Charles Dunne challenges Mika Biereth Get the latest news from Record Sport with our daily newsletter More Newsletters Subscribe Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. More Newsletters We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show me See Our Privacy Notice See Our Privacy Notice × Group 28 Get the latest news from Record Sport with our daily newsletter Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up No thanks, close We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info × Group 28 Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show Me No thanks, close See our Privacy Notice Seething Stuart Kettlewell insists going VAR free was no excuse for Willie Collum missing two major calls in Paisley, including a "horrendous" tackle on Mika Beireth. The Motherwell boss was gutted to be sent tumbling out of the Viaplay Cup by St Mirren . But it was the failure to award a first half penalty and dish out a red card to Charles Dunne that stuck in the throat. Both clubs agreed to ditch VAR for the second round clash but Kettlewell insisted the cameras should not have been needed. He said: “I don’t want to sit here as a guy who continually makes excuses, but there are two decisions in the game. One is a stonewall penalty, Mikael Mandron hand-balls it and I’m always a huge believer in a player’s reaction – he knows it has come off the hand, that his hand is outstretched, which is everything that the video shows. But I’m more upset with the challenge in the second half from Charles Dunne on Mika Biereth, it’s an absolutely horrendous tackle, two-footed tackle and straight-legged. Read More Related Articles Transfer news LIVE as Celtic and Rangers plus Aberdeen FC, Hearts and Hibs make signings Read More Related Articles Caolan Boyd-Munce stunner sends St Mirren into Viaplay Cup quarter finals as Motherwell latest to fall in Paisley “I’ve now got a striker sitting on the treatment bed down there. I was instructed that these types of tackle were outlawed in the game. “I’m not throwing Willie under the bus, he’s one of our top officials, and rightfully so. But I asked the question about the penalty at half-time and he said ‘we have no VAR’. We don’t get the red card in the second half when it’s a horrendous tackle, it’s an absolute shocker, red card all day long – but the excuse is that they don’t have VAR. “But I was on the understanding that if VAR shuts down, if we didn’t have VAR, then the referee referees the game, like we were told it was only going to be an aid to help referees get more correct decisions. But when you see these things appear on the pitch, you still have to count the cost as a referee. “I’m counting the cost. I’m really angered by the tackle that comes onto a striker, which by the way, as a young lad that we have on loan from Arsenal, we talk about protecting these creative players and all the rest of it, but I think that’s just words sometimes, we have to do more to try and protect them, because it’s a bad, bad tackle.” Stuart Kettlewell Kettlewell fumed at the calls but he resisted slamming his side after falling to defeat for only the third time in 21 games. He said: “I said before I didn’t think there would be much between the teams and I called it. “It was a wonderful strike but it was untidy from us. It spooked us a little bit and that’s not been us. We rectified a little bit in the second half but we should have shown more. “We wanted to get to the latter stages but we’ve come out the wrong side of it. We’ll lick our wounds and do again as I’ve told the boys we can’t allow this to derail a fantastic run.” Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Follow Daily Record Facebook Twitter More On Stuart Kettlewell Motherwell FC St Mirren FC Willie Collum VAR Viaplay Cup