Assistant Manager Tam's thoughts on a dreadful afternoon

First off, we’re making no excuses for yesterday’s scoreline; we all know it simply wasn’t good enough. However, taking into account the relentless run of injuries we’ve had along with a couple of key players serving a suspension yesterday for an accumulation of bookings, our threadbare squad was always going to severely tested.  

Losing the coin toss and facing into a gale force wind didn’t help matters but the fact is we just couldn’t get to grips with the conditions early doors and soon found themselves a mountain to climb after a disastrous first fifteen minutes.  

From there until half time and in the early period of the second half the lads did show a little more but we were punished with the pace and precision from a hungry West Calder side.

Summing up the day, the lads know they let themselves down. We had a very open chat afterwards and we now look forward to training this week and getting ready for next weekend’s match with a renewed determination.