Holt: We could’ve changed 11 at break

Gary Holt admits he could have made 11 substitutions at halftime after Livingston tumbled three behind inside 21 minutes.

Dolly Menga, Steven Lawson and Hakeem Odoff in were all introduced at the break as Chris Erskine, Craig Sibbald and Stevie Lawless made way.

But Holt believes the trio were not the only ones failing to deliver at Fir Park. The Lions boss said: “Let’s be honest, we could have changed the whole lot.

“It’s one of those things. If you give teams a start in a game and don’t do the basics we ask them to do right, collectively as a team, it makes it an uphill battle.

“We need to get back to the basics of what has got us the success we’ve had rather than us all going out and thinking we can go and play football.

“If I give you instructions to go at them, I’m the manager, I pick the team at the end of the day – if it goes wrong then I can say I made an a**e of it, pure and simple, it’s my responsibility.

“If players go away from what we are trying to do, how we’re going to set up, how we’re going to approach the game, that’s what happens. Sometimes it could be an over- confidence of thinking we can do better rather than sticking to what we are good at.

“You take it on the chin, it’s a man’s game and that’s what I’ve said to them. It’s a man’s game and it’s a harsh world we are in.” Kept superb order all afternoon at Fir Park and kept up with play at all times. The ref only had to dish out a single yellow in Lanarkshire as Gboly Ariyibi went into the book for simulation after Well’s January arrival hit the deck one too many times.