Shaun Maloney vows to find Hibs answers as he insists St Mirren were 'minimised' in home defeat

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Concerned Shaun Maloney understands why Hibs were booed off in their 1-0 home defeat to St Mirren. But the manager insists his new look side will come good after another league defeat at home to bottom six opposition.After a solid start with wins against Dundee United and Aberdeen the Easter Road manager is on a mediocre run with extra-time progress in the Scottish Cup over League One Cove Rangers his only victory in 2022.Connor Ronan's 62nd minute strike did the damage despite the Hibees enjoying most of the play.And speaking to BBC Sportsound, he said: "It was a game of two very different halves for us.

The first half, I thought we were way below the level we showed versus Hearts.Get all the latest Sports news sent straight to your Inbox every day by signing up to our newsletter.We cover every morsel of information regarding your favourite club in the form of articles, videos and podcasts.The newsletter will arrive every day at 12pm, giving you a round up of the best stories we've covered that in the last 24 hours.To sign up, simply enter your email address into the link here.And if you aren't already, make sure you join the conversation over on our Facebook groups and Record Sport Instagram."And then the second half, for the first 25, 30 minutes we created so many opportunities.

The difference between the result and the game, and who won and who lost, was down to who was most clinical."They had one chance from our mistake and we should have scored three, four or five goals today."It's disappointing but we have to move on."It gets very frustrating when we don't take chances but I have to give full support to my players, particularly my attacking players."At some point they're going to become very clinical and at that