The St Johnstone players sat down to their first video nasty of the season, as manager Tommy Wright tried to get to the bottom of what went wrong at Tannadice.
But the Perth boss is confident it won’t become a regular Monday morning post-mortem.
After taking stock of the 4-0 defeat to Dundee United, Wright now believes the performance wasn’t as bad as the result suggests.
And he knows that his squad won’t let Premiership hammerings become a habit.
“We will pick over some of the bones from this defeat,” he said. “You can’t have it both ways. You can’t show them all the good things that they do and ignore where we went wrong.
“It was pretty quiet dressing room on Saturday. They were hurting and I know they won’t have had a good weekend. They are honest professionals and that is the nature of the beast. They know their standards slipped.
“Probably no one saw that result coming. I know maybe the hype was growing among the fans after our start and they were thinking of second place. But it will be another roller coaster season. That is the way it is in this division. There are no easy games.
“In the seasons we finished sixth and third we had losing spells, losing three, four and maybe even five in a row. We got to the split and lost them all. So let’s get this in perspective.
“It is a defeat and the fact it is to our local rivals makes it more painful for the fans. But it is one defeat from four games in the league.”
“They were quiet in the dressing room beforehand and I don’t know why. So that was brought up at our meeting today.
“We put in an extra session on Tuesday and maybe that had something to do with it, although there was time to recover.
“We weren’t weary but we lacked that wee bit spark. It seemed to be missing. We didn’t do ourselves justice.
“I’ve looked at the game and take nothing away from United, because they deserved their win, but they got any luck that was going.
“If you analyse the match we had plenty possession it was 50/50 but we didn’t make enough of that and any opportunities we created.
“The most disappointing thing is that we didn’t have a cutting edge or that final pass that opens up teams, like we did against Ross County. You maybe have to hand credit to United for that but I am only looking at my team and we didn’t play as well as we can on the ball.
“The reality is that it was a 4-0 and people might see that and think it was a horrible performance. But I wouldn’t put it in that category and I don’t think we were outplayed.”
Murray Davidson took a head knock in the match and will be monitored. He isn’t expected to train until later in the week.
Meanwhile, the countdown to transfer deadline day shouldn’t overly concern Wright.
He said: “I don’t think we will be doing anything before the window, apart from maybe a player for the U-20 team.
“Ideally I would get one in because I do have loan options but the budget might not stretch to it. If we do go with the squad I have here and don’t lose anyone then I will be happy. I don’t envisage anyone going out.”