it he needs to score or you are leaving yourself open there if you don't. You can see the kind of player Hubby is - he is class on the ball but he likes to try things as well. He can be forgiven but he will probably be off the penalties now."

Craig's only tip on how to score from the spot was as short as 'hit the back of the net' and even though he has taken and scored a few in his football career he will be happy for Andy Barrowman or Ryan Wallace to try their luck as the setpiece takers.

"It was good to take three points and go joint top of the league again. The second goal was coming but unfortunate in the way it came. It is horrible for a defender to try and clear there when he is facing his own goals. He knows that he needs to throw a leg at it because there is a striker in behind him. Unfortunately for him it struck off his leg and into the goal. Great for us.

"At 2-0 the edge was off us and we started stroking the ball around nicely for the last ten or fifteen minutes."

The significance of Craig's goal that made it 3-0 was that it took them above Partick Thistle on goal difference:-

"It is nice to score to take us to the top of the league, that's brilliant. I am delighted with it."

Next up is the trip to Firhill to play Thistle on Saturday 10th November. The 34 year old striker feels that the team will need little motivation when that game comes around the week after this:-

"There is plenty of motivation in the dressing room. We know where we are wanting to go and that means winning the league. We think we are good enough but we have a good bunch of boys and professionalism in that dressing room to keep them going as well. Training has always been good and we will keep working hard looking forward to the next game.

"We do not have a game next Saturday and you'd like to keep the momentum going but these things happen. It will be a massive game but it is just a single game out of the season. We will have to go there and play to our full potential because they are at home. Partick Thistle are a very good side, many have tipped them for the league and we know that we are going to be aware. With the way that we have been playing it is set up for a cracking game."

Match Report: 27/10/12 Dunfermline 3 Cowdenbeath 0