Tony Docherty has held talks with Willie Collum and remains insistent that Mo Sylla should never have been red carded. The Dundee manager was furious that referee Grant Irvine showed the Frenchman a second yellow card for his first half coming together with Matty Kennedy.
The Dark Blues went 2-0 up, but ended up losing and Docherty pointed the finger of blame at that decision. Docherty confirmed he was going to be seeking words with referee chief Collum but refused to go public on those discussions.
Docherty confirmed: “We had a conversation but I’d rather keep that conversation to myself but certainly nothing has changed, I’m of the opinion it was a wrong decision.
I need to be clear as a manager, I’ll deal with my team and the shortcomings we showed. There are reasons for that. Sometimes you do overload exercises in training, 10v11, but it’s only for 10 minutes – to do it for 60 minutes (with stoppage time) is tough on the players. “Mentally there is a fatigue that sets in when you do that for so long and it contributed to the poor decision-making.