Terry Butcher was pleased to see his side win on Saturday which meant they had gone three games at home unbeaten. Inverness are still bottom of the SPL but Butcher considers things are looking up and that the future is much brighter. The Buddies were keen to take their unbeaten run to three games and things looked good for that when theywent in front against the run of play through a Marc McAusland header in the 22nd minute. However, Caley Thistle equalised nine minutes later with Andrew Shinnie scoring his first goal for the club. With 12 minutes left of the game, Gregory Tade secured the points for the home side. Having gone into the game four points adrift of Aberdeen, Hibs and Dunfermline, the importance of reducing that gap was not lost on Butcher and his players. Inverness play two of their next three league games at home to look forward to which makes Butcher hopeful it can be a good October for his team.
He said: "We're delighted to have taken the three points because a little bit of a gap had opened up between ourselves and the teams in front, so it was great that we could close it. Out of our last three SPL games before St Mirren, we had only taken one point from nine, although we did have two difficult away games at Tannadice (3-1 defeat against Dundee United) and then Parkhead (2-0 loss against Celtic). It was good that we could bounce back against St Mirren and with another couple of home games in October then it's a month we're looking forward to."
Despite making a good start when they took the lead and then having a Paul McGowan 'goal' in stoppage-time ruled out for what St Mirren believed was a questionable offside decision, manager Danny Lennon accepted his side were second best and apologised to Paisley fans who had made the journey to Inverness. He said: "Take nothing away from Inverness. They were quicker to almost every second ball and that surprised me because that's something we practise in training a fair bit. I felt more sorry for the supporters than anything else. They've travelled a long way and they deserved more, but we under-performed. It certainly wasn't Danny Lennon's St Mirren team that played against Inverness. It looked like a completely different one from the side I started the season with."