Roy MacGregor in Ross County confession over THAT Derek Adams rant as he sees a 'bit of truth' in SPFL slapdown

Ross County chairman Roy MacGregor insists Derek Adams should have known better than to go on his rant slating Scottish football but admits “there is a bit of truth” in what he said.

The Staggies gaffer caused a storm when he slammed the standard shortly after his Ross County return following a game against Dundee late last year. MacGregor knows Adams better than most having hired him to manage his club on three occasions and said of his attack on the game north of the border in general and his own team: “He made a mistake. Some of what he was trying to say was visionary, some of it frustration. I don't want to lose that passion in him but the stuff about other leagues and other clubs was not right.

“I think he was messaging that he wanted more. He felt some players were not performing and picking up their wages too easily. That’s normal for managers but life has changed. Generationally, we are now with millennials, and I would have thought 700 games as a manager would have taught him how to not get frustrated at the end of a match?”

Adams did issue an apology but stood by his claims over the standard, where he had said: “The standard is rubbish. It really is...if I am a paying customer at this moment in time, I'm not coming back to watch that I'll tell you that.”

MacGregor, speaking in an interview with the Scottish Mail on Sunday, said: “I think he regrets the way he said it. I don't know 100 per cent what triggered it because in the interview he seemed fine. But I think everyone would agree there is a bit of truth in what he said. Is the product as good as it was? He is very much a guy who wants to play football in the final third. But is the pressure to survive so great that teams are not doing that? Are they not