Ross County news: Fan views on relegation and play-off defeat to Livingston

We asked for your views after Ross County were relegated from the Premiership following the 4-2 second-leg defeat to Livingston in the play-off final.

Here’s what some of you said:

Stephen: Got what we deserved and saw it coming weeks ago.

Martyn: Abysmal form, overreliance on loan players. Aside from Josh Nisbet, Ronan Hale and Jordan White there was a lack of fight across the team in our most important game of the season. We deserved to be relegated unfortunately. Sadly we’ll need to cash in on Hale as well. If Don Cowie goes, hard to see who would want the job.

Eilidh: No less than we deserve. Our defence is shocking. It’s the fact we were 2-0 up which makes it painful. It’s a loss for Highland football in general.

Rick: Being 2-0 up before half an hour, then losing 4-2 at home tells you all you need to know about County. We’ve been circling the drain for months. Dozens of ‘must-win’ games prior to this loss. Nothing more than we deserve.

Sean: Hope County do not follow in footsteps of ICT. Looks like they will have to improve drastically to bounce back up but a harder league to do that. Don Cowie is just too nice, they need a manager who says what it is.

John: Time to clear out the underperforming players.

Ronny: For the best part of three months, we have been rancid. Three relegation play-offs in a row suggests there’s something broken in the football side of things. This has to be the worst one yet, given we were in the hunt for the top six until the final game before the split. Hale aside, we have been so, so poor from back to front and it’s finally caught up with us.

Alistair: I thoroughly disagree with Don Cowie. He most definitely is not the right man for the job. I do not have any belief in him as manager at all and it appears neither do the players. He must surely be sacked now after this. He should have gone weeks ago. There is no place for schoolboy kick and rush football at this level. BTW Livingston, well done. You thoroughly deserve to be promoted. County could not lay a glove on you.

Peter: Disappointed to lose in that way, should never have lost that. The Championships is the best place for us right now, gives a chance to win games and refresh squad and mindsets.