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Good evening and welcome to Sportscene.

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I promise you, this next hour will be a referendum free zone.

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But plenty of football politics to discuss.

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With us tonight, the Northern Ireland manager

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Michael O'Neill and the Motherwell defender Stephen McManus.

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Six games from the Premiership tonight,

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Fox was brave. Forces the save from McManus.

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The champions far from flying at the moment.

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They took on an Aberdeen side tipped by many to push them hardest

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The captain is back after a six-week absence. It is a corner for Commons.

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He has knocked it in. It is a second Celtic goal for Denayer. This came

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bouncing off the Belgian, despite a positive start to the game Aberdeen

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find themselves behind. It has been almost a decade since Aberdeen won

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here on Lake business. -- league. Somehow it goes past. He claims it

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was because of a foul. It has been all Celtic. They are

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dominating this first half. It is Commons, and it is too. 24

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seconds into the second half. Celtic give themselves a cushion. Commons

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has had a great day. It gets a huge deflection, but Commons claiming it.

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That is his second of the campaign. Craig Gordon has not had that much

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to do up until now. Commons! Some Celtic fans were

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astonished he did not start in the Champions League play-off. You can

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see why. Goodwillie, his first for the club.

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It will be a weight off his mind. He gives Aberdeen a chance. Considine

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claiming above Ambrose. -- climbing. The men in red have

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belief. They are turning it on all of a sudden, Aberdeen.

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Goodwillie was offside. It did not seem plausible that Aberdeen could

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come back into this at 2-0. Wide from McGregor. That would have

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sealed it, you would imagine. Celtic pressing for that killer goal. The

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manager praying for an equaliser. It certainly hit his arm.

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He can very Aberdeen, no, he cannot. That should have been three.

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I thought we were pressing good and the passing was quicker. It gives me

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belief in the future. We are going to get fitter and better. I believe

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we should have had a penalty and we would still have had time to win the

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game. I thought Celtic looked fragile. I thought we were in a

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position to try to win. There was controversy after the match with

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Logan claiming he was racially abused. The player accused has

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denied the accusation. In terms of the football, you were at the match,

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did Celtic deserve to win? Yes. The manager touched on it. The first 65

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minutes I thought Celtic were excellent and probably should have

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been more than two ahead. Aberdeen reacted well, changed the shape of

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the team and the last 25 minutes Aberdeen were really good. They

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maybe could have got an equaliser but over the piece I think Celtic

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deserved it. The Man of the Match yesterday. How important was he? He

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was devastating. They did not get close enough to him. All the good

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play went through Commons. He is so clever in terms of the space he

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finds and his quality is so good. They could not deal with him. He

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finds space. There are a lot of red shirts. Was it a mistake to leave

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him out for the Champions League? It is easy to say that now but at the

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time he made his decision. You can see why he has went with the

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decision but when you see him on form like that, the positions he

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finds are really intelligent, but I think the opposing manager will be

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disappointed he was given so much space. Controversy about Commons, he

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certainly handled the ball, should this have been a penalty? It is not

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for me. I can understand why you would be claiming it from the

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Aberdeen point of view, he has gone to block the first ball and it has

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taken a deflection. I think that would be very harsh to give a

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penalty. I do not think there is anything much he can do. He is

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reacting to the first shot. His hand should not be up there, you always

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run the risk, but that would have been harsh. Anything from Aberdeen

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to suggest that they could be best of the rest? I think so. They have

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been playing a lot of competitive football from an early stage. They

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had a good run in Europe. Maybe a slight hangover from that. I expect

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Aberdeen, it is only a matter of time before they put a consistent

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run of games together. Motherwell were best of the rest last season.

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Next up Inverness, who began the weekend as league leaders.

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After a stunning start to the season, an away trip to Partick

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A long trip to Glasgow, but the Caley Thistle fans not short

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Inverness arrived in Glasgow top of the table. No goals conceded, and a

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clean sweep of the monthly awards. What do the fans think? John Hughes

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has revamped everything preseason and we are playing terrific

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football. Top-quality football. Another few clean sheets. I think we

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will get at least prop three. Partick Thistle bring back their

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goalkeeper. Excellent strike from Doran. It is

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his third goal of the season. Excellent build-up. Three goals in

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four games. Lawless levels things up. His first

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goal of the season. It is the first goal Inverness Caley Thistle have

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conceded in ten hours and 17 minutes of football. An excellent finish.

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Higginbotham very creative this afternoon. That took a deflection.

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Excellent header from Osman. Getting his first goal for Partick Thistle.

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Out jumping everyone at the back post.

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Scott Fox was brave, getting down at the feet of Mackay to make the

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block. It looked as if Billy Mackay was

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getting pulled by Seabourn as he stretched to put that one in.

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Higginbotham! What an effort that was. Excellent play from Lawless.

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Higginbotham, that is two for this campaign.

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The flag is up for offside. It was tight. Just off.

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A clash between Watkins and Seabourn. An elbow into the face. He

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is not happy. He is letting Watkins know.

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The referee says penalty. A clash of feet and Dylan, -- the chance to

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make it four. I think we showed good character to

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come back. We will take it into the next game. We need to put that at

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the back of us. We have lost the clean sheet. We have to try to

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improve. The Inverness bandwagon derailed temporarily. You were the

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busiest man in Glasgow yesterday. I suppose in the same way that Commons

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was, Higginbotham was at the centre of a lot of the good stuff. He takes

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the corner. That is where they got the goal from. He was involved in a

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few incidents. He worked the left-hand side of the pitch really

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well. I was hugely impressed. You see the goal he scores. It was great

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in terms of the position. He gets in on the back. It is a top-class

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finish. Do you enjoy playing against him? He has done really well. He has

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really impressed me since I have come back up the road. When he plays

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off the left-hand side he is comfortable drifting into the spaces

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between the lines but he can also take you down the line. His body

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shape is wrong, the full-back, and he cannot see, he is an intelligent

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player. A few possibly controversial refereeing incidents. Picking on the

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poor referee. That was a yellow card, wasn't it? He got that right.

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He has a bit of a reaction. I thought he handled this well. This

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was not a booking. Do you think it should have been? This was a poor

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challenge. He was lucky to get away with that. Again, we see it here.

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This is Higginbotham. An unnecessary challenge. He does not need to make

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the challenge. Was this a penalty? When you first look at it, it looks

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like a penalty. He knows he has an opportunity to score and he tugs at

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him. I would be claiming it. I am surprised that the players did not

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make more of it. A temporary blip for Inverness.

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Still to come on Sportscene tonight, there's a new king of the Staggies

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We have a chief who makes the decisions. I think this was the best

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place to continue my career. We'll see how Jim McIntyre got

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on against Stephen's Motherwell But first, with Inverness slipping

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up at Partick Thistle, it meant that newly promoted

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Hamilton Academical could end the day top of the Premiership tree

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should they get a positive result Dundee United are without Townsend

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for the next month. He is out with a foot injury.

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Alex Neil starting September with an unchanged 11.

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Did he catch him? Yes, says the referee. That is a free kick. Devlin

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missed it. That is a lovely finish. He is so dangerous. Give him a

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chance and he will take it. 17 minutes gone. Ciftci, 1-04 United.

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He will undo you so easily. He did all he could. McKinnon and Ciftci

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having a stand-off. Ciftci removing to move and the referee is taking a

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dim view. He is going to give both players a yellow card.

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A mistake, and it is 1-1. You cannot give him a chance like that. The

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celebration is something else. The finished courtesy of a mistake by

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Maurice hammered home by Antoine-Curier. There is a problem.

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McKinnon was shouting at the dugout. This is going to be a second

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yellow card for abuse of language, I guess. McKinnon is sent off.

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He has the goal! That was very flat-footed. Credit to Andreu for

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the shot. Hamilton find themselves ahead after being behind. That is

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handball. He put that in with his hand and if he has done so he is

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going off. It is a yellow card. He has already been yellow carded.

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Dundee United are going to ten men. 2-2! Dundee United equalise as the

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half draws to a close. What a first half. A great header.

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He was nice and calm. Saving them a goal.

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He has been among the goals already this season.

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Good save. He had to come out to try to play sweeper. He denied

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Antoine-Curier. Good save. That was nearly the winner, and he knows how

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close he came. It was a very frustrating game. A

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lot of errors in the match. I think the result was probably a fair

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result, one we could have lost as well. We had a few chances and a few

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half chances but over the piece a really good performance.

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Unfortunately we did not get the win. That means that incredibly

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Hamilton Academical are top of the table. I do not think even the

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hardest of hard-core Hamilton Academical fans would have claimed

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this would be where they worth, and they are playing some excellent

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attacking football. They move the ball very well. I watched them in

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the play-offs last year. They are a set up top as well. It has been a

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breath of fresh air. They have plagued with no fear. Taking

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advantage of the goalkeeper. This was away at Tannadice. Getting

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results at home and away. They have players with a point to prove.

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MacGyver and spoke extremely highly of Alex Neil -- McGovern. They have

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had a great start. Jackie McNamara not impressed with Ciftci yesterday.

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He is a big player. He will be suspended for the Dundee derby. That

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will be a big mess. That is a big blow for them losing him. -- miss.

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He likes to come in off the left-hand side. He has tremendous

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quality, Ciftci. He is not shy to have a pop outside the box. He is

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very quick and strong. The defender cannot tackle them and he has the

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composure to finish it off. It will be a big loss next weekend. How high

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up the table to UC Dundee United finishing? I think United have a

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great squad. They do not have anybody who is a like for like

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replacement for the injured player. The derby will be very interesting.

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Paul Hartley has his team together. United will be looking at being the

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best of the rest, and there is no reason why they should not achieve

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that. After starting the season with five

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straight league defeats, Ross County sacked manager Derek Adams,

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and replaced him with the Queen For his debut, a home match

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against struggling Motherwell. Three changes to the Motherwell team

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that lost at home to St Johnstone. He is all over this game in the

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first half. Looking to make a big impact as he did on his first spell

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with Ross County. That is off the line. The value of putting a player

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on the post to get this away from the Motherwell youngster.

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A challenge that did not need to be made. He has conceded a free kick in

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a dangerous position. The -- Vigurs! Giving Motherwell the lead

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against his old team. Sutton! It is another magnificent strike, this

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time the left foot of Sutton. That was zooming over the head of the

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keeper. Two goals in five minutes for Motherwell, both equally

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impressive. Boyce throws Ross County a lifeline.

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12 minutes from time. It is a goal back for the home team. Reigniting

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hopes of getting something from this game. It was all about the

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persistence here. He was being held, but he got the ball back.

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Trying to find the top corner. He was not far away.

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And there is always with a free header, a flashing header. But he

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couldn't hit the target, the Ross County defender. It was a decent

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chance for 2-2. They are looking to create something

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later on, and best header from Cardle was blocked. That was heading

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inside the post, and it is a good diving stop to keep the score at

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2-1, Motherwell. It has taken two fantastic goals to win today. We are

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getting players back and getting that fitness. There are always

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positives in any match, but ultimately we have lost a match and

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that is disappointing. The debut defeat for Jim McIntyre there. Tough

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times for Motherwell this season. How big a win was that? It was

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massive. We knew we were going up to Ross County and it would be a tough

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game. But for us, it was just about getting the three points. I do know

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if we deserved all three, to be honest, but we managed to get to

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fantastic goals from Vigurs and John Sutton. We were just happy that we

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won the game. In my opinion, I don't think Vigurs has done enough set

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pieces as he should. And this one is fantastic, John Sutton texted on his

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chest and then just captures the goalkeeper off-guard. Should the

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keeper have done better? It is right underneath the bar, and he is only a

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couple of yards off his line. It is just a great strike. Good way to get

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off the mark. Stuart McCall in the papers today linked with possibly

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becoming assistant finial Wonnacott Crystal Palace. Can you give us any

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inside gossip? -- assistant for Warnock. No, it is the first I've

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heard of it. You want to keep your good players and your managers, so

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hopefully it is just the papers talking. And Jim McIntyre in charge

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at Ross, any times they will turn the corner? I have no doubt he will

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turn the place around. He's a infectious character and will get

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the boys working hard. He is certainly going in the right

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direction, so hopefully they can start to climb the table. Next to a

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big rivalry, St Johnstone against Andy. -- Dundee. Plenty of

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silverware on display before the match at McDiarmid Park, including

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the Scottish Cup, any excuse to get it back out in front of the fans!

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Also there was the Ryder Cup. Gary Harkins looking for Greg

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Stewart here. There is a good atmosphere around

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McDermott Park. The header comes from Thomas Konrad,

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and Dundee are ahead. The corner was initially defended, and Anderson got

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it away. And Harkins went up. Thomas Konrad with the header there.

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He enjoyed it, too. Au Halloran has it out to Greg

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Stewart, too. Gary Harkins has made the run, but fires it off target. St

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Johnstone should be about concerned the amount of space they are giving

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away. Again, they are finding space. Jim

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McAlister that time. Roberts clipped it in, McAllister met it. Frazer

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Wright with the header away. Greg Stewart was offside. The referee

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will bring it back for the free kick. Anderson seemed to take down

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Gary Harkins, and with the offside flag up, the free kick was giving.

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Gary Harkins steps up and forces the save from the goalkeeper.

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Alan Mannus with the save, it was clipped across. He got himself into

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a really good shooting position, but Alan Mannus was his equal. I thought

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we looked comfortable in the second half. I was delighted with the

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team, I thought they were excellent and it was a great team performance.

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Another clean sheet. We had some good opportunities, particularly

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down the right, that we didn't make enough of the opportunities. In the

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second half, we huffed and puffed but didn't get into the game.

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St Johnstone don't like international breaks, it seems.

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Straight after each international break last summer, they lost. And

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once again it has happened. As an international manager, you should

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take some of the blame for this! Why is this occurring? I spoke to Tommy

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Wright today, and he was obviously disappointed with the result. It is

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a difficult one for managers. They came in off the back of two good

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results, and probably didn't want the break, it came at the wrong time

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for them. 14 days is a long time to give the players off. Because a lot

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of them are not internationals. No, it is not sending them away and they

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come back with fatigue, it is managing them over that period. A

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slight bit of controversy about the Dundee goal in terms of who was

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trying to claim it. Gary Harkins trying to get some of the action,

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but it was Thomas Konrad's goal, wasn't it? It certainly looks to me

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as if he has hit it. If he can get his leg up that high to get his toe

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on that! Paul Hartley has done really well with his recruitment so

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far. Paul McGowan, Gary Harkins, he has some good players in.

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Realistically, how high can they finish? I think they have got to be

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aiming, they might have wanted top six, but Paul Hartley has taken

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players that other managers might have stayed away from, and he has

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backed himself to handle those players. He has some really good

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technical players in there. I think for a new team when they come up, it

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is getting momentum into their season, and they have managed to do

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that, and they will want that to continue. No points for St Mirren as

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they went into this weekend, four straight defeats and zero goals

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scored, it was a gloomy backdrop as they travelled down to Kilmarnock.

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One change for Kilmarnock from the side that lost at Inverness.

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Jim Goodwin returns from suspension for St Mirren.

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That was punched away, not convincingly, by Kello.

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The header was just wide of Marian Kello's post. The former striker

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almost opening his account for his new team. That was a poor pass. Here

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is a chance for Naismith. Cut back to Maclean. That really should have

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been the opening for Saints. The ball is overlying, but free kick

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says referee Alan Muir. A great challenge here by Connerly, and a

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magnificent through ball to Muirhead. He is on his left foot, he

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cuts inside, he shoots, he scores! Kilmarnock take the lead. Robbie

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Muirhead with his second goal of the season. It all started with a

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traffic challenge in his own half, and a wonderful pass through. Still

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with plenty of work to do, a clinical finish. It gave Kello no

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chance. That is a poor backpass, puts his

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defence under pressure, but that was great play there. A chance here for

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an equaliser, and Saints are back on level terms! Great treasure there

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from McGinn. Still work to be done, it is crossed to the back post, and

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Drury knocked the ball home. The crowd are unhappy there was no free

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kick awarded for the challenge by McGinn. And a free header for

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Connerly! Kilmarnock are back in front. Poor defending, you have to

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say, by Saints, but a thundering header from Mark Connolly beyond

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Kello to put Kilmarnock back in the lead. Great play by Marwood. There

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is a chance here for St Mirren. He is giving a yellow card and a free

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kick. A yellow card for a dive. You always feel like the players we have

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are liable to score goals. I think last year we would have lost that

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type of game. Frustrated that we managed to get ourselves back into

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the game with a goal but wouldn't take advantage of it. The second

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goal was uncontested, which is galling. Considering how we want to

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get back into the game. A good win for Kilmarnock, and

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finally a goal for St Mirren, but still no win.

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This was a long ball, but they were defending too deep, the starting

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position was all wrong. That was a long ball up the pitch, and there is

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no pressure with the centre-backs coming up the side. When you're not

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scoring as frequently as possible, you rely on your back four. It is

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just the team lacking confidence in how to defend. A lot of pressure on

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the St Mirren manager going into Friday's match against Partick

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Thistle with the pressure mounting. There seems to be, if you look at

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the situation, Tommy was working alongside Danny last year. There is

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no better man to be in charge at this point in time. I think he

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talked about the fact that these are group of players that will have to

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turn it around. The concern will be the nature of the goals, the set

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pieces, and if you start losing goals in set pieces, and he was

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saying then, they worked their way back into the game but then lost on

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a set piece. It doesn't matter how well organised you are for those

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types of situations, the players have to stand up and do their jobs,

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and buses where they are losing games at the moment. And that is

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Kilmarnock into the top six. Again, they have recruited well. They have

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Josh Magennis up top, who put himself about. Even though they have

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lost Kris Boyd, they seem to be more collective this year. After all

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that, the Premiership table looks like this. Hamilton Academical top

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of the table on goal difference. That is where we leave the

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Premiership now and turn our attention to matters in the

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championship. Great strike, really good goal.

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Nicky Law! Scotland's second-tier burst into

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life on Friday night when Rangers and Raith Rovers came together at

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the park. Could Ally McCoist's side get the right result on the pitch?

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18-year-old Lewis Vaughan with a fair bit of experience around him

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there. Teenage winger Fraser Aird is back for Rangers.

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That is a good cross for Nicky Clark to open the scoring in the 16th

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minute. It has been coming. Lots of pace on the cross, and redirected

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into the corner by Nicky Clark. Rangers are hustling to get the ball

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back. Ian Black allowed to line up the shot, deflected and in. And 1-0

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becomes 2-0 seven minutes before half-time. Laidlaw had no chance.

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Liam Fox gives away possession. It has happened all too often for the

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Kirkcaldy team. It is Nicky Law! And it is a brilliant third goal for

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Rangers. There was a slice of good fortune about goal number two. No

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deflection needed this time. And this is unstoppable.

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Black's thumping header is right in front of Kris Boyd. And no one is in

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greater disbelief than him that he has missed that.

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The header goes Nicky Law's way, and Kris Boyd! Well, it is not going to

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be his night, Kris Boyd. Nothing wrong with the effort this time, but

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it is a really good save by Laidlaw. Rangers continue to dominate, and

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that is through for Kris Boyd. This time? No. A hat-trick of chances,

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and this time credit to Laidlaw for standing up to the striker. Wallace

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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

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perfect penalty on a pretty perfect night for Rangers. They have beaten

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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

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running out of team in the end against the class of Rangers. --

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Raith Rovers running out of Steen. They will be tough to beat in the

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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

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the game. Time for some more championship

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action now. Falkirk were at home to Queen of the South.

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Despite Jim McIntyre's departure, Queen of the South made a lively

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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,

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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

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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

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be very interested in taking it on. Hearts setting the pace so far in

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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.

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In the second half, Iain Murray's side probably should have scored.

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Danny Wilson fluffing his clearance, that Kane couldn't react in time.

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Sam Nicholson with this header off the bar. But 0-0, it finished.

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We are only at two, but we have kept a clean sheet, it is a far cry from

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last year. For us, it is about points. Every point gets us out of

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prison and we have enough to make sure we are safe for next season. It

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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

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very much indeed. Five games in the Championship this weekend. Apart

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from the games we have shown you, here are the other results.

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That leaves the championship table looking like this.

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That is it from the Sportscene, a referendum free zone! Yes or no, we

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will see you again next weekend. Good night.

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