Jim Jefferies Post Morton
Saturday, 25th Oct 201425/10/14: Jim Jefferies felt that the match against Morton demonstrated all the swings in fortune that football brings.
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"We have gone from playing really really well in the first half, dominating the game especially at the start when we have again missed one or two really good chances.
"Then in the second half we got the goal early and there was not a lot in it after we scored. I thought we sat in a wee bit, not doing the things that got us one up.
"There is no doubt that the momentum changed to Morton when they scored. They have some big lads there at set plays and I felt that the one time that we did not pick the boy up we got punished for it. That is what can happen if they stop doing their jobs. They were doing that well up until then, making it difficult for them and not giving them any free headers.
"The one time they gave them a free header the boy scores and the momentum swung towards them. They scored their first one with ten minutes to go.
"We had two glorious chances in the last few minutes. One when Ross Millen fired a ball in and we had to have people in that six yard box. There was an even better chance still when Forbes played a great ball into the box and Geggan chested it down and anywhere wide of the goalkeeper and it would have been a goal.
"They have gone up the park and scored. The boy McManus has dropped off and turned and had a shot. He knows it is probably going to be the last shot of the game. I don't know if it got a wee deflection or not, he didn't even catch it right. He caught one earlier right when Scully saved it. It just bobbled into the corner.
"Hard to take but if I look at the good chances we had probably more than them. We have been saying for a wee while now. We have had a lot of good play and opportunities that we either fluff it through bad decisions or don't put it away. Today was a little similar.
"We were praising them at half time. I thought they played really really well in the first half - as good as anything that we have had here. All that was missing was a goal.
"Once we got the goal, we thought that we would go on and do it. When a goal didn't come quick after the first we paid the penalty of getting pushed back. We handed the initiative to them.
"The last one was cruel because overall a fair result would probably have been 1-1. That's football though, you have to take it on the chin and go again.
"We could have gone top of the league last week, we could have gone top of the league this week and fortunately Forfar's game turned out to be a draw. Nothing will be decided at this stage, there is a long, long way to go.
"Morton have come off defeats and it was a big game for them today. They probably knew that seven points were a lot to give away. It was going to go right to the end and we allowed ourselves to be pushed back.
"We should have had the game won before they scored the equaliser, if you don't take your chances then you are always vulnerable. They would be thinking with the minutes to go that they would be glad to get a point out of it.
"They got the lift and there was time for them to score from that one shot at the end and there was no time to recover."
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