McGowan lashes out following ‘horrible’ Dee defeat

Dundee midfielder Pa u l Mc G o w a n has taken aim at his Dundee teammates after the latest in a series of sub- standard performances this season.

A dismal 2- 0 defeat at Ayr has left the Dens Park side in seventh spot in the Champ ionsh ip after winning just one of their five games this campaign and having conceded 15 goals in their last four away matches.

Long-serving McGowan unloaded his frustrations in a five-minute long rant after the Somerset Park loss, claiming it was the lowest he’d ever felt in the game.

He said: “It’s horrible, I wouldn’t even pay to watch that – that’s not what we are doing during the week.

“It’s like we get a pure nervousness in our game. Honest to God…

“No wonder the manager is racking his brains and banging his head off a wall. He can’t physically go on and shake players on the pitch, move them into positions.

“We are grown men and have been playing the game for how long? We need to take accountability for our actions – me included.

“It’s not even like teams are cutting us open. It’s pathetic goals we are losing.

“I’ve been at this club for seven years now and this is probably the lowest I have felt, even when we got relegated. In training and matches we are two totally different teams.

“We are kidding ourselves on that any one of us can look ourselves in the mirror and say we did well, we are kidding ourselves on big time.

“We ’re letting the manager down, w e’r e letting the club down and letting the fans down. They’ll give us abuse and rightly so, we deserve it.”

McGowan added: “We aren’ t doing ourselves justice. It’s not been good enough for the full season.”