The Motherwell boss felt his team should have had a penalty and Charles Dunne deserved to see red for challenge on Mika Biereth.
Seething Stuart Kettlewell insists going VAR free was no excuse for Willie Collum missing two major calls in Paisley, including a "horrendous" tackle on Mika Beireth.
He said: “I don’t want to sit here as a guy who continually makes excuses, but there are two decisions in the game. One is a stonewall penalty, Mikael Mandron hand-balls it and I’m always a huge believer in a player’s reaction – he knows it has come off the hand, that his hand is outstretched, which is everything that the video shows.
“I’m not throwing Willie under the bus, he’s one of our top officials, and rightfully so. But I asked the question about the penalty at half-time and he said ‘we have no VAR’. We don’t get the red card in the second half when it’s a horrendous tackle, it’s an absolute shocker, red card all day long – but the excuse is that they don’t have VAR.
“I’m counting the cost. I’m really angered by the tackle that comes onto a striker, which by the way, as a young lad that we have on loan from Arsenal, we talk about protecting these creative players and all the rest of it, but I think that’s just words sometimes, we have to do more to try and protect them, because it’s a bad, bad tackle.”
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