Dundee 3
Falkirk 1
League (Premier Division)

Manager's Programme Notes

Our good run of results came to an abrupt end last week at Tynecastle where a very confident Hearts side scored three times before half-time.

It was the second half before we began to string some passes together and look dangerous. However, when we were looking like adding another goal to the one Tommy Coyne scored, Hearts scored again to put the game out of our reach.

The performance in the second half was reasonably good but you can't afford to give any team in the Premier League three goals of a start.

Our opponents today have had good results in recent weeks and will be a difficult team to beat if we don't go about the task in the right manner.

Today's game is the kind of game where you, the supporters can help tremendously by encouraging the players when things are not going well.

I am not criticising the support by saying that. I know from experience when a player is playing badly and getting stick from the fans his performance gets worse. However, if he is encouraged by the fans that definitely helps his performance to improve even slightly.

As I have already said I am not criticising you in any way and appreciate your frustrations when we play poorly.

You can be assured the players are working very hard to get the required results.

Last Tuesday night we played Brechin City in the Forfarshire Cup and ran out 3-1 winners.

In the first half we applied a lot of pressure on the home defence and two goals were created, one scored by Steve Campbell and one by Vince Mennie.

Brechin came out in the second half and contributed to an entertaining game with both teams scoring a goal, Alan Lawrence scoring for us.

All in all, a very satisfactory result.