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We're still not finished, a long weekend in the SPL, you are about | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
to see highlights of the five games played so far. With Billy Dodds for | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
company, and this man. Just a desire to go and stop the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
opposition scoring goals. Sometimes players need to be | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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inspired by their team-mates. Hibs captain, James McPake is with | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
We will start our round up in Inverness, they tested out their | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
squad strength to keep squad members fresh for the showdown with | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Juventus in the week. Good news and bad news for Inverness on the | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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Celtic debuts for Israeli defender, Rami Gershon, and Australian mid- | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Rossenttini has, the Highlanders in front. | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
-- Ross has. The Highlanders in front. A fine finish from Ross. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Aaron Lennon keen for him to get game time in front of Juventus, | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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Forster, but he didn't deal with it. This is almost like a box ticking | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
exercise for them. Commons, with a better finish. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Hammered home by the Scotland international. It came from an | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Australian international. On a plate, and there is just no saving | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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plate, and there is just no saving to his right. The free kick has | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
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been given by Craig Thomson for always rising that time. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Teddy Butcher has seen his side struggle at times, they lost to St | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
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Mirren, and either side of that cup Fraser is not interested. It came | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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back off the elbow of the Celtic youngster. That is Gershon. | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
It's a debut goal for the Israeli. Celtic have turned this game around. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
As they try to go 18 points clear at the top of the Clydesdale bank | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :04:56. | :06:04. | |
going back down the A9. Celtic's second string effectively, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
their second string is beating what on paper is their closest | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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Miku almost got his second and almost Celtic's fourth. Just the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
just the nine changes to the Celtic side, pretty impressive show of | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
strength from them? It was very impressive. Although you were | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
seeing the nine changes, if you look through the team there is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
still a lot of international players in the team. They have a | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
very strong squad, it is a tricky place to go, it is probably to take | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
away Celtic it is one of the trickyist places to go and get | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
points. Inverness came and beat Celtic at Celtic park, it is a very | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
good result for them going up there, especially with the changes and the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
good fine form going into the Juventus game w no fresh injuries | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
to bigger players. It is four defeats on the trot at Inverness, | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
and far from panic stations, but it could be the season of their dreams, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
they are still second? Those four results has taken it away from them. | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
But I have said it all weekend, I have been asked the question, I | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
think the squad, looking at over the season, they have had a | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
fantastic season. They have sat high up in the league. They have | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
some fantastic players. I think they are happy the way they are | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
playing. Terry will be saying keep it going, and get results playing | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
in this manner. The first chance for the Celtic fans to see the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
likes of Rogic and Gershon, and both looking handy. This is Rogic, | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
coming from Australian football? does brilliant here. He goes down, | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
runs it to the defenders and cuts the ball back into a great area, it | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
is a great finish from Commons. Nine times out of ten when that | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
ball is there he's putting it in the back of the net with the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
quality he has. It is a turn of pace, left, left, left, burst past | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
the defender and great cutback as well. You are looking at this one. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
I know it is Gershon that scores it, but you would love to be attacking | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
that, it is a great ball there. stands it up great, three or four | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
in there that are looking to go and put their head on that, there is | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
not much work to be done to put that in the back of the net. There | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
might be a question over Fraser Forster over the Inverness goal, | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
but you can't deny the quality he has come up with. Is there a | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
concern in the Juventus game about lack of games? I'm not so sure. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
He's proved how good a goalkeeper he is. I think he's a bit unlucky | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
there. Mackay is in his way. He's a bit blinded, can you see what he | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
can do here, in the Juventus game he will be ready and do his best. | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
He has been a star in the Champions League run. The season he has had, | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
he has got himself in the England squad. That tells you everything | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
you need to know. He has to be at the top of his game going into this | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
big game. He has missed five. Let's look he at what the Celtic team | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
might be on Tuesday night. This is your stab at it. | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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We're actually making the You think he will keep the midfield | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
solid. You have that attacking threat for Samaras to support | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
Hooper, a lot of people would want Commons in the female, but Commons | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
might come in if McGrew has to be leftback. If he's not fit. Injuries | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
apart, that would be roughly along the lines, to get some sort of | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
result against Juventus, whether it is a 0-0 draw, or there is enough | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
in that team to hurt them and get goals. Anything you would change | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
about that team? I think that the change possibly could be Commons. | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Big games before in the Champions League that I have watched, he | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
keeps the ball. He creates things for Celtic, I think if there is a | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
change, it might be him, with the quality's got. I spi Billy is spot | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
on with the team, if it is spot on with injuries. It will be that team. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
There you go, Billy spot on with the team. Dundee United, having | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
waited five months for a home win, thought they might get a couple for | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
some succession. They were against Hearts, best of the action with | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
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Rankin has turned and got the shot away. Two minutes gone, Johnny | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Russell puts Dundee United one ahead. He scored in the first | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
minute last week, takes a little longer to do. Good build up play. A | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
lovely touch with Johnny Russell, three Hearts players around him, he | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
still qees is squeezed the ball away. John Rankin's ball in. | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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Russell's great control, and Hearts ball, and Lucas came down very | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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awkwardly. That look like the end comes across to Ryan Stevenson, and | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
red cards him. The side-on view, Ryan Stevenson is having to be led | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
away by John Rankin. Stevenson left the ground and led with the studs, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
he got the benefit out there, but in the end he doesn't get the | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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scores after 62 minutes. Dundee United are two ahead. Beautiful | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
move. He went the near side of the goalkeeper. It is the type of goal | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
that gets better every time you see it. Same can't be said about the | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :14:08. | :15:31. | |
second goal of the season, having scored against Hibs, timed his run | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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to perfection, and United wrap up a Hearts fans reckon the outcome | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
might have been different had Ryan Stevenson not seen red for this, | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
after only 25 minutes of the match. I don't want to see people sent off | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
for this, but. Do you understand why he was? Yes, the foot is a bit | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
high, especially Ryan Stevenson, a good lad, I don't think he's a | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
dirty player. I have to say that's behind him on the blindside, and | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
he's unlucky, but the rules, we keep on saying this, by the letter | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
of the law, but very unlucky there to be sent off. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Will Hearts appeal it? I think they will, I don't know if they will be | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
successful. There you go. Of course some might suggest that willy | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Collumis trying to balance the books, for not red carding Ryan | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Stevenson in the Derby? unfortunate thing is he was the | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
referee in both the games. You are making a meal of that! Jo I didn't | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
want to go off with the Hearts fans, I got straight back up. That is an | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
unfortunate thing that it is Willy in both games. People will look and | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
say did he react to missing the one at Tynecastle earlier on in the sea | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
on, which I don't buy into that. I don't believe he's done that. I | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
think he's went with his gut feeling and his decision, he has | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
made the decision on the day. Whether or not that's right, that | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
was his decision, as it was in the first game. It must have been in | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
his head, I don't want to go through this again, I don't want to | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
miss it, maybe it is a quick to go through the same process of | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
TV evidence proving him wrong. He has been quick to react. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
different are Dundee United under Jackie McNamara? Peter Hughes son | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
did a fantastic job, but the tail end, I don't know the intensity of | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
the play. This goal sums up, Russell closing the ball down, the | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
pace and tempo. Both on and off the ball. They have certainly shown a | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
bit of confidence. They beat Rangers in the cup as well. That | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
hadn't won a home game for a while, and won two in the spin. I just | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
think the intensity, nit-picking the Hearts defend remembers ball- | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
watching, but it is a fantastic goal. Every time you see it, it's | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
nice to watch. Sometimes, I mean, whether it was Jackie McNamara or | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
anyone else, sometimes a team get a lift any way from a new manager, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
don't they? You do, you see a lot of teams with newer managers, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
getting the first couple of result, you see teams doing it when they | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
are struggling, bringing a manager struggling, you have seen a bit of | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
reaction since they came in. One of the big pluses from a hearts point | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
of view is what Ngoo gives them, 20 years old, on loan from Liverpool. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
And you can see massive potential here, can't you? For a big guy. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
There is one thing he has, natural height, athleticism, strength, | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
power, but it is all sort of goals, we will see a cop of goals he | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
scores, long-range efforts, a real find. Young as well. He's unlucky | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
not to get a hat trick in this game. Eventually he gets himself one. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Would you be able to put him in your hip pocket in a month's time | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
in the Derby? Looking any time I have seen him he looks a handful. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
He's big and strong. He's a couple of inches away from having three | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
goals yesterday. Look at this, he's just powering through them there. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
And again, there is a great finish. He looks a real threat. It will be | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
hard to deal with when we play against him. Good players you look | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
forward to playing against, and challenging yourself against them. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
It is the long range strikes, and power, sometimes you don't give | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
games away with quick people. He looks natural in the box as well. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
The goal against Dundee United, that goal we saw there, just a | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
natural finisher. Dundee United, 3- 1 winners. One debatable red card | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
in that game. Another couple of red cards in the next one, of the non- | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
debatable variety, I think you will agree, as we watch highlights of | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
kal American knock against Motherwell. | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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Hammell. Barber thought he would try his | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
luck and got lucky. The deflection off Stevie Hammell with Randall | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
going the wrong way. Always a bustling presence from | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Motherwell, nothing there. His kick is not 2350. Motherwell | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
still with chance here. Knows he should have done better, the | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Motherwell captain. Good cutback from Law, Lasley off | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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attack alive. Kilmarnock get it away. | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
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Real chance again for Motherwell. hat trick of clearances from the | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :22:02. | :22:44. | |
striker! At one point it looked like he had him. Lasley should have | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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2-0 Kilmarnock, it is William Gross, Shields shows his approval in the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
stands. The choreographed dance routine! He has had quite an impact | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
in a defensive role so far, will yap Yam Gross, put -- will yap scam | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
gross, great cross from Dayton. A frustrating afternoon for | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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in front of the referee. He's reaching for the red card. Fraser | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
five minutes. He has barely touched the ball. He didn't touch the ball | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
there either, that is why he's getting his marching orders, the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
frustration showing from the Motherwell defender, it was a | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
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terrible strike at Dayton, the challenge from the Motherwell | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
captain, and Dayton not at all happy, neither are the rest of the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Kilmarnock players, neither is the referee, Kenny McLean, a straight | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
red for Lasley, he can have no complaints, the Motherwell skipper, | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
it was a wild lung. That could have been very pain -- lung, that could | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
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have been very painful for Dayton. Off the bar! It should have been 3- | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
0. Kilmarnock on easy street now against the nine men of Motherwell. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
Effort. He have manager wants his strikers | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
to work back and do defending as well. You used to be a striker with | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Livingston as well. I don't think Gross could have done more at | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
either end of the pitch? To be honest his defending in the game is | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
more important than his goal. You look at him, this one especially, | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
the reaction he got that back out. He did excellent. To go and a great | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
header again for his goal. He has done his fair share at both ends of | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
the pitch for Kilmarnock yesterday. Great awareness? Yeah, it was. As | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
James said, for both ends of the pitch. Great header for the goal, | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
but doing his defensive stuff first The in the front area he gets on | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
the post, the other one he's on the post and comes off it to get the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
header on the line. Everything he did yesterday was brilliant. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
don't know if Motherwell had something against James Dayton, | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
both red cards were for a swipe at the Kilmarnock winner. It is Fraser | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Kerr? From that angle it looks bad, I don't know if that was intent to | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
go in and hurt Dayton there. I think he has just maybe mistimed it, | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
you can see by the rules it is a red card. He was on the pitch just? | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
There is no doubt, it looks terrible, but five minutes on the | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
pitch, just for me it is really clumsy. I always think he had his | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
eyes on the ball. I can understand why it was a red | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
card, I don't think it was intentional from the young lad. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Last Years of Edward Thomas one t looked like an overspill of | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
frustration on his part, maybe we can understand why. Earlier in the | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
game he had a couple of, the second one was a great chance to score. | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
it is, it is not going for you it is not going for you. There is a | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
chance when this one comes in, it pops it over, what you do then, is | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
you get frustrated, as you said, you fly into things like. That that | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
is cynical. He is a hardy lad. I'm wondering how he would analyse this | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
if he was sitting in a chair next to us. I think he will be | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
disappointed looking back on, that he has never come across to me as | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
that type of player, when he looks back on it he will be disappointed. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
That is something we will be bringing up with him when he's next | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
in this very studio. The hopes of the Aberdeen fans haven't been | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
delivered into result, their team was unlikely to find it easy | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :27:47. | :28:43. | |
yesterday against league Cup signed a four-and-a-half year deal | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
with Aberdeen. It has been a brilliant time for Aaron Lennon and | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
the rest of the St Mirren management team. That takes the | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :29:01. | :30:13. | |
Mark Reynolds is getting a second yellow, that is a controversial red | :30:13. | :30:22. | |
card for the Aberdeen defender. The Dons are down to ten. (crowd | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
boos) It came at him a fair pace, he will be harshly dealt with there | :30:26. | :30:36. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :30:36. | :31:27. | |
I don't think he knew where the The Aberdeen fans raging with that | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
decision. He said play on. Aberdeen feeling | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
hard done by, they didn't get the penalty for handball, with Mark | :31:38. | :31:48. | |
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Aberdeen keeper. He's better rating himself for trying to pass it back | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
along that horrendous playing surface. | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
That could have been another embarrassing moment for Jamie | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
embarrassing moment for Jamie Laingfield. It was a hotly- | :32:03. | :32:10. | |
contested red card, and same again here where Mark Reynolds saw a | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
second yol low, not in too many doubt about the first one. | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
first one he will put his hand up and say it is a booking, he as | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
unlucky. The ball goes up and he gets through, you see it there, I | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
don't think he will have any complaints about that. He only held | :32:24. | :32:31. | |
on to him for about five seconds there. I think that's why the pitch | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
is in the state is because there was a rugby international on it a | :32:34. | :32:41. | |
few weeks ago. How unlucky is that, it was a strike, he tries to get | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
his hand out of the way. To get sent off, are you joking? That's a | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
poor decision. Nobody wants to see that. I certainly don't. I don't | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
know about you. I think that was very harsh, I think he will be | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
disappointed, he as going to miss games for that, which I can't -- he | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
is going to miss games for that. I don't see if that is a foul. I | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
don't see where the ball hits him. He's doing the right thing, he goes | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
out to try to stop the block, his hapbtdz aren't out to the side are | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
-- hands aren't out to the side, they are not in an unnatural | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
position. It was unfortunate. games for handball in the box, and | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
firstly, a push by David Baron, not much in that? I wouldn't give the | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
penalty. Now Baron drops him, and there is a little reaction, late. I | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
don't thing that's a penalty. They would be unfortunate for that to be | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
given against them. I don't think anything is a penalty looking at | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
this. We will slow it down, I think that hits his back. It is good to | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
show these on a Sunday night. These are areas of the confusion from the | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
fans on the game, who think it is a penalty at the time. When they look | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
back at that one, which may not have struck McGuinness's arm at all. | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
And this one actually strikes Baron on the stomach or hip? It is a hard | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
one for the referee, they have to make the decision there and then, | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
it is easy for us we can slow it down and sit and watch it as many | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
times as we want. I think the other disappointing thing on that game is | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
when you see the Reynolds one, the other two didn't get given a | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
penalty. So if they are going to do that, there needs to be a bit of | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
consistency. I think that's maybe for me the disappointing thing in | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
that game. You mentioned the pitch, the ground staff don't like you | :34:29. | :34:36. | |
saying nasty Things about it. But I tell you what, Jamie Laingfield was | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
saying bad things about it. This was almost a megaembarrassment? | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
turns around and blames his defender for giving the pass back. | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
It is a nice weighted one. We were saying there was a rugby | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
international, in golf you don't want to see that, there is another | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
shot here as well. Quite funny. He got away with it. He had a couple | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
of great saves. I like that, he has had a few, I don't want to say they | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
were clangers, that is his nickname, a few mistake, it is nice to see | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
him make a couple of good saves. When will that pitch recover? | :35:15. | :35:18. | |
summer, in the last couple of seasons there was a few like that, | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Motherwell was, you have to get to the summer and address it, whether | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
you relay it. It will be spler a bit of growth and then the -- | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
summer and a bit of growth, and then the best of the pitch there. | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
This SPL weekend kicked off on Friday night, Dundee desperate for | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
some sort of platform against the team who came up with them from the | :35:39. | :35:49. | |
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goes, but the referee says no to the penalty appeal. Looked to be | :36:04. | :36:12. | |
caught by the keeper, Douglas. There is the Clydesdale Bank league | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
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Dundee captain, who booted this one waved away, this time at the other | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
end. Dundee convinced this came off the hand of the defender, Boyd, | :36:55. | :37:05. | |
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Well, save number one not clever, but save number two, crucial. What | :37:29. | :37:39. | |
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a chance for the German substitute It is the story of the season, | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
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chances not taken, and mistakes the opening goal. Barry Smith knows | :38:17. | :38:27. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds | :38:27. | :39:16. | |
tells you it was agonisingly close, crossbar. Goal given. Lawson's | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
first goal of the season in controversial circumstances. | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
Chambers is the assistant who has given this. It was a tough call. Of | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
that over the line? It certainly looks to be. We don't have the | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
definitive angle, but that looks to be over the line for 1.0. Lawson | :39:43. | :39:49. | |
hammers the ball down the pitch. Gary Glenn gets there. With | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
virtually the last kick of the game, County make it two, they are about | :39:55. | :40:02. | |
County make it two, they are about to join Aberdeen in sixth place. | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
It is a while since we looked at some penalty claims, another three | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
from Friday night. He was seemingly caught by Dougs | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
last, an escape by Dundee. The only way the referee has let him off is | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
the ball has gone out the park and running away from him. Still it | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
could have been given. That struck the hand of Boyd? Not for me. He's | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
close, he's up tight doing what he should be doing, it happens that | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
quick, to give a penalty would have been hard on Boyd. | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
There are so many factors to consider when you are looking at | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
these, that one was blatant? thought the exact same as games for | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
the first two. That one you couldn't see it. Not making excuses, | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
but the one thing you would have to say is his hands are where a | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
goalkeeper's hands would be. That is a penalty, you can understand | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
why the first two are not given, that one was the stone wall variety. | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
As you were saying you were there for Friday night. What did you | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
think when the Lawson shot came off the down side of the crossbar? | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
wasn't sure, it is a hard one, the officials have got it right. You | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
see in the picture there, he's not in the picture, the linesman. Mr | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
Chambers, he gave it. He didn't really know, they were looking at | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
one another, he ran back the assistant referee, he decides to | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
run back the other way. The Dundee players are questioning him, you | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
can see from there it is over the line. I'm telling you, they guessed | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
it, but got it right. The rise and rise of Ross County is remarkable, | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
isn't it. I have to declare a bias, obviously when you look back and | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
you think that less than 20 years ago they were in the Highland | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
league. Five seasons ago they were playing in the second deviegs | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
vision, and now they are a -- division, and now they are a point | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
away from the top six in the SPL? You can throw in Scottish Cup | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
Finalists in 2010, they are a cracking team to play against, they | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
have taken nine points off us this season. They are a good organised | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
team, you see Lawson's striking, and they have quality players in | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
the team. Viger, s is another good player, players that are really | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
doing well in this division and deserve to be in the division. I | :42:23. | :42:29. | |
think the job der rack Adams has done is a great job -- job Derek | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
Adams has done, you are thinking it is a team coming up for a division | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
alone. There is a right good chance there. Dundee are 15 points adrift | :42:41. | :42:49. | |
at the bottom, any hope for them at all? That is it gone, I could hear | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
the despondancy in Barry Smith's voice in the interviews off the | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
radio. He will keep going as a winner and player, that is Dundee | :42:57. | :43:04. | |
going out. There was a called Cup Final play. | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
Let's talk about tomorrow night, any feeling of disappointment | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
tomorrow at the moment, because you started so well, you were stop of | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
the league at one stage, results more recently haven't matched up to | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
what went before. I guess there is a big picture to look at? When you | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
are looking at the league table you can look at it in two ways, we are | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
still in the mix, we have a chance tomorrow to go joint second. The | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
desappointing side is we have had four or five chances to go second | :43:30. | :43:36. | |
outright, we have not won the games. When you take in the last couple of | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
seasons we are progressing, and doing well. This season we are | :43:40. | :43:46. | |
still in the cup. We had a tie away to Kilmarnock, it is a great chance | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
to get back. In the league we are up there, this is the top six for | :43:50. | :43:59. | |
the football club is our game aim - - our game this season. For me that | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
is underachieving. The game since Celtic has to be a highlight? | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
beat Celtic, or even Rangers, when they were in the SPL, it is the | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
first time I had ever beaten any of them. It was a great day, and a God | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
performance for us. We could have been two or three nil up in the | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
first half. Great goal, doim Doyle had had a few chances that he was | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
unlucky with. That day showed the change from last season, being able | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
to hold in that league in that game with a lot of pressure from Celtic | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
when last year we would have crumbled. Nobody mentions the lack | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
of Scottish cup success at Hib, you are on the way again, with a couple | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
of good wins. This one in the Derby. I didn't play that day, but being | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
there, seeing what it meant to the fan, to put Hearts out, and in this | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
one as well. It has been two tough ties, to be fair, we have had. | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
Another one coming up. We are hopeful that we can go to | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
Kilmarnock and get the result. We know how hard. I expect it was a | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
shock geeing Gary Diegan doing that? I have known him many years | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
and never seen him have a shot and score. Was it a penalty? No, I | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
think you have seen maybe five or six of those. It was Jews tins when | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
Ben Williams did this? It is always luck, Ben has been saving them | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
every time this season. In terms of tomorrow night's games, you are | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
going for a hat trick of wins against St Jones ston, two wins | :45:32. | :45:39. | |
against them already? Yes. We know how good a side they are, and they | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
can beat us. We are confident, we are always confident at home. But | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
it is a game where we need it start picking up points again. We haven't | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
been winning enough in the league recently. We need to get back to | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
winning ways, and we need to do that tomorrow. It is up to you to | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
finish best of the rest, outside Celtic, and it is up for other | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
teams as well? It is there for almost everyone this season. It is | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
great for everybody else. But we would love to be sitting six or | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
seven points better off, but we are not. We have got to get back to | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
winning games and make sure we are high up the league come the end of | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
the season. And when you look at the table, this just underlines how | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
tight it is. If you take Celtic and Dundee out of the equation, there | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
are just those eight points between second top and second bottom. | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
It is a tight league. Look at us, we are five points above St Mirren | :46:35. | :46:41. | |
in 11th place, we go there next week, depending on tomorrow night's | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
result it can be cut to two point. It shows you how tight it is, good | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
for Scottish football, not so good from the teams playing it. It is | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
good for efrp else watching. next burst of SPL action begins | :46:55. | :47:05. | |
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