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"The boys are disappointed not to have taken anything out of the game but we have to make sure one result doesn’t affect our whole season," said the Scotland Under-21 internationalist. We went through to Ibrox to play our usual game but they made it really hard for us and definitely deserved to win."

"We were outplayed and can have no complaints about the final result. In fact they could probably have scored even more,but the manager said to us in the changing room afterwards that it’s a credit to us that Rangers felt they had to raise their game to match us."

"I don’t think we have to be too down as Alex McLeish said afterwards it’s probably the best they have played this season so we just got them on a bad day. We have to make sure we bounce back."

"They got right in about us and did stop us playing the way that has got us a lot of success this season, the game was a bit of a learning curve for us and the important thing is that we take on board what happened and what was said afterwards. If we can do that we can come away an even better team."

"We have gone on a good run once this season so we need to try and do that again now that we’ve been beaten. The one sure thing was that we were going to lose a game at some point and the important thing now that we have is that we react properly and get back to winning ways as soon as possible."

"The fact we have a game so quickly after the weekend is probably a good thing as it doesn’t give the players too long to think about things."

"The gap with Hearts is now down to two points which isn’t a lot but we are still in third on our own with a game still to play so things are in our own hands. We’d like to stretch the gap over Hearts a bit and we will need to go there and make it possible to play our usual game. Motherwell are a well organised side and I’m sure Terry Butcher will have them up for the match after a disappointing result. We know it will be hard as they have given us a couple of tough games already.

"But we need to focus on our own game and not worry too much about them. If we do that hopefully we can bounce back."

"We know what it takes to win these sort of games and we will have to go there and fight and not just turn up expecting to pick up three points. We know we are capable of winning though as we’ve proved that already this season."

"If we can beat Motherwell then we have a home game against Dundee which would give us the opportunity to try and open up a wee lead again."

Steven Whittaker - Evening News - February 15th 2005

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