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Good afternoon, and welcome to another result show, more fun and | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
less press I can than a night on the town with the American swim team. 0 | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
pins of score update, report u results manager interview and more | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
including the Wisdom and wit of our studio guests, they are Marc Wilson | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
and Stuart Cosgrove. Welcome gentlemen, now there are games afoot | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
so let us find out what is happening. Starting with the | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Premiership match at Ibrox where Rangers are at home to Motherwell. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
The latest is Motherwell are leading by a goal to nil, the goal as you | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
can see there, scored by McDonald, 19 minutes into the match. There is | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
some more positive news for Rangers fan, they have signed the striker | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Joe Garner from Preston North End. Let us bounce round the rest of the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
grounds, we will start at Aberdeen at home to Partick Thistle. Aberdeen | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
have their first goal scored after 28 minutes. McGinn and what a superb | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
one it was. A floated flee kick over the wall into the top right hand | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
corner of the net. The free kick conceded by Osman, hardly surprising | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
there, you could have run a sweep on what minute he would get booked. It | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
was the 28th and Partick Thistle trail at the start of the second | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
half by that one goal to nil. Let us say good afternoon to John Barnes at | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Tynecastle where Hearts are entertaining Inverness Both sides | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
looking for the first win of the league season. At the moment | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
half-time it looks as though it is going to go the way of Hearts, they | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
are leading 2-0. The first scored by Cowie and ten minutes later Salmon | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
leaped to score the second. Can't believe he said that. Let us | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
head to the Global Energy Stadium. Ross County one Kilmarnock 0. It is | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Boyce who is again made the difference for County. A thumping | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
the close range finish after being involved in nice build up play. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Boyce banging in the goals again. We are all, watching pictures of the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
matches coming in. You have decided among yourselves which you are | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
watching. You are watching Aberdeen, one goal in it, but it was a belter. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
It was a wonderful free kick by McGinn. Right footed, left top | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
corner goalkeeper no chance, just round the wall, wonderful. First I | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
half was all Aberdeen, they attacked, like we heard there, Osman | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
was very physical and committed a few fouls, a couple of free-kicks, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and the Partick Thistle goalkeeper a couple of good saves. Partick | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Thistle has been counter attacking, Amoo has a great chance from the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
right-hand side, he broke through, but, I think it was lowing whon | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
blocked his shot, but -- Logan who blocked his shot. It has been all | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Aberdeen, they are on the attack and looking dangerous. You are watching | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Hearts Inverness Mark. Avoid the John Barnes style metaphor if you | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
like, Hearts well worth the lead? They are, and it has been a tough | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
week for Hearts, because they Nielson has come under criticism | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
about team selection, he has had to defend himself and say the way the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
style of play that Hearts are playing is his. It is back of the | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Hearts of last season, they scored two great goals. Cowie's goal is | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
fantastic, great one touch play, edge of the box, Cowie curls it into | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the bottom and Sammon off the score sheet with his first of the season. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
You are watching Ross County. It has not been a bad game. If you were | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
going to start betting now for who would be the Player of the Month | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Boyce would be in among there, started often the season with a | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
hat-trick, he has got the goal that is the separating goal between two | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
teams but it has been a close game and I notice that as Boyce came on | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
for the begin to have second half, he ran up and had a wry smile at | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Kris Boyd as if to say I will show you how to do it. It is a tight game | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
here so it is not over, but currently it is 1-0 Ross County. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Another goal scorer on the sheet at Ibrox McDonald He has been there | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
before and done it before but in a different strip, a surprise, I think | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
a lot of the Rangers fans will be surprised how they have started at | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
home this year. They lost the first goal against Hamilton, and the same | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
again today, so they are starting too slow. I don't know, Motherwell | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
manager comes out midweek and says we are good enough to go there and | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
win. His team is proving that now. The game very much still alive and | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
kicking. Not the one in Perth. St Johnstone at home. We will finish | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
how that finished shortly if he agreed with Macleod's version of | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
events. Celtic were superb in the first half of a match they merited | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
the victory from. Like in midweek they were made to sweat, birthday | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
boy Griffiths opened the scoring before Sinclair and Forrest added to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
the lead. Celtic were vibrant, bullish and full of confidence. They | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
took their foot off the gas in the second half, perhaps with one eye on | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Israel and the qualifier, when Swanson convert add penalty on 81 it | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
looks like consolation when MacLaine bundled home an 9 it looks like come | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
back on. The champions made it two wins out of two at the start of | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
their title defence. We will chat more about that later. We are | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
heading to Tynecastle. John barn, a goal flash for us Two minutes into | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the second half and Hearts have gone 3-0 up and it is Cowie claiming hiss | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
second of the afternoon, another sweeping move, this time Tony Ward | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
driving forward. He laid into Sammon. He put it into the path of | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Cowie. With his right foot he curled it beyond Fon Williams, it is Hearts | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
3, Inverness Caley Thistle 0. Let us get back to St Johnstone. I will | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
come to you. Renowned fan. You were worried before the faff I was | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
indeed. -- match. If there is a legacy here, if you go back to the | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
era of Lawson, Laudrup, St Johnstone took heavy defeats when we were on | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
television it was known as the curse of Sky and of course, now, with this | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
rejuvenated team there was anxiety that may take a doing in front of | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
the camera, that is what it felt like when we went 3-0 down. They are | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
a fighting team with a lot of spirit. I think the difficult thing | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
we faced was the loss prior to the kick off of Anderson who is the best | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
natural centre-back we have got, and that led to kind of shifting the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
team round, and all the rest of it, so that was a bit of a challenge, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
and then of course, going 3-0 down to the current team, it will be hard | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
to come back from that. The 4-2 defeat wasn't the worst in the | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
world. What is it with Celtic and 3-0 leads? Today was an odd game, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
because Celtic controlled possession, up until the 81st minute | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
and gave away a soft penalty. I looked like, sorry with respect, it | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
looked as though Celtic were having a training match. Apart from ten | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
minutes at the start, they were passing the ball nicely but then | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
they bring on three sub, they are thinking about Tuesday night. The | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
game was over at that point. You have to keep the door locked at the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
back. To concede two goals but the plus side is, last season, they | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
would have went panic stations for the last few minute, and got | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
everyone behind the ball. This Celtic team just went up the pitch, | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
created another chance and got the goal to turn more. Is that down to | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the boss changing the mentality? I think so. Obviously players to do | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the job on the pitch, but they showed the character there, 3-2, you | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
know, mechanic Dr Not is not an easy play to go. Go. They are very | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
aggressive, effective the way they play, so you know, 3-2, I must say | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
it, the pendulum was swinging, all credit to Celtic they killed the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
game. It is understandable that when you are 3-0 up and a massive | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
European match, looming next week, you know, to switch off a bit and | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
concede maybe a bit, a little bit slack, you know in the tackle and | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
concede a soft penalty, and then, goal straight after that, it is | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
understandable, but the way they responded to that was excellent. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Another bounce round the grounds starting at Ibrox, I can give you an | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
update on the goings on there, as we can see no change in the score line | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
there, Motherwell on course for a big victory there. McDonald the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
scorer. Let us move on back to Scot Davey. Aberdeen were one up last | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
time we heard from Scott. Any change? No, no change at the moment, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
still that sublime goal from McGinn separating the sides. He has been an | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
excellent form since coming back after that excellent time he had | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
during the Euros for Northern Ireland, it was a wonderful floated | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
free kick, and really no more than Aberdeen deserved from their | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
dominance and fluent attacking football. They have been playing | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
some good football but not making it count in the early stages of this | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
season, but certainly McGinn answering the problem there. Partick | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Thistle, well, creating their own problems but they have broken out on | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
two or three occasion, more composed finishing from there, it might have | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
got them back in the, Azeez knocking the ball, Edwards getting down the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
right-hand side and on the volley Azeez knocking it wide. At the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
moment it is 1-0. Back to Tynecastle, John Barnes is | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
watching Hearts against Inverness Caley Thistle. A one-sided affair? | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Hearts are flying this afternoon, there are terrific performance, and | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Cowie with two goals, the first after seven minutes, moving Souttar, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Salmon and Cowie was there with a left foot curler. Early in the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
second half, Salmon got the second goal, sorry, ten minutes after Cowie | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
got the first and Cowie has doubled his tally, two minutes into the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
second period, with a lovely worked goal, what Sammon and Cowie stepping | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
on to the pass from Sammon to curl it into the same corner, this time | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
with his right foot. A few moments ago, Nicholson worked a nice one two | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
at the edge of the box, he went down under the challenge from Warren and | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
looked a penalty for my money, but the referee waved it aside. The | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Hearts appeals. If it wasn't a penalty, Nicholson should have been | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
booked for diving but that didn't happener. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
We might return to the topic of diving later. We will return to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Dingwall and here from Martin Dowd and he is watching Ross County. Into | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
the second half it is still Ross County one Kilmarnock 0. Often as is | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
often the case it is the man who makes the breakthrough, it is Boyce | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
with the goal, he is player who once he gets a goal or two he goes on a | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
run. His confidence is up. That why he showed patience in holding | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
possession, I thought he may be delayed it too long, he fed Curran, | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
released Gardner, and got into the box where all good strikers go. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Kilmarnock didn't deal with the ball and Boyce thumped it home from close | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
range. Two debutantes for Killie T there is a chance, just wide there | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
from County, again, Martin Woods, great chance for a second, Hendrie | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
at right back and Charlee Adams for Kilmarnock, Jones has looked lively. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
A couple of chances for Kris Boyd haven't material leaded into a goal. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Lee Clark offensive, but they need more service, far from out of it as | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Mr Cosgrove pointed out, they have enough about them to cause County | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
problems but still Ross County one, Kilmarnock 0. A brief apology for | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
the blue skies we were showing there, it is wet and horrible out | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
there. Our graphics machine is on the blink a bit. We will get it | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
fixed typhoon when we here from -- soon when we here from Bryan. Good | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
afternoon, it is Dundee United two, Ayr United nil and the home side on | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
course for their first league win of the season. They have dominated this | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
game from the outset. Murray, van der Weg and Fraser going close | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
before they did make the breakthrough after 13 minutes. Smith | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
on loan from Aberdeen brought down inside the box by Paddy Boyle. Van | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
der Weg took the kick and it was saved but Murray was first to react. | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
Involved in gold number two, his cross half cleared by the Ayr | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
defence and Robson pounced and drilled the ball into the back of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the net. That was after 37 minutes. There has been little from Ayr, Gary | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Harkins shot from 25 yards that warmed the palms of Bell in the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
goal, but that has been it for the small Hardie band of fans here at | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Tannadice. We played 54 minutes and it is Dundee 2 Ayr 0. There has been | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
another goal between Aberdeen and Partick Thistle. The details come | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
from Scott Davey. A disaster for Lyndsey, the central defender for | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Partick Thistle, tried to be too cute, too clever. Turned away, and | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
he was dispossessed by Storie who ran through to knock the ball into | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
the net, off the inside of the goalkeeper's right hand post so it | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
is Aberdeen 2 Partick Thistle 0. Back to the Championship and we will | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
hear for the first time from Kenny Crawford, he is watching St Mirren | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
against Hibernian in Paisley. Good afternoon, after 59 minutes at the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Paisley stadium, not for the first time this season it is all about | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
striker couplen -- Cummings who racked up two goals by the time the | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
half hour mark was reefed. That is five for him. The frustrating thing | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
for Saints fans Hibs did not have to play out of their skin to get this. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Cummings got his first on 2. A great run by David Gray's cross was | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
reflected. It fell into the past of comings who tapped in from four | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
yards out. That was 1-0. The second goal was a gift, presented to | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Cummings from the St Mirren defence. A mix up between Baird and the | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
goalkeeper, they waited on one another to deal with the pass back, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Cummings nipped in, took it off and squeezed it it and it rolled into | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
the far corner. Saint Mignolet went off at half-time to boos but to a | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
chorus of boos and it is now back on for the second half but still St | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Mirren 0 Hibs 2. Raith Rovers against an. It is a | :15:50. | :16:03. | |
feisty, Phil on derby match. The teams have gone I did add 100 miles | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
an from the start. The game started three minutes early, three minutes | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
before three o'clock. Maybe the referee is on a night out tonight. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
No goals so far but lots of endeavour. Lewis Vaughan with a good | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
chance in the first have to Raith Rovers, a good free kick. Kallum | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Higginbotham with a free kick for Dunfermline. Declan McManus is | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
showing up well for Raith Rovers. The only thing we're missing is | :16:32. | :16:45. | |
a goal. Greenock Morton are losing 1-0 against Dumbarton, the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
part-timers. That was a Derek Gaston own goal. And an old favourite of | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
yours, Stuart, two goals from an old favourite of yours. Yes, you can | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
bank on him, one of the best natural goal-scorers in Scotland. Miles | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Storey getting a goal for Aberdeen. The new signing from Inverness. Very | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
important, I knew Straker at the club. Our reporter said it was a | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
disaster for Liam Lindsay. Yes, he wanted too much time on the ball. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
The Aberdeen offensive players pressed the Partick Thistle defence. | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
They pressed Liam Lindsay strongly and when the ball. It sounds like a | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
man of the match style performance from Don Cowie at Tynecastle? Yes, | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
he is everywhere now. He is leading by example. He is not renowned for | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
his goals. The way that Hearts are playing today, the midfield is | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
playing with so much freedom. Any one of them could have scored but | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Don Cowie has put two away. He will be looking for his hat-trick as | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
Hearts line up this free kick. Ross County, anything to report? Not much | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
to report, but Boyce is the difference between the two clubs. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Ross County need another goal because I can see, and are getting | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
something out of this. -- because I can see Kilmarnock getting | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
something. If you give him a chance, he will put it away, boys. Ross | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
County need another goal. We will see the outcome of this free kick. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
If they do what Aberdeen has done an score from the set piece, it would | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
be curtains for Kilmarnock. Do you want to commentate on this? The | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
referee, who is wearing a wonderful aquamarine top, he has had a dispute | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
with the Kilmarnock defence. Last week there was a dispute between the | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
referee and the defence as well. Yes, it was one of the strangest | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
decisions I have seen. He gave offside. He blew the whistle, you | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
can clearly see. The ball went in. Then he awarded the goal. Stuart, | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
nothing happened with that. Nothing happened. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Now to the first Friday night football of the new-ish season. | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Dundee on the back of a defeat by Rangers at Dens last | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
week were at home again, this time to Hamilton, who lost | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Just a couple of goals in this one and we can look at them now. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
The first one is one to savour. So much so I think we will show you it | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
two, perhaps three times. What do you make of that? Incredible. The | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
build-up play is good. Darren Lyon. He knocks sit back and get some | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
luck. He could not strike that sweeter. No chance for the | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
goalkeeper. You do that -- you think that is therefore a goal of the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
season. Do not see it. There will not be many better strikes than that | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
this season. Not quite as good a stray, Mark O'Hara on the scoresheet | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
again. It was a decent goal. Not as good as his headed goal in the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
previous game but nonetheless, it brings Dundee back into the game. A | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
bit of disappointment. You could hear it from Paul Hartley, the | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Dundee manager. He is massively disappointed with his own team, not | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
getting a grip of the game the way he would have hoped. Our next item, | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Paul Hartley, talking about his view of last night's match. We started | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
well. We cannot do anything about the goal, it was a fantastic strike. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
We got back into the game but in the second half, we did not perform. We | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
did not pass well, create enough angles. We did not show for the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
ball. We used the goalkeeper to much. Not acceptable. In the first | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
half, we were slow. We tried to pass through the zones. In the second | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
half, we were quicker and a bigger threat. It is frustrating for the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
second week, because on performance we should be sitting on seven | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
points. Last week we dominated. Today, we have also dominated and | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
created enough to win. The players should be on seven points, top of | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
the leak, but we have two. We need to put the ball in the back of the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
net. Mixu, neither manager particularly happy. Paul Hartley | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
marginally more upset than Martin Canning? Yes, when you dominate the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
match like Paul says, in the first half, the past well and played well. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
It is frustrating. I can feel his pain. Martin Canning, the improved | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
as the game went on. I thought he would have been happy with the point | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
away to Dundee? Absolutely, and taking the lead. Dundee at dens Park | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
is not easy. Hamilton have started well. Martin says they have been | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
playing well. It is a fine line. When you create those chances you | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
have to put them away. To concede from a set piece, the equaliser, in | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
the end, I do not know if there was blocking going on. The goal seemed | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
to be very open. We heard from a couple of managers. We can here for | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
-- from a couple more. The bosses of St Johnstone and Celtic. The game at | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
McDiarmid Park finished 4-2 Celtic. Celtic deserved to win the game. We | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
can play better than in the first half. When we analyse the goals, we | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
have contributed to the first three goals. We showed a lot of character | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
in the second half. It can go several ways. You can end up losing | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
7-0, are you can dig in and try and get back into the game. We gave away | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
a soft penalty. It was a penalty. Then we conceded a goal when they | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
were down to ten men. We were totally in control. It went to 3- | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
too quickly. That is how football swings. The reaction from the | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
players was good, we get the ball again and score a fourth goal. Very | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
pleased. A notoriously tough place to come. I can see why. To come here | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
and play to that level was very pleasing. Ibrox is a tough place to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
go to get a result, as Motherwell are finding out. They were leading | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
1-0 through Scott McDonald, but Harry Forrester has equalised for | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Rangers. That was in the 64th minute. | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
Back to St Johnstone and Celtic. Tommy Wright was talking about sex, | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
seven, 8-0. He is a disarmingly honest manager. Some managers want | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
to pick away at one refereeing incident, they want to dispute every | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
single throw in. Tommy can be very brittle about his own team. He was | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
pointing to the fact that we were authors of a own downfall in the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
first 45 minutes. Not being as defensively strong as we have been | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
in the last ten games. He will be pleased they came back into it at | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
3-0. Yes, this is a dressing room were, six seasons, we have had a | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
strong dressing room. Team spirit has won us points when you thought | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
the game was dead and gone. To come back and get two madrigals, although | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
it was 4-2, it looked like it would be 3-2 and that would have been a | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
scare for Celtic. Mike Liam Boyce outgun Leigh Griffiths in terms of | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
being the top scorer this season? What about Danny Swanson? He has | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
scored seven already. He has been great. He is better than both of | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
them. He was the top man on show against Motherwell. Everything good | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
St Johnstone did went through him. He got a well-deserved goal and set | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
up some good chances. Tommy Wright has given him the platform to play | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
and the confidence. He looks like he is thriving. Players thriving under | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Brendan Rodgers as well. Leigh Griffiths on the scoresheet again, | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
James Forrest looks like a new player? Obviously every manager, the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
way they talk to the players, it is slightly different. If you pull the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
right strings, with certain players, you get the best out of them. That | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
seems to happen at Celtic at the moment. Brendan Rodgers is very | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
positive. He wants to pass, controlled the match and create | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
opportunities. The way he comes across, clear messages to the | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
players, how he wants them to play. Players like Forrest, they are | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
taking advantage. Someone has taken advantage of an opportunity at | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Stark's Park. Charlie Mann. It is the home side. A great goal. Bobby | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
Barr was the scorer. He got the ball on the right-hand side, and to his | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
left foot, and a good shot low. David Hutton, the Dunfermline | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
goalkeeper, got a hand to it but he could not keep it out the net. The | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
goal has come for the home side. Dunfermline need to get back into | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
the game. Raith Rovers ahead. And so to today's early kick-off | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
in the English Premier League. Stoke City at home to one | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
of the title favourites, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
at the Britannia Stadium. It was a margin of victory which may | :26:45. | :26:57. | |
be a little harsh on Stoke, but no mistake, Man City were impressive | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
today, particularly in the first half, when they were in control of | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
possession. Some debate about the opening award of the penalty when | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Ryan Shawcross was punished for the kind of challenge so often ignored, | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
but when Aguero tucked it in, you could not say it was against the run | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
of play. Aguero doubled their grip to cap an excellent first half. | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
Stoke rallied in the second half, and when Bojan scored a penalty at | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
fightback seemed on. It never materialised, and as Stoke tired | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
late on, Nolito added a couple of goals to give the scoreline and | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
impressive glass and send a message to the rest of the Premier League. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
We spoke about the effect Brendan Rodgers is having on Celtic. Let's | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
talk about Guardiola. He has said to the goalkeeper, you can leave if you | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
like. He has said to Yaya Toure, you can get back in the team when you | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
show intensity. He is not afraid to ruffle feathers. He is entitled to | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
do that. He wants to nature that every player is the type of player | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
that he likes. Attribute- wise and the way they go about things. He is | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
a strong man, that is why he is a great manager. He wants a sweeper- | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
keeper in goals. Have you ever played with any of them? I was never | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
fortunate enough. My goal keepers stayed on their line and let you do | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
the hard work. I am fascinated by Guardiola, and how he get his teams | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
to play. He did it with Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You think, can he | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
go to a third country and transform another team? It certainly looks | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
that way just now. He's not scared to say what he thinks. I read today | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
that he is not going to sacrifice his style of play and win I believe. | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
That is great for the Premier League and those watching. There is nothing | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
wrong with a sweeper -- keeper. You need someone who is great on the | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
left and right foot. If they come too far of their line, they are | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
easier to chip. That is the downside. | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
Now, folks, here's something to look forward to. | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
This week on BBC One Scotland it's the start of a four-part documentary | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
series reflecting on the past 30 years of Scottish football. | :29:16. | :29:17. | |
I got a phone call from an Italian journalist, a goal. She said, do you | :29:18. | :29:33. | |
really think that Uefa will allow France and Italy not to qualify. -- | :29:34. | :29:42. | |
a girl. I'm sure our internal business plan for SPL television, he | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
had known everything from the start. If you do not want to play for your | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
country, there is something wrong with you. More and more money will | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
become available. This will be a regular feature at Rangers. A | :29:57. | :30:04. | |
football club is not a toy, it is a business. They said, has he got any | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
money sitting there are? To perform at the highest level in any sport, | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
you have to have self belief. I can hardly wait. I can hardly wait | :30:10. | :30:26. | |
for another bounce around the grounds. We will start at Ibrox. | :30:27. | :30:35. | |
Still Rangers won Motherwell one, the home side's goal coming from | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
Forrester after McDonald put Motherwell up in the first half. | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
Back to butted to di. He is watching Aberdeen against Partick Thistle. | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
The Dons 2-0 ahead. McGinn 28 minutes and Storey in the second | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
half, 58 minutes his first goal. The former Inverness player and how they | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
could do with someone to score goals for them. A helping hand, a needless | :31:04. | :31:12. | |
free kick given away by Oz nan, then Lyndsey, a nightmare, he will not be | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
watching Sportscene tomorrow and he was dispossessed at the edge of the | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
box dithering about Storey. Capitalising to knock in the second. | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
It is no more than Aberdeen deserve. They have dominated from the off | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
although this will have created a couple of chances they have | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
squandered. Off we go to Tynecastle. Hearts 3-0 up. Let us have some more | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
of the thoughts of John Barnes. It is a Cowie show at the moment. | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
Hearts lead big 3-0. Cowie has two. One in the first half, after seven | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
minute, Sammon added a second ten minutes later and two minutes into | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
the second period Cowie was there after a lovely sweeping move from | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
the Tynecastle side, saw Sammon and Ward involved before Cowie knocked | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
it in at the far post. Nicholson went down in the box, a penalty | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
appeal was waved aside by the referee. The more problems for | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
Inverness injury wise, they are only listed five player on the bench and | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
Mulraney has to go off on the a stretcher, with a leg injury. And | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
Cowie, close to getting his hat-trick as well with a shot | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
deflected over the top of the crossbar. There is still time for | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
him to do so. Hearts are leading 3-0. Time for us to here from Martin | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
and he is watching Ross County. 1-0 to the home side? It is, that might | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
change. Schalke tries to roll it back to Boyce. He shoots he score, | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
you wouldn't doubt it, is Ross County 2, Kilmarnock 0. Great work | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
from Schalke, into the box. He got to the buy line, unusually for Boyce | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
he miskicked it. He was for Nat it came back to him and he was deadly, | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
finding the corner and that should seen it for County, they have | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
struggled to get than second goal. They needed one just the Kilmarnock | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
starting to show desire to get forward. They hadn't troubled them | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
too much but County very much on course for the three points. Ross | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
County 2 Kilmarnock 0. I love that he fluffed it, oh no he scored. We | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
Ron courses for Tannadice. Bryan. Dundee United 2 Ayr United 0. | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
Opening coming after 13 minutes after a penalty-kick saved by the | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
Ayr goalkeeper. The number two coming from Robson, his first goal | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
for the club, eight minutes before the break. Ayr look more solid. They | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
made a couple of substitution, United should had a penalty. Murray | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
pulled down in the box by Boyle, the referee waved play on. It should | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
have been a penalty or a yellow card but the referee waved play on. | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
Let us hear from Charlie, he has news of another goal in the Fife | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
derby. An absolutely sensational moment | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
here, they have seen many great moments over the years and this | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
fantastic stadium but that goal was something else. Terrific skill, | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
terrific movement, sensational finish, into the back of the net, in | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
the top corner, 2-0, absolutely dominant. Let us head to Paisley, St | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
Mirren against Hibernian, an update from Kenny. 79 minutes gone, it is | :34:38. | :34:46. | |
still St Mirren 0 Hibernian 2. The lead is comfy. They are overpowering | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
St Mirren in every area. The two new signings have made their debuts and | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
it shows the firepower Hibs have in reserve compared to the buddies. A | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
tap if from a David Gray cross and the second in the 32nd minute when | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
he took advantage of dilly-dallying to roll home from a tight angle so | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
it is two and easy for Hibernian. Things not looking so easy for | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
Dundee United. Ayr United have got back into that one. No, they | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
haven't, we will hear from Bryan any way. No, they haven't, it is a third | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
goal for Dundee United. A cross into the box. Six yards out, there was | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
Flood to hammer the ball home. The points are staying here, their first | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
league win of the season. 14 minutes left, Dundee United 3, Ayr United 3. | :35:46. | :35:54. | |
Now I said to my boys look out for a player, who plays for Hibs called | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
Cummings, he has done it again on the score sheet, again another brace | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
for him His movement, Cummings's movement is unbelievable. He is all | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
over the place, nonstop running, great finisher. He in the right | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
time, right place, he is a natural goal scorer. I must emphasise, he | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
his work rate, how much he runs and put himself about and creates the | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
openings. Hibs fans may be worried they have signed Bryan Graham, | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
another striker, does that like they are preparing to lose him. They | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
needed another striker any way, to help out in a, and Graeme fits that | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
role. He St no like-for-like with Cummings. If teams come in and offer | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
millions how much can Hibs knock back before he has to go and leave | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
the club? I distracked you. You are supposed to be watching Hearts | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
Inverness. If you had been you would have seen this goal John is about to | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
describe. Hearts or Inverness? Hearts and they are coasting now. It | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
is 4-0 to Hearts with 12 minutes left to play. A lovely through pass | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
this time by the new signing, the Norwegian American who got clearance | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
to play this afternoon, he came on as a substitute. In a lovely | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
backheel, into the path of Nicholson and he took it on a couple of yards, | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
and from about 25 yards out blasted it beyond Fon Williams, it is Hearts | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
4, Inverness Caley Thistle 0. Things going well for Hearts, But | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
shockingly badly for Inverness. This has been a rotten start to the | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
season. They are rock bottom, not scored I don't think yet. No point, | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
scored a couple last week And no points. Not good. I think it is | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
going to be really difficult for them this season, because it is not | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
to say they can't claw back, because they are a well run club but it is | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
great for them. It is not great indeed. In fact there has been | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
another goal. Let us return to John Barnes, he will tell us about it. It | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
is Sam Nicholson again within the space of two minutes. Not even that, | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
he we played in this time by Cowie, Hearts on the counterattack, it was | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
cowy the captain, put it through and Nicholson managed to get enough | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
power to beat Fon Williams at the right-hand side post. It is Hearts 5 | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
Inverness Caley Thistle 0. When your team are winning 5-0 nobody cares | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
who picks the team, it could be the tea lady! It is important for Hearts | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
to get their first victory of the season, there has been a bit | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
criticism the way they played and all that, but you know, good to see | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
that, Tynecastle home ground. Criticism but let us be honest, they | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
played at home to Celtic and away to Aberdeen, a tough start for them. I | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
think everyone is over egging that bit, that Hearts are had a terrible | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
start. You are right, I mean you get the champions at home on your first | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
game and they come so close to getting a accident result there, and | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
then they have to go away to Pittodrie and in between that is a | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
defeat to St Johnstone which was a surprise, but two tough games so | :39:13. | :39:22. | |
back to winning ways. No surprise Boyce is getting on the score | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
screen. Martin said he fluffed the first chance. Brilliant. We are | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
talking about five goals and there is a danger now that Glasgow | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
journalists are cancelling their annual dinner because they don't | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
like when someone from the islands gets goals. A fantastic start to the | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
season for him, I think that there is, do you know what, up in | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
Inverness in Dingwall, these two different starts that the clubs have | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
had to the season will be the talking point for them. Boyce, he | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
will be pulling the out the stops to get a hat-trick. That would be | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
great. That would be something that has never been done from a player | :40:01. | :40:11. | |
outside the Old Firm, I imagine... He done brilliant, he scored a | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
couple of hat-tricks as well, so, he is a top player for them, injured | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
towards the end of last season but he is back with a bang this season. | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
Right, plenty of goals round the country but no update in terms of | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
goals from Ibrox. It is still one apiece, as we can see, Rangers 1 | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
Motherwell 1. Forrester for the home side McDonald for the visitors. Let | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
us go to Pittodrie to get more information on that match. | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
It is still 2-0 to Aberdeen. They have played decent football earlier | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
on but they couldn't manage to get the goals to go with it. It was a | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
problem they had to the end of last season as well. They hadn't scored | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
in their previous four league games going back in to last season, but | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
they could have had four or five here, only the two McGinn with the | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
goal in the first half and Storey with his first goal in the second | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
half, the bad news for anybody coming into the game is Jack has a | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
nasty knee injury that will by a Swissed with a scan on Monday. It | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
looks as though he will be out for a few weeks and next week they go to | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
Parkhead, where they haven't won in their last 21 league visits, so a | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
big test for the side. But on this form they look back to the best form | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
and leading by two goals to nil. We have heard enough from John Barnes | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
this afternoon. Let us let Martin back in on the act. Ross County | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
against Kilmarnock. Ross County 2 Kilmarnock 0. | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
Listening to the boys there about Liam Boyce. He is a player that | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
tends to score in burst, he going on the run and that will be invaluable | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
for Ross County if he can continue that. A good start to the season, | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
assuming they hold on here and it looks like they will, Kilmarnock | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
struggling to have any cohesive effort going forward. They have put | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
two new players in. A lot of new signings. It may take time. What has | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
impressed me they took the play into their opponents half rather than | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
sitting back and trying to hang on to the goal. They have got the | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
second and very much in control here. Let us head to Pittodrie. | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
Drama to hear about. It goes from bad to worse for Partick Thistle. A | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
player has been sent off. The first one for clattering into Burns the | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
Aberdeen substitute, a yellow for that, he wasn't happy with the | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
referee's decision, he kept mouthing out and so a second yellow and the | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
the a red card. Partick Thistle down to ten men for the last three or | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
four minutes here. Off to Tannadice in the Championship. Dundee United | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
against Ayr United. Dundee 3-0 up? It is Dundee 3 Ayr United 0. Murray | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
after 13 minutes. Robson his first goal for the club and Flood in his | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
fourth spell here securing all three points for the home side with 11 | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
minutes left to play. A couple of introductions for Dundee, Obadeyi | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
came on and he set up goal three for Flood, finding him six yards out and | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
a simple task for a veteran, Flood. He has been outstanding. As have | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
most of the United players, they have put them to the test. It will | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
be a long season for the club. 84 minutes on the clock. Dundee United | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
3 Ayr United 0. I have had a telephone call from Steven Lawless, | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
his solicitor, it means we will be heading back to pitted to di! Yes | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
should have gone to Specsavers. It is Shaun Welsh sent off and not | :43:59. | :44:11. | |
Lawless. My apologies to Steven Lawless, and my face is the same | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
colour as the Aberdeen jerseys! Thank you Scott. Let us head to | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
Paisley now, red face there's for the home side, Kenny? It has no been | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
good for St Mirren. We are approaching the 90th minute now. | :44:28. | :44:34. | |
Both Graham and the new signings are on. It was a good save by Gallagher | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
in the St Mirren goal. The one thing I have noticed that has stood out, | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
there is the impact Neil listen Lennon has from the sidelines. Just | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
hit the bar, that was John McGinn, the former St Mirren player cracked | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
one from 30 minutes. I thought I was safe to talk but he cracked one in | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
and it smashed off the angle of post and crossbar and came out. So almost | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
a goal for McGinn. I was talking about Neil Lennon, he commands his | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
players and it makes them respect him and do what he orders them to | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
do. It has made a difference to Hibs compared to Alan Stubbs. Led us head | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
to Stark's Park and the Fife derby from Charlieman Charlieman 2-0 they | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
lead with minutes to go, in this first Fife derby for three years at | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
this level. It is all gone Raith Rovers way, specially in the second | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
half. Two goals, Barr the first on 72 minute, terrific left foot shot | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
and on 79 minutes Stewart on as a sub, sensational goal, looked up, | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
driving run, into the top corner. Fife is alive at the moment, there | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
is about 6,000 people in this stadium, and it is all gone Raith | :45:49. | :45:51. | |
Rovers way and they are delighted. Hts... | :45:52. | :45:59. | |
That is really good. 6000. I also like to hear Bobby Barr scoring. | :46:00. | :46:07. | |
Always good to hear my old favourites from the past getting a | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
goal. I believe there has been a goal, would you believe it? Tell me | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
about it. It is a goal for Inverness. Down the right-hand side, | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
cut back. It is Ed Draper that turns it in? The way Enver nous have been | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
playing but might it is all happening, there is a goal at | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
Partick Thistle as well. Let's hear from our reporters at these matches. | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
We will start with John Barnes. It will go down to an own goal from | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
Callum Paterson. You tried to block the shot on the line from Ross | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
Draper. He back yielded into the bottom right-hand corner of his net. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
It may go down as own goal but the score is still 5-1. I do not think | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
they will get anything from that match by Partick Thistle makes sneak | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
something from Pittodrie. They are back in the game. Yes, the ten men | :47:01. | :47:08. | |
showing real resilience. Robbie May, on as a substitute. He will be an | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
avid viewer from the edge of the box. It was lashed into the top | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
corner. That came a few seconds into stoppage time. I do not know if | :47:21. | :47:27. | |
we're going to get more drama. They are trailing 2-1. That was another | :47:28. | :47:35. | |
great straight? Wonderful. Plenty of pace and determination. A left | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
footed strike, the near post. The goalkeeper could have done better, | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
but it was the pace of the strike. It was a real bullet. The front top | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
corner. Alan Archibald will not be happy with Sean Welsh forgetting | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
sent off. Scott Davie is back in a line to bring as a point of | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
information. Aberdeen -- Partick. You thought one bad mistake was bad | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
enough in an afternoon, but I should be on the substitutes' bench. The | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
player I credited with the goal does not even play for Partick Thistle | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
any more. It was Chris Erskine who scored. I do not know am laughing, I | :48:15. | :48:22. | |
do not think anyone else's. That bit is correct. We are all human. I | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
wonder if he knows which one is Pogba. He knows which Pogba it is. I | :48:28. | :48:37. | |
was going to say to you, Alan Archibald will be furious with the | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
player who was sent off, Sean Welsh, a second yellow card for dissent. Of | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
course, 2-0, you're still in the game. You want to keep your full | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
squad on. He is down to ten men and the ten men have rallied and got a | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
goal. They will find it difficult to get their second goal to catch | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
Aberdeen. There is still time left to get something. I was just going | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
to check it is 2-1. Partick Thistle on the attack. It will be a nerve is | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
five minutes for Aberdeen. Yes, nervous at the end of that one. Not | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
so Tynecastle. They will be annoyed that they did not get a clean sheet. | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
No matter what your result, if you're five, 6-0 up, you always take | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
pride in defending. The back four and the goalkeeper want a clean | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
sheet. It was a soft goal but Robbie Neilson will not be looking into | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
that much. The stake that Hearts have taken, to get a convincing win | :49:36. | :49:41. | |
like that will do them the world of good. We have not talked about it, | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
but he has played a role in three of the goals, Tony Watt. He has been | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
fantastic since he came to Hearts. He a handful. I like Tony Watt as a | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
player. He missed that easy chance against Celtic and one Aberdeen. I | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
would have liked to see score today but it has not affected his | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
confidence because he has been involved in everything. This is a | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
big transfer Tony? Absolutely. He will be hoping the club can do | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
better this season. It is a positive move. Fill time it Pittodrie. The | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
match has finished. The first three points of the season for Aberdeen. | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
-- full-time at Pittodrie. Let's hear from Scott Davie. 2-1 Aberdeen. | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
What drama we had at the end of the game. Aberdeen 2-0 up and costing, | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
goals from Niall McGinn with a sublime free kick, and then on 58 | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
minutes, Miles Storey, a disaster from Liam Lindsay, dispossessed at | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
the edge of his own box by Graeme Shinnie. Storey rolling in for his | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
first goal for his new club, the former Inverness player. It looked | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
easy for Aberdeen, but with four minutes to go, more disaster for | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
Partick Thistle. Sean Welsh was sent off, two booking is in a few | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
seconds, a foul and then talking back to the referee. Two yellow | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
cards, but in stoppage time, a spectacular strike. Chris Erskine | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
from the edge of the box. Into stoppage time, as -- a corner kick | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
swung into the box. Even Tomas Cerny came up from the back. It was hacked | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
away from near the goal line. Someone had got a head to it. It | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
would have been the steal of the season at Partick Thistle had | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
managed to get something from it. That Liam Lindsay mistake will feel | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
painful for Alan Archibald. Aberdeen's first league victory of | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
the season. 2-1. The home fans on their feet, cheering and clapping at | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
Pittodrie. I think it will be a similar situation at Ibrox. Kenny | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
Miller has scored in the 90th minute to put Rangers 2-1 art. They are | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
still playing. Rangers, goals from Harry Forrester and Kenny Miller. | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
The goal-scorer for Motherwell, Scott McDonald. Rangers have just | :52:13. | :52:19. | |
signed a new striker. He is giving Mark Warburton something to think | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
about. Here's what, 37? He is still banging in goals, but his overall | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
play, running the channels, so energetic. I know they need another | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
striker, but Kenny Miller has done it for a number of years. He has | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
shown up good today. He heard that Stephen Dobbie had | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
scored for Queen Of The South today. That will be a real sickener for | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
Motherwell? Yes, but Kenny Miller, his work rate, it is unbelievable. | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
He has really looked after himself. He has always been a tremendous | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
goal-scorer. With that experience and hard work, getting into those | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
goal-scoring opportunities, I am not surprised. Kenny Crawford is also a | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
grafter, like Kenny Miller. He has been at the coal face in Paisley. | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
His work is done with his full-time report. 2-0 Hibernian. Hibernian's | :53:15. | :53:22. | |
perfect start to the Championship campaign continues, nine points from | :53:23. | :53:30. | |
nine. Two goals from Jason Cummings. St Mirren have one point from a | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
possible nine. Little to suggest they will be in the mix for | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
promotion. The goals for Jason Cummings came on 22 and 32 minutes. | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
The first was a Tapping, the second the mix-up in defence from St | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
Mirren. They hit the crossbar later. Graeme Shinnie made his debut in a | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
comfortable victory. I convincing win in being Walther Ross County. | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
Both goals coming from that man, Liam Boyce. More from Martin Dowden. | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
Fill time, 2-0. Liam Boyce did not get the match ball but he will get a | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
pat on his back from his manager. Three goals last weekend, two today. | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
The first was a result of patient play in the first half. He teed up | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
Michael Bardeen and he was on hand to slam home after Hibs -- | :54:27. | :54:34. | |
Kilmarnock failed to clear. The second, scuffed shot, but he read | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
into his composure and fired low into the corner. Kilmarnock may have | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
to be patient to integrate their numerous signings. An offensive line | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
up did not work, with Kris Boyd and Coulibaly lacking servers for much | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
of the game. Six points from nine, I good result for Ross County. They | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
have started their season well. The first home victory of the | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
Premiership season for Rangers, beating Motherwell 2-0. Kenny Miller | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
the matchwinner. How many times have we said that on this programme? He | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
added his goal after Harry Forrester levelled things for Rangers. Scott | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
McDonald put Motherwell 1-0 up at Ibrox. Let's head to Tynecastle. A | :55:22. | :55:31. | |
handsome victory for Hearts. Yes, Hearts were totally dominant. Robbie | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
Neilson will enjoy that one. Don Cowie opened the scoring after seven | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
minutes. His Oprah was followed up ten minutes later by Conor Sammon. | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
Hearts destroyed Inverness. Don Cowie, the Hearts captain, and | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
Inverness born player and a former Caley Thistle player, added his | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
second to make it 3- 02 minutes into the second half. Add double followed | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
from Sam Nicholson in the 78th and 80th minute before an own goal from | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
Callum Paterson, have Ross Draper's shot was fired in. Callum Paterson | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
tried to block it on the line but he could only backheel into his own | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
net. Hearts went forward again, and in stoppage time, Tony Watt and | :56:17. | :56:27. | |
Souttar went close. Let's hear from Brian McLauchlin. He was watching | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
Dundee United against Ayr in the Championship. A stroll in the park | :56:32. | :56:39. | |
for Dundee United in front of a crowd of 6427. 3-0 the score. | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
Scoring ( 30 minutes. The penalty from Nick van der Velden saved, but | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
Simon Murray was first to react. Teenager Jamie Robson scored his | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
first goal from the clubs just before the break. At half cleared | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
chants, and Robson drilled the ball in. The third goal came 11 minutes | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
from time. Tope Obadeyi was introduced and Blair Spittal. Willo | :57:08. | :57:17. | |
Flood tapped the ball home. Dundee United are trying to make their way | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
back into the top flight of Scottish football. That was their first | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
victory this season. Victory for Raith Rovers in the Fife derby. | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
Charlie Mann. Raith Rovers may be the surprise package of the | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
Championship season, but they have maintained their hundred percent | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
record in the division this season. 5114 people watched this. Boy, did | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
they enjoyed from the home perspective. They went in front | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
through Bobby Barr and 72 minutes. His first of the season. A great | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
run, and a left foot shot. If that was good, the second goal on 79 | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
minutes from Mark Stewart were sensational. An absolutely great | :58:05. | :58:07. | |
finish, ripping into the top corner of the net to give Raith Rovers a | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
very important victory. There has not been a Fife derby in the league | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
for three years, but the home fans certainly enjoyed it, and they | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
certainly enjoy it tonight. They may well be dancing on the streets of | :58:21. | :58:29. | |
Kirkcaldy. A good victory for Raith. Under new management, Gary Locke. | :58:30. | :58:38. | |
You wonder how these things will pan out when you have such a successful | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
season. You lose your manager, and you think, will it go south. Gary | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
Locke has done a brilliant job. He seems to get the best out of these | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
guys with Darren Jackson. There are racking up results and the top of | :58:52. | :58:57. | |
the table. A big win for Dundee United. Ray McKinnon has taken over | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
in different circumstances from you. You were at the bottom of the table. | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
He has gone to Tannadice and there is expectation he will get up. Yes, | :59:06. | :59:12. | |
very important victory confidence wise. Confidence is important. Raith | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
Rovers and Hibernian are going strongly. You do not want to fall | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
too far behind is this victory was important to stay in touch. Five | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
points, it could have been more. It is so early in the season. There are | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
so many matches to be played but you do not want to fall back. It was an | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
important victory. I heard you, Stuart, describing the Championship | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
is Alcatraz? Yes, it is the hardest division of any to escape from. You | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
can be there for a generation. What is fascinating about this division, | :59:51. | :59:53. | |
there is always great local competitions. Big crowds. Yes, | :59:54. | :59:59. | |
decent crowds as well. We should not lose sight of the fact that because | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
Rangers are no out of it, it is not a division we can ignore. It is | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
fascinating. Good friends of mine Raith Rovers fans, and they love | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
doing Dunfermline. This will be a big night for them. Will there be a | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
runaway winner in the Championship this season? We have had that the | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
last few. Not in terms of the last few seasons, not like that. I think | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Hibs will win. They are the tip of lots of people to win. There are | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
lots of good teams, Dundee United, Falkirk. St Mirren. It is not | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
looking like it. It is early. There In goal, looked up, driving run, | :00:38. | :00:50. | |
into the top corner. Fife is alive at the moment, there is about 6,000 | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
people in this stadium, and Congratulations to Rangers on their | :00:53. | :04:56. | |
first home win of the season. Celtic with a game in hand. At the bottom | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
of the table, Inverness Caley Thistle, three defeats from three | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
games a heavy one today away to Hearts, 5-1 it finished. That takes | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Hearts into mid-table behind Aberdeen. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
In the Championship two teams at the top with three in three. Raith | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Rovers and Hibs. Queen of the South going nicely in third place. A the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
bottom Ayr United yet to break their points duck, they are one point | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
behind St Mirren and Falkirk. In league one two teams with 100% | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
records. They are Livingston at the to believe of -- top of the table by | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
virtue of goal difference. At the bottom two clubs yet to break their | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
points duck, they are Stenhousemuir and Stranraer. League Two Forfar the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
only team with three from three, they are three points clear of Elgin | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
City and Annan. At the bottom it is the newly promoted Edinburgh city | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
who are on no point, one behind Montrose. In the English Premier | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
League. Lots of teams on six points after two games. Hull City perhaps | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
the surprise package there and Chelsea. The foot of the table. Lots | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of team still to break their points duck, starting with Arsenal who have | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
yet to play this weekend. They play Leicester City. Sunderland still to | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
get off the mark. Crystal Palace are at the foot of | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the table. No points from two matches. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
And the English Championship. Well into that. Huddersfield Town after | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
four games are the table toppers on ten points, they are ahead of a | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
posse of teams. Bottom of the table Blackburn Rovers | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
on one point, two behind Preston North End, with Rotherham one of a | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
clutch of teams on four points. Time to get more details on the matches | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
in today's action in the Barclays Premier League. We will start at | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Turf Moor, where Burnley played Liverpool. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Burnley's season is up and running in sensational fashion. Vokes took | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
advantage to lash in an unstoppable strike minutes into the match, it | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
was a warning of what the home side could do on the break, and Liverpool | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
didn't heed it and were made to pay again when Gray showed composure to | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
double the lead before half-time. Liverpool have plenty of the ball, | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
but credit to Burnley, they harried Liverpool into mistakes and | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
restricted them into nothing more than shots from distance. For those | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
getting carrying away after the opening day win for Liverpool, this | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
is a reminder of what can happen in the Premier League. We are off to | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Vicarage Road for Watford against Chelsea. Once again Chelsea showing | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
resilience, Watford deservedly took the lead in the second half, in | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
style, a, Capoue chested it down and fired in an unstoppable drive into | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
the top corner. Chelsea up the pressure, getting the equaliser. | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
Hazard's shot on. They completed the turn round, Costa put through on | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
goal and slotted home Cooley. It has finished Watford 1, Chelsea 2. We go | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
to White Hart Lane now. They have beaten Crystal Palace by a goal to | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
nil, secured to a late winner from a rare source of gold. Wanyama on his | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
home debut, guiding in a header in the six yard box from Harry Kane's | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
flick. Spurs had the better chances throughout, one wasted as it looked | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
like the three points were going to creep away. For Palace they defended | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
well. Two defeats from two. Spurs 1, Crystal Palace 0. It is two wins | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
from two for Hull, the second coming to Swansea, let us hear about that | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
one from Mike Willemias. Back-to-back wins to start the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
system. As impressive as the opening day was last week, it will be this | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
win that pleases the caretaker boss the more. Hull valiantly weathered | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
the storm here they took the lead, 11 minutes from time when Maloney | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
chested in the ball from a Davis head refer a corner. They doubled | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
their lead to secure all three points in stoppage time. Hernandez | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
who was fed by Maloney again, Hernandez could have missed slotting | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
past Fabianski, the Hull players away to my left taking the acclaim | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
from the following travelling fan, they will head back with six points | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
from their opening two matches. Cosgrove, -- Stuart Cosgrove. If | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
they win the Premier League will you come on in your y-fronts? I have a | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
soft spot for them. It is where I went to university, to show you how | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
long ago that was, their star player was a Mr Billy Brown. I knew your | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
were going to say that. That was incredible. Given the problems they | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
have got. They have no player, they haven't got a permanent manager, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
there has been a bit of a lull about the place coming up from division | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
below and it wasn't a sell-out, yet they go and beat Leicester, you | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
know, a strange start to the season, but, hats off to the player, with | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
that going on their are still performing and picking up points, it | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
is great. Let us have details of West Brom's match against Everton. . | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
Two one it finished. They came from behind after West Brom took an early | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
lead. Cue man-made a tactical change. Miralles fired an equaliser | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
on the half-time whistle. Barry's winner was a streaky affair. Affair. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Barry nodded it home. Barclay should have headed a third after an | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
electric run from Bolasie on debut. Lukaku was denied later on. The | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Albion keeper wide with a shot. First one of the season for Everton | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
under new manager. . Cue man will take about seven, eight nine rounds, | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
until the team gels in, especially with the new players and they are | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
good players that Everton have brought in. Important they have | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
confidence. That is a lot of games to gel. It is important to pick up | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
points, before that, but it takes time. It won't just happen, even | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
though they are quality player, and high standard player, it takes time | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
for the team to start playing together and with a all cylinders if | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
you like. An important victory. That is something Chelsea didn't manage | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
last season. Costa is on the score sheet again hand they have come from | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
behind to get the points. Yes, brilliant. It shows the effect a new | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
manager, we were wondering if Conte would fit in to the Premier League, | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
as much as mourn and Guardiola. It seems like he is having no problem. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Costa on the score sheet again,s have have -- very positive results | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
and all three big managers have got off to a great start. Another big | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
manager has had a terrible result, Klopp's Liverpool going down 2-0 to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Burnley after a great win over Arsenal. If you look at the managers | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
that are suffering, it is not good news for Owen Coyle when you look at | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
the English results. Sometimes you know, when you are a manager, and | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
you have got resource, comparable with say in Scotland where everyone | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
is working on margin, with the exception of may be the big two | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
club, everybody is working on tight margin, one of the challenges in | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
management is how do you spend money and spend it well and bring in | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
players that can make a difference, that is sometimes tougher than | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
working on threadbare budgets. Jurgen Klopp won't be too happy but | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
we can hear from a man who I am sure is delighted with the way things | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
went for his team. He is Jim McIntyre. His side won 2-0 to | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
Killie. Everyone will look at Liam Boyce, very impressive. He started | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
very well, when he does things sharp, he is a handful. It is great | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
to see your strikers getting on the score sheet. His confidence is very | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
high at the moment. But the players are giving him service at the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
moment, so he will be the first to a knowledge that. I am sure you | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
pleased to get a clean sheet and you will know the importance of getting | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
wins in this league? Yes, we mentioned that at half-time. We have | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
not had a clean sheet. We need to keep one. It was great to get that, | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
I thought the defence deserved that. We had to deal with free kick, high | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
balls and I thought they stood up to that magnificently well. Kilmarnock | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
had a fairly offensive line up, two up front, it was part of the plan to | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
keep the ball in their half and present service to the strikers? | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Yes, I thought it was a scrappy game, I thought once we got our goal | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
we played better football. We should have scored a couple more goals in | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the second half. We failed to hit the target. But the work rate and | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
the effort for the boys, it got them the three points. Boyce seems a guy | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
who once he gets a couple of goal he kicks on, is it a confidence thing? | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
All players thrive on confidence and goal scorers do, before he got his | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
goals he was playing well-off the front because he is a clever player, | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
you know, you can use him at the end there, we stuck him in a wider area | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
when we made the substitute. We have to trust in Liam. His best position | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
is up front when he bangs in the goals. Six points from nine is a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
very good start. Are you happy with that? Yes, very pleased. It is | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
important we win at home having lost here last time out. I think that was | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
important for the fans today. It is hard to tell. I said he was | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
delighted but he is so deadpan it is hard to tell. | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
It looks like the momentum is starting to build for Ross County? | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
Yes. Third in the table now. Confidence is everything at this | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
stage of the season. A club like Ross County, they have a goal-scorer | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
in Liam Boyce. They might not play their best, but when you have that | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
goal-scorer in the team, he gets a chance, he puts it away. You always | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
have that chance of winning, even if you do not play well. Today the | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
performance was not too bad at all. They are so important. Liam Boyce, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
we talk about his goal-scoring skill and exploits, but he is also a great | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
receiver of the ball. He comes short, links, he works hard for the | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
team. The way Ross County play, they get every inch out of Liam Boyce. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
The player very simple system, really effective football. Very | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
similar to St Johnstone, similar system. Real clarity. They have said | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
that is the role model. Yes. Pound for pound, they have one of the best | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
management teams in Scotland. They are doing very well. I think they | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
were heard by the opening game against Dundee which they lost | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
heavily. They are out of the League Cup as well. They had a pretty | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
miserable experience. Not that the fans were turning on them, but fans | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
can be fickle. I think the manager will be chuffed with that result | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
today. Time to hear from another victorious manager, Derek McInnes. | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
His side 2-1 winners at home to Partick Thistle. | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
Closer at the end than it probably should have been? Yes. The last ten | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
minutes, we knocked off. When Sean Welsh got sent off, some of us | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
thought the game was done. It just shows you, the game is never done. I | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
would rather focus on the 80 minutes prior to that. We were very good, we | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
snapped about them, moments of quality. In the first half, a great | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
free kick from Niall McGinn. Great. He tries to go the other side with | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
the first one. Over the wall. It was a fantastic strike. I thought we had | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
good moments of play in the first half. We deserved the victory, we | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
were the better team at half-time. Graeme Shinnie did brilliant, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
pressing and harassing. Miles Storey got his first goal. It was a good | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
day's work. It is a reminder, the last ten minutes, that there is work | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
be done. For 80 minutes, we were the dominant team, lots of strong | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
performances. Without your captain, Ryan Jack, Jonny Hayes not available | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
as well. Four changes to the team as well. Given that, your first victory | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
and legals of the season, it is a pretty positive day? Absolutely. We | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
want the team to try and settle down. Everyone is jostling for | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
position. Sometimes I am picking refreshers team rather than the best | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
team. You have got to be mindful of that. Everyone has got to fight for | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
position to get in. I think that the team in general, there were strong | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
performances. Some still need to get to where we need them to be, but | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
without some influential players, we have managed to do a good job today. | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
This was never easy. The players deserve credit for overcoming that | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
and getting three points. It is important ahead of next Saturday's | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
game. Yes, very important because it is one of the big game of the | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
season. You're going to Celtic Park. Yes, they have started really well. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
I watched the majority of the game, up to 3-0, at the last leg. St | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Johnstone have come back and had a go at the end. I do not know how the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
game panned out, but for the first hour, Celtic were great. They can do | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
that to most teams. We've got to go there and be confident, try and take | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
them on. We have to try and ensure that we are worthy of me saying that | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
we can compete. Well done today. Cheers. I think the lark has had -- | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
I think the luck that Scott has had this afternoon, she should be aware | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
of the seagulls at Pittodrie. Aberdeen did well against Celtic | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
last season. They have to match that this season if they are going to | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
challenge at the top. They certainly do. It has been a tough start to the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
season for Aberdeen, much like Hearts. Tough game, and Aberdeen | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
needed that victory today, because if they did not win, then they go in | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
against Celtic and they would be five points behind Rangers, going to | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
play Celtic. It is a tall order. The confidence taken from those three | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
points today will be good. It will be a big task to beat Celtic. We | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
will hold that Celtic are tired coming back from Israel. They push | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
them last season, but I think Celtic are a step above last season and | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
will win comfortably. Scott Davie had a few words to share with the | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Partick Thistle manager, Alan Archibald. | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
It was quite a dramatic end to the game. You nearly managed to grab a | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
point. I am delighted with the spirit, to keep going. When it went | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
to 2-0, the manner we lost the goal, there was a lull after that. I am | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
delighted there was fight back, especially after the sending off. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Was the sending of justified? I do not think the first one was a foul. | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
My players said it was not a foul, that is why he was so aggrieved. But | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
you cannot give consent. You're without him for the following week. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
You had a couple of key players back today, Tomas Cerny making good | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
saves. He was beaten by a great free kick from Niall McGinn. We were | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
comfortable from that point. We created good opportunities and | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
situations we did not take. It took a wonderful free kick to beat us. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Aberdeen had lots of the ball but you created some clear-cut chances. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Maybe the hardest of all was the shot into the top corner in stoppage | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
time? I think so. You have got to take your chances. We created the | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
better chances in the first half, we got into good situations. We knew | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
Aberdeen would have lots of the ball, but I did not think they would | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
hurt us until 30 minutes into the second half. Stuart, Partick Thistle | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
played one match fewer than most of the teams in the Premiership. He was | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
not happy with that. They got a win and the board, and because Celtic | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
were playing Inter Milan in a friendly, they did not play last | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
week. I have a rusty? You get the feeling that in comparison to | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Aberdeen, Aberdeen had turned the ignition and were ready for the | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
game. It is a disappointing start to the season for Partick Thistle, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
they're planning, there way of how they might come into it. There is | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
another reality. They did not have to play Celtic, and St Johnstone and | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
other teams have as well. That said, they are difficult team to beat. It | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
is quite interesting, factually, if you look at it, they beat St | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Johnstone three times last season, they took nine points. We were one | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
of the best of six teams. They are hard team and they will get points | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
on the road particularly. It is not doom and gloom for Partick Thistle. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
No points on the road for Kilmarnock. They lost to Ross | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
County, 2-0. This is what Lee Clark are dizzy after the match. He to | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Martin Dowden. Everyone will look at that and say, | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Liam Boyce might have been the difference. What was the difference | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
for you? I thought we started quite rightly, to be honest. I was | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
pleased. Like this season on a whole, we have given a terrible goal | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
away. We lost a bit of momentum with that. They say that goals change | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
games. I think that we have to give the service to our two strikers that | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
they are strikers got. The Ross County centre-halves made it | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
difficult for our two strikers, much more than the other way around. I | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
think it is probably fit assessment is say that the game was won and | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
lost those areas. It was an attacking line-out, two upfront. If | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
you do not get the ball, it is hard for them to influence the game. Yes, | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
they needs service. We played too many long, straight balls which was | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
food and drink for Andrew Davies. Even when Kris Boyd was trying to | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
battle with them, he did not get enough quality balls. We started | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
well, some decent crosses in different situations. The first goal | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
came from us getting to the byline and having have a chance. What we | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
did, we did not defend well. They broke from the edge of their box. We | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
did not get a touch on the ball. Well, we did, disappointing | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
clearance, but then it is in the back of the net. Tynecastle now. We | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
have the winning manager from the match between Hearts and Inverness, | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Robbie Neilson's side winning 5-1. He spoke to John Barnes. That is a | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
great result for your site, right from the word go. I thought the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
performance was good. The last three performances have been good, but we | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
have not had the fine details of the game. It has caused us problems. We | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
have lost sloppy goals but today the performance was good and we scored | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
goals. Don Cowie, two goals but he played the part of a captain. Yes, | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
last year he was not fit. He had problems with his calves. He has | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
rested in the summer and you can see the quality he has. He was playing | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
in the Premier League in England. You could see that today. He leads | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
by example? Yes, not only on the part, but in training. He has a | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
group of players that he works with after training. They are buying into | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
what he does. He is leading by example. Robbie Neilson is almost | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
smiling, Mixu. Let me go back to Lee Clark. You spoke about Ronald Koeman | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
having a job to job the players. Lee Clark has 15 new players. Very | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
difficult, but something like that had to be done to be stronger in the | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
future. He has done the right thing. It will take a while. It is not doom | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
and gloom for Kilmarnock. Ross County is a difficult place to go. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
They have a victory under their belt next season. The next game is | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
against Rangers, so it will not get easier. It is not doom and gloom. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
They will be working away on the training ground, getting the players | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
playing Better Together. I have a funny feeling that Kilmarnock will | :27:10. | :27:10. | |
not struggle this season. Thank you. That's just about it for today, | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
but not for Stuart. The big man is off to present | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Off The Ball on BBC Radio Scotland. In fact he's got about a minute | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
to get to the studio. So he'll be gone by the time | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
I finish reading Mark Wilson's also on with Stuart | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
and Tam but he doesn't take so long to walk along | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
the corridor so he's staying. Join in the discussion | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
by calling 0500 92 95 00. You can talk to them about today's | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
results if you like, We will start with the Premiership. | :27:37. | :27:52. | |
The first victory of the season for Aberdeen. Alex Tait favour Rangers, | :27:53. | :28:05. | |
Kenny Miller in the 91st minute, 2-1 over Motherwell. Ross County, two | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
from Liam Boyce. And they convincing away victory for Celtic at St | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
Johnstone. Dundee United big winners at home to Ayr. Greenock Morton and | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
Dunbartonshire in one goal each in the Clyde Derby. | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
And you can see highlights of the weekend's Premiership matches | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
tomorrow night at half-past six on BBC Two Scotland. | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
Jonathan and his guests are expecting you. | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
And it would be nice if you could join me for another | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
results show next week at half-past four on BBC Two as well. | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
Thanks to our guests, Mixu, Mark and the incredible vanishing | :28:43. | :28:47. |