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and that my friends was the story of the Premiership season so far. It's | :00:18. | :00:51. | |
only seven days old. Welcome once again to the results show. Unlike | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the Olympics you don't have to wait four years for a Super Saturday, we | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
have one every week. On the pundits podium today Gemma Fay, Craig | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
Paterson and Tom English. And making up team Sportscene, our reporters | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
around the country - including Rob Maclean who was watching today's | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
early game - Dundee versus Rangers at Dens Park. Rangers dominated at | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
dens Park for 45 minutes and should have had the game home and hosed at | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
half-time but it ended up with Mark Warburton's team running down the | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
clock and clinging onto all three points. It looked like they would | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
win by a distance when they went two goals ahead. Harry Forrester | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Hulkster shot into the top corner after Dundee failed to clear and | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Kenny Miller's second goal as the home team were overwhelmed. Miller | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
should have had a hat-trick guides denied by the keeper. The game | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
changed at the interval as Rangers' defensive deficiencies came back to | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
haunt them. Paul Hartley's team were a much more competitive team in the | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
second-half and Williams had a chance to square the game. Rangers | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
looked panicky in defence in a game where they should have been cruising | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
they looked uncomfortable. Dundee man is attacking pair Stuart and | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Hemmings lacked the quality to create enough opportunities. Rangers | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
were happy to hear the final whistle. 2-1 winners. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Rangers' first win of the Premiership season. Rob said Rangers | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
were happy to hear the final whistle. In the first half Rangers | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
looked comfortable and dominated. Miller had opportunities to extend | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
the lead. Dundee reorganised a bit. Particularly at set pieces. If I | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Mark Warburton unconcerned at the way Rangers are losing goals at set | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
pieces. I imagine you will be too as a former central defender, Craig. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
Looked quite straightforward for Dundee. He's one of the first people | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
you will mark and he gets a free header at the back post. It's a good | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
header but Rangers from being in command, Miller takes one of the two | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
chances. And gets it done. The Achilles' heel, that highball, meant | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
it was a real contest and Dundee came back into it. Danny Williams's | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
chance was the only one that came into it. Three points for Mark | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Warburton's side but he looks like a manager in need of a strike and a | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
centre-half to give him options. I'm saving the controversy for you, you | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
knew I would! Harry Forrester scored a goal but was lucky to stay on the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
field, was he not? I think he was. There was a real old ding-dong | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
between himself and O'Dea Dunne his opponent. The final one he lunged | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
into a tackle and should have walked but got away with it. Mark Warburton | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
more or less admitted post he said maybe he should have been red | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
carded. Maybe should have been sent off, manager speak, you've got to | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
look at that. Looking at the first yellow card he got, well, the yellow | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
card, I'm not convinced it was a yellow card. There was a real edge | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
to the battle between those guys. This debate will continue on the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
highlights show tomorrow night. There is no coincidence he was | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
substituted shortly afterwards although Mark Warburton said he | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
would come off anyway. When you are booked and go into a challenge wide | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
left and the referee gives you the benefit of the doubt that is fine | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
but then he does a professional one and he cannot go into another | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
challenge, and he flew into him and he was very lucky and the manager | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
must have decided whatever has gone on between the players Harry | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Forrester will get himself sent off. He played well in the first half and | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Rangers do not want to lose him, and management taking him off | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
straightaway. It's a good three points for Rangers in fairness to | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
them. They will sign a new centre-half, Warburton is on the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
record he will get one and he needs one. For Paul Hartley it is such a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
heartbreaker for him. Last season they conceded the most goals in the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
top nine but they can compensate for that because they have Hemmings and | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Stewart. Between them those two guys scored 57% of Dundee's goals in the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
league last season and now they have gone. How does the manager replace | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
those? We will hear from Paul Hartley later in the show but now we | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
can hear from reporters the length and breadth of the country. Our | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
first step starts around Pittodrie where Aberdeen are at home to Hearts | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
and good afternoon to Scott Davie. Good afternoon, it is 3-1 to Hearts | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
in terms of bookings in another bruising battle between the teams | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
that finished second and third last season but unfortunately there have | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
been very few clear-cut chances as yet in this game, which is why at | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the moment just a minute or two into the second half it is Aberdeen 0-0 | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Hearts. Over to Inverness where Caley | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Thistle at home to Ross County in the Highland derby. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Your timing is absolutely perfect. It is a hat-trick for Liam Boyce. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Ross County 3-1 ahead. The ball into the box, he climbed superbly, nodded | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
it into the corner. He had scored two first half goals, one early on, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
header into the corner similar to that one. His second goal was a | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
brilliant touch, took it down, created space, fired it past | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Williams in goal. Inverness got one back just before half-time but | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
bizarre circumstances. It appears the referee blew his whistle before | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
it hit the net. It was Andrew Davies that scored it. The ball was coming | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
back and hit Davies but controversy as County believe the whistle had | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
gone before the goal was scored. We are off to Fir Park and John | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Barnes has a story for us and a goal between Motherwell and St Johnstone. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Yes, we have, David, goal for Motherwell early in the second-half | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
scored by Chris cant for the home side. Richard Tait got to the byline | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
and tried to cut it back and it took a deflection and alluded Alan Mannus | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and it dropped to the back post and it was slotted away after a goalless | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
first 45 minutes. Motherwell lead 1-0. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Overton New Douglas Park were Hamilton are at home to Kilmarnock. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Over to Alistair Mann Lamont. Hamilton leading 1-0. The first goal | :07:26. | :07:39. | |
came when Longridge picked up and they love powerful shot was put past | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the keeper. Kilis trying to get back into it. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Dropping into the Championship we will start in Dumbarton. Over to | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Kenny Crawford. After 49 minutes 0-0. Possession not | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
a problem for Dundee United, but turning the dominance into | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
goal-scoring opportunities has puzzled the Tangerines. The longer | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
that goes by the more Dumbarton are creeping into this. Robert Thompson | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
and Ryan Stevenson had great chances a moment ago to get that goal. | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
Let's head to Easter Road, Hibs are at home to Dunfermline this | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
afternoon. Let's welcome Ryan McLaughlin. The only goal has come | :08:23. | :08:35. | |
from the head of the Dunfermline centre-half Ben Richards-Everton and | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
he steered it into the corner. Morton are at home to Falkirk this | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
afternoon. It's been a great week for Morton | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
after a terrific Dunne terrific League Cup victory. Things looking | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
terrific for them, Lee Kilday profited from a real clanger from | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
the stand-in goalkeeper Mehmet. Lots to talk about. We will start at | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
the highest scoring match of the afternoon, Inverness. Caley Thistle | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
3-1 down. He has a hat-trick. He makes a habit of that. He does. Ross | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
County haven't beaten Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the last | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
eight. They have come out and Ross County have been phenomenal, we were | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
watching it in the studio. Do you think this is the biggest match of | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the season for them? It is a huge thing and they are dominating it. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Liam Boyce came out of the traps last season so fast, 11 in his first | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
12 league matches. He is a priceless asset. A guy who can regularly find | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
the net, worth his weight in gold. He was the leading scorer for the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
last two seasons and it is having a devastating effect on Inverness. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Motherwell 1-0 up on St Johnstone. Pictures coming in. Deserving of the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
lead? Hard to tell, you are only seeing bits and pieces but important | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
to get the goal and give themselves something to defend. It looked like | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
Motherwell against Celtic, being opened up again and again. Getting | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the goal gives themselves something to defend. Saint Johnstone are | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
dependable. If Motherwell could get another three points on the board | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
this early it would be a great start. Great Dove for Sam Johnstone, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
your team, Gemma. How does it look from your point of view -- great | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
start for St Johnstone. It would be great to watch for a neutral. It has | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
been even in the first half here. They're living in our favour, three | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
of the last four games against Motherwell we have won 2-1 after | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
being 1-0 down. They are setting us up for a 2-1 victory. The goals from | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Pittodrie. Aberdeen - Hearts. We had a half | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
chance two minutes ago for Tony Watt as he burst clear, got away from Ash | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Taylor but wonderful recovery challenge by Anthony O'Connor. It is | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
now 4-24 Hearts in terms of bookings. Hearts have their fourth | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
booking just as I speak because of a sliding challenge giving Aberdeen a | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
free kick about 20 yards from goal. Arnaud Sutchuin Djoum increased the | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
crime count. Hearts were pressed back for long spells in the first | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
45. The young central defender has compensated for the dropping of his | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
team-mate in the cup defeat in midweek. Sam Nicholson's free kick | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
in the first half was headed just wide by John Souttar. Aberdeen and | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
much more in the early stages of the season matching up physically with | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Hearts. They were bullied at times last season and found it difficult | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
to cope. They very nearly coped well because the good work at one end, | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
sliding in and very nearly getting in with a sliding kick at the back | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
post. O'Connor, having made contact, had he made better contact he might | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
have broken the deadlock but it is still 0-0. | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
The deadlock has well and truly been broken at Dumbarton. Over to Kenny | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Crawford. 54 minutes gone and it's not gone | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the way many would expect. Dumbarton 1-0 Dundee United and the goal came | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
from the penalty spot. Mark Doherty, with his third penalty of the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
season, he scored two against Dunfermline last weekend and he has | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
another one. The way the penalty came about was strange. Lots of | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
jostling in the box -- Mark Docherty. The referee spotted a push | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
somewhere. Cammy Bell, the goalkeeper, got booked in protest. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
It wasn't clear what the penalty was full but Tambe stepped up and put it | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
in the top corner. We have a goal at Easter Road. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
It has gone the way of the Fife club against the run of play. An | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
equaliser has come, lovely 1-2 with Joe Cardle. Played the ball inside, | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
cool finish from Riley, put it onto his right foot and drilled it under | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
the body of the keeper. It is now 1-1. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Thank you, Brian. Back to the Premiership and back to Inverness | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Caledonian Thistle against Ross County. Let's hear from Ross Martin. | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
Liam Boyce back to his best with a hat-trick in what has been a very | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
impressive county performance. Craig Curran's cross from the left lead to | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
the open. Liam Boyce was all alone six yards out and nodded it simply | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
into the corner. Question marks over the defending and perhaps over the | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
second. Kevin McNaughton had just hobbled off injured, clearly unable | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
to continue. They didn't get approach, replacement on before a | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
ball was sent into the box and Liam Boyce took a fantastic first touch, | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
given the space to fire and unstoppable low drive home. That was | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
his second. Woods fired over. Fon Williams carried the ball out of the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
box and he was booked but play was allowed to go on and county had the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
advantage. They couldn't take it. Before half-time a bizarre goal for | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
the home side to get back into it, Andrew Davies credited with the home | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
-- own goal. The referee Andrew Davies appeared to chop it off, | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
county players were furious, the referee didn't blow his whistle | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
before the ball hits the net, that is why county were furious. The only | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
reason he might have chopped it off was Scott Boden offside. County in | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
control here. We have another goal and it is at | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Fir Park. Is it for Motherwell or St Johnstone? | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
It is for St Johnstone, they are back on level terms in the 56th | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
minute, and who else but Danny Swanson, the man on a form for the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Perth club, claiming his sixth goal of the season just after Chris Cas | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
De Liberte Motherwell in front at the start of the second half. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Swanson has levelled it up. He picked up the ball on the edge of | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
the 18-yard box, drove inside and got beyond the full-back and turned | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
on his left foot, from the angle of the edge of the six yard box and | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
knocked it through the legs of Craig Samson to pull them level. Samson | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
made a good save from a Chris Millar shot. Maclean had a shot that went | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
wide. Motherwell, although they came at a lively at the second period, | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
Christopher Cadden was switched. He was at the back post to knock on the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
cross from Richard Tait. Motherwell got the opener. Danny Swanson, six | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
goals from six starts and a substitute appearance, not bad. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Yes, you were punching the air with delight there. He's changed his | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
training regime and diet and it seems to be bearing fruit. A whole | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
bowl of fruit. Keep it going. Fantastic finish, to get inside on | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
his left foot and curled it in. It is the kick-start St Johnstone | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
needed. Some of the passes played, Miller shooting over with his left | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
foot as well. It's an interesting game we have now. Third versus | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
fourth from last year. -- Millar. Looks like they are on track for | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
that again this year. Let's hear from New Douglas Park. Watching | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
pictures here Hamilton looked to be on top. | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
No more goals to report since I last spoke to you but Hamilton Academical | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
is coming close and moment of two ago. The ball was crossed in and Ali | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Crawford got the volley away in loads of room but MacDonald pushed | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
it away. May be just too close to the goalkeeper but Hamilton pushing | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
for a second. There has been nothing from Kilmarnock in the second half. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
In fact they should have been ahead in just seven minutes when the man | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
you would normally rely on to score from close range Chris Boyd scooped | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
the ball over the bar. Since then Hamilton Accies have had the | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
backhand. They went ahead when Greg Docherty played the ball in. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Hamilton Accies pressing for the second goal which would just about | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
kill the game off and give Kilmarnock their first defeat since | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
2010. Time to hear from Andy Burke, if you recall he's watching the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Championship match between Morton and Falkirk. Any change in the | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
scoreline? No change, Morton leading 1-0. I | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
should mention this match almost didn't go ahead for the rather | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
unusual reason of a dodgy PA system. The Town I was drugging and safety | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
rules dictate and match cannot go ahead without a functioning tannoy | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
system. Fortunately the issue was resolved, although Falkirk's | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
stand-in keeper Tim Ferry may wish it hadn't been because his mistake | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
presented Morton with the only goal so far. Falkirk have been | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
disappointing at need to find something in the second half to | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
avoid back-to-back defeats in the opening game of the season. Just a | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
reminder, I will fill you in on other matches. Raith Rovers 3-0 up | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
against St Mirren, good start to the match. Queen of the South 3-1 up on | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
Ayr United. We spoke earlier about how not so long ago it would have | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
been a Premiership match. Dunfermline were great, winner on | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
the opening day of the season. They came up, they were impressive in the | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
lower divisions, and can you cope with this kind of game, this was a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
big test at Easter Road, testing their metal. Hibs started well with | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
a victory against Falkirk. Knocked out of the cup in midweek and I | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
expected Hibs to be firing on all cylinders this afternoon. -- mettle. | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
I didn't see a way back after they went down. If Dunfermline believe | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
they can score the second goal they could come back. If they settle back | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
into their shell and defend there is a good chance they will be beaten. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
No shortage of belief for Raith Rovers under Gary Locke. A good win | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
at home to Ayr United last week and this week 3-0 up against St Mirren. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Terrific start for Raith Rovers and Gary Locke. Disastrous start for St | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Mirren. He was very confident that he had assembled a decent squad this | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
season, plenty of options up front. But it has gone pear shaped already. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
That is a sobering score so far. This is only the second game, come | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
on! I know it's only the second game, fine, but with their ambition | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
to get in the top four. If you get off to a slow start, looking at the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
trends over the years, teams who start slowly, it takes a while for | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
them to get out of the rut they are in and by that point the manager is | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
under pressure, the players are negative and it happens time and | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
again and they will want to get out of the rut quickly. Is it too early | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
to talk about Kilmarnock, the way they are down, looks like Hamilton | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
are in the ascendancy, not looking great for them. It's not and Lee | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Clark came in at the end of last season and the Kilmarnock board were | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
willing to give him time and he has had pre-season bringing in 12 | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
players in the close season. He brought in somebody today and he's | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
playing. George Green, ?2 million rated youngster from Burnley. They | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
are all under the age of 22. They have lost Josh Magennis, | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Higginbotham has gone, Kielty is not playing, buoyed started today but | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
doesn't usually start. It is all very well bringing in young talent | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
but you need to have the spine of a team that has experience to help | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
young players coming on -- Boite. Time will tell but how much time | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
will they give him to get out of it? Usually New Douglas Park is a happy | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
hunting ground for Kilmarnock, not beaten in six times the last six | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
times they have been there and Hamilton have won once in 15 games | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
at home but the season he will be pretty happy with what has happened. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Absolutely comedy performance last week and another good performance. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
If he can hold onto that when it is terrific. -- great performance. They | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
are throwing players at the problem. I get that because the last three | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
seasons they finished ninth, tenth and 11th and he had to do something | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
radical. Maybe this is too radical. I promised we would hear from Paul | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Hartley, the Dundee manager, after their 2-1 defeat at home to Rangers | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
this afternoon and I'm as good as my word. We can hear from him now. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
After the match he spoke to Jonathan Sutherland. | :22:05. | :22:04. | |
Paul, had your chances in the second half, do you feel you could have | :22:05. | :22:25. | |
taken something from the game? Possibly, second half we were good | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
in terms of intensity, the quality was a bit better. First half wasn't | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
as good in terms of keeping the ball but overall I was pleased, lots of | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
encouraging signs. Mark O'Hara came from Kilmarnock and we thought he | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
was a defender and seems he is a midfielder, Man of the Match today. | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
Outstanding, 21 years of age, great prospect, he is not a defender, he | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
is an attacking midfielder. Looking at what he did today, energy, great | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
quality, gets his goal. I've set mark the target of ten goals this | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
year from the middle of the park and if he keeps performing like that I'm | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
sure he will hit the target. Hemmings and Stewart were always | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
going to be hard to replace and obviously the scoreline went against | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
you today, but reasons to be cheerful? Especially the second | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
half, I was pleased in terms of some of our play. I think we can keep the | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
ball better. It's always going to be a tough game against Rangers. I felt | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
that we matched them today. Thank you for joining us. STUDIO: | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
He's not too downhearted after that, is he? | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
The big story for Dundee, the loss of Stuart this week after Hemmings, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Jonathan Burke the question to him. You've got to try and replace guys | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
and when you bring them in from places like Cowdenbeath etc that is | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
maybe once-in-a-lifetime, two players that quality from the lower | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
leagues, who scored goals, Paul Hartley cannot do that season after | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
season. It is a tough job, 30 of the 53 goals they were responsible for, | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
how do you replace that? Big teams do that by spending money on quality | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
strikers who you know will score goals but Paul doesn't have that | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
budget. He has to hope someday like Mark O'Hara moving into midfield | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
will chip in with some goals. El-Bakhtaoui looked like he could | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
add something to them. They only lost five home games last season and | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
only the top three were better. Good result for Rangers. I went on the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
opening day of the season, decent second-half performance gives them | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
something to build on. If I remember correctly, last season | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
it was drawers that were their undoing. To go back to Hemmings and | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Stewart, but if you look at Hemmings, the amount of goals he got | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
first of all, but the amount of games that he rescued a point from, | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
games that he would have lost when he scored an equaliser, the game | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
they were drawing when he scored the winner, it was about 16 or 17 league | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
points on his own. I'm going to have to cut you off because there has | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
been another goal in the Highlands. Is it for Inverness or Ross County? | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
But again we have here, the ball was nodded just on the edge of the box, | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Ross Draper with a left footed low drive, confidently over the Borg | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
again on, just when we thought it might peter out it is back on. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
STUDIO: More from the Highlands later on but now it is week one of | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
the English Premier League season, it kicked off at lunchtime with | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
newly promoted Hull City at home to the reigning champions Leicester | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
City. How did the sequel to the Foxes' fairy tale start, we can find | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
out from Guy Mowbray. The Premier League delivers with a | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
remarkable first-day story as newly promoted Hull with only enough fit | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
players to fill a team to beat the champions Leicester City. A largely | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
uneventful first half closed with Hull taking the lead, Abel Hernandez | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
and the and a went up together to acrobatically score after Kasper | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Schmeichel had full stretch saved from Curtis Davies. On replay the | :25:32. | :25:45. | |
goal went to Adama Diomande. Hull came at Leicester again after the | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
penalty. After Robert Snodgrass had clinically fired them in front for | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
2-1, some heroic defending from captain Curtis Davies, Jake | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Livermore and Coe saw the Tigers hold on. Hull City 2-1 Leicester | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
City. 1500-14 Hull to check the league -- | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
win the league! That was not how most people imagine | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
this game to go, Hull City with a caretaker manager and understrength | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
squad and three points on the opening day. The tables have turned, | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
Leicester are no longer the underdogs and it's an interesting | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
position. I don't think they have ever been in that position before. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
When you are a team when pre-season hasn't gone your way and everybody | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
is knocking you down but you have a togetherness within the squad, which | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
it seems Hull does, they will give everything and they have caught | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
Leicester by surprise. It will be a tough season for Leicester to win | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
the league title and to defend it is even harder. Ranieri said there is | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
more chance of ET landing in Piccadilly Circus than of them are | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
repeating the remarkable feat of last season. I think ET put a five | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
on them to win it. You cannot think it is more than once-in-a-lifetime. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
It was a wonderful story and gives everybody a lift but Leicester City | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
could finish anywhere from just above relegation from a mid-table, | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
we don't really know. I don't see them having the same Kadyrov season. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
They want to get off to a good start, they have got off to a poor | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
start but nice to see Robert Snodgrass getting off the mark. | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
Roberson and Snodgrass and John Maloney on the bench. Snodgrass is a | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
terrific player and we kind of forget about it because he had such | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
a horrific injury. He is a serious player. It augurs well for Gordon | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Strachan at Scotland. He could almost fit into any Premiership | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
midfield now. Snodgrass is a terrific player. Onto one of the big | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
controversies of week one of the new season, did he or didn't he, dive | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
that is? Jimmy Walker of Hearts has been grounded by the SFA for games | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
for going to ground to win a penalty against Celtic. Voila, we have the | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
first controversy of the new season. Let's remind ourselves of this, | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
folks. I've still not made up my mind on that. Kidding! What do you | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
make of that, Tom? You've had your say on the radio this week. You were | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
vociferous in your condemnation. It is pretty straightforward to me that | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
it's a dive, there is no contact, it is a dive. That said, I can | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
understand why Hearts fans are up in arms because there were other dives | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
in that match, that wasn't the only one. Dembele dived as well. They are | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
looking at consistency. We will return to this topic but right now | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
we're returning to New Douglas Park where there has been a goal, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
Hamilton or Kilmarnock? Kilmarnock have pulled level at New | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
Douglas Park, Jodi Jones causing the problems as he did in the opening | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
minutes. He looked dangerous on the first few minutes but Kris Boyd | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
could not convert. Heat-treated the only opportunity. -- he created. He | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
powered the ball past Remi Matthews in the Hamilton Academical goal from | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
Jones's delivery. 1-1 at New Douglas Park. I'm not going back to you | :29:08. | :29:09. | |
because every time you speak there is a goal and I have to interrupt | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
you. What have you made of the | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
controversy surrounding this incident? Was he simply taking | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
evasive action? He was doing every forward does in the box on the Mac | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
he feels the defender coming, going to sweep it clear, tell end it, and | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
as soon as the contact comes you go down. It is not contact, it is a | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
contact sport, contact enough to brush you over, you can brush | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
against anyone and down the Youghal and the question is asked of the | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
referee. I feel for Walker. So many people would do exactly the same | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
thing in that position but now they have set a precedent. We will see if | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
it works, see if one or two players think if I get caught it is a two | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
match ban. If it stops it it is a great idea but I feel for Jamie | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
Walker being the first player under the cosh. As a player, the cheat | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
word has been brandished around this week. Is that too strong? | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
I would suggest it is slightly too shone. One of the contact on the | :30:13. | :30:20. | |
player? No. Did he follow the? Yes. Were they seeking an advantage? If | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
the referee booked him for a dive he does not miss a match. If he does | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
not get booked to get a panel today and he gets it to match ban. It is | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
an interesting discussion. I referee is going to continually pick up on | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
this or not? -- Adi referees going to. Are you taking issue? I hear | :30:46. | :30:58. | |
regularly from professional players... Let us go to New Douglas | :30:59. | :31:09. | |
Park. Carl Myrick have turned this game around. Hamilton looked like | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
they were cruising. Chris Boyd put them level. The ball was picked up | :31:16. | :31:25. | |
on the left-hand side of the box and then it was Carol beyond the | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
outstretched arm of the goalkeeper. -- it was Carol., neck and leading | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
2-1. No time for an infomercial. Here is a new season coming up soon | :31:38. | :31:46. | |
on BBC Scotland. A game woven into our communities. Then with social | :31:47. | :31:54. | |
and political change, Scottish transformed. I was in the room. It | :31:55. | :32:02. | |
was incredibly exciting. Was it for the good of Scotland's game? We | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
realise that the world had changed and the escalation of wages. | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
Scotland's game. Starts on posted 25th of August. I cannot wait to | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
hear more from Martin. He is watching the Highland thriller, | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
Inverness against Ross County. It is an interesting game, absolutely | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
brilliant. Inverness fighting back. There was a hat-trick that grabs the | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
headlines. He nods home current's cross. Superbly fired the corner. | :32:40. | :32:49. | |
Got one blackberry was Andrew Davies to put the ball in. The referee had | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
already blown before the ball went over the line, but we will have to | :32:55. | :33:02. | |
clear that up after the game. Ross J prior firing Inverness back with a | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
low drive on. A substitute for Inverness came close and found the | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
top of the netting, but it was over the bar. There is so much happening | :33:12. | :33:21. | |
here. There is another goal at Fer Park, Motherwell against Johnson. It | :33:22. | :33:29. | |
isn't Johnson that have gone 2-1 in front. It comes in the 75th minute. | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
It was a shock from the edge of the box. The player was quick to knock | :33:35. | :33:43. | |
it into the back of the net. It got past the Motherwell goalkeeper. | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
Motherwell one, St Johnstone two. The goals are flying in now. Still | :33:51. | :34:01. | |
0-0 at Aberdeen - hearts. Hearts dominated -- Aberdeen dominated in | :34:02. | :34:11. | |
the first part of this game. Plenty of pressure on Aberdeen that they | :34:12. | :34:14. | |
have nothing to show for it. There is 15 minutes to go. The biggest | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
chance came a few minutes ago. A lovely ball into the six yard box. | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
But it went about six yards wide of the target. It was hooked right | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
after that. They broke into the Aberdeen penalty area. At the moment | :34:35. | :34:44. | |
it is you - zero. There is another goal at Easter Road between Hibs and | :34:45. | :34:55. | |
Dunfermline. Jason Cummings on target. Martin Boyle played the ball | :34:56. | :35:01. | |
into the box. They had all the time to clear but they missed it | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
completely. There was Jason Cummings just behind him to knock it into the | :35:05. | :35:13. | |
empty net. 11 minutes left. The Burnley into, Dunfermline one. And | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
only have Hamilton against Colmar neck. Any developments? No, no. They | :35:20. | :35:30. | |
have drilled for much of the game. An important header there. It was | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
Jordan Jones to cause so many problems. He has just won his side a | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
free kick. The skin turned on its head in for second-half minutes | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
after Hamilton had been ahead, a powerful strike. Chris Boyd brought | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
them level. Then the ball was curled to put his side in front. Lee Clark | :36:01. | :36:11. | |
is in the stand as a result of being sent off last week. Come on again | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
have to claim seems to have worked. We can head to Dumbarton now, Dundee | :36:18. | :36:32. | |
United 's against Barton. Dundee United had so much possession that | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
they failed to turn it into opportunities. After the break they | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
paid for that because Dumbarton came out firing on all cylinders. There | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
was a free kick of the crossbar and then a corner. The Canon was pushed | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
in the box and the referee pointed to the spot. Mark Doherty stepped up | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
to score with his left foot high into the top left corner on his | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
third penalty in two games. A good straight record for him this season. | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
The two strikers for Dundee United have come on as substitutes and they | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
have had good chances. Simon Murray went wide of the posts. Dumbarton | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
are holding out. Heads and St Mirren both came to the Barton twice last | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
season and fail to leave with any points, so this is perhaps not as | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
much of a shock as people think. -- heads. Now we can go to Greenock. | :37:28. | :37:35. | |
Falkirk are playing Greenock. They are still ahead 1-0. Falkirk are | :37:36. | :37:44. | |
without their first choice keeper and their replacement did not cover | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
himself in glory when it came for what looked like a routine corner | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
catch and fumbled the ball straight to a player's V2 slashed at home. | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
This same man doubled the lead a few minutes ago meeting a corner with a | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
powerful header that went just wide. The visitors will be relieved to see | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
the back of the striker. It has in stretching the Falkirk defence all | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
day long. The closest Falkirk into getting back into the match was just | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
before half-time. A substitute has sparked some life into Falkirk, but | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
they are still trailing. What were you saying about Cal Marnoch I said | :38:28. | :38:35. | |
it was a masterstroke to bring in new players. It was a terrific goal, | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
tremendous. If they can win that that is such a boost because it will | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
breathe a bit of morale and confidence which has been absent, | :38:46. | :38:55. | |
for such a long time. Wing-mac I'm interesting -- I am interested in | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
the narrowing in shortening of the pitch to create a more intense | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
approach. Is that been evident today? It seems to be now. If you're | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
going to push the opposition, the wider the pitches the more running | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
you have to do. If you narrow it, you do not play with when I was and | :39:14. | :39:25. | |
that their workers have to take in. , are's away form is not their | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
problem. They cannot get the job done in front of their fans. Last | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
season in four games, and it won twice at Hamilton and Hamilton won | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
twice at, neck. Both have the worst home-wrecker and league although | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
they should be the best. Neither side deemed to be able to get | :39:53. | :40:01. | |
results. Your team are 2-0 up. I am sure you are delighted at that. As a | :40:02. | :40:09. | |
goalkeeper, it was not the best. He made an error. He did not get -- he | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
did not get out quick enough to fix it. Tonight's lottery numbers... Now | :40:15. | :40:26. | |
we can hear about an incident at Fer Park. The ball has been in the neck? | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
Motherwell thought they had equalised for the fans did, but | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
there was a free kick from the right-hand side with the left boot | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
of Martin Johnson. There was McDonald advancing our heads will | :40:42. | :40:49. | |
stop it was volleyball style how he put the ball at the back of the net. | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
For his troubles, Scott McDonnell has received a yellow card. Some | :40:56. | :41:05. | |
volleyball, is that not cheating? That is a deliberate attempt to calm | :41:06. | :41:16. | |
the referee. Professional footballers are role models. I | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
would've thought that the manager would not be too upset you doing | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
that. It is part of the game. We would love to see a drawn out | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
completely. The referees are going to have to stand up and be counted | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
and that is the worry, can we all do that? Statistics will tell you | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
everything about the match but I'm looking at the card for Hearts and | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
it looks like a stinker. If Aberdeen session 0-0, the last seasons of | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
last season and this season it will not have scored any goals. It is | :42:00. | :42:09. | |
surprising. Four games in a road they have not scored in the goal. | :42:10. | :42:18. | |
That does not make sense. He will be too disappointed with the point. | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
This season the fixtures have been difficult. Aberdeen and Rangers at | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
home. To get something from those fixtures. Time to call on John | :42:31. | :42:38. | |
Barnes... Now we're going to Martin in the Highlands. Years watching | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
Inverness against Ross County. Is a stealthy- Tutu County. Inverness are | :42:43. | :42:53. | |
really pressing here. There is ball N. We're going -- weird action | :42:54. | :43:04. | |
there. Ross Chip are getting one back for Inverness. Five or so | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
minutes to go and it is a very exciting derby indeed. Have you any | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
excitement virus? Lots of yellow cards? Five yellow cards for Hearts | :43:17. | :43:25. | |
and two for Aberdeen. Shane Logan working at the edge of the penalty | :43:26. | :43:35. | |
area. There was a wonderful sliding tackle. It was steered beyond corner | :43:36. | :43:43. | |
kick. Plenty of pressure for Aberdeen. They have a habit of | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
scoring late goals, seven of the goals came late in the competition. | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
They are piling the pressure ran against Hearts who have been | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
threatening at times. It has been fiercely contested so far and there | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
is just a few minutes to go. Is there any sign of on-call at Fir | :44:06. | :44:13. | |
Park Stadium? There are about five minutes left to play. Five of the | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
last seven meetings between the sides has been won by an odd goal. | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
Motherwell are going up the park. Johnson trying to find the back post | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
but he could not do so. Motherwell pressing for the equaliser but St | :44:30. | :44:38. | |
Johnstone standing firm. , against Hamilton. They just missed an | :44:39. | :44:47. | |
absolute glorious chance to level is a corner was sworn in for | :44:48. | :44:57. | |
Kilmarnock. The chance for Hamilton was a few moments ago. The ball was | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
kicked over the heads of the defenders. It was a half decent | :45:03. | :45:12. | |
effort but the credit has to go to McDonnell. A good chance passed up | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
by Hamilton to earn themselves a point. Now Dumbarton versus Dundee | :45:19. | :45:32. | |
United. Mark Doherty got a penalty in the 54th minute. They are holding | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
out resolutely. Dumbarton, a really good display by then. That was | :45:40. | :45:49. | |
another good save. One of the players... Some of his passes and | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
clearances have been quite wild and he's been getting criticism from the | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
fans. Dumbarton are holding out at the moment. Then her Burnley against | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
some farmland. Bernie and look like they are hanging on. Dom farmland | :46:07. | :46:09. | |
one. There was an equaliser for | :46:10. | :46:19. | |
Dunfermline just before the Aramark. Then a crazy old from Jason Cummings | :46:20. | :46:31. | |
with 11 minutes to go. Jason Cummings was alone at the back post. | :46:32. | :46:43. | |
The crowds, 16400 and 77. In a remarkable attendance here. Now | :46:44. | :46:52. | |
Greenock and Morton against Falkirk. All that solitary goal be an offer | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Morton to get three points? That is not the case because Falkirk has | :46:58. | :47:08. | |
snatched a equaliser. The ball was tangible from close range. There | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
will be kicking themselves that they have to win this away because in the | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
last 10-50 minutes they have looked comfortable and dominated | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
possession. Falkirk are lacking a cutting edge up front. I am cutting | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
your graphs. I was just being sarcastic. Her Burnley and have a | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
valuable win here, by the looks of things. -- her Burnley in. | :47:39. | :47:48. | |
When hearts won the championship and Rangers won the championship they | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
started strong and never looked back. No one could get near them. | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
Heads need to do that this season and that means winning games like | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
today. They have to see that through to 90 minutes. Add your last week. | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
That was a match we could have expected them to win. You can look | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
at the stats and not be that surprised. I thought Dundee United | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
would win back comfortably. It is early days and they will have a good | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
season, that is a bit of a shock. Watching St Johnstone away to | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
Motherwell this afternoon. Isn't Johnson under the cosh a bit? There | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
was a fantastic chance for a volley there. It looks like the games last | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
year, entertaining but not much in it. I'm hoping this Johnson managed | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
hold out. A good win and Johnson midweek against Aberdeen. It was a | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
good win over Hearts midweek. They will not be too disappointed with | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
the start of the season, they are doing well. Did tend to start well | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
but then we have a mini highlighters are couple of months on and we | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
cannot find a goal. Hopefully we can continue with that momentum and get | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
to the point where they usually stick and push on. We have our first | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
full-time from Brian McLauchlin. This is from the championship. It is | :49:30. | :49:41. | |
finished. Two were inserted to four HIBs. The opener came from a header. | :49:42. | :49:51. | |
The ball was cleared off the line. The Dunfermline defence could not | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
cleared the danger. It was not back into the box. Dunfermline came back | :49:55. | :50:03. | |
into the game in the second half. There was an excellent finish. Just | :50:04. | :50:13. | |
eight yards out sliding the ball beyond Ross Laidlaw. The winner came | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
with 11 minutes left. The ball was played into the box by substitute. | :50:20. | :50:26. | |
He had a fresh art at the ball, missing it completely. You cannot | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
leave Jason Cummings alone at the back post any tap the ball into the | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
net for his third goal and he secures all three points. Easter | :50:37. | :50:39. | |
Road watch by No one but a late equaliser from | :50:40. | :50:57. | |
Falkirk. It is all over. Falkirk finished 27 points ahead of Morton | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
last season but they were second best for long spells here. The | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
opening goal came through an error from Falkirk's keeper. He may wish | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
he had not replaced the injured Danny Rogers when he fumbled a | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
corner. The ball was then smashed on to give Morton delete. Morton were | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
then in the ascendancy in the second half and looked assured of the | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
point. He scored from close range to snatch a point for the visitors and | :51:27. | :51:35. | |
Falkirk came away with a point. A valuable point for Falkirk there. | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
They lost last week. How many times did we say about last season? | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
Falkirk comeback to win and draw games very late. It is a huge blow | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
for them but I think they will be very competitive at the end of the | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
season. They have a very impressive manager. Morton did well last season | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
and it looks like this season they are well-placed to it again. They | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
were the only team to win it Easter Road last season. Now they feel they | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
can take on anyone. When you start the season well and get your self | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
into a battle can take you through whole campaign. We are now going to | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
New Douglas Park. It is not quite finished. We can talk about the | :52:27. | :52:37. | |
championship. Some fantastic stuff. It is a perfect start for them, a | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
great start. They will want to get themselves out of this quickly. A | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
convincing performance. Convincing pictures coming in from Hamilton. I | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
think my neck were under pressure and they save their bacon. The last | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
campaign they wanted to go off to a great start with a lot of new | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
players under manager needed them gel quickly. A lot of questions are | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
being asked. They go behind to come back and get that victory. I spoke | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
to Martin Smith and Aston about me Clark and he said he was brilliant | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
to work with. You would expect him to say that. I'm sure he will be | :53:26. | :53:33. | |
feeling brilliant tonight. Hamilton was unlucky with the free kick. That | :53:34. | :53:43. | |
lifts the grey clouds above, Nick. Most people I have spoken too soon | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
to be tipping, Nick to go down. Do you change your analysis? It is too | :53:48. | :53:54. | |
early so I will keep my counsel with that. It is a big victory. They need | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
to follow that up. If they go back to the old way of doing things and | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
do not win a game that is no use. This new team are gaining a huge | :54:07. | :54:16. | |
amount of confidence from this. There has been a goalless draw | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
between Aberdeen and Hearts. This is not surprised in considering how | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
hard-fought these teams tend to be, those who finish second or third in | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
the division last season. Hearts is only 12 of the last 11 domestic | :54:33. | :54:35. | |
games and both of those came against Aberdeen. They could not make it | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
three today, although they were exemplary sustaining pressure. They | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
missed their best chance with a free kick from Nicholson on the left. | :54:48. | :54:55. | |
Tony awards, we cannot put any more pressure on the Aberdeen defence. | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
Anthony O'Connor got back with quality defending. They battled and | :55:02. | :55:12. | |
scrap for everything. Aberdeen have started the season with two all the | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
straws, two points in the bag. They're starting with HJ brings in | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
the season. The first win of the Premier ship season force and | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
Johnson. They won to Motherwell. We can get the full report. It keeps up | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
their seven games unbeaten in this campaign. They came from behind to | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
do so. Chris Cadden opened the scoring for Motherwell three minutes | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
into the second half. Across from the right hand side was deflected at | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
the post and you could not miss from two yards. Danny Swanson usually on | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
form at the moment and he even things up. A lovely piece of skill. | :56:00. | :56:11. | |
And then in 75 minutes a mistake by the Motherwell goalkeeper allowed | :56:12. | :56:14. | |
Steven MacLean to score the winner for the visitors. It was a shot from | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
the edge of the area but he spilled it right in front of McClain from | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
six yards out and then slotted into the back of the net. His fourth goal | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
of the season but it is a victory for some Johnson. | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
A victory for Ross County in the Highland derby. Rose county versus | :56:35. | :56:48. | |
Inverness. County had their first points of the season. The second was | :56:49. | :56:56. | |
a brilliant first touch. That was with Inverness down to ten men. | :56:57. | :57:05. | |
Andrew Davies netted the home goal. The referee had blown his whistle | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
before the goal was scored, before awarding that goal. The JAMA was far | :57:10. | :57:22. | |
from over. A low drive. They pushed on. It should have been ended from | :57:23. | :57:31. | |
close range. A powerful drive straight on. A brilliant Diaby with | :57:32. | :57:43. | |
Derby the victors. After Dumbarton and Dundee United. How did it | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
finish? Dumbarton got one point, Dundee got none. It looks very | :57:52. | :58:05. | |
impressive. As the game wore on and the team started to get more | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
possession. At the beginning of the second half look like they were | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
going to steal something. There was a shot from a corner, that Ryan | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
Stevenson floated on. The referee pointed to the spot. The goalkeeper | :58:21. | :58:27. | |
was booked. Mark Doherty stepped up with his left foot and converted it | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
into the top left corner. The third penalty he has scored in three games | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
to give his penalty the lead. Dundee United were just three in defence. A | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
young left-back had a good chance that this is Rabbi Dumbarton | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
gent-mac goalkeeper. They were resolute and scary and got a great | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
victory. A great start for Dumbarton getting this one. That United are | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
still looking for the best when. They have lost today was not been a | :59:04. | :59:07. | |
great start because they are the favourite for this league. Did I | :59:08. | :59:17. | |
hear him saying that the referee blew his whistle and then changed | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
his mind? That is unusual. No wonder the defenders were up in arms. If | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
that is the case who will hear more about that. There has to be time the | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
nuclear reactions of that is the case. It sounds a bit dodgy. To | :59:35. | :59:45. | |
reappraise people of the situation. Car Manukau won 2-1, he had I only | :59:46. | :00:00. | |
saw the goal. I don't see anything else he did but his goals and that's | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
a beauty. He turns back to his right foot and fires into the back of the | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
net. It is a super finishing, Nick drove on after they got the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
equaliser. That got them back into the game. The winning goal was | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
absolutely brilliant. They do not have to spend that, they can | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
strengthen elsewhere. You would like the money to strengthen the squad | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
and that would be about bringing in some more experience. This young man | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
is impressive and here's the top scorer just now. He is 21 years old. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
We know with young players that consistency can be an issue. He | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
needs something else there to back him up. More from you later. No more | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
goals to go when. Now it is time for our results round-up. | :00:58. | :01:16. | |
The match between Celtic and Partick Thistle postponed. | :01:17. | :04:49. | |
More details of today's matches in the English Premier League coming | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
up. We will start with Damian Johnson, the reporter who watched | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Burnley at home to Swansea. Second-half goal from Leroy Fer was | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
enough to help Swansea claimed the spoils and ruin their first game | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
back in the Premier League. Leroy Fer tapped in after Heaton parried | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
into his path. Lukasz Fabianski saved well on the half volley. | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
Fabianski's fine reaction save denied Dean Marney late on. It is | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Swansea who hang on. Everton are under new management | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
this season and they were at home to Tottenham this afternoon. Ivan | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Gaskell can tell us what happened at Goodison. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
1-1 it finished. It took Spurs a good 45 minutes to realise the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
season had actually started. They worked their way into this one and | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the open ended all square but for at least two fine late saves from | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Everton's new keeper Martin Stekelenburg they may well have won | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
it. It had seemed so different for Everton early on, the Ronald Koeman | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
era off to a bright and breezy start and a goal in five minutes, Ross | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Barkley's free kick. Even he was surprised to see it bounce past Hugo | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Lloris. The Spurs keeper was later taken off and replaced by Michel | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Vorm. Spurs kicked off after the break and took advantage of the fact | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
that Everton had not extended their lead and worked their way into it. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Lamela with a well taken headed goal squared it. Stick Allen Berg came to | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
the fore with two fine saves but I think 1-1 is about fair. | :06:30. | :06:42. | |
-- Stekelenburg. Time to find out how Middlesbrough did on their | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
return. They pick up a point after a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
seven-year absence in the top-flight. Spanish striker Alvaro | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Negredo took no time at all to get reacquainted with the league. He | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
headed home from close range bravely after the ball was headed back | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
across goal by Gaston Ramirez hit the post twice in the first half and | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
cleared off the line. Stoke weather the better team in the second half | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
and deserved a point on the balance it. Shaqiri with a free kick 25 | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
yards out over the wall, Valdes on his debut got a hand to it but | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
perhaps should have done better with his positioning and with his left | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
hand. That gave Stoke the equaliser who could have found a winner late | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
on. Wollscheid just headed over the bar. Just about right on | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Middlesbrough's return to the Premier League. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Middlesbrough 1-1 Stoke City. None of the big guns apart from Leicester | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
have played so far this weekend in the Premier League down south. We | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
have Man City playing Sunderland later on tonight. Both have new | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
bosses. Both high profile but one with a considerably higher profile | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
than the other. Guardiola at Man City and David Moyes at Sunderland. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
And a higher budget as well I might say. Huge money is involved in the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
English Premier League. When you are at the top end and you have the | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
backers that Man City have, Sunderland can only dream of the | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
players Man City can attract. David Moyes gets his team organised, he | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
makes his team hard to beat. I don't expect them to take anything from | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the game but they will make Man City work for it. Man City seemed to be | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the favourite of most pundits down south for the title. Do you concur? | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
I think this Premier League will be one of the hardest to call with the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
players that are coming into it and the money involved, it is absolutely | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
crazy, it is ludicrous. But it's going to make it exciting and it's | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
hard to narrow it down to four, five, six, anybody could go in there | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
and put in a run. You mentioned the players but all of the hype seems to | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
be surrounding the super bosses coming on. You mentioned Guardiola | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
but there are a few others as well, Tom. One or two. Mourinho and | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Antonio Conte obviously. The money that has been spent is eye watering. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
I find it very hard to pick a winner. The two Manchester clubs and | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Chelsea will be the top three, I think. But in what order? Don't ask | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
me. You don't know. I am asking you. You are asking the! I'd go with Man | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
United first. Because of Mourinho? He always has a good first season at | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
a club. -- you are asking me! He's developing a big squad that it is | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
world-class. He's got goals in it, he's got Pogba, he has a defence now | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
worthy of a name, whereas the last couple of seasons under Van Gaal the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
defence was dreadful. I would go with Man United. When you go up | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
against canny managers like Guardiola I wouldn't be surprised if | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
it was Man City. Would you describe Lee Clark as a canny manager? We can | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
hear from him now after his side's 2-1 win away to Hamilton in the | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Scottish Premiership this afternoon. He spoke to Alasdair Lamont. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
We can only assume that you are delighted that managing to turn that | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
game around having looked like you might be in for another defeat? | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
To be fair our game plan was fine. We were frustrating Hamilton. Goals | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
change games, as they say, and we gave away a poor goal and seemed to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
lose our discipline a bit and focus in terms of what was required. But I | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
think the substitutions and change of formation helped us once again | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
and obviously it's food for thought now because that's two games in a | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
row with strikers on the pitch and it has been more positive. Whereas | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
last season with the personnel we had we had to go in a certain way. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
This year with the players we have up top end speed we have up top it | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
allows us to go with two strikers of the highest quality, great wing play | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
by Jordan Jones, and it's food and drink for Chris Boyd. He has lived | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
off that. The second goal is a fantastic bit of play by Simon and | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
the huge three points, as you said. You mentioned substitutions. You | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
were watching the game from the stands. To what extent was Lee | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
McCulloch and the rest of the coaching staff taking the initiative | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
and saying what they see in the game and bringing them in? We were in | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
contact. And obviously the lads are very experienced as well. We all | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
came to the same decision. We spoke briefly over the phone at half-time | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
about what possibilities we could do with the game was still panning out | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
like it was five or ten minutes into the second-half. Between me and | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Peter and Lee McCulloch we came to the decision, with us being in | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
contact, that it was time to change tactics and personnel and thankfully | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
it worked. You mentioned Jordan Jones providing | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
the first goal, and obviously provided a good option for Chris in | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
the first half as well. I thought he looked dangerous for you almost | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
throughout. He was outstanding, I've got to say. He has shown that in | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
flashes during the course of the League Cup campaign. Last week, you | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
know. We need more consistency, we need that level of performance, and | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
today for the full duration of the game he's been very productive, got | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
to the byline, got crosses in, had attempts on goal and made chances | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
for other people. He has electrifying pace and skills and | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
trickery. So I'm delighted with his performance today. | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
He's delighted, Tom. And no wonder, he's talking about going regularly | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
with two strikers upfront and that will be music to the ears of many | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
Kilmarnock fans, will it not? Yeah, I think the music they have been | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
hearing is the Funeral March for too long. Jordan Jones, looking at him, | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
he's right he is quick and it's a great ball in for Kris Boyd. He's | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
just nodded it home from six inches, Kris Boyd is the best striker in the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
world from six inches! It is good that he is back in the mix, Boyd. He | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
provides the experience they need. He does, a bit of experience, he | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
will get you a goal, galvanised the place, and I'm a big Kris Boyd fan. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
He's got a fantastic head of hair on him as well. He's become a better | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
striker since he grew his hair. Kilmarnock fans in for a treat, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
another victory today. Winning against Motherwell. | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
Tommy, you must be pleased with the performance, tremendous start of the | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
season continues. I would say from a footballing | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
aspect it was our best performance. We passed the ball really well, | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
controlled large spells in the first half, probably didn't make enough of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the opportunities. But always looked like a goal threat. We showed | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
character. Coming back from 1-0 down away from home. | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
That's what it is all about, character away from home. It is | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
about character, about having players in the team who will get the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
job done. Five years in a row they started top six, they drew against | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Aberdeen to start the season and they are a team that you don't want | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
to play because they get at you. Steven MacLean upfront will get | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
goals, they are solid at the back and have a decent goalkeeper. They | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
do not have a huge squad, injuries and suspensions might hurt them but | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
if they have their first 11 they are a match for anyone. If St Johnstone | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
don't finish in the top six it will not be a failure, we heard a couple | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
of weeks ago. Do you agree? As a St Johnstone fans we will not be world | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
beaters, we have a budget and we will stick to it and what they have | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
done in the last couple of seasons has been brilliant and he looked | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
visibly elated talking about the match. Staying in the Premier League | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
is always our first aim and if we can compete further up we are happy. | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
No need for Motherwell to panic, not been a great week for them. They | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
knew it would be a hard season, Motherwell, talking to people at the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
club they knew that money would be in short supply, therefore they | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
really had to start well and get their teeth into the division and | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
try and stay away from the bottom area so it will be difficult because | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
I don't think there is any money in the next transfer window to bring in | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
new players but they have a team, if they can keep their best 11 together | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
I think Motherwell will be OK. Mark McGhee is a good manager and Cincy | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
has complaints have moved on the right direction. I'm afraid that is | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
pretty much that for today, day which the following stories unfolded | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
in the Scotland's top two divisions. There was a Highland derby win for | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Ross County. 3-2 win for Ross County. St Johnstone won 2-1 away | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
from home. 2-1 win for Rangers, their first win of the season, | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
congratulations. And as we mentioned Killie were winners as well. In the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Championship, a big win for part-time Dumbarton against Dundee | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
United. Hibs 2-1 winners against Dunfermline. One point apiece for | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Morton and Falkirk. Big wins for Queen of the South at home to Ayr | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
United and Raith Rovers at home to St Mirren. Now, let me just remind | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
you, to watch the highlights show tomorrow evening at 6:30pm on BBC | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Two. The results show returns next week at 4pm on BBC Two Scotland. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Before that there is Off The Ball's Saturday Supplement with Stuart | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
Cosgrove and Tam Cowan and this week Gemma Fay. That's on Radio | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Scotland.don't be shy give them a call on 0500 92 95 00. Thanks to | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Gemma and our other guests Craig Paterson and Tom English. And thanks | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
to you for watching - see you soon. | :16:54. | :16:55. |