Lessons to be learned, but players gave their all

We were off it a little bit in the first half, if we’re honest.

We felt we were very reactive, rather than proactive but we grew into the game. We got better as it went on.

Probably in the last 10 or 15 minutes we were the team in the ascendancy, looking for the winning goal.

To be fair we had to rely on our goalkeeper on a couple of occasions in the first half and we need to acknowledge that and say we were not quite at it at that stage of the game.

The boys were certainly up for the game, but we struggled to find a little bit of fluency in retaining the ball.

To play the way we want to play we need the ball and we didn’t have too much of it in the first half, but the game got stretched and there was a lot more time on the ball.

We felt we finished the game strongly but we would have liked to have started better.

I felt for football in the north, the noise and the crowd, it was a great spectacle.

Fair play to Inverness, they’re a good side and we feel we have a good side.

There were 22 players out there giving everything for their clubs in trying to win the game.

As manager and coaches, we can’t ask any more than that.

We recognise there are lessons to be learned but every player left everything they had out there.

“For football in the north it was a great spectacle”