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Good evening and welcome to Sportscene. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
I promise you, this next hour will be a referendum free zone. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
But plenty of football politics to discuss. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
With us tonight, the Northern Ireland manager | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
Michael O'Neill and the Motherwell defender Stephen McManus. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Six games from the Premiership tonight, | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Fox was brave. Forces the save from McManus. | :00:59. | :01:26. | |
The champions far from flying at the moment. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
They took on an Aberdeen side tipped by many to push them hardest | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
The captain is back after a six-week absence. It is a corner for Commons. | :01:33. | :02:13. | |
He has knocked it in. It is a second Celtic goal for Denayer. This came | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
bouncing off the Belgian, despite a positive start to the game Aberdeen | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
find themselves behind. It has been almost a decade since Aberdeen won | :02:29. | :02:42. | |
here on Lake business. -- league. Somehow it goes past. He claims it | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
was because of a foul. It has been all Celtic. They are | :02:46. | :03:01. | |
dominating this first half. It is Commons, and it is too. 24 | :03:02. | :03:22. | |
seconds into the second half. Celtic give themselves a cushion. Commons | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
has had a great day. It gets a huge deflection, but Commons claiming it. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
That is his second of the campaign. Craig Gordon has not had that much | :03:36. | :03:48. | |
to do up until now. Commons! Some Celtic fans were | :03:49. | :04:07. | |
astonished he did not start in the Champions League play-off. You can | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
see why. Goodwillie, his first for the club. | :04:09. | :04:30. | |
It will be a weight off his mind. He gives Aberdeen a chance. Considine | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
claiming above Ambrose. -- climbing. The men in red have | :04:40. | :04:53. | |
belief. They are turning it on all of a sudden, Aberdeen. | :04:54. | :05:13. | |
Goodwillie was offside. It did not seem plausible that Aberdeen could | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
come back into this at 2-0. Wide from McGregor. That would have | :05:21. | :05:49. | |
sealed it, you would imagine. Celtic pressing for that killer goal. The | :05:50. | :06:05. | |
manager praying for an equaliser. It certainly hit his arm. | :06:06. | :06:24. | |
He can very Aberdeen, no, he cannot. That should have been three. | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
I thought we were pressing good and the passing was quicker. It gives me | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
belief in the future. We are going to get fitter and better. I believe | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
we should have had a penalty and we would still have had time to win the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
game. I thought Celtic looked fragile. I thought we were in a | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
position to try to win. There was controversy after the match with | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
Logan claiming he was racially abused. The player accused has | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
denied the accusation. In terms of the football, you were at the match, | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
did Celtic deserve to win? Yes. The manager touched on it. The first 65 | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
minutes I thought Celtic were excellent and probably should have | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
been more than two ahead. Aberdeen reacted well, changed the shape of | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the team and the last 25 minutes Aberdeen were really good. They | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
maybe could have got an equaliser but over the piece I think Celtic | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
deserved it. The Man of the Match yesterday. How important was he? He | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
was devastating. They did not get close enough to him. All the good | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
play went through Commons. He is so clever in terms of the space he | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
finds and his quality is so good. They could not deal with him. He | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
finds space. There are a lot of red shirts. Was it a mistake to leave | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
him out for the Champions League? It is easy to say that now but at the | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
time he made his decision. You can see why he has went with the | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
decision but when you see him on form like that, the positions he | :08:49. | :08:58. | |
finds are really intelligent, but I think the opposing manager will be | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
disappointed he was given so much space. Controversy about Commons, he | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
certainly handled the ball, should this have been a penalty? It is not | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
for me. I can understand why you would be claiming it from the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Aberdeen point of view, he has gone to block the first ball and it has | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
taken a deflection. I think that would be very harsh to give a | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
penalty. I do not think there is anything much he can do. He is | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
reacting to the first shot. His hand should not be up there, you always | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
run the risk, but that would have been harsh. Anything from Aberdeen | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
to suggest that they could be best of the rest? I think so. They have | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
been playing a lot of competitive football from an early stage. They | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
had a good run in Europe. Maybe a slight hangover from that. I expect | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Aberdeen, it is only a matter of time before they put a consistent | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
run of games together. Motherwell were best of the rest last season. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Next up Inverness, who began the weekend as league leaders. | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
After a stunning start to the season, an away trip to Partick | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
A long trip to Glasgow, but the Caley Thistle fans not short | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Inverness arrived in Glasgow top of the table. No goals conceded, and a | :10:20. | :10:36. | |
clean sweep of the monthly awards. What do the fans think? John Hughes | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
has revamped everything preseason and we are playing terrific | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
football. Top-quality football. Another few clean sheets. I think we | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
will get at least prop three. Partick Thistle bring back their | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
goalkeeper. Excellent strike from Doran. It is | :10:59. | :11:36. | |
his third goal of the season. Excellent build-up. Three goals in | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
four games. Lawless levels things up. His first | :11:40. | :12:06. | |
goal of the season. It is the first goal Inverness Caley Thistle have | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
conceded in ten hours and 17 minutes of football. An excellent finish. | :12:10. | :12:28. | |
Higginbotham very creative this afternoon. That took a deflection. | :12:29. | :12:43. | |
Excellent header from Osman. Getting his first goal for Partick Thistle. | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
Out jumping everyone at the back post. | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
Scott Fox was brave, getting down at the feet of Mackay to make the | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
block. It looked as if Billy Mackay was | :13:11. | :13:30. | |
getting pulled by Seabourn as he stretched to put that one in. | :13:31. | :13:47. | |
Higginbotham! What an effort that was. Excellent play from Lawless. | :13:48. | :14:05. | |
Higginbotham, that is two for this campaign. | :14:06. | :14:17. | |
The flag is up for offside. It was tight. Just off. | :14:18. | :14:37. | |
A clash between Watkins and Seabourn. An elbow into the face. He | :14:38. | :14:53. | |
is not happy. He is letting Watkins know. | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
The referee says penalty. A clash of feet and Dylan, -- the chance to | :15:04. | :15:17. | |
make it four. I think we showed good character to | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
come back. We will take it into the next game. We need to put that at | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
the back of us. We have lost the clean sheet. We have to try to | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
improve. The Inverness bandwagon derailed temporarily. You were the | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
busiest man in Glasgow yesterday. I suppose in the same way that Commons | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
was, Higginbotham was at the centre of a lot of the good stuff. He takes | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
the corner. That is where they got the goal from. He was involved in a | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
few incidents. He worked the left-hand side of the pitch really | :16:11. | :16:22. | |
well. I was hugely impressed. You see the goal he scores. It was great | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
in terms of the position. He gets in on the back. It is a top-class | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
finish. Do you enjoy playing against him? He has done really well. He has | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
really impressed me since I have come back up the road. When he plays | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
off the left-hand side he is comfortable drifting into the spaces | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
between the lines but he can also take you down the line. His body | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
shape is wrong, the full-back, and he cannot see, he is an intelligent | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
player. A few possibly controversial refereeing incidents. Picking on the | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
poor referee. That was a yellow card, wasn't it? He got that right. | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
He has a bit of a reaction. I thought he handled this well. This | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
was not a booking. Do you think it should have been? This was a poor | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
challenge. He was lucky to get away with that. Again, we see it here. | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
This is Higginbotham. An unnecessary challenge. He does not need to make | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
the challenge. Was this a penalty? When you first look at it, it looks | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
like a penalty. He knows he has an opportunity to score and he tugs at | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
him. I would be claiming it. I am surprised that the players did not | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
make more of it. A temporary blip for Inverness. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
Still to come on Sportscene tonight, there's a new king of the Staggies | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
We have a chief who makes the decisions. I think this was the best | :18:17. | :18:29. | |
place to continue my career. We'll see how Jim McIntyre got | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
on against Stephen's Motherwell But first, with Inverness slipping | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
up at Partick Thistle, it meant that newly promoted | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
Hamilton Academical could end the day top of the Premiership tree | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
should they get a positive result Dundee United are without Townsend | :18:41. | :18:57. | |
for the next month. He is out with a foot injury. | :18:58. | :19:11. | |
Alex Neil starting September with an unchanged 11. | :19:12. | :19:25. | |
Did he catch him? Yes, says the referee. That is a free kick. Devlin | :19:26. | :19:45. | |
missed it. That is a lovely finish. He is so dangerous. Give him a | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
chance and he will take it. 17 minutes gone. Ciftci, 1-04 United. | :19:53. | :20:15. | |
He will undo you so easily. He did all he could. McKinnon and Ciftci | :20:16. | :20:32. | |
having a stand-off. Ciftci removing to move and the referee is taking a | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
dim view. He is going to give both players a yellow card. | :20:40. | :20:51. | |
A mistake, and it is 1-1. You cannot give him a chance like that. The | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
celebration is something else. The finished courtesy of a mistake by | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Maurice hammered home by Antoine-Curier. There is a problem. | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
McKinnon was shouting at the dugout. This is going to be a second | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
yellow card for abuse of language, I guess. McKinnon is sent off. | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
He has the goal! That was very flat-footed. Credit to Andreu for | :21:33. | :21:52. | |
the shot. Hamilton find themselves ahead after being behind. That is | :21:53. | :22:04. | |
handball. He put that in with his hand and if he has done so he is | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
going off. It is a yellow card. He has already been yellow carded. | :22:10. | :22:25. | |
Dundee United are going to ten men. 2-2! Dundee United equalise as the | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
half draws to a close. What a first half. A great header. | :22:36. | :22:55. | |
He was nice and calm. Saving them a goal. | :22:56. | :23:20. | |
He has been among the goals already this season. | :23:21. | :23:33. | |
Good save. He had to come out to try to play sweeper. He denied | :23:34. | :23:53. | |
Antoine-Curier. Good save. That was nearly the winner, and he knows how | :23:54. | :23:54. | |
close he came. It was a very frustrating game. A | :23:55. | :24:07. | |
lot of errors in the match. I think the result was probably a fair | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
result, one we could have lost as well. We had a few chances and a few | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
half chances but over the piece a really good performance. | :24:19. | :24:19. | |
Unfortunately we did not get the win. That means that incredibly | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
Hamilton Academical are top of the table. I do not think even the | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
hardest of hard-core Hamilton Academical fans would have claimed | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
this would be where they worth, and they are playing some excellent | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
attacking football. They move the ball very well. I watched them in | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
the play-offs last year. They are a set up top as well. It has been a | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
breath of fresh air. They have plagued with no fear. Taking | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
advantage of the goalkeeper. This was away at Tannadice. Getting | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
results at home and away. They have players with a point to prove. | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
MacGyver and spoke extremely highly of Alex Neil -- McGovern. They have | :25:18. | :25:29. | |
had a great start. Jackie McNamara not impressed with Ciftci yesterday. | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
He is a big player. He will be suspended for the Dundee derby. That | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
will be a big mess. That is a big blow for them losing him. -- miss. | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
He likes to come in off the left-hand side. He has tremendous | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
quality, Ciftci. He is not shy to have a pop outside the box. He is | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
very quick and strong. The defender cannot tackle them and he has the | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
composure to finish it off. It will be a big loss next weekend. How high | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
up the table to UC Dundee United finishing? I think United have a | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
great squad. They do not have anybody who is a like for like | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
replacement for the injured player. The derby will be very interesting. | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Paul Hartley has his team together. United will be looking at being the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
best of the rest, and there is no reason why they should not achieve | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
that. After starting the season with five | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
straight league defeats, Ross County sacked manager Derek Adams, | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
and replaced him with the Queen For his debut, a home match | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
against struggling Motherwell. Three changes to the Motherwell team | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
that lost at home to St Johnstone. He is all over this game in the | :27:00. | :27:40. | |
first half. Looking to make a big impact as he did on his first spell | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
with Ross County. That is off the line. The value of putting a player | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
on the post to get this away from the Motherwell youngster. | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
A challenge that did not need to be made. He has conceded a free kick in | :28:07. | :28:25. | |
a dangerous position. The -- Vigurs! Giving Motherwell the lead | :28:26. | :28:41. | |
against his old team. Sutton! It is another magnificent strike, this | :28:42. | :28:50. | |
time the left foot of Sutton. That was zooming over the head of the | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
keeper. Two goals in five minutes for Motherwell, both equally | :28:58. | :28:57. | |
impressive. Boyce throws Ross County a lifeline. | :28:58. | :29:16. | |
12 minutes from time. It is a goal back for the home team. Reigniting | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
hopes of getting something from this game. It was all about the | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
persistence here. He was being held, but he got the ball back. | :29:29. | :29:37. | |
Trying to find the top corner. He was not far away. | :29:38. | :29:50. | |
And there is always with a free header, a flashing header. But he | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
couldn't hit the target, the Ross County defender. It was a decent | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
chance for 2-2. They are looking to create something | :30:03. | :30:19. | |
later on, and best header from Cardle was blocked. That was heading | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
inside the post, and it is a good diving stop to keep the score at | :30:27. | :30:37. | |
2-1, Motherwell. It has taken two fantastic goals to win today. We are | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
getting players back and getting that fitness. There are always | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
positives in any match, but ultimately we have lost a match and | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
that is disappointing. The debut defeat for Jim McIntyre there. Tough | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
times for Motherwell this season. How big a win was that? It was | :31:03. | :31:10. | |
massive. We knew we were going up to Ross County and it would be a tough | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
game. But for us, it was just about getting the three points. I do know | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
if we deserved all three, to be honest, but we managed to get to | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
fantastic goals from Vigurs and John Sutton. We were just happy that we | :31:26. | :31:35. | |
won the game. In my opinion, I don't think Vigurs has done enough set | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
pieces as he should. And this one is fantastic, John Sutton texted on his | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
chest and then just captures the goalkeeper off-guard. Should the | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
keeper have done better? It is right underneath the bar, and he is only a | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
couple of yards off his line. It is just a great strike. Good way to get | :31:59. | :32:07. | |
off the mark. Stuart McCall in the papers today linked with possibly | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
becoming assistant finial Wonnacott Crystal Palace. Can you give us any | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
inside gossip? -- assistant for Warnock. No, it is the first I've | :32:21. | :32:28. | |
heard of it. You want to keep your good players and your managers, so | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
hopefully it is just the papers talking. And Jim McIntyre in charge | :32:31. | :32:39. | |
at Ross, any times they will turn the corner? I have no doubt he will | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
turn the place around. He's a infectious character and will get | :32:48. | :32:54. | |
the boys working hard. He is certainly going in the right | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
direction, so hopefully they can start to climb the table. Next to a | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
big rivalry, St Johnstone against Andy. -- Dundee. Plenty of | :33:04. | :33:14. | |
silverware on display before the match at McDiarmid Park, including | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
the Scottish Cup, any excuse to get it back out in front of the fans! | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
Also there was the Ryder Cup. Gary Harkins looking for Greg | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
Stewart here. There is a good atmosphere around | :33:27. | :33:59. | |
McDermott Park. The header comes from Thomas Konrad, | :34:00. | :34:27. | |
and Dundee are ahead. The corner was initially defended, and Anderson got | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
it away. And Harkins went up. Thomas Konrad with the header there. | :34:31. | :34:42. | |
He enjoyed it, too. Au Halloran has it out to Greg | :34:43. | :35:02. | |
Stewart, too. Gary Harkins has made the run, but fires it off target. St | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
Johnstone should be about concerned the amount of space they are giving | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
away. Again, they are finding space. Jim | :35:13. | :35:36. | |
McAlister that time. Roberts clipped it in, McAllister met it. Frazer | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
Wright with the header away. Greg Stewart was offside. The referee | :35:48. | :35:51. | |
will bring it back for the free kick. Anderson seemed to take down | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
Gary Harkins, and with the offside flag up, the free kick was giving. | :35:59. | :36:09. | |
Gary Harkins steps up and forces the save from the goalkeeper. | :36:10. | :36:34. | |
Alan Mannus with the save, it was clipped across. He got himself into | :36:35. | :36:47. | |
a really good shooting position, but Alan Mannus was his equal. I thought | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
we looked comfortable in the second half. I was delighted with the | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
team, I thought they were excellent and it was a great team performance. | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
Another clean sheet. We had some good opportunities, particularly | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
down the right, that we didn't make enough of the opportunities. In the | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
second half, we huffed and puffed but didn't get into the game. | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
St Johnstone don't like international breaks, it seems. | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
Straight after each international break last summer, they lost. And | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
once again it has happened. As an international manager, you should | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
take some of the blame for this! Why is this occurring? I spoke to Tommy | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
Wright today, and he was obviously disappointed with the result. It is | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
a difficult one for managers. They came in off the back of two good | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
results, and probably didn't want the break, it came at the wrong time | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
for them. 14 days is a long time to give the players off. Because a lot | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
of them are not internationals. No, it is not sending them away and they | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
come back with fatigue, it is managing them over that period. A | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
slight bit of controversy about the Dundee goal in terms of who was | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
trying to claim it. Gary Harkins trying to get some of the action, | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
but it was Thomas Konrad's goal, wasn't it? It certainly looks to me | :38:25. | :38:33. | |
as if he has hit it. If he can get his leg up that high to get his toe | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
on that! Paul Hartley has done really well with his recruitment so | :38:42. | :38:48. | |
far. Paul McGowan, Gary Harkins, he has some good players in. | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
Realistically, how high can they finish? I think they have got to be | :38:54. | :39:02. | |
aiming, they might have wanted top six, but Paul Hartley has taken | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
players that other managers might have stayed away from, and he has | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
backed himself to handle those players. He has some really good | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
technical players in there. I think for a new team when they come up, it | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
is getting momentum into their season, and they have managed to do | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
that, and they will want that to continue. No points for St Mirren as | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
they went into this weekend, four straight defeats and zero goals | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
scored, it was a gloomy backdrop as they travelled down to Kilmarnock. | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
One change for Kilmarnock from the side that lost at Inverness. | :39:40. | :39:51. | |
Jim Goodwin returns from suspension for St Mirren. | :39:52. | :40:01. | |
That was punched away, not convincingly, by Kello. | :40:02. | :40:16. | |
The header was just wide of Marian Kello's post. The former striker | :40:17. | :40:26. | |
almost opening his account for his new team. That was a poor pass. Here | :40:27. | :40:34. | |
is a chance for Naismith. Cut back to Maclean. That really should have | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
been the opening for Saints. The ball is overlying, but free kick | :40:41. | :41:06. | |
says referee Alan Muir. A great challenge here by Connerly, and a | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
magnificent through ball to Muirhead. He is on his left foot, he | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
cuts inside, he shoots, he scores! Kilmarnock take the lead. Robbie | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
Muirhead with his second goal of the season. It all started with a | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
traffic challenge in his own half, and a wonderful pass through. Still | :41:26. | :41:34. | |
with plenty of work to do, a clinical finish. It gave Kello no | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
chance. That is a poor backpass, puts his | :41:39. | :41:52. | |
defence under pressure, but that was great play there. A chance here for | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
an equaliser, and Saints are back on level terms! Great treasure there | :42:00. | :42:08. | |
from McGinn. Still work to be done, it is crossed to the back post, and | :42:09. | :42:16. | |
Drury knocked the ball home. The crowd are unhappy there was no free | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
kick awarded for the challenge by McGinn. And a free header for | :42:20. | :42:29. | |
Connerly! Kilmarnock are back in front. Poor defending, you have to | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
say, by Saints, but a thundering header from Mark Connolly beyond | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
Kello to put Kilmarnock back in the lead. Great play by Marwood. There | :42:46. | :42:57. | |
is a chance here for St Mirren. He is giving a yellow card and a free | :42:58. | :43:08. | |
kick. A yellow card for a dive. You always feel like the players we have | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
are liable to score goals. I think last year we would have lost that | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
type of game. Frustrated that we managed to get ourselves back into | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
the game with a goal but wouldn't take advantage of it. The second | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
goal was uncontested, which is galling. Considering how we want to | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
get back into the game. A good win for Kilmarnock, and | :43:33. | :43:47. | |
finally a goal for St Mirren, but still no win. | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
This was a long ball, but they were defending too deep, the starting | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
position was all wrong. That was a long ball up the pitch, and there is | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
no pressure with the centre-backs coming up the side. When you're not | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
scoring as frequently as possible, you rely on your back four. It is | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
just the team lacking confidence in how to defend. A lot of pressure on | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
the St Mirren manager going into Friday's match against Partick | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
Thistle with the pressure mounting. There seems to be, if you look at | :44:26. | :44:37. | |
the situation, Tommy was working alongside Danny last year. There is | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
no better man to be in charge at this point in time. I think he | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
talked about the fact that these are group of players that will have to | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
turn it around. The concern will be the nature of the goals, the set | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
pieces, and if you start losing goals in set pieces, and he was | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
saying then, they worked their way back into the game but then lost on | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
a set piece. It doesn't matter how well organised you are for those | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
types of situations, the players have to stand up and do their jobs, | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
and buses where they are losing games at the moment. And that is | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
Kilmarnock into the top six. Again, they have recruited well. They have | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
Josh Magennis up top, who put himself about. Even though they have | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
lost Kris Boyd, they seem to be more collective this year. After all | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
that, the Premiership table looks like this. Hamilton Academical top | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
of the table on goal difference. That is where we leave the | :45:36. | :45:56. | |
Premiership now and turn our attention to matters in the | :45:57. | :45:57. | |
championship. Great strike, really good goal. | :45:58. | :46:05. | |
Nicky Law! Scotland's second-tier burst into | :46:06. | :46:24. | |
life on Friday night when Rangers and Raith Rovers came together at | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
the park. Could Ally McCoist's side get the right result on the pitch? | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
18-year-old Lewis Vaughan with a fair bit of experience around him | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
there. Teenage winger Fraser Aird is back for Rangers. | :46:47. | :46:58. | |
That is a good cross for Nicky Clark to open the scoring in the 16th | :46:59. | :47:09. | |
minute. It has been coming. Lots of pace on the cross, and redirected | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
into the corner by Nicky Clark. Rangers are hustling to get the ball | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
back. Ian Black allowed to line up the shot, deflected and in. And 1-0 | :47:22. | :47:30. | |
becomes 2-0 seven minutes before half-time. Laidlaw had no chance. | :47:31. | :47:43. | |
Liam Fox gives away possession. It has happened all too often for the | :47:44. | :47:52. | |
Kirkcaldy team. It is Nicky Law! And it is a brilliant third goal for | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
Rangers. There was a slice of good fortune about goal number two. No | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
deflection needed this time. And this is unstoppable. | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
Black's thumping header is right in front of Kris Boyd. And no one is in | :48:09. | :48:19. | |
greater disbelief than him that he has missed that. | :48:20. | :48:29. | |
The header goes Nicky Law's way, and Kris Boyd! Well, it is not going to | :48:30. | :48:39. | |
be his night, Kris Boyd. Nothing wrong with the effort this time, but | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
it is a really good save by Laidlaw. Rangers continue to dominate, and | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
that is through for Kris Boyd. This time? No. A hat-trick of chances, | :48:52. | :48:59. | |
and this time credit to Laidlaw for standing up to the striker. Wallace | :49:00. | :49:09. | |
sets off again, Templeton plays him in, and that is a trip surely by | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
Grant Anderson. Everything is going wrong for Raith Rovers. A clip on | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
the ankles of Wallace, penalty. It is Lee McCulloch, and it is the | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
perfect penalty on a pretty perfect night for Rangers. They have beaten | :49:27. | :49:36. | |
Raith Rovers by four goals to nil. You get on the back foot and then | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
you make a couple of crucial errors, and before you know it you a 3-0 | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
down at chasing the game. A good night for Rangers, race just | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
running out of team in the end against the class of Rangers. -- | :49:50. | :50:02. | |
Raith Rovers running out of Steen. They will be tough to beat in the | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
league. Add a gathering momentum now? They are. There are options in | :50:07. | :50:16. | |
attack. He has huge Ops and in terms of producing goals, and I think | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
Rangers will be challenged more this season in terms of the quality of | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
the game. Time for some more championship | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
action now. Falkirk were at home to Queen of the South. | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
Despite Jim McIntyre's departure, Queen of the South made a lively | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
start, Gavin Reilly going close. And soon after, Derek Lyle was only | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
denied by the legs of Jamie MacDonald. But no goals in the first | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
half. In the second, Rory Loy's loping run looked like it might have | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
got through the defence, but there were no takers. There was a taker in | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
the 70th minute, Danny, Danny Carmichael cutting back for Riley, | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
1-0 to Queen of the South. Chris Higgins with an own goal after this | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
free kick, and it finished 1-1. I don't think there is any other team | :51:23. | :51:29. | |
has had three games in a row like we have had. So I think we have nothing | :51:30. | :51:39. | |
out of the 12 from the three big ones, but we managed to get some | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
points. You know you're in the frame. Is it a job you would want to | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
do? It is one of the reasons I came here. Given an opportunity, I would | :51:48. | :51:58. | |
be very interested in taking it on. Hearts setting the pace so far in | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
the championship, but Dumbarton's Chris Kane caused an early problem, | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
Neil Alexander with the save. But hearts dominated in the main, with | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
Daniel Rogers in the Dumbarton goal a busy man. | :52:12. | :52:19. | |
In the second half, Iain Murray's side probably should have scored. | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
Danny Wilson fluffing his clearance, that Kane couldn't react in time. | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
Sam Nicholson with this header off the bar. But 0-0, it finished. | :52:33. | :52:42. | |
We are only at two, but we have kept a clean sheet, it is a far cry from | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
last year. For us, it is about points. Every point gets us out of | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
prison and we have enough to make sure we are safe for next season. It | :52:54. | :53:03. | |
can be really difficult to just sit in, but we deserved the point. | :53:04. | :53:06. | |
The fashionable thing to say that the Championship is game to be more | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
exciting than the Premiership this season. I think it will be exciting. | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
Hearts are a good young team. They are in a much better place, I think, | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
than Hibs at the minute. I certainly think they will push Rangers. But I | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
think Rangers will still come out on top. You saw Queen of the South as | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
well, currently without a manager. I know you will be a manager Sunday. | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
Fancy throwing your hat in the ring now? Not just now, it is a bit too | :53:40. | :53:51. | |
soon for me. Too much in the tank, Hearts and Rangers will be at the | :53:52. | :53:59. | |
top? Yes, and if Hibs stepped up a wee bit. Stephen, Michael, thank you | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
very much indeed. Five games in the Championship this weekend. Apart | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
from the games we have shown you, here are the other results. | :54:13. | :54:23. | |
That leaves the championship table looking like this. | :54:24. | :54:37. | |
That is it from the Sportscene, a referendum free zone! Yes or no, we | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
will see you again next weekend. Good night. | :54:44. | :54:46. |