Source: Team_Talk
Travner hailed by Buddies assistant
St Mirren assistant Iain Jenkins hailed Jure Travner after he earned the Buddies a win over Aberdeen that lifts them off the bottom of the SPL.[LNB] Jenkins netted in the 92nd minute to give the hosts a 2-1 victory - only their second league win of the season and their first since August.[LNB]It saw St Mirren move above Kilmarnock, who visit Hearts on Sunday, and puts the Paisley side within three points of seventh place in the table - but Jenkins knows that his side face a battling season, especially as their next fixture lines up a visit from Rangers.[LNB]Jenkins said: "We're delighted, especially after seeing Hamilton's win, as this keeps us in the hunt.[LNB]"We defended extremely well, which we needed to do at times; we stood strong so it was a worthy three points, and it makes it all the more pleasing when you get it in the last second with the last kick of the game.[LNB]"Aberdeen came out the stronger team in the second half, and that's possibly always the case when you go in with a 1-0 lead, as you aren't going to set that same tempo.[LNB]"We never write ourselves off or throw in the towel, and as soon as Travner went through, I knew that either the defender was going to give a penalty away or it was going to be a goal.[LNB]"Jure is one of the best I've seen at one-on-one defending, he's absolutely wonderful, but going the opposite way is where he's really at his best.[LNB]"He has to believe in himself and that needs to be there week-in, week-out, but if he can get that consistency in his game he'll do well.[LNB]"We're under no illusions at this club that it's going to be a hard season and maybe a fight between three or four teams.[LNB]"We'll look after ourselves first and foremost - if we can go out and win, we'll worry about other people at the end of 90 minutes. Other clubs around us are being dragged in and it gives us that chance for next week."[LNB]Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee didn't mince his words as he labelled his side's first-half performance "inept" and "absolute rubbish".[LNB]The visitors fell behind to a Marc McAusland header before the break, with Rory McArdle equalising just before the hour, before Travner's decisive late intervention after evading Michael Paton on the left byline.[LNB]McGhee, whose side travel to Celtic next weekend, said: "The first half was so disappointing and it was pretty inept losing another goal from a set piece.[LNB]"The second half was much better and I thought towards the end that we were going to win, so to conspire to lose it was hugely disappointing and a really poor show.[LNB]"We just have to go out again at the weekend and reorganise, because we know if we do the same against Celtic, we'll be annihilated.[LNB]"There has to be a collective responsibility for the goals as you can trace it all the way back to the moment they won the ball.[LNB]"Michael knows what we and his team-mates feel about the goal but we trace it back to how we lost the ball so we're all culpable, and I don't think we should dwell on him and the goal because it was incidental to a very disappointing first half.[LNB]"That's the major thing that's going on in my head at the moment - the goal and result are hugely disappointing but the first-half performance is the mystery to me.[LNB]"In essence, we gave ourselves no chance of winning the game because the first half performance was so inept.[LNB]"We could possibly have had a penalty but that would only mean I'd be talking about us having won 2-1 in a game where we would still have been absolute rubbish in the first half, and that would still be a huge concern and I wouldn't be deluded that we're a better team than we were."[LNB]
