Robinson: Booing fans won’t stop me selecting Hastie

Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson insists his team selection for the final game of the campaign will not be influenced by supporters.

The Fir Park club’ s hopes of overtaking St John stone to claim seventh place in the Premier ship evaporated in the Perth sunshine, with Scott Tanser’s penalty and a Murray Davidson goal easing Saints to a deserved victory.

Well will bring down the curtain in front of their own fans when they face Livingston on Saturday and Robinson believes his squad merit cheers, not jeers, after a small section of the travelling support rounded on Rangersbound Jake Hastie.

They have taken exception to the winger’s decision to sign a long-term deal at the Ibrox club. But their chants cut no ice with Robinson, who introduced the 20 -year- old from the bench late on. “I think the world of him,” he said. “If I think Jake is going to win the match then I’ll put him on. We were 2-0 down and had a boy on the bench who has scored seven goals for us.”

Mother well were denied a first-half penalty when Tanser appeared to fend off Gboly Ariyibi’s strike with his arm. But Robinson didn’t point the finger of blame at referee Colin Steven. “I’m not going to blame referees,” he said. “We have to look at ourselves.

Per th boss Tommy Wright admitted he was relieved to see T ans err am home a firsthalf penalty after seeing five squandered by his team this term. “If we had missed another one I would have been away up the tunnel,” said Wright.