And, while he will never discourage his troops from attacking, Craig feels it was too positive an approach that led to Kyle Lafferty’s late equaliser snatching victory away.

“When we got our two goals, we were well on top for a spell and I was wanting the third — we had a couple of opportunities and probably should have got it,” he said.

“However, at times when we are in those positions, we do need to be a bit more streetwise and realise the game will ebb and flow.

“There was always going to be a spell when Rangers came back at us and, when that happens, rather than being gung-ho and attacking with gay abandon like we did, we needed to take the sting out of things for a while and concentrate on keeping possession.

“I don’t want to be over critical and I never want to stop the players trying to get forward, and part of the problem is down to us still being a young team, but it is something we have to learn.”

And the gaffer was keen to stress he’d seen plenty positives during the 2-2 thriller.

“Even in the first half when Rangers were on top, that was not down to any big problem. It manifested itself as one because we needed to get our wide men to play a few yards narrower, but, once we got that sorted at the break, our midfield had the better of the game.”

One of the midfield, Morgaro Gomis, took a knock on the thigh, but he is expected to be fit in a day or so.

Moving away from the weekend events, Craig made it clear Sunderland have not been in touch to recall on-loan striker Roy O’Donovan, though he won’t be surprise if that changes.

“I haven’t spoken to Sunderland and they haven’t been in touch, but I do have it in my mind that, once they appoint a new manager, they will want all their players back so he can assess them and, like all loan deals, now there is a clause that allows them to recall Roy at any time.”

Instead, they went down to a second-half goal from Willie McLaren and then suffered the frustration of seeing midfielder Darren Young sent off just three minutes into a long-awaited debut.

“I’m looking at the video later, but what I already know is that we had a lot of chances and, if I get my hands on the percentage of possession we had, it will be a lot as well,” he said.

“Of the games since I took charge, that was easily the quietest for Rab Douglas — he hardly had a save to make. We created a lot, but we only did half the job and almost every one that was on target was straight at the keeper.

“In the end, it was a harsh result for the players and they have to realise that’s what eventually happens if you are not taking chances and that seems to have been a problem for us all season.”

Turning to Young, while he felt the red card was harsh, Jocky was also critical of the player.

“I can only assume the referee saw it as a goal-scoring opportunity, but, from where I was, we had at least one defender level or even goal-side.

“I felt it was a definite yellow card rather than a red, but Darren is an experienced player and should not have put himself in the situation he did.”

Dundee’s weekend woes were completed by an injury that forced full-back Eric Paton off, though he is likely to be fit to face Partick this weekend.

“He took a couple of sore ones to his thigh and knee, but they are knocks rather than anything more serious and he should be back quickly,” added Jocky.

During the course of this week, Dundee expect to take delivery of tickets for next month’s Scottish Cup trip to Celtic.

The clubs will now try to get the game on at the sixth time of asking on Wednesday afternoon (KO 1.45).

“It’s been really frustrating,” said Lochee secretary Larry Duncan.

“We couldn’t work on the pitch after Saturday’s game against Arthurlie due to the conditions.

“But we had a lot of helpers up at the ground yesterday and were confident the game would go ahead.

“But the weather forecast didn’t predict such a hard frost and there was no option but to call the game off.”