Hamilton Accies head coach Stuart Taylor hopes Dunfermline suffer a backlash from his side following Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Kilmarnock.
Accies surrendered the points without really threatening the Rugby Park club and Taylor was far from happy with the performance or the result - but says he won't change what they're trying to do.
Taylor says it was always a work in progress when he took over from Brian Rice earlier this season, and they're trying to get better all the time.
Goals either side of half-time from Fraser Murray and Blair Alston put Accies to the sword, and Taylor says sometimes a game just doesn't go your way.
He said: "It's the first game in a long, long time where I could say we weren't at the races, that we deserved to get nothing out of the game.
"As a group of players and as members of staff we all know that, that it was one of those days.
"It's wrong to think that I'm just palming it off by saying that, but I'm not, I'm only being honest.
"For all the players there was a real frustration and disappointment in the dressing room afterwards. There was a lot of hurt and anger, because we went into the game confident, positive, and with a belief that we could get the three points, as we do in every game."
Taylor says sometimes you can over-analyse a game, and says there wasn't really a lot that Hamilton did wrong, as opposed to opponents Killie playing well.
"You've got to give credit where credit is due - I thought Kilmarnock were really good. They're a really good, experienced side, they've got some really good players in their team," he said.
"We went to their ground the last time, dominated the game and should have come away with something, and that probably gave us that extra confidence going into the game - this time it just wasn't to be, for whatever reason.
"As staff we've analysed the previous week and, going into the game, the build-up to it. Did we do too much, did we not do enough with all these different things that you do?
"It's not the case of ripping up the game-plan and throwing away all the hard work that we've done over the last so many months, just because of one poor performance.
"I've got a lot of belief in the lads in the dressing room, they've got a lot of belief in themselves, and they've got a lot of belief in the way that we play and what we're trying to achieve here.
"Sometimes you can over-analyse when you get a defeat, or a performance like that. Everything has been fine, the players felt good going into the game, and sometimes you just put it down to - and it's terrible to have this line - it being a bad day at the office.
"To turn around and make that comment can be unacceptable, but after you analyse everything and you go and double and triple-check what you could have done better, that's the conclusion we came to, that it's just one of those days.
"Normally you have one or two off it, but we had a lot more than that. The lads are honest enough to hold their hands up and say that it wasn't good enough.
"We're looking for a reaction, going into Saturday's game."
Taylor says he will use the sting of Saturday's defeat as motivation against John Hughes' Pars, who currently sit bottom of the Championship table.
The East End Park club are seven points adrift of Accies in eighth place, with a win working wonders for Hamilton at this stage in the season.
He said: "There's a disappointment, a frustration and an anger from last Saturday, of how we let ourselves down, we let the club and the supporters down.
"That frustration and disappointment will be used as motivation to get us going at the weekend.
"We're confident, we're looking forward to games and we actually want a game to get that out of our system.
"It's a great bunch of lads. I've asked them to respond in the right manner previously, and we've done that."
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