JAMES PENRICE believes that his Partick Thistle team-mates can hold their heads high after their 2-1 defeat to Celtic on Saturday.
The left-back put in an assured performance against the cup holders and while he admits that Thistle could have offered a little more in attack - and needed to take their chances to get anything from the game - there were positives to be taken for the Firhill side.
"I thought we could have got at them a wee bit more," he said. "Obviously, they are who they are and with the position we’re in, I think we did well for periods of the game. We could have prevented the first goal but we've done alright.
"You need to take your chances when you play these types of teams. Anything you get you need to put away and that’s how you get results. Even teams in the Premiership that play against Celtic, they need to take every chance they get.
"We could have probably had one in the first half [when Kenny Miller struck the post]. It’s a massive chance and it could have been a different game if we got that but it wasn’t to be."
Penrice could have given away a penalty after Jeremie Frimpong went down in the box in the first period, but the Thistle Weir Youth Academy graduate insisted that referee Alan Muir was right not to point to the spot.
"I didn’t feel I touched [Frimpong] enough for him to go down," he added. "I think that’s why it hasn’t been given.
"He ran up beside me and said, ‘How is that not a penalty?’ and I said I never touched him. You get some and you don’t get some, but I don’t think I touched him."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here