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Time now for the forecast for the new Scottish Premiership season. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Things looking good. This promises to be quite spectacular. That was a | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
blockbuster goal. There will be challenging conditions. Things have | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
been changeable in the Highlands. A bright start is again expected. We | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
have seen some real highs. That is a glorious goal. In the Glasgow area. | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
They are surely speeding up now. That is a rocket. It's going to be a | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
cracker. Welcome to Sportscene, a new season and an exciting time for | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Scottish football. And for this show. And earlier slot, hour-long | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
programme and enhanced coverage. The Premiership looks like it will be | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
more competitive than ever. Michael Stewart and Stuart Thomson will be | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
giving an inch in the studio. Plenty of hype surrounding the start of the | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
season. Champions Celtic under Brendan Rodgers will begin their | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
title defence a way at Hearts. Well, this time last year Hearts won | :02:03. | :02:14. | |
their opening five league matches of the season, they will have to go | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
some if they are going to get anywhere close to that. A very | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
difficult beginning to the campaign. Celtic are looking for six in a row. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
There are a positive look to the Hearts side. | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Tony Watts, scorer of the famous goal against Barcelona. He makes his | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
debut against his old team. Scott Sinclair is officially a Celtic | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
player. He is a substitute a day. Patrick Roberts is injured. Celtic | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
have not been able to call upon Patrick Roberts this afternoon. He | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
scored a few against Hearts last season as well. He does well to find | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
McGregor and Celtic have options. It's Forrest! The champions are off | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
and running. An outstanding goal from James Forrest. He has looked | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
more like himself in the European ties, the Scotland man. He worked it | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
well with McGregor. This is quality. Par excellence from James Forrest, | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
away from the despairing Hamilton. Celtic's bid for six in a row is | :03:47. | :03:59. | |
well on its way. Here is Walker. He had some space there. Paterson. | :04:00. | :04:15. | |
It's wide. He wrote himself into Celtic legend with that goal against | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
the great Barcelona. That is a big chance to score against his former | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
employers. He should have done. His manager thinks so, too. The chance | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
goes begging. Beginning to close in on that as it comes right through to | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
Griffiths. Wide of the goal. Two Joe enormous chances in less than a | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
minute for either team. Griffiths somehow found himself in behind the | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
jam tart's rearguard. He is normally deadly from there. It should be 2-0, | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
after it should have been 1-1. A botched clearance. Back to Walker. | :05:08. | :05:20. | |
He goes down. Penalty. Calla Lustig and the rest of the defence, Tierney | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
included, protesting innocence. But Jamie Walker has gone down under the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
challenge of Tierney, who won a penalty against Celtic in similar | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
fashion in midweek. Jimmy Walker. Tynecastle erupts. See of white and | :05:41. | :05:53. | |
maroon. It is 1-1. Walker from the spot. The coolest man in Tynecastle. | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
Lovely penalty from him. And it all is them and from this, well, there | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
is not much in it. John Beeden was in no doubt whatsoever that that was | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
a penalty kick. That has gone over the head of Paterson. Dembele has | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
done well. How on earth did that stay out? Griffiths did not hit it | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
particularly well, but you would still fancy that are going. Rossi | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
stretching all of his neck muscles. Watt fancies this himself. Great | :06:42. | :07:01. | |
save by Gordon. The supporters have been appreciative of Tony Watt in | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
particular in this first half. It will be a debut for the man who has | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
signed this weekend, Scott Sinclair. A youth player under Brendan Rodgers | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
at Chelsea. Hearts fans are appealing for everything, as you do. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
That has gone through for your head. The Celtic defence stopped. The | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
referee says no penalty. Hearts denied a spot kick, having got one | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
in the first. It would have been very soft. In it comes. Griffiths | :07:36. | :07:54. | |
scampers after it. Sinclair is in the middle. It is Scott Sinclair! It | :07:55. | :08:06. | |
is a dream debut, a summer long chase. That is why they brought him | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
to the club. Celtic have been under the cosh but as they always do, they | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
demonstrate why they are the champions. Hearts have had chances. | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
Scott Sinclair needed just want to justify already is big bucks move to | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
Parkhead. Wonderful, clever finish. And Brendan Rodgers watches his new | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
signing score on his maiden Celtic appearance. | :08:44. | :08:56. | |
Saved by Gordon. Cowie has put in a tireless shift as the captain. | :08:57. | :09:14. | |
Spectacular. I wonder if they will get another chance. They have had a | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
couple in quick succession, Hearts. Cowie stinging the fingertips of | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Craig Gordon. Hearts sunk by Sinckler. The new Celtic signing | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
with the winner. Brendan Rodgers opens his domestic account as Celtic | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
manager with a victory. They were made to work for it today, though. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
James Forrest with the opener for the champions early on. Cancelled | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
out by a disputed Walker penalty. After a wonderful piece of setup | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
play by Leigh Griffiths, Scott Sinclair on his debut scores the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
winning goal on his first Celtic appearance. It finishes here in the | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
capital, 2-1. I thought we pressed really well and dominated the game | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
and created a lot of chances. You know, we are a group of young | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
players that are progressing. We have guys coming up through the | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
academy. To play against them and having panicking, that was great | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
from our perspective and I thought the performance was great and I'm | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
disappointed with the result but we have to accept that and move on. We | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
could have been two or three up, that was a dubious penalty. In | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
fairness to the referee he said he made a mistake. At least he was big | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
enough to admit that. We then had to show character and good mentality in | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
the second half to come back and the players accented the risks that we | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
put into their game in the last 20 minutes, being super offensive and | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
getting attacking players onto the field and then we broke through with | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
a quick counterattack. I am delighted for the players and they | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
have got their awards for having the bravery to want to win the game. A | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
fantastic match in terms of pure entertainment. Michael Stewart, how | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
big of a factor was Brendan Rodgers in that victory? It was huge. On a | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
couple of fronts. The Celtic players look after manager now and believe | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
that he knows what he's doing and tactically we spoke about going | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
offensive, three at the back when hearts were playing one upfront and | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
that whole combination adds to the belief whereas last year under Ronny | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Deila I'm not sure they would have won. They won plenty where they | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
played well but not many when they were not on top form and that happen | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
today. Let's get straight to the controversy. Great strike by James | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Forrest but should it have stood? Not in our opinion. Armstrong is | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
clearly in an offside position. He is clearly in the way of the | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
goalkeeper. I wonder if they hesitate thinking it's going to be a | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
penalty kick. The angle shows that he is 100% in the keeper's line of | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
vision. The referee has an unobstructed view. There is no doubt | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
it should have been disallowed goal. The linesman was in a good position | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
and he could have helped. John Beeden might have been thinking, I | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
have allowed that to play on and it could have been a penalty, but he is | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
looking at Armstrong unobstructed, that should have been enough. He | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
pauses after the gold stands to make his mind up. It is all about | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
interfering with play, it is almost a carbon copy of what happened | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
today. The ball even goes in the right part of the net! The law | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
changed at the start of last season so that a player does not have to | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
touch the ball to be interfering and that clearly happened at Tynecastle | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
today. Stuart Armstrong was interfering because he was affecting | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the view of Hamilton. He was obviously in a direct line of the | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
ball. It 100% should have stood. Scott Brown described Walker as a | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
cheat. Did he dive? 100%. It was a massive dive, there is zero contact, | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
and it's a Tom Daley special. At the end of the day he does cheat. I have | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
some sympathy with John Beeden because his line of sight, he does | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
not see the gap between the players and as he is looking at that, he | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
interprets the move, it was a good dive by Jimmy Walker! If he had made | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
contact that is how he would have fallen. But it is poor play, that is | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
unacceptable. The linesman has a different view and they have do help | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
each other. It should have been none no. It could have been 1-0 and a | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
dream debut for Scott Sinclair. You heard Nielsen talking about bringing | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
on millions of pounds of players and that is the difference, look at the | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
pace and power of Scott Sinclair, great play by Leigh Griffiths. Not | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
sure about the defending but that is the big thing with Patrick Roberts | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
down the side, that is why he was an important signing now for the | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Champions League, someone with that pace. Clearly a composed finish. St | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
Johnstone edged Aberdeen in head-to-head 's last season. Two | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
wins out of four but Aberdeen finished best of the rest behind | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Celtic. Looking to bounce back from midweek disappointment against | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Maribor in your up. Commentary comes from Paul Mitchell. -- in Europe. | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
One change from the leak of win against Stirling Albion last | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
weekend. Three changes to the Aberdeen side that were defeated by | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
Maribor. A first Aberdeen start for Miles Storey. | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
Jack tries to get involved. A break for Brian Easton. Encouraged by the | :15:30. | :15:41. | |
home fans to shoot and he did so. It almost felt the Wales St Johnstone. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Lewis was behind this and it just deflected on. You can hear shinny | :15:45. | :16:01. | |
calling for it. -- fell the way of St Johnstone. That was an | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
intelligent pass. Nobody was near Jack and he rips the shot away. The | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
long throw experts. It is deflected to Swanson. That is a good stop. It | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
will be a goal kick. Two clean sheets in six matches for Aberdeen | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
this season. Called into action. That is a good reaction save. It | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
goes into the middle. Swanson. It's another good chance for the striker. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Swanson pulls it back across and he mis-hit sit with his left and it | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
seems to come off his knee. Goals in the last 13 meetings between these | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
teams. They have not looked like making it 14 so far. It is easily | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
headed away. Opportunity for Aberdeen. It's a long shot, drifting | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
up from the back was Kenny Maclean. A sweet left but strike. The grass | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
cutter not troubling the keeper. Tommy Wright will be wanting more | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
from his side. They will have to defend here. Maclean will flick it | :17:22. | :17:33. | |
wide. It is missed by two. Onto Consett iron. Reynolds and Logan. It | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
finds its way to Consett iron. A lack of power and conviction behind | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
the shot. Ryan Jack, on to Logan. Seventh game of the season already. | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
Plays it inside. Ryan Jack. Stockley again. Tries to find his way | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
through. Shinny will want to keep this on his left foot. He cuts | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
inside. Stockley has been involved in a lot of good build-up play. | :18:14. | :18:27. | |
Easton on the overlap. Good effort being given by both sides but it has | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
exceeded the entertainment value. Trying to make something happen with | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Wetherspoon. That sums up the day. Almost and never with no end | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
product. Good skills. But not a good finish. Consett iron is being asked | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
to send this long. Gets it away. Consett iron again. Kenny Maclean. | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
It's a great header for Ryan Jack. That is as close as Aberdeen have | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
come this afternoon. Alan Mannus denies him with a really good save. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Swanson on corner duty. Sends it up high. The goalkeeper comes for it. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
Clashes with Davidson. It is a brave take from Joe Lewis. He will be | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
pleased that he held that. 18 goals in four games between the sides last | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
season. Can there be one here? The ball comes in. I am not sure that | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Stockley saw that. It was a good touch to take it past Alan Mannus | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
and that may be the last touch of the game. Very few clear-cut chances | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
in the game and that was down to a lack of quality from both sides and | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
very good defensive performances from both sides. I am grateful for | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
the point, both sides approach this well to earn a point and we were | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
very robust as a team. Lewis for the goal, and Stockley bring that | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
physicality to a team, and it is the type of team, the type of game where | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
we may have dropped points last season. In the second half as | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Badgley, but we stood up to a lot of that and it pleased me. It is fair | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
to say that it was not as thrilling as the first game with Aberdeen | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
starting with Hayes and Rooney. -- without them. How did their | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
replacements do? When you lose guys like that it will have a negative | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
impact and there is no doubt about that, it is interesting to hear them | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
talking about the physicality of the guys that they bring to the team. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
You heard them talking about the lack of that last season. I'm not | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
sure that the skill level is always the same as the three guys that were | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
missing today. We saw in a couple of BT is the difference that it brings | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
to the attack in particular when those three guys are not playing. It | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
ends up being a different style, long balls up to Stockley, he is a | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
physical guy, there did not seem to be the same synergy between the | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
three. He did not manage to get the best of the St Johnstone backline. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Also the ball goes into the defensive third and this is where it | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
starts again, another aimless pump up the park. There was not that | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
connection among the front three like their normal years when you | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
have Rooney, McGinn and Hayes. There was a negative impact on the whole. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Going to make them it is a difficult place to go so it was potentially a | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
good point. In terms of the summer signing strategy, do you think | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Aberdeen are stronger this season? The squad is stronger but I don't | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
think anyone they brought him will breach the starting 11 from last | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
year. It was a good point from Aberdeen, they travelled during the | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
week for that difficult European tie and then they go to Perth. They will | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
be happy with the point again St Johnstone. Continuity is the key. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Top six has always been a great thing for them, can they do it? Of | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
course they can. Continuity is the thing about St Johnstone. They have | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
something that a lot of clubs are seeking, that stability and | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
continuity. There is no doubt that the top six is achievable. Later we | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
will see one new manager. Before all of that we are off to | :22:42. | :23:04. | |
Ibrox for the return of top-flight football for the first time since | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
2012. Rangers back in the date time following a tumultuous voyage | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
through the lower leagues. Paul Maclean provided the commentary. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
COMMENTATOR: It's countdown time, Flag Day at Ibrox. The Rangers | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
chairman Dave King sparking the latest celebrations of the club's | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Championship win last season, and after three promotions in four | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
seasons Rangers are looking forward to top-flight football. This is the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Rangers team that lost to Burnley last weekend. Four other summer | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
signings on the bench. This is the Hamilton team which beat Livingston | :23:48. | :23:48. | |
in the League Cup last Saturday. That is Halladay. The shot on goal | :23:49. | :24:10. | |
is saved by Matthews. The 22-year-old Remi Matthews on loan | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
from Norwich. Solidly behind it. The interception. Well, that struck the | :24:18. | :24:29. | |
arm of the Greek defender. I am pretty sure his arm was tucked into | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
his side. No penalty. In four Barry Mackay. Down he goes. It was headed | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
away. The hand into the face from the former Celtic man. Up goes Greg | :24:48. | :24:59. | |
Doherty. Now Louis Longridge. In from Doherty. It came off Kiernan. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Now Crawford twists away from Kranjcar and scores. It is a stunner | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
at Ibrox. Hamilton ahead after half an hour. Kranjcar went sliding into | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
the challenge here. Crawford saw the opportunity to blasted home. That | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
has been given away. Halladay on the move, cutting inside, down it goes. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Outside the box. It's going to be a yellow card. That is the third | :25:36. | :25:48. | |
yellow already for the Accies. Perilously close to the penalty box. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
That was mighty close. Clipping the outside of the upright. Why corn was | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
a fraction away from levelling things. Donaghy was caught in | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
possession. Shifted through four Warokorn. Big chance which he can't | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
take. From almost the identical spot from which Crawford scored in the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
first half. Curled it around the goalkeeper and around the post. | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
Keeping the ball under pressure. Dangerous ball infield. Harry | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
Forrester. That is brilliant from Warokorn. It's 1-1. What an impact | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
off the bench from Forrester. A sublime Paris with the outside of | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
the right boot. And last season's top scorer makes it five in the new | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
campaign for him. In from Ali Crawford. Donaghy's header. What is | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
saved by Fotheringham. The former Celtic midfielder thought he had | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
Hamilton ahead again. That is a stunning stop, at full stretch for | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
the Rangers keeper. Stopping it becoming 2-1. Straight back to | :27:20. | :27:33. | |
Forrester. Still going, Harry Forrester. And he screws it wide. | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
The creator of the equaliser had a big chance to turn this game | :27:42. | :27:53. | |
completely around. Tavernier. No pressure on the ball as he whips in | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
the cross. It is Joey Barton. It could have been a special day for | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
Barton had that gone in. Lee Wallace with the throw for why corn. He | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
pulls up in agony. This could be seriously bad news for Warokorn. He | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
is distraught at picking up a hamstring injury. Rangers are now | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
down to ten men in the closing stages having used all three | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
substitutes. Can they still find a winner? In from Wallace. That came | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
off Kiernan. The Hamilton skipper had a swing and a miss. | :28:45. | :28:56. | |
Due to an ongoing situation between Rangers and BBC Scotland there will | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
be no interviews at Ibrox. There is one of the midfielders, Crawford, | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
arguably the star man at Ibrox, is that fair to say? | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
Massive credit to them, went in with a game plan and every single one of | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
the players were excellent. Rangers were well below par. Joey Barton, | :29:21. | :29:31. | |
Mikko Cran char, it was a lot of videos of Crawford and his skills | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
were are about to see. It was energetic, skilful. You can see | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
Kranjcar gets caught in the ball again. Hamilton playing a nice bit | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
of intricate passing. It comes back here, get we wee nutmeg on Barton. A | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
great shot, goal bound and went out for a kick. Here you see a side of | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
the game that most people don't associate with Ali Crawford. He is | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
chasing, reading the game well. Shows a good bit of pace and wins a | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
good tackle. He comes on the blindside of Kranjcar, eager to get | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
the ball. A great turn. Top-class. He was superb yesterday. As were the | :30:20. | :30:27. | |
whole Hamilton tees. -- team. I don't think many people saw it | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
coming. It was expected Rangers would come into the top flight and | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
win, especially at Ibrox. Kranjcar went off and was replaced by Harry | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
Forrester. He made the difference. Up until that point they lacked | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
energy. He found himself tween the lines, found some good space. Tries | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
a difficult ball and what of all it was. For Waghorn to finish. Every | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
time he got the ball, has a wee check of the shoulder, knows where | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
Mckay years. -- is. Every time Forrester got the ball, he did | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
something positive. He was unlucky here, just fired over the top. But | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
he made a real difference. Business doubt there was a big change when he | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
came on. It will be interesting to see how that dynamic works in | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
Rangers midfield. Lastly had a lot of legs and energy. -- last year. | :31:33. | :31:40. | |
Kranjcar is a top class player but fitness concerns, when you see that | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
against the busy and energetic Hamilton midfield, there's definite | :31:45. | :31:52. | |
change. Energy is a big part of Rangers's game. How that midfield | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
will work throughout the course of the season will be interesting to | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
see. Kranjcar and Barton, class players but not as young as they | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
were. Can they play in the same midfield? No, Hamilton looked more | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
energetic, but loads of options. Forrester did well yesterday, | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
Rossiter, and others. There are options. Whether they persist with | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
Kranjcar to get him match fit, I don't know. There certainly are | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
options, they need to find the right one. Can they push Celtic for the | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
title? I don't see Rangers challenging for the title. I think | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
they will be challenging for second place with Aberdeen and hearts. | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
Under Mark Warburton, Rangers have made great strides. I think they'll | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
end up in the bottom six, but for me, I think Omagh we -- kill Marnoch | :32:51. | :33:00. | |
other ones we need to be concerned about rather than Accies. | :33:01. | :33:02. | |
Ross County enjoyed a dream season last time round, | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
Jim McIntyre's side also finished in the top six. | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
They'd start this season at home to Dundee. | :33:09. | :33:09. | |
Paul Hartley's side now without star striker Kane Hemmings, | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
Last season 23 games, Ross County hit seven last weekend. Dandy | :33:13. | :33:51. | |
themselves -- Dundee, no Greg Stewart due to injury. | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
Stepping out from the back. Continuing his run. A chance for | :33:57. | :34:08. | |
Ross County. Doesn't get it away. Second attempt. Kevin Holt. Coming | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
from the back with a second effort and Kevin had to rescue the | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
situation. Makes the run. Great run by O'Hara. | :34:19. | :34:34. | |
Dundee with the opening goal after 13 minutes. Rory Loy scored last | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
season against Ross County opens the scoring here. Williams supplied | :34:46. | :34:58. | |
O'Hara and Lloyd was deadly. -- Loy. The shout goes through for a | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
penalty. Seemed to run across, took a moment to go down. Clumsy from | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
Vincent. A chance for boys. Just touched inside by Graham. | :35:09. | :35:31. | |
McGowan. A great ball through to a O'Hara. O'Hara to Lloyd. -- ploy. | :35:32. | :35:40. | |
They started well this game Mark O'Hara and Rory Loy. Referee will | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
bring things to a halt for a moment, warning the players about pushing | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
and pulling and tugging. Here it comes, referee says penalty. | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
McEveley was the man involved. He will be yellow carded. The corner | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
was a deep onto the back post. O'Hara went down. It looked fairly | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
tame and referee from his position that penalty. Rory Loy, and opening | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
game league double last season against Kilmarnock. And now this | :36:21. | :36:28. | |
season against Ross County. Didn't finish this, straight down the | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
middle. What a great start to the March board Dundee. Two ahead after | :36:34. | :36:42. | |
41 minutes, both from Rory Loy. Dundee started the campaign away | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
from home last season and won 4- zero Waqar Marnoch. | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
Played superbly so far. Felt confident to finish. McEveley steps | :36:56. | :37:09. | |
forward. Vincent. McEveley is out of position. Michael Duffy calling for | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
it. Being pursued. Honest to McGowan. It is three! Goes under the | :37:17. | :37:25. | |
body of Scott Fox. Dandy make them pay. 62 minutes played, Paul | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
McGowan, second goal of the season. Gardyne gets it back from Curran. A | :37:31. | :37:52. | |
good shot. Gardyne with the initial header. That was going in. | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
Davis goes up, first -- Boyce has a shot. Ross County get their first | :37:58. | :38:14. | |
league goal of the season. Liam boys. It was on target, but just | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
afflicted. 'S. Tries the shot. Off target. Watched | :38:19. | :38:40. | |
it go across,. If we going to give penalties for that, we'll have a lot | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
of penalties. There is no doubt that Dundee, it was a good corner. J got | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
his hand on him. But as I say, if the consistency is to be there, we | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
will see a lot for that. If he has a grip shot and the refs box it, you | :38:58. | :39:05. | |
just need to suck it up. Overall, it was a terrific team performance. I | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
thought the organisation was great today and the work ethic was great. | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
We took our chances when they came along and I am delighted because | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
they've worked really hard. Great detective worked to see why this | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
happened. We looked through every angle. We have more angles this | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
season and we worked through them all to see what happened. It was | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
clear something went on. You heard the comments from Jim McIntyre. If | :39:43. | :39:51. | |
there is something that happens we just need to suck it up. Here it is, | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
he got his shot. There is no doubt. That is a penalty. Bobby Madden. | :39:57. | :40:07. | |
Bobby Madden, he gave three penalties in the St Johnstone versus | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
Falkirk game all full similar things. Ross County manager | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
conceding it was a penalty. Obviously he's not seen the footage | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
we have. We doesn't have the explorer finding it for him! When he | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
sees it, he will realise. Consistency required. You can | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
understand when it happened in the other game, people saying the same | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
thing, there will be a lot of penalties. But if you have | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
consistency and offenders know you can't pull shirts in the box, it is | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
up to them. They have to make the decision. If you pulled a shirt, you | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
run a risk of a penalty. You want to seek attackers having free runs at | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
all because you'll have more goals. A lot of people wondering where | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
goals will come from Dundee. That is a well timed run and good | :40:59. | :41:12. | |
finish. He is injured -- was injured for the large part of last season. | :41:13. | :41:21. | |
He could be a big player for Dundee this year. This week, they have got | :41:22. | :41:32. | |
Faissal El Bakhtaoui as well. He is irreplaceable for them. His form | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
last season was incredible, not just for Dundee, but he is one of the | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
stars of Scottish football. I hope they hold onto him. | :41:40. | :41:50. | |
There had been rumours of manager Lee Clark leaving the club | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
And now star striker Josh Magennis was the subject of bids | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
Kilmarnock fans with cause for concern. | :41:58. | :41:59. | |
Elimination from the League Cup hadn't helped either. | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
Could the visit of Motherwell provide the catalyst | :42:03. | :42:04. | |
Three of kill Marnoch's new signings are | :42:05. | :42:41. | |
the problem here for someone. Lee Clark, the manager. Craig Thomson | :42:42. | :42:50. | |
sending him to the stand. Based on the advice by fourth official Gavin | :42:51. | :43:05. | |
Ross. He looks amused. -- bemused. Boyle fails to control it. Here is | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
games worth. He has MacDonald in the middle. -- games word. | :43:10. | :43:18. | |
Not popular with the Kilmarnock supporters. Anderson with a | :43:19. | :43:39. | |
clearance. McDonald's with a fine save at his near post. | :43:40. | :43:47. | |
McDonnell showed his use of reflexes. | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
Nice pass to Ainsworth. McDonald finding Ainsworth. To read fix stuff | :43:54. | :44:05. | |
from Lionel Ainsworth! The neatest of chips over the goalkeeper and he | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
puts Motherwell in front five minutes before the interval. An | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
exquisite finish there from the Motherwell player. His first of the | :44:18. | :44:25. | |
new campaign. What a way to do it. Not the best of grows from Greg | :44:26. | :44:33. | |
Taylor. -- throws. There is Johnson. That is 2-0. Only 25 seconds into | :44:34. | :44:41. | |
the second half. Marvin Johnson comes up with the goods there. It | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
was a neat delivery from Chris Cadden and Johnson arriving with a | :44:47. | :44:54. | |
fine header to claim his fourth goal in four matches so far this season. | :44:55. | :45:04. | |
Samson got a good hands to that one. So close to getting Kilmarnock back | :45:05. | :45:17. | |
in the game. Take with the throw. Johnson. Ainsworth behind the | :45:18. | :45:28. | |
defence. He was not offside. That was an easier chance than these | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
spectacular effort he had to score in the first half. | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
Ainsworth. Here is Johnson. Marvin Johnson with it. That could have | :45:37. | :45:48. | |
been number three for Motherwell. Good defending from Stephen Smith, | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
managed to get back there to force him onto his right foot and make the | :45:54. | :46:04. | |
block. Anderson. Here is McKenzie. Cadden is in there, so is clay. | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
Kilmarnock get the free kick. A combination of tackles there. Kris | :46:12. | :46:22. | |
Boyd, with it! Well saved by Samsung. A bit of impetus for kill | :46:23. | :46:31. | |
Marnoch on the -- for Kilmarnock with Boyd on the field. McKenzie, | :46:32. | :46:42. | |
neat touch. Boyd, towards Taylor. Martin Smith, the substitute, only | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
on for three minutes who has put Kilmarnock back in the game. Smith, | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
the new signing from Sunderland, claiming his first goal for | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
Kilmarnock. And -- Anderson with a long board. Kilmarnock looking for | :47:04. | :47:12. | |
the penalty. Craig Thomson says free kick in favour of Motherwell. We are | :47:13. | :47:20. | |
not pleased with the two goals we gave away but have a feel for them, | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
I think we've fought, give everything. I been disappointed in | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
some of the League Cup games where we haven't been competitive enough | :47:31. | :47:37. | |
or organised enough. Today, we have. At 2-0, you know what happens. They | :47:38. | :47:45. | |
worked hard against us all afternoon, put us under pressure, so | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
we didn't expect anything different. Many aspects of it were very | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
positive. The first half was excellent. It was an excellent away | :47:54. | :48:02. | |
win from Motherwell. There have been offers for Marvin Johnson. So clear | :48:03. | :48:12. | |
yesterday on the attack yesterday, Motherwell. They have unbelievable | :48:13. | :48:21. | |
pace but both quite hit and miss. Yesterday, had a big impact in the | :48:22. | :48:30. | |
game, especially Ainsworth's first goal. Kilmarnock probably not that | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
impressed defensively. That is just... Motherwell exploited the | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
gaps. This is another brutal goal for Kilmarnock to lose defensively. | :48:42. | :48:50. | |
Good play from the players. A powerful header, but they are both | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
pivotal to the way Motherwell play. What do you make of Lee Clark? It | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
doesn't seem that long ago we were seeing his antics on the sidelines | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
as Kilmarnock managed to stay at last season and ten minutes into the | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
match yesterday he was sent to the stands. Never a dull moment with | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
him! No, quite confusing, he admitted he had sworn but not at the | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
officials. At times the officials can be overly officious. If somebody | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
is swearing at an official, by all means send them to the stand, that | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
at times there are too many people round there, too many rules and | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
regulations. There is generally a lot of swearing around the technical | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
area! A lot of work for Kilmarnock still to do. A poor start of the | :49:38. | :49:44. | |
season, out of the cup, did not look brilliant yesterday. A lot of | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
players brought in are young and untested in Scottish football. | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
There's a lot to do. Kilmarnock have to hit the ground running quickly | :49:58. | :50:00. | |
because there has been malaise for a number of years. | :50:01. | :50:02. | |
Partick Thistle went 10 games without a win | :50:03. | :50:04. | |
As the Premiership began this weekend they were looking | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
to make it 5 wins in a row, after 4 straight wins so far | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
Could they keep that form going against Inverness | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
The Highlanders arrived in Glasgow off the back of some decent | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
Commentary comes from Alasdair Lamont | :50:18. | :50:31. | |
Partick Thistle league debut for her sky. -- Erskine. | :50:32. | :50:48. | |
Foreign will be hoping his side can continue. A decent effort by Billy | :50:49. | :51:02. | |
King. He has looked lively early on. Applause for young Partick Thistle | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
fan Luke Wallace who was taken from us at the age of 16. | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
Sean wells with the free kick. Couldn't find the target, Lindsay. | :51:13. | :51:26. | |
Away from his marker, couldn't test Fon Williams in the visitors goal. | :51:27. | :51:41. | |
Now Callum Booth, done well to get away from Raven. Heavy touch. He has | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
got it through to Chris Erskine. What a finish from the returning | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
hero Chris Erskine. His delighted face says it all. This is exactly | :51:55. | :52:03. | |
why. The second touch, a curling shot. Partick Thistle make the | :52:04. | :52:16. | |
breakthrough. Alan Archibald will be pleased to see his side at the | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
front. They went ten games at the start of last season before they | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
recorded their first win. They would love to do that first time around in | :52:26. | :52:33. | |
this campaign but it is an opportunity to equalise and should | :52:34. | :52:35. | |
have hit the target at the very least. | :52:36. | :52:47. | |
Should have opened his league account there. It has been a | :52:48. | :52:55. | |
sprightly start to the second half from the visitors. May have been | :52:56. | :53:04. | |
better taking that in the left foot first time. Wanted to get onto his | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
right foot but was being closed down. Dragged it wide. | :53:08. | :53:22. | |
The chance for Partick Thistle to throw the ball into the box. Welsh | :53:23. | :53:34. | |
to take the free kick. Second time! That is Amoo. Opposite over the | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
line. This all have they two goal advantage. | :53:40. | :53:52. | |
He really couldn't mess, ammo. -- Amoo. | :53:53. | :54:07. | |
Good to nations tackle by do learn. Do LAN. | :54:08. | :54:21. | |
Here's effort and not too far away. This was only inches wide. Fon | :54:22. | :54:38. | |
Williams wasn't there. In that has scarcely able to threaten the goal. | :54:39. | :54:48. | |
The header really the first save Jeromy has had to make. Doolan might | :54:49. | :55:00. | |
get onto that. Against Warren. A decent save from Fon Williams. | :55:01. | :55:13. | |
Fon Williams got plenty behind it. Try to get the victory in the first | :55:14. | :55:23. | |
game. I don't think there was a lot in the half until Chris Erskine came | :55:24. | :55:30. | |
in. Created couple of chances in the first half. Probably half chances. | :55:31. | :55:37. | |
They also didn't really create a lot of chances. Disappointing result but | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
I can't be too hard on the lads. They've been magnificent. They are | :55:41. | :55:49. | |
hurting, as well. We will move on. Good result for Partick Thistle. | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
Such a contrast to last season. Keeping the lights of Stevie Lawless | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
who we'll thought would leave the club and Chris Erskine. He loves | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
being at Partick Thistle. Certain players have places they perform at | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
Anfield, double that and there's no doubt that Chris Erskine is one of | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
them. Lawless, you're right, it looked like he was going to move on | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
but he signed a new contract and he is pivotal to the waves Partick | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
Thistle want to play. You can see he is always linking up. A wonderful | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
first touch allowed him to set self up and guided in. Must be exciting | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
times for Partick Thistle in terms of fans because converter last | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
season, it's much better. They started with five victories and they | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
are attacking well and scoring goals. A big result yesterday. You | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
seen a fair bit of League Cup football, were you surprised by the | :56:52. | :56:59. | |
scoreline and how toothless they were? Someone you know quite well, | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
Kevin McNaughton, played yesterday. Yes, I was surprised that the lack | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
of attacking threat. Kevin is a next team-mate of mine and I think he | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
will be a big player for Inverness this year. He is very calm, the good | :57:15. | :57:23. | |
influence for the team. I don't know why he's forward, I think is | :57:24. | :57:31. | |
forgotten his centre-half. He is a fantastic player Andy reads the game | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
ever so well. -- and he reads. He will be a big influence in the | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
changing room, as well. Here, this is impressive defending. He sees the | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
danger when the ball goes out wide. He gets to the front post area and | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
cuts out the danger. It is not his natural position, he spent his first | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
eight years at Cardiff as a full-back that he will do very well | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
for Inverness this year. How do you read the ever nest situation? Richie | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
Foran has a couple of good results but that would have been so one for | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
him? You heard him say it was hard for him to take. He will take a lot | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
of confidence from the League Cup performances so far. It's his first | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
game, surely we get too far up or down at this point. | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
And that's it for the first instalment of this | :58:23. | :58:24. | |
We're back next weekend at the new and even better time | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
Until then from all of us, goodnight. | :58:31. | :58:36. |