Dan Seaborne has told Liam Lindsay to learn from his second red card of the season after an afternoon to forget for everyone at Partick Thistle.

Lindsay was dismissed by referee Euan Anderson towards the end of the nightmare 4-2 defeat to Dundee on Saturday for an unnecessary foul on Greg Stewart, with the game already over as a contest.

It rounded off a miserable day for the promising centre-half, as he conceded a penalty for Dundee’s opener and squandered possession for their killer fourth goal before half-time.

Lindsay wasn’t the only Jags player to struggle to adapt to the wintry conditions though, and after an impressive season to this point, Seaborne believes that he will shrug off his disappointment and return to the side a better player having learnt from the experience.

He said: “Liam will be fine. He’s only a young lad. I’ve had some red cards in my time as well, and every centre-half gets red cards.

“It’s an important position and sometimes you get punished quite harshly, so it’s tough but he’s big enough and experienced enough now to brush himself down, get on the training field on Monday and do well again.

“I had snow all over my face so I couldn’t really see much, but I thought it was a bit harsh.

“Both yellows are harsh actually, they were body-checks so maybe one yellow card for the two of them would have been right.

“To be fair to the referee though he’s done that all day so he’s kept his game consistent the whole way through.

“It’s a tough one, but it’s happened now and we just need to get on with it.”

Lindsay isn’t the only one at Firhill who will have cause for introspection after an uncharacteristically sloppy opening to the clash with Dundee saw the Jags players face manager Alan Archibald at half-time with a 4-1 deficit.

Seaborne refused to use the blanket of snow that covered the Firhill surface as an excuse for the shambolic showing from the Jags in the opening period though.

An improved performance after the break was cold comfort to the shivering Thistle faithful, and Seaborne acknowledges that his side have some hard work ahead of them this week to put things right before the trip to Inverness this Saturday.

“Our start killed us,” he said.

“Coming in at half-time 4-1 down, it’s an uphill task from there.

“It was sloppy from us, we didn’t start like we have done over the last few weeks. It was tough but we need to pick ourselves up for next week.

“We’ve got some winnable games coming up so we’ve got to focus ourselves in training over the next week and go from there.

“The conditions didn’t play a part, they scored four goals. We’ve killed ourselves in defensive areas and handed them chances, when in the last few weeks we haven’t done that.

“You can’t blame the conditions and you can’t do anything about that, you just have to play it as it is.

“It’s tough to take but you just have to dust yourself down and go again.

“You’re only as good as your last game. We were poor today, but we know we’ve got it in us to do well but we need to train hard this week and focus on next Saturday.

“An off-day can stretch into two or three weeks, so we’ve got to look at what went wrong and analyse it rather than put it down as a blip or whatever.

“We can’t just think that our form will take care of itself. We’ll all look at it closely and try to rectify what went wrong in training.

“The manager obviously wasn’t happy. We’ve got enough experience in the team to know when we’ve done well and know when we haven’t, obviously it’s there for everyone to see and 4-1 at half-time isn’t good enough by any stretch of the imagination no matter who you’re playing.”