St Mirren 3 M'well 3

St Mirren 3 Motherwell 3

Scorers: ST MIRREN: Murray (2), Dorman MOTHERWELL: Forbes (p), Jutkiewicz (2)

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GUS MacPHERSON: I HAVE seen the penalty incident and it's in the box - but it's not a foul.

In the first half we played very well. We worked hard to put pressure on them and we should have been more ahead.

The penalty gave Motherwell hope when we were in a good position. But we didn't defend well after that and the way they've equalised to make it 3-3 is disappointing.

They will feel they've done well to score three goal away from home and from our point of view it's two points dropped. It's great for the neutral but we were 3-1 up and didn't see the game out.

There was a lot of good open play and we showed a decent level of passing, but I'd rather be sitting here talking about having won 1-0.

Scoring goals has been a problem for us. We've been working hard at getting extra midfielders into the box and it's paying off for us.

Tom Brighton's seems to have twisted his knee in the turf going for the ball but we won't know for a couple of days how serious it is.

I feel really sorry for him as he's worked so hard to get himself in the shape he is in.

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JIM GANNON: I'M disappointed in myself and with the team's approach to the game - and before I look at the players lessons have to be learned by myself.

I kept them in the dressing room for a good while after but it wasn't an inquest. We went over how we approached the game as we've still got a lot to learn.

I haven't really seen my team in that kind of situation where we had to really battle back.

Even when we were 3-1 down the game was far from dead and I thought that if we created chances we would score.

But we were fortunate with the timing of the second goal - coming so soon after their third. It breathed new life into it.

I'm pleased for Lucas Jutkiewicz. The only thing that disappointed me when he first came up here was his fitness but he's close to being a really good player now.

There's a lot of talk up here about the Old Firm and the Scottish national team and maybe we don't get the column inches and airtime that they do. There's a lot of good things going on up here as shown today.

It was a great advert for the game and it sets it up nicely for Tuesday's Co-operative Insurance Cup tie.

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