Rae defiant after Queens silence sad Saints
Seething Saints boss Alex Rae ripped into his flops but insisted they can turn it around despite slumping to bottom of the table.
Queens swept up the three points with a Derek Lyle double whi le Stephen Dobbie piled on the misery for Saints with a third. Tom Walsh had levelled the game in the first half before Lyle edged the visitors back in front before the break.
Rae said: “It could have been more.
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We are in a difficult place but when I was at Dundee we started the same, didn’t win for our first five games and ended up third. So we can turn it around. But this is not about tactics, it’s about players crumbling under pressure and we have to address that.”
After 12 minutes, Lyle gathered the ball at the edge of the box, surged forward then rifled a rising shot from 16 yards into the top left corner giving keeper Jamie Langfield no chance.
The Buddies bounced back in 41 minutes with Walsh locking on to a ball from the left from Ryan Hardie before f iring a spectacular overhead kick beyond Lee Robinson.
But Lyle slid in to bundle the ball home from close range from a Grant Anderson cross two minutes later to give Queens the lead at the break.
Saints rallied briefly after the restart with Ryan Hardie forcing a decent save from Robinson with a header,
But Saints fans were soon heading for the exits after Dobbie nipped in ahead of Langfield at his near post to clip home a low shot.
Queens boss Gavin Skelton said: “They are out on their feet in the dressing room. But they deserved it.”