Manager Post Morton
Saturday, 24th Jan 201524/01/15: JP - "I am still confident that with the players that we have got, we will go and do well."
- - Listen to this John Potter Interview
"It is disappointing result. The goals that we gave away were very sloppy, naive, from a corner and breakaways after having the ball in their half. That is really disappointing.
"I felt in the first half we kept good shape and frustrated Morton. We had three or four good chances ourselves but didn't take them. I felt that we didn't play nearly as well in the second half. Morton came into it and scored a goal.
"Andy Barrowman had a good chance but the keeper saved it. As soon as they got their second they seemed to play very very well and we got frustrated but the manner of the goals was the most disappointing thing for us."
Yet again and good first half performance was not translated into a half time lead, John continued:-
"They had a lot of the ball but we frustrated them. When we won it we broke quite well but you have to score when you are on top, it is as simple as that. That has probably been the story of our season, not scoring goals. Recently we have been naive at the back giving sloppy goals away. Overall again just disappointed again with the result."
While the Pars passed over opportunities to score Morton grabbed their's, the gaffer agreed:-
"They had probably two, maybe three chances and we had four or five. They took their's and we didn't take ours. Our chances came from good play from us, their chances weren't as good but we left ourselves wide open. We should never be like that."
This was to be the sixth game this season in which Dunfermline has failed to score and comes after five goals in three games that failed to break the run of games without a win. John Potter felt that those scored in those games had been seen as a positive:-
"We did not put the ball in the back of the net despite having four strikers on at the end of the game. It is just not happening in front of goal at the minute. We have to keep working at it, it is only us who are going to change it. Nobody is going to give us it, we have to keep working hard and hopefully it will change soon.
"I have been saying for the last three or four weeks now that we need to go on a run and it has not happened yet. What cannot do is leave it too late to go on a run and have to play catch up, which we are now.
"There is a long way to go, there is no point in feeling sorry for ourselves. W have to work hard tomorrow morning and get ready for another week ahead and hopefully try and bounce back next week."
Training on a Sunday is nothing new explained the Pars boss to the small group of surprised west coast journalists:-
"Yes we were going to be in anyway because we have an under 20 game on Monday night. We will work hard this week and try and put right what went wrong out there.
"It is very difficult to build up the confidence, we feel that we are working hard in training, we feel that we are building up confidence but probably the only way that they are going to get it back is by winning a game. It doesn't matter how, we have to go and win a game somehow.
"We are down at Ayr next week, we have to look at trying to win that and if we can get that then I am sure that we will build on it. It is getting that first win that is proving difficult.
"Even a lucky win will do me at the moment, something just to get us started. We have defended well at the beginning of the season but we are now getting opened and sloppy at the back. We are not scoring goals as much as we have in the last two seasons.
"We have got to keep working at it; we have got plenty players there and if they are not doing the job it is up to us to find others who can. I am still confident that with the players that we have got, we will go and do well."
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