Inverness boss John Robertson was blown away by the quality of Rangers Colts, despite his team reaching the final of the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Cup.
The Highland side came from a goal down to advance to the showpiece game in March, despite being controversially reduced to ten men in the second half.
Their manager was hugely critical of the officials for that decision, but went out of his way to heap praise on the Gers youngsters.
Robertson told BBC Alba: "I thought Rangers were superb.
"Honestly, the kids. We were told about the players' attitude, the way they would play, the enthusiasm, the honesty and they showed all of that.
"They got their early goal which gave them something to play for and should have been two up. We were fortunate to get in 1-1 at half-time.
"However, you've got to look at the referee today.
"Two shocking decisions. James Keatings now could miss a cup final because he gets knocked over and the ref says it's a dive. Disgraceful decision.
"The second one, it's flicked on by the Rangers centre-half, (Tom) Walsh is not offside and scores. Again, disgraceful decision, but we get nothing from Greg Aitken to be honest he's been like that all the time.
"He did the same at Ayr a couple of weeks ago, stonewall penalty and he didn't give it. Shock-surprise he thinks both decisions were correct, well if he sees that on telly he's going to be very embarrassed."
The match was played in awful conditions, but Robertson felt the Gers youngsters gave a great account of themselves.
"The pitch was bad, the weather was bad - for both teams.
"But I thought Rangers were superb, I really did.
"The enthusiasm, the freshness, their ability, the way they knocked it about: they've done their club proud tonight, they've done their badge proud tonight becuse they were superb.
"I said that to Graeme Murty. We gave them the strongest compliment by playing the strongest team we had available and they matched us every step of the way.
"They were superb tonight and very unlucky not to go through."
