Jim Goodwin watched Dundee United take a dunt and insisted it is now a three-way scrap for Premiership survival. It was a game of fine margins and it was Saints who came out on top, thanks to Liam Gordon’s winner at McDiarmid Park.
It ended United's three game winning run but Ross County’s win and Kilmarnock’s defeat at Motherwell means the bottom three are separated by just one point.
Goodwin said: “If we’d gone down without a fight then I would be very disappointed, but the character is there in the group. “We are in a decent position if you consider where we were prior to the Hibs game.
If I was sitting here still five points adrift, I’d be very concerned. But we’re not. We are still level on points with Kilmarnock, albeit Ross County have closed that gap.