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Well, I think we have probably agonised enough about Scotland over | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
the last couple of weeks. Let's switch the spotlight to the SPL on | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
the back of the international break. A quick reminder of the story so | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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That's a brilliant finish! For a The SPL are back in business is | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
again. Stephen Craigan and Pat Bonner will put some words to the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
pictures, starting in Perth, where Celtic, head of their Champions' | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
League opener against Benfica, faced St Johnstone. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
A flu hit St Johnstone have had their training plans disrupted. But | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
there was still able to field the same starting 11 as against Dundee | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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United. Scott Brown was back after in the Champions' League. They have | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
to give full focus to this at the moment. Kris Commons, a dream start | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
for the champions! They are ahead inside three minutes. A 4th goal of | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
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the season for Kris Commons. He is enough to this. 1-0. Not the start | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
that Steve Lomas wanted. Dave Mackay, with a free kick. A really | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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good effort. It had to be tipped finding a hole in the middle of the | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
Celtic defence. Well, on 18 minutes, he square as the game. He was set | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
up by Rowan Vine. A really good turn and finish, into the corner, | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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that. Down goes Kris Commons. The referee looks at it and says, no | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
penalty. He didn't make contact with the ball. This could have been | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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Venezuelan striker. Didn't look totally convincing, from just | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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Johnstone ahead, right on half-time. He's had a really good first 45, | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
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and he struck it really well. He doesn't tend to need a second | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
invitation, Commons, from just about any range. Looking a little | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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bit concerned, the Celtic manager, keeper, flops onto the loose ball. | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
That could so easily have ended up behind him. Mulgrew carved out the | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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opening. Cooper had the double didn't seem to be expecting that. | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
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the shot. The Celtic captain's side-foot effort was not a great | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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the game goes on. The substitute, What a goal! A brilliant finish by | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Rowan Vine! Will that be the goal that gives St Johnstone their first | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
win of the season? It was curling and dipping away from Fraser | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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Forster. Into the corner of the net. We were both at the game, St | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Johnstone needed that and they deserved it as well? It was hard to | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
say, they certainly didn't deserve to lose. On the reflection of play, | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Celtic certain had -- certainly had their chances to win the game. They | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
have been on such a bad run of form, going a goal down against Celtic, | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
it is easy to capitulate. They didn't, maybe on a balance of play | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
they just nicked it. They found flaws in the Celtic defence? Well, | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
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wide open. Scott Brown, he's here. He's getting himself into the full- | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
back position. That huge hole is where he should be. Too big a gap | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
between him and Charlie Mulgrew. He's trying to read the pass and he | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
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That they -- is a feature of herself a's play, there are huge | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
gaps. That is an area that you can exploit. On that footage, you can | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
see it easily exploited. Bad defending by Charlie. He didn't get | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
close to the big guy at all. He allowed a simple shot on goal. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
much would you have been screaming at Bath defence in front of you? | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
wouldn't have allowed them to get forward that much, especially when | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
the ball is down the right-hand side. We are always taught that the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
full-back on the opposite side should stay. There was too much of | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
a gap, you are right. But that is discipline. That is where an | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
experienced central defender should be asking the full-back to come | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
round and stay as a three. He ran with it, they were never dominated | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
a game, you felt like they could go and get a second goal. Suddenly | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
they found themselves exposed and St Johnstone capitalised. They | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
could have had that second goal that they had been given a penalty | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
for this by Anderson? A terrible mistake in the first place. He half | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
panicked. He could have stayed on his feet. He could maybe have used | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
his body better. Once you go to ground and you do not make contact | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
with the ball, for me, that's a penalty. A clear-cut penalty. How | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
he didn't give it, I don't know. I don't think Neil Lennon was too | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
happy. He panicked. As a defender, you try to make up for your own | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
error, he's in a great position. He's trying to lunch in and get the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
ball. Kris Commons is clever, he puts his body in front of the ball. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
No doubt, penalty kick. You could have been sent off, because if it's | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
a penalty, it's a sending off, and a second goal for Celtic. We can | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
pick holes in both goals conceded, but from Rowan Vine and St | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Johnstone's point of view, the winner was special? A special goal | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
by that young man. A simple throw- in. He just made a substitution, he | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
took Brown off. There was a huge gap in front of the back four. A | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
lovely goal, bent around the goalkeeper. If you look at the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
defender, he goes around him with his right foot, should he have been | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
trying to block his left foot? A great finish, goalkeeper had no | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
chance. I looked at the St Johnstone team, the guys that were | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
not playing, the guys that came off the bench, this to be a platform | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
for them to take Goff? It has to do. Yesterday was their 15th game, one | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
win in 15 including last season. A lot of pressure, going into that. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
That is when you look at your players for a response. Kevin Moran, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
David Robertson, they were not in the squad. They have huge strength | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
and depth. To go to the next level they have to start winning games. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Neil Lennon was raging about too many Celtic players not turning up, | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
as he put it. How much significance is there in yesterday, and as we | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
look towards Benfica? Of course, he was saying he did not want to hear | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the words Champions' League or he would scream. But that is part and | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
parcel when you play for Celtic. You are better in the Champions' | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
League than qualifying, you've got to get in focus for the league, the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Champions' League, it all comes quick and fast. You've got to go | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
from the league game and straight into the Champions' League. I think | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Wednesday night will be different. They will throw away that game now, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
the guys will be focused. It depends on the team he put out. | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
you optimistic? At home, of course. Celtic have a good record at home | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
in European competitions. It would be good to see if they could follow | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
one from the Europa Cup, the runs that they had last year. It's a big | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
night for some of those players, almost making their debut in the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
group stage. There be goalscorer has been tremendous in Europe, I | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
would like to see him progress and use that as a platform to get into | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
the English team. A big night for him. Benfica will be a quality team. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
They have strong players up front, they can play the diamond in the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
middle of the picture on Celtic will have to be strong in that area. | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
I expect Brown to be back in there. It depends on how he deploys his | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
players. It will be a great night, great atmosphere. The crowd will be | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
a big positive for Celtic as well. I was there when they qualified for | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
the group stage, it was a great night and the atmosphere was | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
tremendous. I expect to see them on Wednesday night, it's great to be | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
in the Champions' League. Dundee got their first win of the season a | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
fortnight ago. They are building up the experience in their squad with | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
the recent recruitment of the likes of Colin Nish. Would that be enough | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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against top of the league as league leaders, looking to | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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preserve that position. Fraser Kerr, Garrio then that got in the way of | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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McAllister got right in the way of that. He felt the full force of | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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didn't catch hold of it. Randall had to make the save, none the less. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
The Irish keeper would have been relieved that he didn't really | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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catch this one as he would have trademark header from the big | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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striker. A lovely ball enough. He given. Motherwell will have a free | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
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equaliser. Still, Motherwell try to press. Typical of him. Douglas was | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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claims for a penalty but they might It was not behind for a corner. A | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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Dundee are looking to put the game beyond Motherwell. Colin Nish | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :16:34. | :17:32. | |
out. Michael Higdon forced it over What a header from Higdon. Surely | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
now the points are sealed for the visitors, that will keep them top | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
of the Scottish Premier League. It is the 6th goal of the season for | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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Top of the league. It is a great start. Eight goals in August, to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
have the international break, to recover, after going 1-0 doubt. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
That was the problem last season, when we went behind. The boys did a | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
huge lift from yesterday afternoon. Dundee got themselves ahead at | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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Colin Nish is giving them something first half, then to lose the game. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
This was a superb header, across the goalkeeper exactly way you want | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
to head it. You can ask questions of the defender. You can't gamble | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
in the box. You have to hold your ground. Adams took a step and it | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
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killed him. There has pace. Nish is a target man. It is a good balance. | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
They did not know if they were in the Premiership or the First | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Division, they are trying to get the team together. It will take | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
them time, I am sure. They had Michael Kerr and Colin Nish, they | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
will do a turn at. I take it they are like him? It is a shame for | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Michael, he does not get the credit he deserves. He had 15 goals last | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
season for us. Six for Motherwell. It is a style of play at times. He | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
looks lazy but you put the ball in the box, as we have seen, he will | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
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guy. Don't ask him to rent out wide. He is dangerous. The only way you | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
can defend his to keep him out of the box, or get a goalkeeper to | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
punch him for crosses. It is two goal yesterday, six in the last | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
three games. If you have the right players around Michael Higdon, he | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
will flourish? The manager has always been speaking to the players, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
saying if you put the balls in the right area, he will get on the end | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
of it. He has scored with his head, his left foot, this is his right | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
foot. He came through the Academy and he worked on it could have -- | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
If you put the ball in the box, he will put it in the net. Stuart | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
McCall is not reinventing the wheel with what he does in terms of | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
coaching at Motherwell, but he has something special, hasn't he? | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Resources have been stretched in the last few weeks? They have. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
Every time he does something, people say he can't do it again, he | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
has to bring other players in. But he continues to do it. The players | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
enjoyed working with him. He has a good mentality. They respond. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
eyes down for Terry Butcher and Craig Brown, your attention. Both | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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managers took decision-making in the most SPL goals this season | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
against one who has been solid at the back so far but back then, on | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
loan from Celtic and making his Inverness debut, almost got the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
better of the defence. It was all Jones who set up the chance for | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Blackman, but the Welshman would not be on the pitch from its longer | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
as Fraser was sent on his way. Tudur-Jones stopped in his tracks. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
It looked a heavy challenge and the Inverness player was shown his | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
second red of the season. After the match, Terry Butcher said he felt | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
the referee got it wrong. But Inverness were down to ten men. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
There were more contentious issues as there was a lovely ball through | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
to Sutherland. Anderson was at the centre of this one. The referee was | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
right up with played when he showed a red card to the Dons' defender, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the first of his senior career. The Dons's manager was not convinced | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
and the club is considering an appeal. Foran stepped up to take | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
the penalty. It was well taken. Were Inverness on their way to | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
their first SPL win of the season? No sooner had Foran celebrated his | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
goal, then he was in the referee's book. Another crunching tackle on | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
18-year-old Fraser. It was a yellow card for the Inverness player. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Foran was not put off after his booking. This was a lovely ball to | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Durham, only for Reynolds to save the day for Aberdeen. Again, the | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
referee was well placed to spot any infringement. Again, the Inverness | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
manager was not in agreement with his decision. He felt it should | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
have been a penalty. Butcher's annoyance was compounded as | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Aberdeen fought back. There was some neat play. The Dons levelled | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
with six minutes left. A great ball in from Hayes and Cameron Smith had | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
the header, his first senior goal Terry Butcher should have been | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
raging about the switch off at the end that allowed the equaliser but | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
what he was raging about publicly was the red card for Tudur-Jones. | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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The referee was in a good position. Maybe he can get away with the | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
yellow card. Great play by Fraser. This is the one. It is below his | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
knee. It is a dangerous tackle. He comes in at the front, he is off | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
the ground. Maybe Terry will replicate his challenges, nowadays | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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you can't get away with that. That It was a dangerous tackle. He put | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Fraser in danger. It is a red card. There is a distinct difference | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
between the challenge of Tudur- Jones, which got red, and this one | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
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side, he is trying to get low for the ball and he has mistimed it. | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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That is my reading of it. If he got It is a tribute to Fraser that he | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
is being targeted for treatment? has been excellent. It is the time | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
in history that young players will get more chances than ever and they | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
have to shine. He is one that can play on the right come on the left, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
and he is fearless. Two tackles, he got on with it. I agree, it is an | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
opportunity in Scottish football for young players to get the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
opportunity to play. It is up to them thereafter. Now, you can see | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
some of the teams and the young players are getting in. We did not | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
see that a number of years ago. There were too many mediocre | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
foreign players, no disrespect to them. Now the young Scottish | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
players will have a chance. That is what happened in our day, if we did | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
not get a chance we would not have progressed. There is an opportunity. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
If everybody allows the players to develop. Young players have to step | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
up to the mark and dedicate themselves to the top, professional | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
players. Can we expect an Aberdeen appeal against the red card showed | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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first sending off. There is a coming together, no doubt. He | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
eventually gets there, a good touch. He plays the ball. He gets a touch. | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
It is low down, he poked the ball. A bad decision by the referee. He | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
was in a good position. Are you happening -- happy with the | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
positioning? Every decision, it is decision-making, they are fit this | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
is fine, the position, that is the bit we sometimes question. The | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
decision-making, it is wrong. difficult for managers and coaches, | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
they are on the sideline and see something going against them, | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
they're thinking about their job. It is great for us guys when we are | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
out of it and we can make up our mind but that is the nature. Some | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
go for you, some don't. The referee balanced it beautifully. He gave | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
the penalty which looked as though it was not and he did not give this | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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good position. I think it was a bad decision by Durham. He moves the | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
ball left. That is why he is getting angry. That is more of a | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
penalty than the first one. Unfortunately it does not always | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
For Hibs fans, the end of last season and the beginning of this | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
one have been scarily similar. Let's see what happened at | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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a clean sheet against Ross County and keeps Leigh Griffiths at bay | :27:42. | :27:52. | |
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goalkeeper and it is in! 14 minutes gone, Leigh Griffiths scores from | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
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his time. What on earth was he waiting for? He seemed to want all | :28:19. | :28:26. | |
day and more. Sheridan had a dummy, a great run from the striker. He | :28:26. | :28:36. | |
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looked left and right and took far lovely finish. 32 minutes gone. | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
Then Williams came for it, was unconvincing at Dunny Ritchie, his | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
first goal since the Second of January, a lovely finish -- Danny | :29:15. | :29:25. | |
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player is furious. Kenny took a touch away, the defender tried to | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
check and seemed to catch him on the ankle. Kilmarnock think he died. | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
He may have gone down early, but there was contact. He Leigh | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
Griffiths, a great penalty. In stoppage time, Leigh Griffiths, | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
five for the season. The keeper had no chance and Hibs lead at half- | :30:01. | :30:11. | |
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that was for the equaliser. They have drawn both SPL matches on | :30:36. | :30:46. | |
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their travels this season. That was it will not count. The celebrations | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
are cut short. Just seemed to be in advance... Yes, that's the correct | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
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We should probably have a meeting of the dubious goals panel and | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
maybe their dubious goalkeeping panel as well? This was a bad | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
mistake. Certainly, his timing. When you look at it, there wasn't | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
really anybody on him. It was a bad, bad mistake. He made up for it | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
later, he made some excellent saves. This is one he would not want to | :31:45. | :31:52. | |
see again. Leigh Griffiths goal, or own goal? If I think it is an own- | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
goal. An own-goal specialists! somebody who holds the record of | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
own goals in the SPL, I think it is an own-goal. It hits him on the | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
back of the head. Leigh Griffiths is a strike and he will try to | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
claim it. They weren't happy about the penalty award. Maybe from his | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
distance away, he did see him going down pretty easily? He went down | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
early, from this angle it looks like a diver. But from here, it | :32:17. | :32:26. | |
looks like he put his leg in and took him. You always feel hard done | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
by as a defender. He feels that. The man on form, the SPL player of | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
the month, he putted away. How much did you fear for Hibernian in the | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
opening weekend? What sort of recovery have they made? Incredible. | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
Leigh Griffiths hitting form has been crucial. Also getting in at | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
Jim Clancy, the experienced players. Their home form, getting that right, | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
they only won two home games last season. That is the difference. | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
horrendous end of the season for them. The first game was not great, | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
but they did really well to get it together. He's used to being at the | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
top of the league, he doesn't like being down there. He never was | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
during his managerial career. He will be much more happy now. He's | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
got used to getting into the premier division, saying how it is | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
going, getting used to the players. St Mirren were hoping for third | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
time lucky in their quest for a first home win of the season. In | :33:20. | :33:30. | |
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MacGowan. In goes Jim Goodwin. Free-kick given against the St | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
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Mirren skipper. Murray is reaching Patterson, with a chance. A good | :33:57. | :34:04. | |
effort from the youngster. Well, it was a strong right hand from Craig | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
Samson to make the save. Danny Lennon, hoping his team can get | :34:10. | :34:20. | |
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using his strength and know-how. He can make something happen. He's | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
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What a Trans. He's wondering what youngster, in the right place, | :35:12. | :35:22. | |
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the corner of the net until the fully 40 yards! I think Jamie | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
McDonald was unsighted. There was certainly lots of movement on the | :36:03. | :36:13. | |
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ball, which ended up in the back of after half-time. St Merryn have a | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
two goal lead. -- St Mirren. The challenge was less than impressive | :36:44. | :36:54. | |
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from Hearts. Thomson put it on a efforts to stop Thomson. That could | :36:55. | :37:05. | |
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had a great chance to get one back. He ends up in the back of the net. | :37:08. | :37:17. | |
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That is where he intended to put did! It looks very much as if St | :37:25. | :37:34. | |
Mirren are going to win this and Your fellow countryman, Jim Goodwin, | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
had no right to be shooting from that distance? He's done it before | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
in the past. When I saw this goal, I thought that the goalkeeper must | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
be at fault. But when you see it from a different angle, the | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
goalkeeper was unsighted, but not just that, the movement of the ball | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
was quite incredible. That is what you see with long shots. You can | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
see the movement of the ball. It is right in the corner. He has a | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
history, in fact? I cleared the ball out for him here. Sometimes | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
you go, go on, hit it. It's the old theory, if you don't shoot, you | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
won't score. He's got a good strike from the edge of the box. They look | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
like they are getting a good squad together. I watched them quite a | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
few times last year. They have a nice ground, Danny Lennon, they | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
want to play football, they get it down and pass it. Sometimes they | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
are a little bit open. They pass the ball really well, but left | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
themselves wide open at Celtic. They are a good team, they have | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
some good players. Young Paul MacGowan in the middle of the pitch, | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
excellent little player. He was at Celtic and moved on, refreshed his | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
career. John McGlynn was in the studio about a month ago. Do you | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
worry for him in terms of what he has got in his squad? John Sutton | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
will on the bench, Patterson played up front, they have scored a goal | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
in their last three league games? Such a good start the season, | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
bidets in Johnstone, everybody thought they could roll on and be | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
the second best team in Scotland. It's gone slightly downhill since | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
then. They don't have enough of a goal threat. On the bench, John | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
Sutton, Scott Robinson, apart from that they are very thin. I do | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
slightly worried for John. He's under a little bit of pressure. You | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
know the history of the chairman at Hearts. You need some results quick. | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
Friday night football at Tannadice, Dundee United trying to give Ross | :39:29. | :39:39. | |
County a rare taste of league impressive unbeaten league record, | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
almost took the lead early on at Tannadice. Colin McMenamin with a | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
second bite of the cherry. A good effort, with the keeper routed to | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
the spot. But the header was kept out by the woodworker. And the | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
striker pounced again minutes later, all thanks to a badly controlled | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
back-pass. The keeper was the guilty party, Colin McMenamin tried | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
to capitalise. After those early chances, Dundee United and Johnny | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
Russell tried to give the home fans something to cheer. A wonderful run, | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
showing great strength. Michael Fraser's left foot did quite a job. | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
Side-netting. Fraser was tested by a former team-mate. He couldn't get | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
the better of the Ross County keeper. Chances continued for both | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
teams. This long punt, aimed at Colin McMenamin. The keeper tried | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
to get to the danger but, instead, offered Gary Glen a terrific | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
opportunity. At the other end, Johnny Russell was proving a | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
handful. More delightful play from him. This was a lovely ball for | :40:45. | :40:53. | |
Ryan Dow. Just watch Ross topless's reaction. Was he worried? Well, he | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
needn't have been. The referee said he got the ball. A bit of a 50-51, | :40:59. | :41:08. | |
this. No real arguments from either side. Both sides have drawn 0-0 in | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
the previous games before the international break. Russell seemed | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
determined to provide the breakthrough. His ball was dealt | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
with, of sorts, by Fitzpatrick. But it fell to Ryan Dow, who was | :41:22. | :41:29. | |
unfortunate with his clever trip. - - chip. Good vision. He was unlucky | :41:29. | :41:39. | |
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as the ball hits the bar. The home side came close again. This time, | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
defender Gavin Gurning with a downward header. Post and | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
goalkeeper kept it out. 0-0 it finished. A remarkable 14 games | :41:49. | :41:59. | |
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It is remarkable. Celtic, 14 league games unbeaten? To get up there was | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
the goal, but to get stable, keep them without getting into that | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
relegation zone, that is going to be a big challenge for them. But | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
they are well organised, good manager and fantastic. Fantastic | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
story. They haven't scored from open play yes. That's not a | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
criticism of the team, but a slight worry over the coming weeks might | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
be that they haven't scored enough goals. If they go behind, they | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
might be asked questions. They have only conceded one SPL goal, | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
defensively they are great, so it's finding the balance of getting the | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
goals but still remaining defensively solid. They seem to | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
miss Jon Daley. He's been around for a long time. Even though he is | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
an Irish lad and he has done really well, it's a bit like you were | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
saying about Samaras. Celtic, they cannot play the ball long, they | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
know that if you hit it up to, he is the same. They are missing him | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
and they want to get him back as quickly as possible. It's almost | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
the other side of the coin, the up a weekend at Tannadice. Everybody | :43:05. | :43:13. | |
was worried about Hibs, everybody was concerned about Derby united -- | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
Dundee United? Well, everybody was thinking, this is the second best | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
team in Scotland. At that time they were. Apart from that spell at | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
Kilmarnock, defensively they have done well. It's up to the team to | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
chip in some goals. I think, over the peace, we can say they are the | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
best side. Let's have a look at the Clydesdale Bank Premier League | :43:36. | :43:45. | |
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table before we go. Eight points All of that action for you next | :44:08. | :44:13. |