Sons' column, with Jim Chapman

Aug 29 2008 by Andy Galloway, Lennox Herald (main ed)

YOU get what you deserve in football, and the first half against Stenhousemuir was a non-event from us.

Again we lost a goal and we keep giving ourselves an uphill battle. Then, in the end, we paid the price for going to win the game when some naivety gave them the winner.

That kind of thing is always liable to come back and bite you and today it did. A draw would probably have been fair but when you give them that kind of chance you will be punished.

We completely dominated the second half but that came 45 minutes too late. We can’t just keep thinking that we will come back after going a goal down.

We have to take the initiative. While Saturday was not the end of the world, we will have to learn from it. We will need to make sure that we start again properly and bounce back.

We had chances in the second half but ‘could have’ and ‘should have’ isn’t good enough. It’s a blow, but we will need to pick ourselves up.

We want to finish as high as possible but if we keep giving teams a goal of a start, and then other opportunities, we’re making it more difficult.

Bouncing back from this is now part of our development programme. We will go away and work at getting better communication.

It will come but we need to play to our strengths. We made a couple of mistakes which have cost us the points but we will continue to work at it.

As told to Andy Galloway