James Fowler stewed on the key moments which he felt went against managerless Kilmarnock tonight after they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season at the hands of Celtic.
A first-half opener from Scott Brown, Odsonne Edouard's double and a strike from Albian Ajeti wrapped up a comfortable 4-0 Premiership win for the Hoops at Rugby Park.
Struggling Killie have now lost four in a row and nine of their last 12 as they slip closer towards a battle to beat the drop.
Fowler, the club's head of football operations, took the team alongside assistant manager Andy Millen and captain Gary Dicker following the weekend departure of boss Alex Dyer.
But he reckons Celtic should not have been awarded a spot-kick which led to the second goal and felt there might have been an offside when Edouard made it 3-0.
He told Sky Sports: "I thought the penalty was very soft, if it was a penalty at all, which has a massive impact on the game.
"We actually spoke about changing the shape and making more attacking substitutions but at 2-0, it is an uphill task.
"Having seen the third as well, I don't know if it was offside. From our camera angle it was tight.
"You ask the fourth official on the penalty and he says that they're having a conversation. I think that tells its own story in terms of who gave the penalty; who had the best view.
"It's early in the second half, it's a big call and in my opinion it is wrong.
"It's frustrating but credit to the boys who didn't give up. They kept going and I think they created some really good chances in the match but when you lose the game 4-0 you have to take it on the chin, dust yourself down and make sure we're ready to go on Saturday."
On the vacant manager's post, he added: "We will probably sit down this week at some point and gather the names together and we will take it from there.
"It was strange [being back in the dugout]. It's not nice when you lose 4-0 but we will give ourselves a bit of time on the training pitch this week and prepare for Saturday.
"It's probably less stress when you are upstairs but we will regather our thoughts and get together Thursday and go again."
When asked what the message to the players will be as attentions begin to turn to this weekend's Premiership trip to St Mirren, Fowler added: "Another game Saturday, there's no point feeling sorry for ourselves.
"We probably feel a couple of things went against us tonight but some of the game was decent from our point of view. We need to be more clinical and that's things we can work on on the training pitch.
"We will stick together as a unit. It's tough but that's what we want to be – a togetherness group. We do that from now until the end of the season."
