Dick Campbell admits East Fife are in 'dogfight' to avoid relegation battle
East Fife gaffer Dick Campbell admits his struggling side are in a “dogfight” to stay in Scottish League One.
The Fifers lost a whopping tenth match in their previous eleven outings last Saturday as they went down 3-1 at Peterhead. And that defeat sees the MGM Timber Bayview team sit seventh, only now five points ahead of second-bottom Cove Rangers.
Destiny Oladipo scored his second East Fife goal to level the match immediately after Dylan Forrest’s eight-minute opener but Jason Brown and Kieran Shanks secured the three points for the Balmoor outfit.
Speaking to East Fife TV, boss Campbell said: “We are in a dogfight to stay in this league. I haven’t been hiding that. You cannot defend like that and expect to be anything else.”
Reviewing his side’s performance, he added: “It was very frustrating. The goals we lost, we’ve been losing goals like that week in week out. The mentality at the back isn’t suiting me at all. I haven’t played the same back four twice for a reason. The first goal was soft and similar to the previous weekend. The second goal was much the same. We managed to score a right good goal to get back in it, and you are then looking forward to having a go at them in the second half, but we again lose a poor third goal. That makes a difficult task to come back. They deserved to win the match.”
East Fife now host Andy Graham’s Alloa Athletic this Saturday at home.