Josh not over the line yet

"Probably we should have been 6-1 up rather than 3-1 up. I felt that we definitely deserved it because of the way we played."

Pars captain, Josh Falkingham says that when you are playing for Dunfermline Athletic you cannot count on anything until you have actually achieved it. He felt that having a league saving victory severed away from them with a goal in the fifth minute of added time is just typical at a club where the drama just doesn't stop coming..

"We did hear the score from Cowdenbeath that they were getting beat at half time and that was a bit of a lift. It was something that you take into it and it was a much better second half performance against the champions. We are deeply, deeply disappointed that we are not over the line. It is a killer to lose a goal with the last kick of the game."

His Manager felt that Dunfermline had so many chances that they really should have been more than just two goals ahead. Josh agreed and made a confession:-

"I missed a clear cut chance when I should have scored, Allan Smith missed one that was cleared off the line but Ryan Wallace came on and changed the game. Even he knows that he should have scored when one on one with the keeper - if you look at it that way, probably we should have been 6-1 up rather than 3-1 up. I felt that we definitely deserved it because of the way we played."

In the end fatigue defeated Dunfermline as much as Thistle but there was consternation about where referee Willie Collum found so much added time:-

"We were flat out" continued Josh. "They had given absolutely everything that you could have expected of them and more. We have taken seven points out of nine since going into administration and I believe that it should have been nine out of nine.

"Now we have to make sure that we pick ourselves up and the mentality has to be exactly the same. Go out and if we win the game then we stay up. We have to take the positives out of this game - we absolutely battered a team for 45 minutes who have won the league. We scored three goals and deserved to get the three points."

Josh claimed that he had been trying to pressurise the referee to blow for full time and had been told that there had been three minutes added on.

"He said that the goal went in at four minutes 59 after the ninety, so it is deeply disappointing and something that is a kick in the teeth that sometimes happens in football. It is a learning process and we need to learn fast. We can't let it affect us for next week, we know exactly what we have to do. We cannot turn the clock back, we need to get the three points next week. It is disappointing that the referee didn't blow his whistle soon but it is still in our own hands."