Bairns must learn to lead after sting in tail
The United boss insisted he had been shouting at his own player and not the ref when linesman Andrew McWilliam raised his flag.
That added to Neilson’s anger after he saw Gregor Buchanan’s header cancel out Frederic Frans’ opener.
Neilson said: “I shouted on to the park to one of my players. The ref is 60 yards away, the Ray McKinnon admits Falkirk must learn how to stay on top after blowing a two-goal lead to fall back to the bottom.
Deimantas Petravicius and Paul Paton had them two up with 28 minutes gone only for an Alan Trouten double to deny back-to-back wins for the first time all season.
Partick’s win sees Falkirk return to the foot of the table and boss McKinnon said: “A bad error in the first half has linesman is 40 yards away and the linesman says I had a go at the referee.
“I think he is a young referee and has not done a lot of games. The game ran away from him a little bit.
“If you get sent to the stand every time you shout there would be no managers left.
“I will def initely f ight it because it wasn’t acceptable.”
Frans opened the scoring in
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given Alloa a lot of momentum and we gifted them a goal.
“I told everybody it was going to be a grind. We’ve come from zero points and got ourselves right in the pack with Partick and Alloa, so a lot of credit has to go 31 minutes when he looped Fraser Aird’s free- kick over Ton keeper Derek Gaston.
Ref Munro enraged Ton with several decisions and boss Jonatan Johansson, No. 2 Peter Houston and keeper coach David Wylie were all lectured for their protests.
Ton finally levelled with 12 minutes left after a blunder by United keeper Matej Rakovan.
He completely missed Michael Tidser’s free-kick to give Buchanan an easy header.
United’s misery was then complete as Neilson was sent to the players. But they’re disappointed to give away a two-goal lead and we need to learn from that because it was avoidable.
“We are improving as a team – that’s four points from last week and today and keeps us right in the mix.”
Petravicius headed home Thomas Robson’s delivery seven minutes in before turning provider for Paton to slot in. Lewis Kidd nearly to the stand in 84 minutes for his comments. He initially refused to move until Houston, his former boss, persuaded him to go up the tunnel.
A couple of minutes later keeper Gaston brilliantly blocked sub Billy King’s shot with his legs to save a point.
Morton boss Johansson said: “We were done by a set play and after last week (a 3- 0 loss at Dunferml ine) we were naturally nervous.
“The second half was one of the best home performances this season. We deserved it.” got No.3 when his shot hit the post but with the break three minutes away Trouten knocked in Jake Hastie’s pass across the face of goal.
Dario Zanatta hit the post for Alloa but their efforts were rewarded in 77 minutes when Trouten backheeled into the net after a stramash.
Wasps boss Jim Goodwin said: “It would have been a travesty if we had not come away with something.”