Football: NO FEARS FOR BREW

Sep 2 2007 By GORDON WADDELL

DEFIANT Craig Brewster saw his new side slip to their fifth straight defeat then insisted: "We're not going down."

The Inverness player-boss piled praise on his team for a performance that was easily good enough to have taken a point from Hibs.

And he insists if that's the standard they set for him in his second spell in charge he has no worries about the drop.

The 40-year-old, who played the full 90 minutes up front, said: "The performance was excellent. Some of the football was tremendous and to lose was frustrating.

"But if we keep playing to that standard the points will come, I don't doubt it.

"And when they do we just have to get ourselves on a run."

But Brewster admits he has work to do with Romanian Marius Niculae, whose penalty miss in the 37th minute should have earned Caley a point.

The manager said: "His head went down after that miss which was disappointing but I told him after the game 'You're too good for that'.

"I also had to speak to him about a pass he sent through for me just after the break - maybe 20 years ago I might have got there!"