Livingston veteran insists boss is 'spot on' in Motherwell performance criticism
dailyrecord.co.ukLivingston midfielder Jason Holt insists David Martindale is 'spot on' with his assessment that the players have to take responsibility for their Fir Park horror show as defensive errors gifted Motherwell three points at the weekend.The Lions will be aiming to put that right this afternoon when they host Hearts but even a shock win over Holt's former club would still see the Tony Macaroni Arena outfit sitting at the foot of the table heading into the winter break.Martindale blasted his side's 'shambolic' defending as the Well ran all over Livi on Saturday with the boss believing his side were fortunate to come away with only a 3-1 defeat.That sentiment was echoed by Holt, who said: "The gaffer's spot on and we can't hide from it.
We should have been behind even before we were and we didn't give ourselves a chance. We got a point against St Johnstone a felt quite solid defensively but we were the complete opposite.
There's no consistency levels there."Performance-wise prior to this had been positive without getting those wins on the board and this is miles away from what we've produced over the last few weeks and we need to take ownership of that as players and we will do that.
But the games are running out and we need to start picking up points."He added: "We're not in a good place at the moment. We just need to stick together, it's a difficult period.
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