It was a weird performance yesterday. First 15 minutes we were really good, pressing them at the back and forcing errors, regaining possession quickly, moving the ball quickly, stretching them, creating space, getting one goal and hitting the woodwork twice. The enforced break first half seemed to disrupt the rhythm and gradually, culminating in pretty well the whole of the second half, we stopped doing everything that had been giving the results. All of a sudden we made the Airdrie centre halves look like Baresi and Beckenbauer when previously we had made them look like the haddies they undoubtedly are. Let’s face it, it felt like an equaliser was in the post, not through any spectacular play, but particularly in this division, if you cede too much possession and just let teams lump it in the box, eventually something is going to drop, be it a mistake or a penalty or a deflection whatever. And this was the case when we dodged that one that was cleared off the line. I don’t think we could argue had they made it 1-1 at that point and we would have been under major pressure as it felt at that time that we’d lost control of the game by that point.

I think the Diddy Cup break has come at a good time. If there is one thing we’ve learnt even at this early stage is that Docherty is critical to what we’re trying to achieve and hopefully he’ll be back for Morton. Credit to the players for getting the result, but we’ll not get away with that every week if we try that again.