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The only match that might have been a fair result was the but I felt that our second-half performance meant that we just edged our opponents.

We then move on to . We seemed to be cruising to a convincing victory at 3-1 up early in the second half only to lose two terrible goals, the last of which was just about the last kick of the game.

Without doubt it felt like a defeat and the dressing room was a very unhappy place, let me tell you.

We once again felt the upset of our manager and quite rightly so, but what made it hit home even more for me was that I felt the real disappointment and particularly Derek Townsley felt in us.

Annan have been boosted by the arrival of former Queen of the South star Sean O'Connor. Photograph: SNS
In my experiences with management teams, the manager and his assistant act in a kind of good cop, bad cop duo.

The manager normally keeps a little bit more of a distance from his players, whereas his assistant might be more approachable.

That's always an impression I've had of big Degsy and for the first time he looked and sounded as if he was let down by our performance in the latter stages of the game.

It's something I hope never to see again and I hope that we can make up for everyone's disappointment with this weekend's game at .

I'm struggling to make up my mind whether or not we're facing Forfar at a good time on Saturday. Before we faced them last midweek they were on a tremendous run and came off the back of a .

They haven't won in three games, including the draw at Galabank and a . They also on Tuesday night.

It's always a difficult place to go so Saturday will be no different and I'm sure the Forfar players will be keen to bounce back just like ourselves.

I've got a couple of taxi loads of friends and family coming through from South Queensferry so I'll be on at the players this week to make sure we put in a good performance in the hope of stretching our unbeaten run to five games.

We've still got our captain Kevin Neilson and David Cox suspended for the game but are hopeful that will still be around to step in to wee Coxy's boots.

I'm sure it was a big surprise to everyone at the game when they saw Sean lining up for us against Elgin and it was a wee bit of a surprise to the players as well.

The rumours around the players started after training on Thursday night but we thought it was a wind-up after reading in the press that the club had failed to sign Andrew Ferguson.

I'm not sure if that was a bit of a smoke screen from the chairman but he certainly did well to keep the news about Sean as quiet as he did.

No-one is really sure how long the big man will be with us but, whether it's just these two games or for the rest of the season, we're absolutely delighted to have him.

I read in the paper today that haven't ruled out re-signing him but fingers crossed our near neighbours suggest he is better off where he is for the time being.

I mentioned that we had a race night at the club after the Elgin game and the players who were there had a great night.

Although we've had better turn-outs for club functions, everyone who attended helped towards making a wee bit of money and yours truly even had a couple of winners.

Funniest part of the night was faithful supporter Terry McClelland performing his Michael Jackson routine and giving everyone a bit of Billie Jean.

That was quickly followed by a request for me to get up and join him for a rendition of Champagne Supernova.

Thankfully I managed to drag a couple of my team-mates up so I wasn't alone but I'm still praying that John McBeth's camera phone ran out of battery before we got up!