Graham Alexander admitted he is going via a tough patch alongside together with his gamers because the Steelmen made it 10 league video games with out a victory in opposition to a Dundee facet decimated by covid and accidents.
The Nicely boss accused his facet of losing a possibility within the battle for Europe by selecting up only one level from back-to-back dwelling video games in opposition to the Dens males and Ross County.
They needed to battle again from an early setback after a Stephen O’Donnell error allowed Paul McMullan to twist dwelling the opener after six minutes.
Joe Efford netted his first Nicely objective to salvage a degree. However Alexander whose facet amazingly nonetheless sit only a level off fourth place mentioned: “We now have had a cracking first two thirds of the season the place we now have raised expectations and hopes and proven what a great group we're, and located the final two months tough.
“However the final two video games have been an enormous disappointment for us.
“We acquired into this spell after the Rangers sport and felt we may decide up some huge factors which we knew would put us in a very good place and we now have kind of wasted that chance.
“Amazingly sufficient, that chance remains to be there for us due to outcomes elsewhere, and that is what we now have acquired to give attention to.
“This is not my first tough patch and it will not be my final, it will not be my gamers' final tough patch, so you need to discover the solutions to return via it, as a result of we now have good gamers and good characters.
“However they're having a tough second and we now have to assist them, and that is what we are going to do.
“I believe each membership exterior the highest two have had an analogous spell. We have been flying pre-Christmas and there have been different golf equipment who hadn't gained for 9 or 10 video games.
“Each group has been affected however a lot of the groups have come out of it. We are going to come out of it however we now have to return out of it proper now if we need to give ourselves an opportunity of constructing this season rely.”
O’Donnell’s early error left Nicely chasing the sport.
And Alexander mentioned: “We gave a horrible objective away which simply opened it up for the opposition to have a very optimistic begin and be ok with themselves. However to be honest to the gamers we responded effectively and acquired a great equaliser.
“We should always have then actually stamped our authority on the sport however I do not suppose we did that. We did it in spells right here and there however we by no means had sufficient sustained strain or high quality within the closing third to get that successful objective.
“All of the issues have been there for us however you need to begin effectively and we began in horrible vogue. The objective was so poor. It modifications momentum, will get our crowd edgy, will get us edgy, makes them puff their chests out and really feel higher about themselves.
“That is what targets can do when two groups are on the lookout for that glimmer of sunshine. They acquired it however my gamers responded effectively and acquired that objective.
“However it's a missed alternative, 100 per cent. I mentioned earlier than the sport, no matter what group they put out, we now have had a great report right here at Fir Park this season and we go into each sport anticipating to win. That was the case at the moment however we clearly fell brief.”