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Good afternoon. So it begins again! Welcome to the new league season. | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
Hope you have missed us as much as we have missed you. We will have all | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
the scores as usual plus the benefit of the wit and wisdom of our guests. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Trust me, they might not look good but they are just as excited as I | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
am! The premiership season kicked off at lunchtime, Rangers's first | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
match in the top flight for four years, at home to Hamilton and would | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
you believe, it finished in a 1-1 draw. Martin Canning and Mark | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Warburton, the managers. Hamilton took the lead, Crawford put them | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
ahead 30 minutes into the match with a curling shot from inside the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
guilty area. Rangers equalised through Waghorn in the 63rd minute. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Joey Barton was awarded man of the match. Back on equalised in the 63rd | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
minute, Forrester set him up towards the end of the game, he suffered an | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
injury and had to leave the field. A point apiece for Rangers and | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Hamilton in the opening game of the season. Perhaps not the outcome one | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
would have expected? Definitely not but take nothing away from Hamilton, | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
they came with a game plan and execute it to a T. Rangers were poor | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
in my opinion, failed to imprint their style on the game, Joey Barton | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
was tidy enough and is range of passing was excellent but no Rangers | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
player can take man of the match today, think it has to be a Hamilton | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
player, they looked fit, organised, I would've given to Ali Crawford. A | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
sense of anti-climax for Rangers? I guess the expectation would be that | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
they would get off to a flyer, there was some talk of them winning their | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
first four games because of some relatively kind starts to the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
season, before the old firm game, but that's a stumble straightaway. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
There are going to be a few of these for the teams, Celtic for me the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
clear favourites for the league but they will stumble and drop points as | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
well. For Hamilton, who we would expect to be in a relegation battle, | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
that is a point that you possibly didn't expect to get. Told you not | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
to mention the relegation fight other title race yet! The consensus | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
from both managers was, as you mentioned, Hamilton had a game plan, | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
they went there and executed it and that credit to the team and to their | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
manager. Especially the Martin Canning, because Hamilton are the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
team with the smallest budget in the league, a relatively young playing | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
squad, to go to Ibrox on the day when they are unfurling the flag and | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the fans are poignant, the expectation that they are going to | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
wipe the floor with Hamilton today, I thought Rangers would win | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
convincingly full stop this started brightly but Hamilton came into the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
game and thoroughly deserved their point today. Some because | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
appointments for Rangers, the Waghorn injury, looked like a | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
hamstring tear, and Kranjcar was nowhere near the level he needs to | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
be at Davey is going to be an asset. Time for our first belt around the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
grounds of the season, with the start at the monarch. I am enjoying | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
it! An impressive victory away for Motherwell, Unsworth and Johnson | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
have scored, the major moment of drama for, not if their manager, Lee | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
Clark, sent to the stands. -- for Kilmarnock. Ross County at home to | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
Dundee this afternoon. It may be game over already, an impressive | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
start for Paul Hartley's side, classic counterfeited visitors, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
McGowan, he beat Fox just as they ball trundled home, that was number | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
three. A Rory Loy double has put Dundee very much in command. Ohio | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
won the second penalty, appeared to be held in the box, Rory Loy fired | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
at home just before half-time. Let's find out how the other Highland | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
representatives are faring, I waited Partick Thistle. Partick Thistle are | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
leading 2-0, there hasn't been on between the two sides but crucially, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Partick Thistle have taken advantage of the few chances they have created | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
the stop Caley Thistle haven't really threatened. The goals came in | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
the first half from lawless finding the returning hero, chrysalis going, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
and a few moments later, and that the final touch to give Partick | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
Thistle 2-0 lead. Dundee United, freshly relegated, at home to Queen | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
of the South. Mark Miller didn't score a single goal in two years as | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
a Dundee United player but as so often happens, he has scored against | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
them to give Queen of the South the half-time lead. But Vandevelde and | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
has levelled for the Tannadice team who are playing with a pace and | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
intensity which was lacking earlier. For Kirk and Hibernian, finished | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
second and third last season. -- for Kirk. At the moment, Jason Cummins, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
who was wanted by Peterborough United, has twice given then | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
visitors the lead. A fantastic strike gave for Kirk the lead but | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
Hibs have the advantage. -- Falcao. There has been a goal at Ross | :06:34. | :06:46. | |
County. Straight after bench, Coleman, very close range, tapped it | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
home. There was always goals in this fixture, they might be a few more. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Just after he said he thought that game was all over! Let's have a | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
moment or two to reflect - lines as they develop. My mind is immediately | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
to Rugby Park, where Motherwell are 2-0 up. Seems to be a bit of deja vu | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
from last season, they lost their opening game - zero. Really bad home | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
record. There was a lot of chat before the match about the pitch, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
they have done that. Does that symbolise... It makes you think they | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
will play a narrow long ball game. If I was over in for Kilmarnock, I | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
would be worried. But the two players who have scored four | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Motherwell are the wide players, Ainsworth with an outrageous chip | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
and Johnson with a powerful header. They have dominated the match. The | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
worthy of the 2-goal lead. Caps with the departure of Hemmings, the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
modern world where their goals were coming from but they are 3-1 up. | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
Probably expect him to leave Dundee, last season, they had Hemmings, Rory | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Loy and Stuart upfront and the other to conduct overshadowed Rory Loy a | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
bit. Without them, he has come to the fore a bit today and has got a | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
couple. If they see that out, it's a great start to the season for them. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
Partick Thistle are 2-0 up at Firhill, it would be a great start | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
for them, they are notoriously slow starters. It would be an excellent | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
start. They have recruited well in the summer, bringing chrysalis going | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
back, -- Chris Erskine. I think Partick Thistle finished last season | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
reasonably well, I would expect them to be up and about the middle of the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
table. Time to flesh out the bones from the headlines earlier. We will | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
be John Jensen Sutherland, watching Kilmarnock against Motherwell. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Kilmarnock can never the pitch or the like but some things never | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
change for them, they are struggling again. -- narrow the pitch. Their | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
manager Lee Clark was leaving his technical area, the fourth official | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
said something to him, it seems he said something back to the fourth | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
official which is not to his liking, and he was sent to the stands. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Interesting to see what is about that after the match. After that, | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Motherwell took control of the match, some sublime skill from | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Ainsworth, his lobbed effort over McDonald is a sight to behold and | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
you can see it tomorrow night at 7:30pm, in the highlights. In the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
second half, Marvin Johnson made it 2-0, with a header. Motherwell took | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
control of this match. Kilmarnock tried to respond by putting Kris | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Boyd onto the pitch, he almost immediately pulled a goal back but | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
it was saved and ever since then it has been something of a stalemate, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Ainsworth should have made it 3-0 comments upon the offside trap but | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
his shot was poor. It is turned into a bit of a tussle in the second-half | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
but Motherwell are on course for all points. More now from Ross County | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
against Dundee. Currently Ross County one, Dundee three, Rory Loy | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
has stepped into the breach, two first-half goals have really set | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Dundee on way, both assisted by Mark O Hara, who did well on the | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
right-hand side, picked a lovely cross out, found Rory Loy busting | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
into the box and he slammed the ball home from close range. County had a | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
number of long effort but the referee, not for the first time this | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
season, clamped down on some holding in the box, he had warned couple of | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
players before corner came in and then punished McInally for holding | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
on Hara, he was booked and didn't complain. The third was a classic | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
counter with Dundee sitting, Co tried to get round them, McGowan was | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
clean through, his shot squirmed home for a third you thought it was | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
all over at that point but it wasn't quite, has hit a shot in and day was | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
Craig Curran to tap home. Greg Stuart, out of the squad altogether, | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
that got a few tongues are wagging here. Apparently that is due to | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
injury and not any impending transfer. Time to go back to | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
Firhill. Partick Thistle, looking good for the three points, Steven | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Lawless fires a shot inches right of the far post. The two goals they | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
have scored, the first one came ten minutes before the interval, Canon | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
booth running down the left-hand side, slipped it to Steven Lawless, | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
who got the path to chrysalis Chris Erskine. That was the only touch of | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
class in a poor first half. The second half has been better, Caley | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Thistle have raised the tempo as they sought an equaliser but they | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
were undone when a Sean Worth free kick was headed back across goal, | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
they were unable to clear and I think it was David Amoo got there | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
before they could clear to make it 2-0. Inverness Caley Thistle hasn't | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
been bad but haven't been able to trouble the Partick Thistle | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
doorkeeper. That could be a worry for their new manager. Let's reflect | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
a rebate on the premiership matches now. Lee Clark, sent to the stands. | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
The pitch, shortened, doesn't bode well for the rest of the season! | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
It's a club that seems to have a cloud hanging over it just now. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
There is unrest at board level, the fans aren't happy, they are down in | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
the first game of the season, it seems a bit doom and gloom for | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
Kilmarnock. In contrast, Ross County ended the season on a high, they won | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
the League Cup, made it into the top six, started badly and it seems as | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
if it will continue into the premiership. I think they will be | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
fine, they are well-run club, a talented manager, they have lost a | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
big influence for them but I wouldn't have thought that would | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
send them into any kind of tailspin. But as you say, going out of the | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
League Cup September the really was... It sets the tone. -- League | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
Cup so tamely. They are probably looking to get three points today, | :14:07. | :14:07. | |
it puts them up against it. Partick Thistle on course for their | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
first three points of the season, it looks pretty comfortable. Yes, they | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
haven't been threatened very often and it looks like a comfortable win. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
More now from the Championship. Scott Davie has been watching Dundee | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
United against Queen of the South. 1-1, a rather flat and insipid | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
performance from Dundee United, Queen of the South keeping a lot of | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
the possession, neither side creating many goal-scoring | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
opportunities. The best chance falling for United with a Vandevelde | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
and free kick. A -- free header but straight to the goalkeeper. Mark | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Miller breaking the deadlock with five minutes to the interval, a well | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
worked move, the Australian midfielder Lyndon dykes causing | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
problems for the United defence, borrowing his way into the penalty | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
area. It was parried to grand Anderson and who build it back, and | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Mark Miller scored, sweeping the ball in from about 12 yards, giving | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Queen of the South deserved lead at that stage, but United came out and | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
it took a wonderful equalising goal on 57 minutes from Vandevelde and to | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
really spark them into life. Terrific control in the penalty | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
area, he flicked the ball not only over the head of one Queen of the | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
South defender but over another one, guided it into the net and from | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
there on in United have played with patients that had been seared -- | :16:04. | :16:18. | |
severely lacking up to that point. Cammy Smith, on loan from Aberdeen, | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
had a shot from 18 yards that forced Robinson into a save. Stephen Dobbie | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
is back for his second spell with Queen of the South that he hasn't | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
had much in the way of service, having come on as a substitute. | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
Falkirk against Hibs, still 2-1 to the Bicester 's? It is, and over the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
last couple of seasons we have learned that Stephen Cummins likes | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
being in the spotlight. -- to the visitors. There was a ?1.2 million | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
bid by Hibs for his services, that was rejected. He pounced from six | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
yards to tap in an easy goal after a shot had been palmed away by Danny | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
Rogers. It fell to Cummings and he put it in the back of the net. The | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Hibs lead only lasted seven minutes because a brilliant strike from 25 | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
yards, Craig Seybold, his 200th appearance for Falkirk, blasted high | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
into the top right corner, brilliant strike which restored parity until | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
half-time. Just after the break, guess who popped up again, Jason | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
Cummings, along with all forward by VX Norwich striker, he put it high | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
in the top corner to make it 2-1. -- the former Norwich. Falkirk went | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
close again just as I finished off but it is still Falkirk 1-2 | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Hibernian. Cummings very much the man of the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
moment. I didn't guess, I knew who it was a! The transfer window is | :18:12. | :18:24. | |
still open. 1.2 million, rising to maybe 1.7 depending on appearances | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
and all the rest of it. They don't want to sell him but... How much | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
more could they get? Edging towards ?2 million? English clubs don't tend | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
to bid high for Scottish players because they know that Scottish | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
clubs tend to be forced to sell. Good on Hibs for resisting as long | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
as they can. I read about how much work they put in over the summer to | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
get him to extend his contract, and then immediately to sell him... If | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
an offer comes in that they can't reject... He is a huge player for | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
them and they are desperate to get out of that league. Dunfermline sold | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
their star striker to Dundee. 4-1 up the newcomers are at home to | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Dumbarton. Great score, I watched them against Inverness and they | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
started very brightly, looking like a real threat going forward, but | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
then Inverness got a foothold in the game and it ended up 5-1. But that | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
is a very good opening day school. As you would expect, the return of | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the SPFL means the return of sports scene highlights. It will be an | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
earlier time slot tomorrow night, this should get you in the mood. | :19:51. | :20:08. | |
One of the finest goals you will see! He has scored! What an | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
absolutely wonderful strike into the top left! See all the action from | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
this weekend's Scottish Premiership matches on Sportscene. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
Don't miss it and if you do don't worry, it will be on the iPlayer. We | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
are desperate to hear your thoughts on how the season will pan out. Who | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
do you fancied to win the Premiership? While you are thinking | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
about that let's hear who the manager of the reigning champions | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
could challenge his team. It will be tied, probably the usual | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
suspects, teams who have been doing well recently as well. The likes of | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
Aberdeen have been doing well and they are out of the cup, which will | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
give them more training time. Hearts have been about it and have a strong | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
squad, Rangers coming into the league will fancy they can do well. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Other teams will make it very difficult for you. I am really | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
looking forward to it. A lot of the games are my first time to the | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
stadiums so we shall prepare well. There has been a goal at the Cale | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Marnoch versus Motherwell match. What happened? -- kill Marnoch. Kill | :21:36. | :21:50. | |
Marnoch have got one back. It will be a nervous finish for Motherwell. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
With Kris Boyd on the pitch now they will really be pushing to get this | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
equaliser. They looked dead and buried a couple of minutes ago but | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
this has breathe some life into them. I know you have been desperate | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
to get this off your chest, you unburden yourself earlier before we | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
were ready. Title challenge, you are going for Celtic? Yes, I think if | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
you look at it they have... You can argue all of this but I think they | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
have the best goalkeeper, defence, goal-scorer, squad, deepest | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
resources to be able to add to the squad in the transfer windows, and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
they arguably have the best manager. That is a lot of advantages! You are | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
making a good case! They won by 15 points last season and haven't lost | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
anybody and we expect them to be stronger under Brendan Rodgers. Tell | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
us more about the goal. Grandstand finish at Rugby Park, | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Kilmarnock have a goal, Martin Smith came off the bench. Taylor's cross | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
found Smith. Kilmarnock pile on the pressure. Kilmarnock got a corner | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
but now the onus is on Kilmarnock to try to find an equaliser with seven | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
minutes left in this game. John Sutton has equalised. I don't | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
think we have lost to them in a competitive game in about 18 years | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
so we don't want to lose that. I was worried at 1-0 down but I will take | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
this. Stephen, let's talk about your tip for the Premiership title. You | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
are nodding your head, you are going for Celtic. -- you were nodding. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Yes, everything he said is true. It is a frightening prospect of having | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
Roberts and Griffiths. Both going for Celtic to win, who will run them | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
closest? Michael. Aberdeen. I think they will edge it from Rangers. But | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Rangers are really hard to predict because they have made so many | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
changes over the summer. Today's match perhaps not indicative of... I | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
don't take too much from them dropping points. All of the teams | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
will drop points but Rangers have added so many players and we need to | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
see how they dropped in. When Kirkhill is sharper and fitter he | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
may show the class he has. Others could have done more today as well. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
They are perfect club, Rangers, we don't know how many players they | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
will add. I think Aberdeen have been very consistent over two or three | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
seasons in the league, they haven't lost anybody yet, they still have | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
Hayes, McGinn, Rooney, they have added to three who might make big | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
contributions. It wouldn't be surprising if I do of Aberdeen or | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Rangers finish second. Would you like a more succinct answer? No. I | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
think Rangers -- I thought Rangers would be putting down the market | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
today. I tipped them to finish second on the BBC website. They were | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
so poor today and it wasn't until Harry Forrester came on that they | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
started to get a foothold in the game, he made a real impact as a | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
substitute for Crenshaw, who had no impact. I would say that they will | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
sign a couple more players. Where do they need to strengthen? Everybody | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
says centre-half but if the hamstring is bad, we will find out, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
they might need another striker. I will go over Rangers at second but I | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
agree with Michael that Aberdeen have been a model of consistency for | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
a couple of years and they will push Rangers for the second spot. Other | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
places in the top six, nobody has alighted upon Hearts. They top four | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
material? I think so. We have heard rumblings that there has been unrest | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
or supporters are unhappy about... It is hard to call it a lack of | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
regrets because the club has progressed hugely in the last two or | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
three years on the field and off but there seems to be a bit of | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
discontent. Are expectations too high? I think the fans expectations | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
are so high that that will be the problem. When they lost to Hibs it | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
hurt them, losing to the Maltese team hurt them as well. There is a | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
feeling that Hearts are stagnant at on the pitch. Will they make the top | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
six? I think they will be fought. St Johnstone, we always say they punch | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
above their weight. But by now we expect them to do well and be there. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
They know how to do it, they have a fantastic manager who sets his teams | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
are very well, they have not tinkered with the squad very much | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
and they have added a couple of good players. Midfield seems to be the | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
area they have strengthened and I fully expect them to be top six | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
again, they are top six Masters if you like, they know how to do it | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
every year. In my ropey arithmetic that leaves one place. I would have | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
said Ross County. You can't read too much into the opening games. But | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
they remind me of St Johnstone, it they are well run, they have | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
arguably got better resources than St Johnstone, thanks to Rory | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
McGregor's largesse. I can see them being the last of the top six clubs. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
I think I will go for Motherwell. The way they finished the season | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
last year was mightily impressive and I think the front three on their | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
day are as good as there is in the league, especially in wide areas, | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
the pace and directness they have, and Donald upfront and I have added | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
a good centre-half in Henning. This applies to a whole lot of clubs we | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
are discussing right through the league, that Rangers and Celtic | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
might have a big couple of names, Martin Johnston and other players | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
could be lost, and it changes the whole banner of the club. -- the | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
whole dynamic. It was a difficult season for Dundee | :29:01. | :29:12. | |
couple of seasons ago, they were inconsistent, too many draws, not | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
enough wins, they rip be pushing for a top six spot this year. It looks | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
like they're going to win today quite comfortably, that's an | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
impressive start. Not everyone likes for the SPL split into groups of six | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
bit gives managers and groups of fans something to aim for. In the | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
old days finishing sixth or seventh, it didn't make much difference | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
but... If your team aren't going to challenge for the title, gives you | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
something to aim for. Your finishing the season with bigger games, making | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
the money through the gate, Partick Thistle are also capable of nudging | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
into the top six, the caption themselves as a Premier League club. | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
To the part of the script discussion where you will say would be pinned | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
up on dressing rooms! Who will be fighting for the dreaded drop... | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
Festival, we can bring you our first full-time reports. It's full-time, | :30:16. | :30:23. | |
one win from one game for Hibs in the Ludik, three points in his first | :30:24. | :30:32. | |
league match for Neil Lennon. A brilliant performance by Hibs, | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
highlighted by two goals from Jason Cummings, the first test after two | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
minutes when he pounced on a mistake by the Falkirk keeper, then after | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
the break, he step down a long ball and fired it into the top corner to | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
make it 2-1. They then unleashed a brilliant shot, his 200th | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
appearance, made it 1-1, but Jason Cummings after the break up the | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
winner. Neil Lennon said that he would drive him all the way to | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
Peterborough United in the didn't play well, because they want to buy | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
him, that bid was rejected, I think there might be a few more beds | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
coming in after this performance. Great start for Neil Lennon in his | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
tenure as Hibs manager in the championship. I love this, Stuart | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
Cosgrove, our friend refers to the champion ship as Alcatraz because | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
it's so difficult to get out of. This is the third season. Every | :31:37. | :31:45. | |
season you are down, it is costing the club a lot of money. The | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
turnover of the club is reduced, the clip. They posted losses of ?800,000 | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
by being out of the Premier League, that is three seasons now, minimum, | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
as a lower league club. I do think they will get back up this season, | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
but it's the same point, if you use Jason Cummings, you lose an awful | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
lot of goals from your side, he is a big game player as well, but he also | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
raising over the course of a season, 20 minimum. His partnership upfront | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
with Grant scheme to be interesting, I think he has lacked a partner that | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
he clicks with. I think this could be the one that works together as a | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
front pairing. Falkirk did remarkably well last season, | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
finishing second, just losing out in the play-offs, lost to Kilmarnock, | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
the target this year is making the play-offs. They have lost a couple | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
are big players over the summer with folks leaving, they're not quite the | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
unit they were. They always seem to cope. They have a good manager. I | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
think we all thought they might be a Premier League team now because of | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
the way they took care of Hibs in the play-offs but then to our | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
surprise, they were taken over by Kilmarnock. Full-time at Ross | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
County. We can hand you over for our full-time report. A fantastic start | :33:12. | :33:21. | |
to the premiership for Paul Hartley's side, Rory Loy stepped up | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
to take on the goal-scoring responsibility, no Stuart today | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
through injury but it didn't matter, Ohio surged down the right and found | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
the striker, then he appeared to be found by McEvedy in the box, it was | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
confidently dispatched before half-time. The decision to award the | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
spot kick might be one for us to see tomorrow night but it did look like | :33:49. | :33:51. | |
it was consistent with one or two other once he has awarded this | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
season. Duffy's weight of past was spot on for McGovern to slot under | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
Fox, Ross County got one back when Craig Curran started in from close | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
range, therefore stretching stuck to the season continues, however. -- | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
their frustrating start to the season. Dundee United at home to | :34:17. | :34:25. | |
Queen of the South this afternoon. In the programme this afternoon, | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
prior to kick-off, I was reading how MacKinnon, the new Tannadice manager | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
was saying that in his experience, with Rangers last season, that in | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
this after competitive league, every point has to be earned. A very | :34:39. | :34:50. | |
lacklustre opening 45 minutes, Queen of the South dominated in terms of | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
possession but little in the way of penetration from either side | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
although that did change in the 40th minute. A great bit of play by the | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
Australian midfielder down the left-hand side, getting his way into | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
the penalty area, the shot was parried and it bubbled back to | :35:08. | :35:14. | |
Anderson who wrote it to Millar, who guided it into the far corner of the | :35:15. | :35:23. | |
net. The second half, a similar story, we didn't get much service | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
until late in the game, a shot towards the back post was saved by | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
Battle with about five minutes to go but from the 57th minute it was | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
mostly Dundee United, inspired by Nick van der Velden, who came from | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
AZ Alkmaar, a wonderful goal,", to get to the edge of the box, flipped | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
it over the first challenge and the second had the presence of mind to | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
Stuart into the corner of the net. Robinson very much keeping Queen of | :35:58. | :36:06. | |
the South in the game. There was a shot deflected later on and Robinson | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
reacted well to turn it on to the post, seconds later Smith made space | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
at the edge of the key and at the end, the former Ranger dilly | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
buckaroo Rangers goalkeeper turned it round for a corner. Then they | :36:18. | :36:26. | |
deflected shot past the near post but for all the United pressure, | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
they were nearly caught at the other end. McKinnon at the end, given the | :36:29. | :36:36. | |
second half performance, will feel frustrated that it ended 1-1. Off we | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
go to Firhill. Partick Thistle against in the daily Alli Inverness | :36:42. | :36:51. | |
couldn't do so. Partick, beginning a new league season in positive | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
fashion, spoiling the first promotion match in charge for which | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
Foran. The opening goal, picking up the ball inside the box and firing | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
past the keeper, a fine finish from Chris Erskine. Then David Amoo | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
doubled the lead, after Caley Thistle failed to clear from a Sean | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
Welsh set piece. That was all it was in terms of goal-scoring, Caley | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
Thistle unable to threaten the home goalkeeper for the duration of the | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
90 minutes and given that this group 12 goals in the previous two League | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
Cup games, disappointing for them. They could have had another couple, | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
Lawless and then it was comfortable for the home side. Game over at | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
Kilmarnock. A winning start to the new season for the visitors. | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
Arousing and Tremadog afternoon. -- dramatic. Fort Worth the licence fee | :37:55. | :38:02. | |
to watch the highlights, that is the shore. Come on at manager Lee Clark | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
was sent to the stands, presumably for something he said to the fourth | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
officials -- command manager. I will find out more about that shortly. A | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
great finish over McDonald to make it 1-0, just after half-time, | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
Johnson made it 2-0. With a header. Immediately Kris Boyd was prised | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
from the bench and immediately had a chance well saved, as Kilmarnock | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
tried to find their way back into the match. They struggled to create | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
chances, eventually they got one, it was the substitute Martin Smith, | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
released by Sunderland and picked up by Lee Clark, his flashing header | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
gave Kilmarnock hope with seven minutes to go, it looked like they | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
might rally, Coulibaly looked like he might have a penalty but the | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
referee gave the decision against him, that incensed the Kilmarnock | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
fans but they are giving the players a rousing reception, they have seen | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
a lot of effort and once again they have seen another Kilmarnock defeat. | :39:09. | :39:20. | |
Plaid results show relentlessly! Time to extol the virtues of | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
Championship football. Watching Dunfermline against Dumbarton. If | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
you want entertainment with your football this season, then east end | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
park may be the place to be. Seven goals, a hat-trick, three penalties, | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
an ordering off, where do you start? Dumbarton took the lead on 80 | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
minutes, Robert Thomson was the scorer but Stanley came after Moffat | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
had hit the post for Dunfermline. -- it only came. Two goals in two | :39:50. | :39:58. | |
minutes by Cardinal gave the past the lead at half-time and then a | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
mistake by Frazer Wright in the Dumbarton defence gave them the | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
chance for the first hat-trick of the season. Dunfermline then got | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
their fourth and we thought the game is over but then, two penalties in | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
added time from Mark Doherty for Dumbarton made the score 4-3 of the | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
second one, the referee sent off Lee Ashcroft phase foul on Robert | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
Thomson. A great way to start the season, more of this, please. More | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
reports to follow from the Championship. St Mirren against | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
Morton. A share of the points in this derby, the screwing up and up | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
to 17 minutes, Forbes had pledged in a great free kick and the ball was | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
passed by Lingfield. They deserve to be in front, it was the same story | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
into the second half, Morton should have made it 2-0, Miss kick went | :41:04. | :41:12. | |
well wide of the target. Allegri change things around, and it seemed | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
to work, with seven minutes to go. Morgan found space, swung the ball | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
into the box and John Sutton was there to head home. A banner was | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
unfurled by the Saints fans, targeting the Morton supporters, | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
saying simply, forever in our shadow. Not quite today. In no way | :41:29. | :41:40. | |
is McManus in Connie vote shadow! It finished here, 2-0, Raith Rovers | :41:41. | :41:49. | |
took the lead, it was the oppressive Bobby Bahu crossed for the goal. A | :41:50. | :42:00. | |
superb start, McManus then hit the post but by half-time, it was 1-0. | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
Raith Rovers looked dangerous and scored again, it was a very | :42:05. | :42:13. | |
comfortable win for them to stop a United need to get players in and | :42:14. | :42:21. | |
improve quickly. The summary from Somerset Texas nicely to the first | :42:22. | :42:23. | |
classified results round-up of the season. -- takes us nicely. | :42:24. | :45:53. | |
That is today's classified results. Michael, what did you make of that | :45:54. | :46:02. | |
Yeovil Town score? I know you had nodded off by that stage! Back to | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
the Premiership. What is the most significant result of the day? Well, | :46:09. | :46:17. | |
people will look at what happened at Ibrox with a great deal of surprise | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
and give Hamilton credit for that and people will probably read too | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
much of it in terms of Rangers' failures and limitations. Rangers | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
will still be very strong and as we said earlier you still expect them | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
to sign a couple of players and really strengthened. We never got | :46:36. | :46:43. | |
round to discussing who you think will struggle at the bottom end of | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
the Premiership. Hamilton was a team that most people were thinking of. | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
After today would you change that? They looked very good and organised | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
today but against Rangers players raise their levels. You are not | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
going to change your mind today? I feel that Kilmarnock have signed a | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
number of young players from down south who are generally untested at | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
this level of Scottish football Dummett they were so poor last year | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
and I feel there is a malaise in the club. -- football, they were. They | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
have been fighting relegation for the last few seasons and Lee Clark | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
did well to lift them away from trouble. It took a huge gamble with | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
wholesale changes. It was and we are talking in the dark because we don't | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
know how good the players he has brought in are but they are all | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
young, the oldest is 22. Either his faith is vindicated in these guys | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
and they form the backbone of a squad that can keep them up or it | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
goes the other way. I have a bad feeling about Kilmarnock, I have to | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
say. Is that your tip for the drop? I think so. Tomorrow St Johnstone | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
are against Aberdeen and hearts are at home to Celtic. You will be able | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
to listen to live commentary... Michael, as a Dons fan you have | :48:21. | :48:34. | |
suffered and off this week, the cruel exit from Europe at the hands | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
of the referee. If you can bear it, let's have a look at their most | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
recent trip to Perth. You said I had suffered enough and then you... Very | :48:49. | :48:54. | |
hard to find any encouraging result from St Johnstone recently because | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
their record has been quite poor. There was the 5-1 game at Pittodrie | :49:00. | :49:07. | |
but also the 3-0 at McDermott. They seem to have a hex on, Aberdeen Sea | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
to be able to stop them playing. -- seem to be. Aberdeen, they tried to | :49:14. | :49:22. | |
lift the supporters by having the Rooney contract extension. Maybe | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
that was going to be a second boost if they got through, or more of a | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
pick me up after they got beaten, and that is what it turned out to | :49:33. | :49:35. | |
be. What are your feelings on St Johnstone against Aberdeen? 20 goals | :49:36. | :49:46. | |
in their four meetings last season. It shows you that it is open | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
matches, they seem to be a bug bear team for Aberdeen. They need to | :49:54. | :50:03. | |
shake off this European exit. They were probably the better team in | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
Europe over the two legs but they need to shake off the hard story | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
because this is the start of the league. It is an opportunity for | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
them to shake that defeat out of their season. It is quite a new big | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
day is coming up because they have the tie against United. They need to | :50:24. | :50:33. | |
steady things. They did in Europe up until... Talk about your bogey team | :50:34. | :50:46. | |
or hex team, nobody beats marrow bore. They have a poor record | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
against St Johnstone, if they are going to lay down a challenge to | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
Celtic and Rangers, this is when they have to do it. Hearts finished | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
third last season against Celtic, they have one the league in each of | :51:00. | :51:09. | |
the five seasons. Do you remember this one, 3-1 to Celtic? Griffiths | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
scores an excellent goal. It is a great opening day fixture. It is | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
hard to Celtic because it is a difficult place to go and win, one | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
of the best atmospheres in Scottish football. You are just so close to | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
the pitch. The supporters are within spitting distance from you! Not | :51:33. | :51:40. | |
literally! Sometimes, but it is quite compacted and be hearts fans | :51:41. | :51:48. | |
are magnificent. It is a tough one for Celtic and it will be | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
interesting to see how Hearts are shaping up after the disappointed of | :51:53. | :52:03. | |
Europe. Absolutely spot on, we know how intimidating Tynecastle is, it | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
is one of the big away games for every club, but Celtic seem to be | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
managing it, they score a lot of goals there, Leigh Griffiths is a | :52:13. | :52:21. | |
hate figure for... Leigh Griffiths is one of the best players of his | :52:22. | :52:29. | |
type in the country. Brendan Rodgers was talking him up, saying if he had | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
a Latin name he would be worth ?15 million. Ross McCullough just went | :52:35. | :52:50. | |
for 12. He is certainly very talented. He is a terrific | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
talismanic and I think nothing will change this year, he will be the top | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
scorer. You can find out how tomorrow's matches pan out by | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
listening to Sportsound. We have Paul Hartley, the victorious | :53:08. | :53:23. | |
done the manager, who spoke to Martin Dowden. | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
You can't ask for a better performance or result I imagine. It | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
is always a difficult place to come, we have struggled over the last few | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
years but overall it was a terrific team performance. I thought our | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
organisation was great today and the work ethic was terrific. We took our | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
chances when they came along and I am delighted for this group of | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
players because they have worked really hard in pre-season. The man | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
who took the chances was Rory Loy, stepping up really well, everybody | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
is looking at the absence of Kane Hemmings. Rory started the season | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
last season in the same fashion, two goals and then he picked up an | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
injury and it was hard thing to get back in. I thought he was excellent | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
in terms of his work rate today and he took his goals when they came. A | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
hard place to come as well so you will be satisfied with three points. | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
This is a difficult 64 us, they put a lot of pressure on us but I | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
thought we'd coped with it, a lot of balls into the box. You were talking | :54:30. | :54:37. | |
about Greg Stewart not playing, people put two and two together, can | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
you clear that up? He was injured in training but he will hopefully be | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
back Monday or Tuesday. Has there been any movement in terms of goods? | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
Just the couple of bits we have had from Birmingham on we rejected. Will | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
they come back in, I don't know. Will you put a figure on what you | :54:58. | :55:06. | |
expect. He has a year left on his contract, it's not for me to come up | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
with figures, I want to keep Greg Stewart but it won't be easy. I | :55:11. | :55:24. | |
guess you expect that the play you recruited recently can step up to | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
the level? Yes, hopefully when he gets his opportunity, but it was | :55:29. | :55:38. | |
important to get gametime today. Interesting to hear him talking | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
about all back to the, he is somebody I am really looking forward | :55:43. | :55:55. | |
to watching. -- -- Faisal El Bakhtaoui. I think he will be a good | :55:56. | :56:05. | |
addition to the league. Who is your one to watch for the season in the | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
Premiership? Jake Marini from QPR. He was outstanding, his pace was | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
frightening, so he could cause a lot of defences problems. Let's talk | :56:17. | :56:35. | |
about... Hibernian will be very strong, Dundee United. They will be | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
wanting to get into the play-off but it will be extremely competitive. | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
Having played in the Championship the competitive team is frightening. | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
Does it look any tougher this season? I think it does. Hamilton | :56:51. | :56:56. | |
might be a surprise package, Raith Rovers should be good. There is very | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
little between the teams, Hibernian have the biggest budget, Dundee | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
United behind them, Falkirk if they repeat what they did last year they | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
can be up there as well. It is tough but hopefully they can make the | :57:12. | :57:19. | |
play-offs. Well, ladies and gents, that's just about it for the first | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
show of the new season. Before we go, I can reappraise you of the | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
results in the top two divisions in Scotland. | :57:29. | :57:46. | |
Just a reminder, you will see highlights of all the Premiership | :57:47. | :58:13. | |
action in Sportscene tomorrow earlier than it was last week. | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
Steven Thompson is one of Jonathan's guests, I will keep the other one | :58:19. | :58:19. | |
secret. Michael Grant is on the Off The Ball | :58:20. | :58:38. | |
Saturday Supplement. While you are fumbling for your mobile I will did | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
you a good night and thank Stephen Thompson and Michael Grant for their | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
contribution. Thank you very much, gentlemen, thank you for watching | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
and we will see use. -- see you soon. | :58:53. | :58:57. |