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Good evening and welcome to Sportscene. Today's Edinburgh derby | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
was like a cup final neither side really wanted. Both sides in bottom | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
half of the table bother. Victory for Hibs would relegate Hearts. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Victory for Hearts would delay the inevitable and further embroil Hibs | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
in the play-off quagmire. With us in the studio tonight two men who know | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
exactly what the Edinburgh derby means - the former Hibs captain Ian | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Murray and the former Hearts goalkeeper Craig Gordon. Forget | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Mothers' Day - the fans of Hibs were hoping this Sunday would be Hearts' | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Black Sabbath. # Generals gathered in their | :01:26. | :01:45. | |
masses... # Like witches at black masses... James Collins scores a | :01:46. | :01:57. | |
goal of his Derby dreams. Just the one change to the Hearts team beaten | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
here last time by Dundee United. Jason Holt slots into midfield, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
taking over from Scott Robinson. Terry Butcher changes half of the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Hibs team. Skipper Liam Craig and Kevin Thomson are among those left | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
out. James Collins comes back to lead the attack. These Hibs fans | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
would like their team to get the win which Jake -- which sends Hearts | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
into The Championship. Hibs could get dragged into play-off problems | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
at the bottom. Ryan Stevenson, and Dale Carrick, makes the Derby day | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
breakthrough. Relegation might be around the corner. But Hearts will | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
not go down without a fight. They are ahead, inside six minutes. The | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
defending, pretty desperate. No pleasure on the boil, no marking on | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Ryan Stevenson, and Dale Carrick was there to take full advantage. -- no | :03:05. | :03:19. | |
pressure on the boil. -- the ball. Derby delight for Dale Carrick. And | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
James Collins finds a little bit of room. Unable to do any great damage | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
with the header. Stevenson, and the offside flag has gone up against | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Nicholson. The ball ends up in the back of the net, and that tells you | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
that it was the wrong decision. Wrongly flagged. Collins, turns away | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
from the captain. James Collins, what a chance. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Hibs still without a shot on target. Nice skill. From Tom Taiwo. Danny | :04:11. | :04:23. | |
Handling works his way into a shooting position and fires wide. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Not the first half to get Terry Butcher to excited. Sam Nicholson, | :04:31. | :04:42. | |
water hit, and what I save. -- what a hit and what a save. A spectacular | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
stop from Ben William 's -- from Ben Williams to stop his team going two | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
behind. David Smith! It was so close. Could've been a second goal | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
for Hearts. And surely, that would have meant no way back for Hibs. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
Nicholson is taken out, of the ball. By Alan Maybury. Gary Locke, | :05:10. | :05:21. | |
having to the calmed down. And that is yellow for the experienced | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
defender. But, from standing, and the header from Ryan McGivern, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
flashing just off target. Former Hibs striker Leigh Griffiths, shared | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
his pain. Jordan Forster, squares the game, or has he? The flag goes | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
up against Forster. This is worth another look. He was not even close | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
to being offside. The header from Forster. It is pumped away by | :06:01. | :06:13. | |
Patterson. Hibs. And Maybury takes out, this can mean only one thing, a | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
second yellow card, and Hibs, down to ten men. Today just gets worse | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
and worse for them. Robinson, breakdown for Hearts. Two against | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
two, Billy King is round Ben Williams, I Derby win for Hearts. -- | :06:37. | :06:51. | |
a derby win. Hibs had to throw everything at trying to get an | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
equaliser. And they were picked up on the break. It was a substitute, | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
Billy King, who could have hit the deck as he was caught why Ben | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Williams, but he stayed on his feet to score. And he completes a famous | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
victory for his team. Derby day defines from Hearts. -- defiance. We | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
had to give the fans something. Especially the way that they have | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
kept the club alive, and back us, all season. We kept plugging away in | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
the second half, the fans were tremendous in the second half, but | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
we could not give them that reward. We were never going to score on that | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
basis. And when we did score, it was chalked off for offside. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
A great victory for Hearts, a great golfer Billy King, and a great win | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
for Gary Locke and all of the Hearts fans after a difficult season. -- a | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
great goal for. Ian Murray, Hearts were deserved winners today. They | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
started the game better, getting the early goal. Giving them a massive | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
advantage. All over the park they had energy, desire and passion for | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
the fans. I do not think that Hibs can complain. Craig, as a Hearts | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
man, what did it mean today? It meant a lot after a very difficult | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
season. It was an impossible task for Gary Locke, after the problems | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
they found themselves in at the start of the season. Those players | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
and management team would be remembered if that was their Hibs | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
team that put them down, so it is nice, for them to stay that off. You | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
saw the emotion at the end. It shows you how much it meant for the Hearts | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
players to get back victory and stave off relegation. And what a | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
start it was for Hearts, Dale Carrick with the goal. Fantastic | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
goal from the Hearts point of view, but defensively, there is so much | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
wrong with that goal, it is difficult to know where to start. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Those gaps between the centre halves in the fullbacks are massive. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Forster does not challenge the first one, and then there was the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
knock-down, it was a great goal for Hearts, but a shocker foreheads. -- | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
Ashok, for Hibs. It is a good header right into his path, and he is | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
taking a good touch and managed to finish it. From the Hearts point of | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
view it is the strikers working together well, together goal. The | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
goal from Jordan Forster was ruled out for side. As Terry Butcher said, | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
it was a scandalous decision. It is difficult to disagree with that when | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
you see the pictures. It is so far on side, as we can see here. It is | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
scandalous, that is the word to use. I do not get wider linesman does | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
flag straightaway. -- I do not get why the linesman. That could have | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
changed the game. Yes, he has taken a bang in the face, he is slowly | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
coming out compared to the rest of the back four, trying to give the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
linesman something to hold onto, he is perhaps looking at the rest of | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
the back line and has not noticed and coming out, so late. It was a | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
poor decision, it should have been a goal, it should have been equaliser. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
What is wrong with Hibs? Terry Butcher came in, and there was a | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
surge of optimism. We saw Leigh Griffiths in the crowd, he made a | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
difference in the last couple of seasons. What is wrong with the club | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
at the moment? It is hard to pinpoint. They have struggled in the | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
last couple of years. They have gone through a succession of managers. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Nobody seems to have been able to turn it around. Terry Butcher needs | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
patience and time to do things his own way. You can see from these | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
snapshots from the Hibs players, confidence is low, and they almost | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
panic when they get into that situation, looking to get the shot | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
off as soon as they can. It is all about getting the shot away, getting | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
the ball away, as quick as they can. And players like Liam Craig on the | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
bench, why are they not getting into the starting 11? Today was probably | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
a day for a bit of experience. It is a recurring theme for Hibs, not | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
showing up on the big occasions, especially against Hearts. They have | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
struggled in semifinals and top finals. This was almost as big as | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
that for them. You have got to feel sorry for their supporters, | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
following them in huge numbers, they will be bitterly disappointed with | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
their team today. Ross County are one of the sides right at the heart | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
of the race to avoid the play-off place. But their chances of picking | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
up points this weekend looked slim as they travelled to Parkhead. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Celtic were in celebration mode having clinched the title midweek at | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
Partick Thistle. A good ball. Anthony Stokes can get | :12:13. | :12:25. | |
the party started. It is Henderson. Johannson seals the Celtic win. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Anthony Stokes. That is brilliant. And Kris Commons with number five. | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
Celtic are doing it in style. It was simply breathtaking. The title | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
secured in some style and in good time. It might only be the end of | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
March, but Celtic take to the field as champions with the traditional | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
acknowledgement from their opponents, a nice sporting touch. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
The Celtic players taking the acclaim of the Celtic fans. | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
Liam Henderson makes his third start in four games, and a competitive | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
debut for 18-year-old Eoghan O'Connell. Craig Kerry was record | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
against Aberdeen and keeps his place as Derek Adams names unchanged | :13:17. | :13:31. | |
starting 11. -- Graham Carey was recalled. And the shot, Ross County | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
have the lead! 60 minutes played. The third girl in four games for | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
Ross County's top goal-scorer, given away by Scott Brown, he had his | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
pocket picked casually by Graham Carey, and Melvin De Leeuw fires | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
Ross County into the lead. They led on the opening day of the season but | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
could not hold on. They have a chance once more again today. Melvin | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
De Leeuw turns and flicks it towards goal. He is full of confidence at | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
the moment. He is on a good scoring run. He twisted awkwardly to get it | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
away. That is good play onto Leigh | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
Griffiths. He looks up, he tries the shot, Mark Brown spills it, and Kris | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Commons takes full advantage. And again, Mark Brown has struggled to | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
hold on and again it has cost his side a goal. Leigh Griffiths fouls | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
in the shot, and Kris Commons sliding in. He levels matters after | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
35mm, the 100th goal for Celtic this season. -- after 35 minutes. | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
He has got options. Griffiths is wide. Griffiths was trying to say it | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
came off the defender's arm. The referee not interested in those | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
claims. Songo'o was sold. So costed the job. -- sick costs did the job. | :15:14. | :15:25. | |
Brittain gets the clearance. He looked up, spotted the youngster. It | :15:26. | :15:37. | |
was a tight angle. He is unlucky. Celtic were one down with Henderson. | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
Tries to interchange with Stokes. The ball flashed over. They were one | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
down, they have got on level terms and are looking to push ahead and | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Liam Henderson is at the heart of almost everything that is good for | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
Celtic at the moment. County are building slowly. Carey | :15:56. | :16:08. | |
wants it, goes for gold. Fraser Forster diving across to his right | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
hand side of Carey came so close to putting Ross County back into the | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
lead. A fabulous effort. We were not our brilliant best and there was a | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
bit of edge not there really. But that is totally understandable. Now | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
we build for the remainder of the season. We won't have to look at | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
rotating the squad a bit and giving other opportunities to other players | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
to play. We created enough chances to win the game. We deserved to go | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
ahead in the game. But overall probably disappointed to come away | :16:46. | :16:46. | |
with just a point. It was a great result for Ross | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
County but it would not dampen the celebrations for Celtic as they | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
celebrated the title with the home crowd on Saturday. | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
celebrations for Celtic as they celebrated the title Is that a good | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
time to play Celtic, Craig, the fact it was the champagne getting sports | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
-- getting poured over Scott Brown's head in midweek and it was | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Scott Brown that lost the ball. I am not sure of the two things are | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
connected! I think so. I was captain of Hearts and we went there and beat | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
them, the same thing. It is a good time to play a team who have won the | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
league. They are out of the Cup and have nothing left to | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
time to play a team who have won the league. They are out of the Cup play | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
for this season. It was a good time to play. That is so uncharacteristic | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
of Scott Brown. You hardly ever see him give the ball away in those | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
kinds of situations. That is a great finish across. Exactly what you want | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
your striker to do. He finishes it very well. One touch too many from | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Scott Brown and De Leeuw once again to the fore for Ross County. What do | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
you make, Ian, of Ross County, because they made a lot of changes | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
in January. We have Carey almost stealing all the points for Ross | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
County. They are in the mix in terms of a play-off place. They are, no | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
question about it. You see the way they play football, they get the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
ball down all the time. Derek was assistant manager when I was at Hibs | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
and he likes players to get on the ball. Take a chance, pass it, go | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
forward and that is what they do. They have done so well last season | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
they made a rod for their own back perhaps this season. They are in | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
there, but I think they have just enough to get through the season and | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
consolidate for next season. Kilmarnock or another side in the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
play-off. They faced a tricky looking encounter away to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Motherwell. Commentary from John Barnes. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Motherwell make two changes to their line-up. Allan Johnson makes four | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
changes to his Kilmarnock side, looking for a winning formula. | :18:59. | :19:13. | |
A good shot from your head. Turned away by Nielsen. | :19:14. | :19:27. | |
It is off the line by Muirhead. The big striker on the line to play for | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Kilmarnock. Iain Vigurs! Motherwell are in | :19:36. | :19:58. | |
front. Four minutes before the interval. His first-ever -- his | :19:59. | :20:10. | |
first effort was blocked, but it was on his left foot and powerful enough | :20:11. | :20:11. | |
to beat Samson. That is a lovely drag back and turn. | :20:12. | :20:27. | |
What a goal that would have been from Iain Vigurs to double his | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
account. The side netting though. That looks -- that looked like it's | :20:31. | :20:52. | |
called the wrong way but John Sutton has scored in the previous two | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
matches against Kilmarnock, knocking it off target. | :20:56. | :21:13. | |
McKenzie has equalised. Rory McKenzie on the scoresheet for the | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
fourth time this season. A good build-up play from the on loan | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Celtic player, Jackson Elding, to thread that threw for McKenzie. A | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
neat finish from the Kilmarnock winger. | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
Sutton is close to knocking that rebound in. Samsung did not get it | :21:42. | :21:53. | |
out of the danger area. -- Samsung. -- Samson. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
He has hit the bar. He expected the delicate touch of the Finnish | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
international to find the back of the net. He found the top often | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
would work. -- he found the top of the woodwork. Five minutes of | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
stoppage time has been added. Slater, directs with the shot, and | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
that will be the winner for Kilmarnock. Craig Slater's first | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
goal for the side. Slater was the man who was released by the other | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
player. His effort took a bobble. It was an end to end game. We would | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
lose a game by trying to win it. You don't want to sit at home and accept | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
a point, but to lose it with the last kick of the game and when you | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
see it, it bobbles over and there is nothing we can do about it is how we | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
bounce back now. It was a disappointing result, but we have a | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
big game against Inverness. It was a team performance to date. We | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
defended better as a team. There was a good partnership with Ashcroft. We | :23:12. | :23:12. | |
have legs all over the park will . The goal from Craig Slater coming | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
in late in injury time, on the counterattack, after Motherwell had | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
been up at this end of the field. How impressed by you to the way that | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
he took the goal? Soon as the ball is played into his path he is down | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
the line. They are deep, Hutchinson allows them inside. For me as a | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
goalkeeper I would rather he goes down the outside and makes shoot | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
from an angle. He has got him going down the line, he just deepens too | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
far and allows him back inside into a shooting opportunity. Nicholson | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
driving forward, showing a good appetite to get forward and I must | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
say I have every sympathy for the goalkeeper because that is not | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
favourable. It is a shocking one and I have full sympathy for him. Iain | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Vigurs obviously with the goal for Motherwell. What did you make of his | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
game overall? He showed some good skill at times, didn't he? Yes, a | :24:18. | :24:29. | |
good player. They played predominantly for -4-2 and you see | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
the goal here, the cross comes in and nobody defends it. He is always | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
alive around the box and he will be a bit disappointed in the save. This | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
was fantastic. He is having a hard time there, maybe telling him as | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
well that you see the goal, you have to go for it. A difficult result for | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Motherwell. Do you see them as contenders for second place? Yes, I | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
think so, they are in there with a shout. It will be a good fight and | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
hopefully it will go right to the end of the season and we get the | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
best team coming out on top. The pressure is on St Mirren. They | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
travelled north to play and Inverness Caley Thistle side still | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
intent on hunting down the Europa League spot themselves but John | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Hughes' side would have to do without captain Richie Foran, who is | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
out with a knee injury and Aaron Doran, who is on the sidelines due | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
to a hamstring problem. St Mirren started the day in the dreaded | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
play-off place, second bottom in the Premiership. They weren't out Marian | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Kello and Paul McGowan. Brian McLauchlin has the story of the | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
match. St Mirren were desperate for points | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
and they have the perfect start after three minutes. Naismith firing | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
home after the Caley defence failed to clear a free kick. Naismith all | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
alone at the back and despite David Raven's attempts the ball ended up | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
in the back of the net. The home side were quick to respond. Josh | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
Meekings was denied by a fingertip stop like Christopher Dilo. Caley | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
did draw level after 16 minutes. McGregor knocking the ball into his | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
own goal from a corner. Pressure at the back post from Draper, but | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
McGregor with the final touch. Then a great chance for the home side to | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
go in front. Clean through on goal. But no luck for the Caley hit man. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Pitch conditions playing a major part in the mists. The Caley boss | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
John Hughes is a great believer in playing the passing game and his | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
players have certainly fought into his football philosophy. A string of | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
passes, slick and sharp, before the ball was eventually fed right to | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Polworth. He had time and space in the right-hand side to knock across, | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
deep to the back post, but Billy Mackay was waiting to knock it back | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
across goal and Tansey was there to fire the ball into the net. Nine | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
passes in total before Tansey connected, to hammer the ball home. | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
The Saints boss feeling the heat as his side went behind. However, they | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
were to have one chance before the break. Steven Thompson's effort was | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
blocked before McGregor fired over. Into the second-half and Saints to | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
draw level. -- Saints were to draw level. Thompson's shot was blocked, | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
then McGregor with Kelly at the back post to nod home the equaliser. It | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
was Kelly's first goal for Saints but John Hughes will not be | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
impressed by Caley Thistle's defence. The home side were then | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
reduced to ten men. There was a battle of the -- there was a battle | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
of Josh Meekings and John McGuinness. The Saints striker was | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
pulled down by the defender. The referee decided it was a | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
goal-scoring opportunity, despite the fact Graham shinny was coming | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
into cover. John Hughes questioning the referee's decision. And Saints | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
almost made use of their extra man. Good play by the right-hand side, | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
his cross into the box met by Kenny McLean. And only the feet of Brill | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
denied St Mirren all three points. Really delighted with the way we | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
played in the first half. Delighted with the debut of Bryan Christie. | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
Delighted that Draper got his goal. But we still need to keep that clean | :28:56. | :29:04. | |
sheet to win the game. Week come into the split and it is the five | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
teams roundabout is and I think that is where the pattern is going to | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
emerge and one or two teams may find themselves away from that play-off | :29:16. | :29:17. | |
position and that is what the ambition is. Honours even, but we | :29:18. | :29:25. | |
talk about young players coming through the Scottish Premiership and | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
Jason Naismith and Sean Kelly with the goals yesterday for St Mirren. | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
St Mirren, a funny side, where they can be so hot and cold and sometimes | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
it goes for them, like in this situation. It was not a bad | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
performance. In the end, they could have got the three points, which | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
would have been massive or them. They are scoring goals again. They | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
go through stages where they don't score goals for awhile. When they | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
start to score goals again, they will be dangerous. They have got | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
some experienced players in the squad who have been there before, | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
you know the situation. That could stand them in good stead for the | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
rest of the season. What did you make of the red card situation? | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Should Josh McInnis have been sent off? I think the referee has got | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
that spot on. I know that there was a covering defender. He is away, he | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
has gone, I do not think that he is getting back. The only way to stop | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
him is the player coming back, bringing him down. There was a | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
player covering, but it is a sending off. It was Graham shinny, the | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
defender, who might have got up to speed. -- Graeme Shinnie. The | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
referee cannot guess who is the quicker player. He might have caught | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
him. The referee cannot take that gamble. He still four yards behind | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
him. That is why he has given the red card. I do not see that King | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
rescinded. He will stand by that decision -- I do not see that being | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
rescinded. Are we seeing an ever lotion on the John Hughes, at | :31:19. | :31:30. | |
Inverness, -- and evolution? I have played alongside him, I know what he | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
likes from his players. He likes to keep the ball down or stop like | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
Derek Adams at Ross County. This is a wonderful goal from Inverness. | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
They keep possession. They work it into a good area and then get it | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
into the box. At some point you have to get the ball into the box. They | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
have done it at an ideal time when they have got bodies in there. Greg | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
Pansy with the goal, we have speeded the summer, but it makes a game that | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
even more interesting. Again, the passing football to the fore. Yes, | :32:04. | :32:11. | |
different outcome if they had shot from outside the box, but there has | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
to be an end point to these moves, and at the moment, they are getting | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
them. He will have players coming in in the summer that he can mould to | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
his philosophy, and I am sure that they will be fine. Partick Thistle | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
faced St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park, the home side having secured a | :32:34. | :32:41. | |
top six place. The Perth side also with plenty of fire-power with | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
Stevie May on 22 goals for the season, ably supported by Steven | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
Maclean, Lee Croft and Michael O'Halloran. As for Thistle, they had | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
to do without the mercurial Kallum Higginbotham who was suspended. | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
Jordan McMillan found a berth at right back with Stephen O'Donnell on | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
the subs' bench. Lyle Taylor led the line, supported by Christie Elliot, | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
Prince Buaben and Chris Erskine. It would be the worst possible start | :33:02. | :33:12. | |
from Partick Thistle. Stevie May, sneaking in after a mistake for his | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
23rd goal of the campaign. The ball, deflecting past Paul | :33:15. | :33:23. | |
Gallagher in the Partick Thistle goal. | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
After falling behind, Partick Thistle immediately became more of | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
an attacking threat. The shot from Prince Buaben comfortably held by | :33:37. | :33:46. | |
Alan Mannus. Soon after, Jordan McMillan crossed the ball, and found | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
the head of Erskine, but his effort flew just over the bar. Before the | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
first half finished, St Johnstone. The chance to double their lead, | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
Stevie May with a header off the bar, and Paul Gallagher eventually | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
punching the ball to safety. As the second half got under way, Stevens, | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
Stevie May and Steven McLean threaten to make it 2-0, Maclean | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
eventually carving the chance, and Paul Gallen can gain to the rescue | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
for Partick Thistle. Cut the Glasgow side take something with their | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
play-off place rivals all taking points? At the death, Kris Doolan | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
popgun, Alan Mannus could not give it out, and how big would this point | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
be for the final Premiership reckoning? On the back of two wins, | :34:37. | :34:44. | |
top six, they should be happy, but those are the standards that we have | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
set. We are disappointed to lose. On the other hand, Partick Thistle did | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
well in the second half. We did it so late on, come into place like St, | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
getting a point, they have been good all season, it is a very valuable | :35:02. | :35:03. | |
point. Partick Thistle deserving of a point | :35:04. | :35:12. | |
in terms of possession, and Kris Doolan with the goal. Ian, your | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
Dumbarton side on the fringes of the play-off places in The | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Championship. Some of the teams involved in trying to avoid play-off | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
places in the Premiership there, how would you rate them, and which side | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
do you think will finish second bottom? It is so tight at the | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
moment. Difficult to pick a team that will definitely be there. Hibs | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
and St Mirren are struggling, but it is a lot to make up, that 6-point | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
gap at this stage of the season. St Mirren have got the best squad in | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
the bottom six. I find it hard to believe that they are where they | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
are. For us to go and compete against an SPL team over two games | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
is doable, we showed that against Dundee United early on in the season | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
and against Aberdeen in the cup, and we have shown it against St Mirren | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
in the league cup, taking them to a replay. To do it under that pressure | :36:16. | :36:25. | |
though, is a different ball game. We've saved the best till last. | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
Renewed vigour these days for the term "New Firm derby" as a bouyant | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
Aberdeen faced their fellow '80s upstarts Dundee United. It would be | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
a belter of a match at a bouncing Pittodrie. Commentary from Liam | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
Macleod. Russell Anderson and Joe Shaughnessy return to the starting | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
11 for Aberdeen. Peter Paul it does not even make the bench. Andy | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
Robertson suspended for Dundee United, Nacer Ciftci suspended, in a | :36:50. | :36:57. | |
reshaped line-up Jackie McNamara. Dundee United looking for their | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
first victory at Pittodrie since 2009. They made a bright start | :37:01. | :37:10. | |
proceedings. Brian Graham. And that is 1-0, Dundee United. | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
Five minutes gone, and Paul Paton with a very cool finish. Jamie Lange | :37:16. | :37:26. | |
field did not see it. Aberdeen did not deal with it. It came off | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
Russell Anderson, actor Paul Paton, and that was composed. -- back to | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
Paul Paton. Dundee United have started well. That was a brilliant | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
save from Jamie Lange field. Wonderful goalkeeping -- Langfield. | :37:44. | :37:52. | |
Jackie McNamara will be pleased with the start that his team is made. | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
Looking for another. Somehow, that has gone over from John Souttar. He | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
scored against Aberdeen in the New Year game at Tannadice. Willo Flood. | :38:03. | :38:10. | |
The former Dundee United man. Logan at left back for Aberdeen, a big | :38:11. | :38:20. | |
change for him. That comes off Dillon, last. That could have gone | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
anywhere. The short one, from Barry Robson. He | :38:26. | :38:35. | |
gets it back immediately. That is good play. Radoslaw Cierzniak did | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
not know too much about this. He kind of scooted away as best he | :38:43. | :38:51. | |
could. -- scooped it away. Stuart Armstrong is up against Reynolds, he | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
has the beating of him, he goes down, Dundee United looking for the | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
penalty, Callum Murray, shaking his head. A great burst from Armstrong. | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
He did well to get past Mark Reynolds. | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
Robson. Logan, good delivery, and Niall McGinn. He is desperate for a | :39:12. | :39:24. | |
goal. He has been since mid-December, Niall McGinn. That was | :39:25. | :39:34. | |
played long from Reynolds. Niall McGinn! It stays out, again. He just | :39:35. | :39:42. | |
cannot catch a break, the Northern Irishman. Aberdeen hit the woodwork | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
again, like they did several times at Ross County in midweek. Robson! | :39:49. | :39:59. | |
Most of Aberdeen's attacking play has come through Barry Robson. He | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
was unlucky there. A shake of the head from Derek McInnis. Aberdeen | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
have begun the second half very well. And Niall McGinn, the goal | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
drought is over! You can see what it means to Niall McGinn. Wild | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
celebrations from the Aberdeen top scorer. He is into double figures. | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
It has taken some time. A good spin and turn from Niall | :40:29. | :40:40. | |
McGinn. Suddenly, he is losing confidence -- oozing confidence, the | :40:41. | :40:53. | |
man from Co Tyrone. Willo Flood manages to pick out Adam Rooney. He | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
has tested Cierzniak. Niall McGinn trying to keep the ball alive. | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
Aberdeen hunting for the winning goal in the closing couple of | :41:06. | :41:14. | |
minutes. Logan. That was a great switch from Logan. Shaughnessy, to | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
Robson. Was that a foul? No, and Ryan Jack goes from distance, well | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
past the post. He is not renowned for his goal-scoring, certainly from | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
that range. And that was testing Cierzniak. Honours even at | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
Pittodrie. I thought we did enough to win, in the second half, because | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
we were doing all the running, but mindful that we were playing against | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
a good side. This is a difficult place to come. Especially over the | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
results they have had, lately, and the confidence that they have got. | :41:55. | :41:56. | |
It is not a bad point. The first goal in 17 games for Niall | :41:57. | :42:08. | |
McGinn. Are you surprised by that? Of course. For him to score so many | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
goals last season, then start this season so well, and then to not | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
score for that long, it is incredible. But he has worked | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
incredibly hard for the team in that time. This was his last goal in a | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
seven goal thriller at Inverness. He is a vital part of that team, but he | :42:31. | :42:32. | |
surrounded by good, experienced players. They have played a lot of | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
football, Aberdeen. They have still got the Scottish cup final to get | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
to, as well. The pressure is on and they have handled it well. United | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
started better and a great strike from a man who does not often score | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
goals, Paul Paton. It was very well taken. You would probably not expect | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
that. Controls it nicely. Takes it on the run, first time. Guiding into | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
the bottom corner. You do not have to hit them that hard from distance, | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
and Barry Robson has come out to close it down, citing the | :43:13. | :43:25. | |
goalkeeper. -- unsighting. The thing that Aberdeen will finish second? I | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
think so, nobody has capitalised when they have dropped points. At | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
the moment, they are rather strong position. The good news from Craig | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
Gordon is that he's fit and ready to once again. This is fantastic news | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
for you. Are you actively looking for a club at the moment? Yes, it is | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
towards the end of the season, but certainly to get back playing at the | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
highest level I can next season. We have made up a CV four U. Age 31. | :43:59. | :44:11. | |
Debut, 2002. Incredible. As the next page shows, famously, you became the | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
most expensive goalkeeper in the UK when you went to Sunderland. And | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
you're talking to Scottish clubs playing next season? There is still | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
a possibility. It is a bit of a long shot. I am certainly able to play. I | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
have been training for the past few months. I feel like I am ready to | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
start matches. The level of interest from different clubs has been very | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
good. It is just a case of picking the right one and getting on with my | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
career. And Scotland again in the future, perhaps? That must be my | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
aim. Just to get back to the very top, that is what I intend to do. At | :44:56. | :45:02. | |
close of business, let's have a look at the Premiership table. | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
That victory for Hearts only really staves off at reality of | :45:06. | :45:15. | |
relegation. Kilmarnock, the big winners with that victory over | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
Motherwell. Further up, Aberdeen two points clear of Motherwell in the | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
race for second place. Champions Celtic remain 26 points in front. | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
Today was all about Hearts still beating, for now, Tynecastle still | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
has a Premiership goals, but sometimes, that pride is all that | :45:37. | :45:46. | |
really matters. From all of us here on Sportscene, good night. | :45:47. | :45:50. |