Motherwell boss Stephen Robinson: Seven of my players were "miles off it" in St Johnstone cup defeat

Robbo said: "I thought we looked fluffy. I thought we didn’t look as hungry as them.

"They came out with every second ball. We’ve got lots of potentially good players in the team.

"But we just need more determination. We need to do the dirty bit of football better than what we’ve done and have done over the two games we’ve played them.

"They’re not a big strong side but they've got know how.

"And we want to have the perfect match, the perfect goal, the perfect passing sequence. But when you don’t do the simle things well you get beat.

"I said to them afterwards: ‘Do we miss Allan (Campbell) that badly?’ but I’ll answer that myself: ‘Yes we do’ because without him we’ve got no bite.

"We’ve got nobody that wants to put their body on the line, we’ve got nobody that wants to go and get hurt.

"I singled out four players that I thought did very well and were at the top of their game. And the rest of them were miles off it.”

Robinson refused to use the fact that his side have only played four times in two months as an excuse for his side's poor display.

“We got what we deserved,” Robinson said. “I thought throughout they were sharper than us.

"They just looked hungrier, which is something I don't often say about any of my teams.

"We didn’t do enough to win the football match, simple as that.

"It’s two ridiculous pieces of defending. The first goal, we talk about playing forward and being positive, we didn't.

"And at half-time we told them to, play forward, play positive, make it three v three with their system.

"When we take our first touch backwards and were negative and we got punished for it.

"The second one’s just such poor communication. We leave Robbie exposed one v one against the quickest player on the pitch and people don’t take responsibility.

"So it's really disappointing.”