Ross County must stop seeing red after another player is sent off
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Ross County manager Stuart Kettlewell says his side needs to work on their discipline on the pitch after seeing one of his players get sent off for the third time this season.
Carl Tremarco and Iain Vigurs have both been shown a red card this season, and Connor Randall followed suit with a professional foul on Martin Boyle last Saturday.
The Staggies managed to hold out to earn a point for their efforts against Hibernian, but Kettlewell knows it is an issue he will have to address.
"We picked up a few niggles and there's another suspension for us, so the only negative I would take away for us is that I would love to keep 11 men on the pitch.
"That's something we need to address in all seriousness, we need to make sure that our discipline is right.
"I'm big on dealing with that first ball that gets cleared from a corner, we don't and ultimately it results in another red card.
"It's definitely something that we have to address."
Prior to the sending off, the match looked like gearing up to a tantalising finale with the scores still goalless.
Both teams had chances to break the deadlock earlier in the match, although Hibs had more clear cut sights of goal.
At a numbers disadvantage though, Kettlewell was relatively pleased to come away from the match against Jack Ross' in-form side with a point and a clean sheet to show for it.
"I think it's a good result for us in the end," he insisted.
"Obviously being down to 10 men, we were delighted with the clean sheet and we were delighted with the point.
"We knew we were playing against a potent attack with the two strikers, we spoke about that all week and the threat that they have down the right hand side with Boyle.
"I think Hibs are a team that probably strike a bit of fear into the opposition with the attacking options that they have, so from that point of view the clean sheet is a big tick for me.
"We were clinging on a bit towards the end, so that's when you take your point and move on.
"We spoke to the players after the match, it's just about having that wee bit more belief or maybe with the right decisions to carve out even better opportunities than we had.
"The pleasing bit is that we're getting into those areas of the pitch, we just need those final decisions to be on point. We need to fine tune them, and we'll go away and work on that again this week.
