Managers Post Clyde

22/03/09: "We scored at the right time and after that we just bossed the game with some real good stuff.

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Jim McIntyre felt that at Clyde his team came together in the same way as they have done in the last three or four games:-

"We have really knocked the ball about well and there was really no difference between that and Livingston. The only difference was that we scored our chances and we didn't give away so many.

"I thought the defence was superb today. Thomson and Wilson solid; the full backs bombing on really lending themselves to stretch the game. The midfield three passed the ball really well and when you have so much control and so much pressure you want to score.

"Coming in at 2-1 at half time after giving them a gift with an individual mistake. We knew that they would come out and have a go because their manager wouldn't be happy, which they did.

"We scored at the right time and after that we just bossed the game with some real good stuff. If you are going to be critical which I am not, but I am, I would just like us to be a bit more ruthless because some of the attacking moves need that killer touch at the end of it.

"Credit to them, they have come away from home and scored four goals - I could take that all day long."

After beating Aberdeen on penalties on Wednesday night and being such convincing winners against Clyde, the Pars boss reflected on how a week is a long time in football. Memories of the home defeat by Partick Thistle last Saturday were still strong:-

"I wasn't on a high last Sunday morning or last Saturday night so it just shows you what a game this is. You feel the lows a lot more than you do the highs, that's for sure and there are probably more lows than there is highs.

"It has been a great week for the club and a much needed week but in the last four games we have played some terrific stuff and didn't deserve to get beat by Thistle last week. We deserved at least something out of the game. We have gone up to Aberdeen and the energy and the effort they put in up there was superb.

"To come here today and show the same energy levels is superb because they were on the ball constantly. Sometimes when you are on the ball it is harder but they kept shuffling Clyde from side to side and they found it difficult to contain that."

Games are coming thick and fast for Dunfermline who face five more league matches in the next 20 days. Jim McIntyre explained how he would approach these:-

"It is all about recovery in between the games. We will doing hardly any training, it will be mostly recovery sessions because of the fixtures we have got coming up. We have Ross County on Tuesday night which is another tough game, a tough place to go to. We have had it cancelled twice so let's hope there are no snow blizzards between now and Tuesday. Then we play Dundee the following Tuesday and then it is the same again - Saturday, Tuesday."

With such a schedule the Manager is hoping that his team have hit results and boosted confidence at just the right time:-

"I have said it before that if you can get on a winning run sometimes players do like that. Games can't come quick enough if you are winning - confidence is high and those tired legs you have when you are getting defeats, disappear.

"We will not get carried away. We have lost the last four league games, we have won today - I wouldn't class that as momentum - we have only won one league game in the last five. The players should take the confidence of the performances of the last three weeks rather than anything else. At the end of the day I know that they are good players, they know that they are good players - it is about producing it week in, week out which has been our difficulty this season. Today was just fantastic, I am so pleased."

Clyde manager, John Brown admitted that it had been a bad day at the office for his team:-

"We have six games to go and we need to look at our position to Airdrie. We have got a lot to find because in recent weeks we have not been great. Today was pretty poor.

"Dunfermline after getting to the semi final of the Scottish Cup after putting out Aberdeen on their own turf - their players are on such a high, good intelligent players in their team. They have a good spine to their team with Wilson and Thomson at the back, Glass and Burke and upfront Bayne is a handful for the majority. They have a lot of SPL experience there and that showed today.

"It is a learning one for the boys and a hard one to take."

After Dunfermline went 4-1 up the home fans were shouting for their manager to be axed:-

"It has been a while since I have had my name sang. If it takes it away from the players I don't mind. To be fair to the fans, they are entitled to their say. They are not seeing something on the park and I have to identify that in the next couple of weeks before Livvy come here.

"There were too many mistakes today throughout the park at all the goals. When we got the goal at 2-1 I thought we were right back in it having not performed that well.

"We cannot feel sorry for ourselves. I think Dunfermline with the experienced players they have got can probably cope with the occasion better than some of our young guys out there.

"We have got six games and we have got to focus on getting ahead of Airdrie whether it's in the play off position and stand a chance of staying in the division. Our aim is to survive."

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