Mcglynn strives to ‘get balance right’

Raith Rovers boss John Mcglynn has backed his side to find the recipe for success following a rollercoaster spell that leaves them sitting second in the Championship.

The Stark’s Park outfit pulled off a shock victory over Hearts at Tynecastle last month after an outbreak of Covid-19 sparked a 10-day shutdown at the club.

Since then, they have been heavily beaten by the

Jambos and Fife rivals Dunfermline in midweek games sandwiched either side by Saturday victories over Dundee and Morton.

Rovers went back to basics and changed from their usual attack-minded formation to ‘win ugly’ at Cappielow at the weekend.

And Mcglynn is hopeful that victory has given the players confidence they can mix and match their tactics successfully in the coming weeks.

He said: “We looked at us being a bit too open, the pitches at the moment and the weather conditions, and the fact we wanted to be more solid and bounce back from the Dunfermline defeat, and we decided to change formation and the way we played against Morton.

“It was a horses-forcourses scenario and something we’ll probably use again.

“We’ve got a lot of options. It means we can play that way and try to tweak it a bit more and try to be a bit more possessionbased than we were last weekend in that formation.

“We’re now showing we’ve got another side to us and we’ve just got to get the balance right – between Saturday there and the previous Saturday against Dundee, and the Wednesday night against Dunfermline.

“In there, there’s a really good football team; it just needs to be balanced a bit better.”