PARS boss James McPake is sure supporters will "see a reaction" from his side this weekend and wants them to right the wrongs of their last outing.

Dunfermline host Queen's Park in a crucial Championship clash on the back of Saturday's 5-0 thumping at home by Greenock Morton.

Post-match, McPake described that display as "embarrassing", and told Press Sport this week that everyone at the club is "in it together" in their bid to bounce back.

'We're all in it together': Pars boss seeks response to 'Ton thumping

Athletic, who have gone seven games without a win, are eighth in the table, just one place and one point above their opponents this Saturday, albeit having played a game fewer.

Three points, however, would take them up to sixth and to within five points of fourth-placed Morton, such is the competitive nature of the division.

"The good thing about football, after such a bad afternoon, is that you have a game the following week where you can go and put it right. That's what we need to do," McPake told the media in his weekly sit-down today (Thursday).

"It took a while (to analyse what went wrong against Morton) because there was lots. It is consistent; when you do things well, it is human nature even when you have a good performance that you still pick out the bad things. It was a lot easier to pick the bad things out of that performance.

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"It has to be done. Win, lose or draw, you analyse the game because we are always trying to improve, to get better. It simply wasn’t good enough but the key thing is we have a chance to put it right on Saturday.

"You can always see things that you can point at and say 'we can prevent that happening'. It is actions though that do that. I know every goal Is preventable, and it is not a positive, but the goals we did lose were sore goals to lose, just in the manner in which we lost them, particularly from set plays.

"You know how much I go on about them but, again, that’s one of the things that you can really work on. It shouldn’t take what happened on Saturday to work on it. That’s not to say that is the only reason we work on it, we don’t, but I think it is really important not to overreact and say because we lost those goals everything is terrible.

"Now we all felt terrible for a few days until we got back on the grass. You see the players getting lively again and the noise comes back. It is a young group and you worry about how they cope with that. They have come in, they have had their say.

"It is not just the players, it was a collective bad day - the coaching staff as much as the players. Myself and Dave (Mackay, assistant manager) take probably more responsibility for that than the players. We are the ones who set the team up, we are the ones who decide which formation we play, what players play, where they play and how we set up for set plays.

"We have had a good look at ourselves as well. We will see a reaction on Saturday I’m sure."