Stuart McCall believes Motherwell must strengthen their squad before the transfer window closes on Friday if they are to emulate the high finish in the SPL achieved last season. Tom Hateley was posted missing on Sunday due to injury and Chris Humphrey was only fit to make the bench for the home draw against St Mirren. The Steelmen made a great start when Micheal Higdon took advantage of some poor defending by Lee Mair and slotted beyond Craig Samson to open the scoring in the first minute. This just riled the Buddies and they pressed for an equaliser throughout the next 92 minutes of the game. The home side were down to ten men by the time St Mirren scored their deserved equaliser when Shaun Hutchinson was dismissed in the closing stages. In the last minute of three minutes injury-time Steven Thompson forced an excellent save from Darren Randolph before substitute Thomas Reilly bundled the ball into the net.McCall said: "Overall there was no doubt that St Mirren deserved a share of the spoils. The young guys did great and it was probably one of the youngest teams that Motherwell have ever fielded. We are trying to strengthen the squad, I don't want to bring in players that won't improve the team, but we need bodies in. It's proving difficult in bringing in players from England - I wouldn't hold your breath for stellar signings but we hope to bring in some squad players."
Danny Lennon is hoping his St Mirren team can build on Sunday's display. Manager Lennon said: "It's important that we start to string these type of performances on a consistent basis. We can look at Motherwell and the consistency they had away from home last season and take hope from that - it was so important in them qualifying for Europe. Our response to the early goal was top drawer, we make no mistake of the way we want to go about the game and when you do that you will take risks. We certainly deserved something from the game, there's no doubt about it, we are delighted for Thomas Reilly, it's very much a club where the older lads help the younger lads."
Source: FOOTYMAD
