Loy: Confidence is low

Midfielder Jordie knows United can be a lot better

complaints about trailing to the Sons after just a few minutes.

“It was a very frustrating game. I think the first half was bad from our side. You see in the second half if we are going to put the energy in, we could score four or five goals — that’s my opinion at least.

“But the first half we give away a goal in the first minutes. We gave them belief and after that we are going to fight and they will have something to defend.

“After it, until half-time, a lot of balls from us were not good. That was frustrating because we know how we can be better and even after losing the goal we can play well. It was frustrating.”

While no one who was at Tannadice would argue with that summing up, it seems only fair to point out a reason for that might be this is a new-look United side that’s still gelling.

Players are getting used to each other and that process has not been helped by niggling injuries suffered by Briels and others. He, though, views such talk as no more than making excuses.

Having been at the club for a few months now, he knows the team can and should be much better.

“As I say, in the second half we can score four or five goals and that shows we can be a good team already.

“So I don’t want excuses. I have seen it in the training and sometimes in games that we have a lot of good players, so it is frustrating when we played like we did in the first half.

“What we need to be more is a team. We will be and the good thing is I know we have a lot of good players and when we are playing like we can then not many teams can beat us.

“We know we are better than we have been and we will be.” THE Dundee United match could be the perfect one to bring Falkirk back to form, according to ex-Dundee striker Rory Loy.

The Bairns are without a win in five league matches and come up against fellow promotion favourites United on Saturday.

He said: “Of course United will be tough but it maybe takes a game like that to get the crowd going, to get the players going and to get the confidence back with a win.”

Loy has confessed that confidence has been dented by picking up just two points from a possible 15 to sit joint-bottom of the Championship.

He added: “When you’re on a run like this, some

Rory Loyboys’ confidence can be a bit low.“I think the boys believe we’re good enough to be at the right end of the table. We’ve got a good enough squad. But talk’s cheap, we need to start doing it on the pitch.”