RICKI Lamie reckons it was complacency that caused Morton to surrender a two-goal lead to Alloa on Tuesday night and said it was simply unacceptable.

The Cappielow club were 2-0 up within the first 17 minutes of the rescheduled clash thanks to goals from Declan McManus and Stefan McCluskey.

But Colin Hamilton quickly pulled one back before Wasps skipper Dougie Hill completed the comeback with a 72nd-minute header.

According to defender Lamie, Ton were punished for a lacklustre second-half in which they were dominated after subconsciously handing Alloa the initiative on a plate.

The 22-year-old told the Tele: “We’re very disappointed with Tuesday. It’s the old cliché of complacency I think. There’s no other explanation.

“It’s not intentional to switch off, but I think when you get such a good start and take advantage of chances …

“We looked as if we could go on and be comfortable, and then five minutes later they are right back in the game.”

“It took us a wee 10 minutes to get a foothold back in the game, but once we did we were in control. [We were] dominated but just didn’t get the break of the ball we had early on.

“We were weakening and by the time it got into the second half, it was as if they were dominating. 

“They didn’t outplay us, they just dominated us.

“There was a balance change, it was a role reverse — and I don’t think you can blame anything else but the simple fact we just stopped playing.

“Everything we did well in the first half, in terms of hitting the strikers and supporting them to get goals on the narrow pitch, we stopped doing.

“It’s as if at half-time we just said ‘There’s the ascendancy, take it off us’. That’s exactly what it is.

“We gave them the ascendancy — a chance to get on the ball and put it in the box and start picking up all the second balls — and they took advantage of it.

“It’s unacceptable, 100 per cent. 

“As I say it’s not an intentional thing of thinking: ‘Oh, we’re 2-0 up, we’ll just down tools’.

“But we got into cruise control and the next thing it’s gone against us, and as the gaffer touched on, you can’t afford to switch off for even five minutes in this league.

“There were wee half chances and if we went three up it would have killed the opposition. But 2-0 is one of the most dangerous scorelines because one goal flips the game.

“But drawing 2-2 is not acceptable. It’s happened two or three times this season where we’ve been in control of a game, like Livingston away, and switched off.

“It happened on Tuesday night and we got punished for it — and that can’t happen again.”

Ton host Dumbarton at Cappielow on Saturday and Lamie says it is important to pick up a win with clubs such as the Sons and St Mirren creeping up behind them in the league table.

He added: “There’s no hiding that what was a big gap over the teams below us has condensed and condensed, and the simple fact is that if we don’t win games that’ll keep getting reduced.

“So on Saturday against Dumbarton we need to start the way we did against Alloa on Tuesday – and keep it going.”