Inverness manager John Hughes lavished praise on Ryan Christie after the rising star's crucial goal gave the Highlanders a massive three points against St Mirren in Paisley.The visitors dominated most of the match and moved into a two-goal lead through Greg Tansey and Christie, but found themselves hanging on a little towards the end as a Jim Goodwin header gave St Mirren some hope of a comeback.Ultimately, it was young Christie's goal that was to prove the deciding factor in the match though, and Hughes believes it is a sign of great things yet to come from the 19-year-old.``I'm possibly working with the best young kid, technically, that I've worked with in the boy Christie,'' Hughes said.``He's going to be whatever he wants to be, and the reason I say that is because there are players in front of him at other clubs, but they're older than him. You give him another couple of years in the (Premiership) getting those games under his belt and you'll see his technique and talent.``I love just watching him training, because he trains with a smile on his face and we absolutely torture him on the training pitch and he keeps coming back for more.``We never give him a free-kick, we moan at him and he just gets on with it. He's just a gem of a boy.``Technically he's very, very good. He can get goals, he's getting stronger, his passing range, his touch, he takes it on the back foot, and we've looked after him.``He's played 15 games this year, we've taken him out to keep the reins on him and now it's time to let him go again, and he came up trumps today.''Hughes was also generous in his praise of his team as a whole, particularly in an opening half masterclass in passing and movement that had the St Mirren players chasing shadows.``The first-half performance was very good,'' Hughes said.``We were a little bit disappointed to go in at half-time with only the one goal, we felt our performance merited more goals.``Have we taken it as far as we can? Possibly. What do we do then? We try to maintain it, that's the next thing.``We're taking it one game at a time.''St Mirren manager Gary Teale was disappointed that his side did not put the visitors under enough pressure, particularly during that first half in which his team were fortunate to concede just one goal.``I was disappointed in terms of our energy,'' said Teale. ``We were a mile off it in the first half in our energy levels to cope with the way that Inverness like to play.``They've got a lot of movement in their front three or front four with the option of stretching it with Marley Watkins, who was a massive thorn in our side today, so I was disappointed we didn't manage to get too close to them.``I'm a realist and if we had (managed a draw) I would have taken it, but it would have papered over the cracks of our performance.''ends