Managers office
Question 1: The Linlithgow result was a bad one to take. With the benefit of hindsight, do you think that such a defeat might have been less comprehensive if you had adopted different tactics?
Answer: Any defeat is hard to take, but one of this magnitude is even tougher.though we went there to win the game, just like we did against Cumnock. In hindsight, maybe we should have shut up shop a bit more and gone a little bit more defensive. This is a lesson that we as management have to take on board so we analyse opponents more, and maybe change our way of thinking going into certain games.
Question 2: An experienced YM player remarked after the game that it was like playing against fourteen men, such was the superiority of Linlithgow. How can you use the events of last Saturdasy as a leasrning experience for your players, especially the young ones?
Answer: It is a learning experience for us all going to places like Linlithgow and Cumnock, but facing superior opposition will help us in the long term, for we have a very inexperienced squad in terms of playing at that sort of level. If we can just watch and learn from the way these teams do things, and how they go about their business, then it will serve us well in the future. Guys like Mark Westwater, Blair Smart and Ryan McNeill will be hurting, (as we all are),but playing against that sort of quality will make them come on in leaps and bounds.
Question 3: Lets cheer up and look to the future. Which players, currently absent through injury, do you expect to be available for selection after the holidays?
Answer: It looks like good news on that front. Jason Quinn should return shortly and we are waiting on Scott Orrocks results coming back, but early indications are that his injury was not as bad as first feared. Stuart Gillespie will be back after work commitments kept him out recently. We are also working hard on bringing one or two new faces in to freshen things up, and to enhance what we already have, so heres hoping we can convince the committee to back us on that front, which, to be fair, they have always done anyway.
Question 4: How do you anticipate the rest of this season going for Kirkcaldy YM? Since the clubs return to participation in the Central League, we have never finished lower than third. Would you consider 3rd place satisfactory, or do you still feel the title is within our grasp?
Answer: Losing to Dundonald was a massive blow to our chances, but you just never know. We are taking each game as it comes and will see come May if thats good enough.
Since we started back, I think this year is the hardest yet. Teams such as Lochgelly, Rosyth and Lochore have improved, their quality buys helping them close the gap on the likes of Dundonald, Jeanfield and Kinnoull who already have really good squads, and the resources to make them even better.
Question 5: Purely in a football sense, suppose you could get whatever you want from Santa Claus, what would you wish for?
Answer: I would wish for three things.
1. A sponsor to donate 20 grand to the club.
2. A clean sheet in our next game.
3. For our new changing rooms to be finished.