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Liam Bryce

Jim Goodwin in Celtic and Rangers claim as bristling St Mirren boss 'states facts' over refereeing decisions

St Mirren boss Jim Goodwin believes his side have been cost four points by poor refereeing in their past two games.

And he reckons if the same happened to Celtic or Rangers then media and fans would be talking about it "a hell of a lot more".

Winless Saints sit 10th in the Premiership table after four games and have registered goalless draws in their last two matches against St Johnstone and Dundee United.

They had goals ruled out in both fixtures which Goodwin is adamant should have been allowed to stand.

And he's certain the incidents would have generated much more attention had they involved either of Glasgow's big two.

Goodwin said: "I'm not blaming officials or anything like that, I'm not wanting to get into any kind of controversy with anybody.

"I'm just stating the facts.

"We had a disallowed goal for offside against St Johnstone, which should've stood and we'd have won the game 1-0 and took three points.

"And we had a goal that was disallowed on Saturday that, in my opinion, should've stood.

"We should've, theoretically, won the last two games 1-0 and be sitting on seven points, seventh in the table and everything is looking a lot healthier and a lot rosier.

"These are the small margins that, unfortunately, you're dealing with.

"I'd imagine if the same thing happened to Celtic or Rangers and we were talking about those two teams losing four points because of goals being chalked off wrongly, then I think we'd have a hell of a lot more to say about it - both you guys in the media and the public, because people would be saying it's having an impact on the title race.

"But these decisions have an impact on our race, if you like.

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"We need more of these to go in our favour, unfortunately."

St Mirren travel to Easter Road on Saturday in search of that elusive first three points against in-form Hibs.

But Goodwin will be without Greg Kiltie and Charles Dunne, with the former going under the knife to fix a knee issue and the latter suffering a hamstring tear.

"Greg had a little bit of keyhole surgery on a knee to tidy that up," the Buddies boss added.

"He will probably be out for four to six weeks and Charles Dunne a couple of weeks.

"He had a slight hamstring tear in the week leading up to the international break.

"We have a couple of players back from suspension in Ethan Erhahon and Alan Power so the squad is a lot stronger going into this game than it was last week."

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