NEIL WARNOCK compared VAR to the Post Office’s Horizon system after Bojan Miovski was denied a dramatic winner for Aberdeen.
The Dons were 3-0 down after 26 minutes but a Duk double and Stefan Gartenman strike levelled things up again by the 50th minute.
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Miovski’s goal was ruled out initially and the decision was confirmed by VAR Steven McLean but it looked so, so close.
Boss Warnock said: “There’s never a dull moment! You can’t tell me that’s offside. I’ve seen the lines.
“I don’t believe it’s offside, me. I don’t know how they do it, me. At half-time I was constructive. It’s a good word that! It was a mixture!
“The fans were brilliant at 3-0 down. They did well to stick with us and to get that goal back gave them a lift, the second set us up for the second half.
“Duk was an inch away from his hat-trick and VAR? I just don’t believe it, me. The referee said VAR is all about the computer. I think it’s the Horizon computer!”
Theo Bair’s double and Adam Devine’s goal had Motherwell coasting after Warnock had started with a back three and Shayden Morris and Jamie McGrath at wing-back.
But he ripped up that gameplan after the third goal was conceded and saw his side charge back.
He said: “We lost Richard Jensen this morning to an illness so we changed it and thought we could play that way but it showed we couldn’t.
“All credit to the boys, at 3-0 a lot could have gone under but when we made the changes we enjoyed it and I enjoyed watching them.
“I couldn’t complain at half-time but at 3-0 I was thinking about the times of the planes to Cornwall tomorrow and expecting a call on the bench from Dave Cormack.
“The changes gave us more chance and we have to play like that and bloody enjoy it.
“Now we’ve got to win games. They can’t give more than they are giving. The effort they put in is a minimum. We are a bit thin in certain areas but I’m not going to criticise the lads playing in other areas.
Now the lads will know we can go home or away and win so I don’t think we have to worry where we’re playing.”
Well crashed out of the Scottish Cup to Morton on Friday night and boss Stuart Kettlewell said: “I’m really frustrated. So many things happened I enjoyed and liked, we get three up and put ourselves in an unbelievable position.
“But we showed far too much naivety when Aberdeen made their changes. They obviously felt they’d got something wrong and we had to react better.
“They make their changes and they score a goal very quickly after that and we shoot ourselves in the foot with our lack of concentration.
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“When you put so much in and have been clinical and could have had a fourth with the save onto the frame of goal, there’s disappointment.
“In any game when you’re 3-0 up I believe you’ve got to have the character and bottle to see that out.
“There’s a bitter taste but I caveat that by the fact we remain unbeaten in the calendar year in the league.
“We showed better spirit and performance than Friday but I’d love to say we have three points to show for it.”
Kettlewell was also frustrated at being denied a goal after Harry Paton’s late strike was chalked off for Calum Butcher’s push on McGrath.
He said: “There were a lot of contacts in the box and without question he has two hands on the back of his opponent.
“But he didn’t push him two or three yards. Was it an obvious error?
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“The referee said it was but from two or three angles I’ve seen I dont think it was a contact that propelled him into his keeper.
“I felt it was a little soft and if you have to look at it so many times are we looking for something that isn’t obviously there?”
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