JUST CAN’T DO WRIGHT FOR DOING WRONG Bad start ends Saints’ run

4-4-2 FOSTER 6 McMILLAN 5

CRAIG 5 KENNEDY 7 MAIN 7

Saints had conceded just two goals in their previous eight games so it came as a shock when they went behind after only 99

Saints must have known it was not going to be their day in 25 minutes when they won a penalty but failed to haul themselves back into the game.

There were no complaints from the Steelmen when Kennedy’s cross was lost in the wind by Charles Dunne and he stuck out an arm as David McMillan waited to pounce.

Dunne was booked as well but breathed a sigh of relief when keeper Mark Gillespie came to his

He was well placed to hold a McMillan header at the front post from a Wotherspoon corner.

Moments later the shot-stopper dived at full stretch to push a low drive from Kennedy around the post as Saints tried desperately to find a way back.

However, Well were back in the ascendency at the start of the second half as they probed for the third that would have put the game to bed.

Saints weathered the storm but missed a glorious chance to haul themselves back into the game in 59 minutes. McMillan blazed a volley over at the back post after a darting run and cross by on-song Kennedy on the left.

The home side lacked urgency in the final third until the closing stages as they pushed to join the nine- in- a- row standard bearers from the thirties, sixties and nineties.

Saints finally netted when Kennedy’s cross off a short corner from Blair Alston was bulleted into the net from six yards by Kerr but they couldn’t manufacture an equaliser.