Caley Thistle midfielder Iain Vigurs is worried that players have not learned from the mistakes they have made this season.
Individual errors played a part in both Morton goals on Saturday and Vigurs feels their performances from the first half of the campaign are starting to rear their head again.
Defeat on Saturday left them 10 points from making the play-offs and their promotion ambitions hanging by a thread with 12 games to go. If repeats of the weekend are delivered again, starting at Dumbarton tomorrow nnight, the Caley Jags can kiss goodbye to any faint hopes they have of making an immediate return to the top flight.
Vigurs said: “It’s silly mistakes that you should eradicate from your game. You shouldn’t make them and we’ve made too many this season. We need to learn from that and that’s the worrying thing. We’re at the end of February and we still haven’t learned from them.
“To a man we weren’t good enough. If you asked every one of us individually, we were a yard off it, especially in the first half. You got that sense it was going to happen; I sniffed it out in the first half. We just weren’t good enough, every single one of us. Individually, all of us, we make mistakes. There’s good mistakes and bad mistakes to make and we’ve made some really bad ones today.
“It’s back to where we were at the start of the season – gifting silly goals and not being able to put it in the net. That was clear to see against Morton. They’ve been on a good run and know how to win – they had a gameplan and stuck to it. They’ve got 11 men, so have we and we need to do better. If we’re not playing as well as we should be, we should be working harder. That’s basic.
“It’s going to be very hard (to make the play-offs) but it’s still there if we want it. If we put in performances like that we’ll be nowhere near it. If we get our heads right and play like we know we can, we’ve got every chance.”
Manager John Robertson admitted there is now no room for error for Inverness, who take their depleted squad to the YOUR Radio 103 FM Stadium tomorrow. With Nathan Austin and Coll Donaldson set to miss out, Jake Mulraney should return from suspension.