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Good evening. We have had a splurge of gold this weekend. Last week, | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
just eight, tonight, almost three times that number plus four red | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
cards and one potential incumbent manager sitting in the stands. In | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
terms of the goals, Steven Thompson joins us in the studio, so too does | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the former Hibs midfielder Stuart Lovell. It is at Hibs that we start | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
tonight. All week long the question had been would Terry Butcher take | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
the reins at Easter Road, with the added spice that Inverness | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Caledonian Thistle were the visitors this weekend. As it was come | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
kick-off time Butcher was in neither dugout. The commentator is John | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
Barnes. Jimmy Nicholl makes one change to | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
the side. James Collins returns to partner Heffernan in attack. No | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
matter whether it was Terry Butcher or Maurice Malpas that selected the | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
team, they stick with the same 11 that beat Kilmarnock. Willie Mackay | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
looking to add to his nine goals so far this campaign. | :01:56. | :02:09. | |
The referee points to the spot. Shinnie nudged by James Collins. A | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
good, positive play by the fullback. He earns his side a penalty. Nick | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Ross. Cars -- Caley Thistle in front. Ross's first goal of the | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
season after 14 minutes it comes. Williams got a touch to it, but he | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
couldn't manage to keep it out. Terry Butcher looks to have donned | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
his civvies today to take place in the stand to oversee his present | :02:47. | :02:47. | |
team and possibly his future team. A transfer number two, an excellent | :02:48. | :03:02. | |
finish by Billy McKay. He is now into double figures for the season. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
It was great play by Shinnie to set up the opportunity. He still had | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
work to do from the angle. But Billy McKay delivered the perfect finish | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
for his 10th goal wrist campaign. Controlling things in the technical | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
area for Caley Thistle. It has come off the post. The | :03:22. | :03:40. | |
interception, dollar and really could have taken it on himself and | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
had a shot but unselfishly looked for Billy McKay and a sigh of relief | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
from the Hibs goalkeeper. Blocked by the boots of Ben | :03:48. | :04:08. | |
Williams. Billy McKay looking to get his second of the afternoon and it | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
was the Hibs goalkeeper who blocked him. An interested spectator, Kenny | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Millar, second from the left in the bottom row. A one-time Hibs striker. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
It is Jordan Forster up from the back, going close there. Is he | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
claiming for the corner? He rose well. Inches away. Is this the last | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
match in charge for Jimmy Nicholas -- forgery Nicholl as caretaker? | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
The Hibs players are appealing for a penalty. They believe the goalkeeper | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
took out Forster. I good ball, excellent defending by | :04:51. | :05:07. | |
Shinnie under extreme pressure from Collins. | :05:08. | :05:21. | |
He is appealing for the penalty there. Maybe he did seem to have a | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
hand on his back and took that the jersey. It would have been in the | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
soft category. Caley Thistle really have bossed | :05:31. | :05:48. | |
this game. A fine block by Hanlon to deny Billy McKay another opportunity | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
to increase Inverness's lead. It was a fantastic performance, started the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
game brightly and once we scored the two goals we were romping for a | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
while. We needed a goal to get confidence and unfortunately it did | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
not work out like that. It was always going to be a struggle in the | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
second half but confidence is low anyway and the last thing we needed | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
was a couple of early goals. Whatever happens with Terry and the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
two clubs we have a decision to make, until then... | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
It was insipid from Hibs, you would have to say, but all eyes on Terry | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Butcher yesterday. Is it inevitable, do you feel that he will be the next | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
manager of Hibernian? The bookies would suggest is a done deal. I | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
wonder whether Terry might feel that he can take Caley Thistle a little | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
bit further. There is no question if you compare the two clubs, Hibs are | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
bigger club than Inverness Caley Thistle, always have been. I would | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
suggest they always will be. Nevertheless there they are sitting | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
second in the table with a Cup semifinal to look forward too | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
against hearts, which after what happened last season they will want | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
revenge -- Hearts. This is a difficult decision for him. I don't | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
think it is a done deal. It is not a no-brainer, like some people | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
suggest. Do you think it is a matter of time, could it happen tomorrow? I | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
think he could. You may see it tomorrow. Terry loves his life in | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
the Highlands and he is a very ambitious person. He has been up | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
there nearly five years now and I think he maybe feels he needs a new | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
challenge. Playing devil's advocate, sticks in the net Caley Thistle la | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
on a great run this season and yesterday they were much better than | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Hibernian -- Inverness Caley Thistle. It would be mad to take the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Hibs job, wouldn't he? Managers like projects, we know that. They don't | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
often get the chance to see them through to the end. If you are | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
making comparisons between the two teams now then obviously the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
sensible choice would be to stay where he is. Nevertheless Hibs is a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
big club, you can't get away from that. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
He is an ambitious guy, some guys have viewed it as a poisoned chalice | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
in the past. I am fascinated by what decision he comes to because he | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
really enjoys his time at Inverness and he is well looked after. What | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
about the point at Inverness he is Lord of the manor, he calls the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
shots in terms of the footballing aspect and at a Bernie and he will | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
be working with Rob Petrie, who presumably will want his say on how | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
things go? I think the interesting thing is that Terry works as a team | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
with Morris and Steve and I do say if he is going to go to Easter Road | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
he will want those guys with him. People are saying, why has there | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
been a delay for him taking the job at Hibernian? Perhaps that is the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
reason, he wants to make sure if he goes there he goes there on his | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
terms and gets the opportunity to work with the backroom staff he | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
knows and trusts. I quit --. It will be interesting. Jackie McNamara's | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
young side always liable to put on a show. Motherwell's recent form a bit | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
up and down. Goals always a possibility at Fir Park and it | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
finished 2-macro-2-macro in September. There was a minute's | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
silence in memory of the Faurlin conflicts across the globe. -- in | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
memory of the fallen, in conflicts across the globe. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
A quartet of changes for the Motherwell side, and unfamiliar back | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
four, It comes in for Ryan Gauld. | :09:49. | :10:20. | |
Motherwell had a chance to clear, they didn't do so. The goalkeeper's | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
punch was poor and although he got a touch, it ends up behind him. Ryan | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Gauld with a fourth goal of the season, neatly up and neatly in. Not | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
the start he was looking for. Francis-Angol isn't under pressure. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
-- is under pressure. Paul Paton, 2-0 to Dundee United and | :10:48. | :11:06. | |
Motherwell are a mess at the back. Paul Paton schools for the first | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
time for Dundee United and Francis-Angol under severe | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
pressure, really should have cleared his lines. In the end it was pulled | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
back, came off comments. Paul Paton with a header in. Dundee United two | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
ahead and Motherwell are far from happy. | :11:28. | :11:41. | |
Sutton, on his weaker side, trying to get Motherwell back in the match, | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
John Sutton. A good hit, plenty of power. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
United keeping up the pace. That is deflected, a really good save. | :11:56. | :12:11. | |
Robertson was always going to drag it back onto his left side, the | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
goalkeeper at full stretch there. United, just one loss in the last | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
seven, are flowing again. A great pass into Ryan Gauld, and | :12:24. | :12:43. | |
even better finished. Great football from Dundee United. 64 minutes gone, | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
a double for Ryan Gauld. The finishing touch, perfection from | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
Ryan Gauld. His first-ever Dundee United double and they look set for | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
all three points. He sends it wide onto Robertson. | :12:59. | :13:16. | |
That is the way to finish the game. Andrew Robertson, who scored against | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
Motherwell at Tannadice. The does the same at Fir Park. A wonderful | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
performance. The best performance I have witnessed from an away team at | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
this ground. Sometimes you think you could have done better, but they | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
have had a good run of form away from home. Took Celtic all we lost | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
week and I think they showed today for sub you only have to look at the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
strength in depth on the bench to see what they have got. I thought we | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
were excellent. The team had a desire to get forward and help each | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
other. Disappointing, the above chances that we did not take a but | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
even to come here and create those chances, against a strong Motherwell | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
team, that has won five games out of six at home, that was a massive win | :14:10. | :14:10. | |
for us. Stuart McCall was very confirmatory | :14:11. | :14:22. | |
about Dundee United. Every week, we were -- wax lyrical about Ryan | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Gauld, but it was the engine room of this United team that made the | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
difference. Yes, Paul Rankin deserves a mention. You need two | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
players playing their position to allow the front four to flourish. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
They all do that. It is ironic that those of them are meant to be | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
holding midfielders. They are in the six yard box looking to finish. They | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
do this job very well. They press, and then pop it off to the guys who | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
can give them a cutting edge. They did their job very well for Dundee | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
United Jess today. They allowed the front four to win the game. -- | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
yesterday. Just how good a side can they be, than the United? Brilliant, | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
and the scary thing is they are getting better as the season goes | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
on. Motherwell yesterday had three of their normal back for out and if | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
there is one thing you do not want to meet at this time in that | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
situation is Dundee United going forward, they are frightening. At | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
this moment in time they are a frightening prospect. Stewart, you | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
said that it could have been even more. Ryan Gauld, we talk about him | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
quite a lot, just how good can he be? He has got a touch of the Messis | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
about him, very low centre of gravity, he takes a break positions. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
He needs to be given the ball in areas that he can hurt teams, and | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Dundee United have found a way to get the ball in to him and allow him | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
to do his stuff, and he is flourishing in a team that is set up | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
perfectly for him. Things looking increasingly bleak for hearts as | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
they started the day on a less than inspiring -7 points. Eight league | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
games without a victory, and the last victory had been against | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Aberdeen at Tynecastle back in August. Commentary from Rob Maclean. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
Ryan Jackson itching to holding midfield role for Aberdeen alongside | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
Willo Flood. Gary Locke cannot make too many changes. This is a team | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
that lost at home to Saint Johnstone. | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
That was flicked on for Stevenson. Stretching out the right leg to make | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
the save, Jamie Lange field for Aberdeen. The corner kick from Barry | :17:11. | :17:23. | |
Robson. And Niall McGinn. Aberdeen ahead, midway through the first | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
half. Haas did not deal with the corner kick. Jamie Hamill with the | :17:27. | :17:40. | |
shot. Barry Robson blocked it. He's going to get a yellow card for | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
encroaching. He disputed, but he did take a couple of steps forward. | :17:48. | :18:00. | |
Robson slides it through for Pawlett. Skipping away from the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
challenge from Wilson, then firing the ball across goal. That was | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
close. In, from Robson, and goes Zola, and Considine has the shot | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
lot, Dylan McGowan blocks the shot on the line and screams for a | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
penalty from Aberdeen. It took a deflection and reared up in the | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
direction of McGowan on the goal-line, appearing to strike him | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
on the face. Barry Robson, for Aberdeen. Peter Pawlett trying to | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
drive through. Mounting pressure on the Hearts goal, and that there is a | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
penalty. That surely struck the back of Meguid. --McGhee. And saved by | :18:52. | :19:03. | |
McDonald, good goalkeeping. Maybe justice done. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Hearts, looking to break with Jamie Walker. Jason Holt is bundled over | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
by Robson and there was going to be trouble, it is going to be a second | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
yellow card. For the midfielder. He looks aghast, but he will have to | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
take the long walk and Aberdeen are juiced to ten men. -- reduced. That | :19:30. | :19:44. | |
is touched over by Jamie Lange field -- Langfield. Johnny Hayes fires it | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
in and Scott Vernon. Almost making an impact from the bench. A neat | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
touch and a neat save from Jamie Macdonald. Danny Wilson is the | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
target. Jamie Walker is around Langfield and it is 1-1 at | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Pittodrie. Nobody reacted quicker than Walker. Flicked on for Walker, | :20:13. | :20:25. | |
Newsround Hector, he turns it back and Paterson scores. They have | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
turned this game completely around have young Hearts. Paterson scores | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
and it is 2-1 at Pittodrie. Lovely pass. And Walker can set Paterson. A | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
big chance. And he just could not stretch far enough. Powerful header | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
clear, and now, Hearts on the counterattack. Jamie Langfield who | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
was up for the corner kick has to sprint back. Here, Hearts again. And | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
it is Stevenson mother blockbuster, to finish things off at Pittodrie. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
-- with a blockbuster. The comeback is complete. Hearts have beaten ten | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
man Aberdeen 3-1. It was a fantastic performance, especially in the | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
second half. The sending-off changed the game a little bit. Every time we | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
look forward -- we went forward, we looked dangerous. We were not happy | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
with the second half performance last week but we have responded well | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
today. The handball on the line from McGowan, it has been five or six | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
yards before the ball fires up at them, whether it is difficult for | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
him to get his arm out of the way, that has denied us a goal, and | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
Richard have been a red card and a penalty kick. No doubt about that. | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
That was a key moment in the game. Let's have a look at these penalty | :22:09. | :22:22. | |
incidents. Jamie Hamill on Peter Pawlett. I think he kicks the back | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
of his leg. He tries to kick the ball but kicks the back of his leg. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
I don't think that is a penalty. This is the handball from Dylan | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
McGowan. Look how many Aberdeen players appeal for it. They all see | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
the same thing which is that his arm goes up, maybe to protect his face, | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
but I think that does look like a handball and a red card. Not | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
convinced? No, but you have to look at the position of the referee. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Whether he has been influenced by the ones that he had not given... | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
Referees do not do that, do they? You can see why Derek McGuinness | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
would be disappointed with the second one. He was full of praise | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
for the Aberdeen performance. He said that they played comfortably | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
and well, but then went down to ten men with the sending-off of Barry | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Robson. I don't think Barry can have any complaints with this. Referees | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
are told that if a player encroaches, don't forget, it is | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
direct, that there is a nailed on yellow card. I have a lot of | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
sympathy for Barry Robson. He is trying to check is tried and let him | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
go. I know that referees are told the book someone when a player is | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
impeded when in a promising attacking move. He is trying to get | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
out of the way, almost. I do not see that as a yellow card, that was very | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
harsh. Was that necessary for Pastor comeback into this match? -- for | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
Hearts to comeback. This was a wonderful touch from Walker. And a | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
lovely finish. He had an excellent match. Setting up the school, as | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
well. It was a massive three points for Hearts. Aberdeen, defensively | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
are magnificent, so you have to credit them, what a finish that was. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
He's getting used to scoring these types of goals now. Hearts are going | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
to need many more results and performances like that to stand any | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
chance of escaping relegation. We have had some good results of late. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
And the cup victory at Easter Road, but they still have a monumental | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
task on their hands. Still, a lot, to turn things around. Hearts, | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
making inroads at the bottom of the table. What about the teams in close | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
proximity? Partick Thistle had managed just the one win from their | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
last seven Premiership matches. They were also still without a victory at | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
home in the league. Add to that they went into this one off the back of a | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
4-0 thumping at Aberdeen. They had beaten St Mirren back in August but | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
that was when Saints manager Danny Lennon had been under severe | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
pressure. A sense now that things were on a | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
more even keel, with St Mirren having won two out of their last | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
three games. With the story of the match at Firhill, here's Brian | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
Mclaughlin. This was not to be a day that Partick Thistle fans or players | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
will want to look back on with any great relish. This challenge on John | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
McGinn by Stephen O'Donnell worthy of a yellow card. From the free | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
kick, the goalkeeper Scott Fox could only parry that effort around the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
host for a corner kick. The ball, dipping and swerving towards goal. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
From the corner kick, who else but Steven Thompson with a bullet header | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
to put Saints in front? Clinical finishing, but questions about the | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
marking. Many were surprised when Marian Kello join St Mirren last | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
month. But he has proved to be a top-class addition. On this | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
occasion, foiling Kris Doolan, as Partick Thistle look to get back on | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
level terms. The home side had plenty of possession but struggled | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
to break through the Saints rearguard, and when they did, Marian | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Kello was on hand to save the day. Then they were denied what seemed to | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
be a clear-cut penalty, with the shot from Higginbotham heading the | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
outstretched arm of Jim Goodwin, but play with on by the referee, much to | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
the dismay of the Partick Thistle players. Then there was more woe for | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
the home side. Another yellow card, followed by a red for McGinn. No | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
doubt in the mind of John beaten. And St Mirren soon made the extra | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
man pay off. Newton fired the ball through the legs of Scott Fox. The | :27:07. | :27:18. | |
ball made by the pass from McGowan, and cool finish by the on loan | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
midfielder. The home side kept pushing forward, with James Craigen | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
having an effort on goal from outside the box, but again there was | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
no getting beyond Marian Kello. McGinn had been a thorn in the side | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
of the home defence all afternoon. This wally, just wide. -- volley. | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
And Ben Thomson finding space and time to fire home his second and the | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
third force in Marin, of the afternoon, taking St Mirren up to | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
ninth place in the table. So They are delighted, in terms of | :27:52. | :28:01. | |
the way they went about their business the discipline and shape, | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
they carried out their game plan. They have the rewards they deserved. | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
They stops the ball travelling, that is what he did, he wasn't close to | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
any of them. The shot was about ten yards away from him hitting it so I | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
have no idea why the proper decision wasn't given. A great win for your | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
side yesterday. We will talk about your goals shortly but first the Jim | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
Goodwin hand ball. Even you must admit this should have been a | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
penalty. I have no defence, really. It is a blatant penalty. I can | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
understand why Archie is furious. It is blatant, if you are Partick | :28:42. | :28:55. | |
Thistle via you are very frustrated. A few strange decisions tonight, | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
that is maybe the most blatant hand ball. Handballs seem to follow Jim | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
around. He was harshly dealt with with a hand ball given against him | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
in a semifinal of the Cup at Hampton and there was no question he was | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
dealt a harsh blow -- blow that day and maybe this is look going his | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
way. He dodged a bullet yesterday. Two great goals, it must have felt | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
good. It seems a real change of mood about St Mirren. What has happened? | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
There has been a lift around the place, we have managed to get form. | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
Yesterday in terms of what the manager said, our organisations and | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
shape were spot on. When you play against Partick Thistle they will | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
have a lot of possession of the ball and they like to play through the | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
lines of midfield but we dealt with it well, closed down spaces in the | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
final third. We caught them on the counter on a few occasions but it is | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
a big turning point, the penalty not being given. 3-0 was flattening -- | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
flattering? There was a goal -- there was a man sent off, it was a | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
professional away performance from St Mirren. Tough for Partick Thistle | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
yesterday. Partick have been a breath of fresh air to the | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
Premiership this season. A lot of good young players. They have made a | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
good start. Having a sticky patch now. I am sure they will click with | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
a win. After a disappointing night in the Champions League await Ajax | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
in Amsterdam, Neil Lennon took his side up north to Dingwall. Not | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
entirely happy with the Saturday lunchtime scheduling, it is fair to | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
say. As for Ross County they were hoping for the sheer novelty of | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
completing a fixture after their last two matches were abandoned. | :30:40. | :30:47. | |
The Dutchman has a debut. Melvin De Leeuw goes up front. | :30:48. | :31:04. | |
Celtic have responded to European matches very well this season so | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
far. They are keen for that to continue. That was Virgil van Dijk. | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
We have seen him stride forward from defence already this season. | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
Account T corner. They haven't been able to impose themselves so far. -- | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
County Court. Virgil van Dijk! He is off the back | :31:33. | :31:57. | |
now. His manager is delighted to see the Dutchman gets his first goal for | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
the club. He has threatened a couple of times already in this game. | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
Finally, he makes the breakthrough and Celtic lead in the Highlands as | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
we creep towards the half-time interval. | :32:11. | :32:22. | |
The wits of the left-hand post has denied Scott Brown. Celtic looking | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
for their second. It is another and it is another for | :32:27. | :32:39. | |
Virgil van Dijk. He is using his head. | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
He has given Celtic 2-0 lead. A tall order for County now, although vague | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
did win 3-2-macro last season but Virgil van Dijk got his first in the | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
first half, his second in the second. | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
He is being replaced by Ivan Sproule. | :33:06. | :33:15. | |
Ivan Sproul. They are back in it. Within a minute of coming on, the | :33:16. | :33:29. | |
Northern Irishman Ivan Sproul breathes new life into Ross | :33:30. | :33:30. | |
County's afternoon. Out of nothing, Ross County are back | :33:31. | :33:37. | |
in the game. Celtic are stunned by that Ross | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
County goal. That is Joe Ledley. The two goal | :33:45. | :33:56. | |
leaders restored within a few minutes. Joe Ledley's first goal of | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
the season. He got ten last campaign. It will be relief for him. | :34:03. | :34:12. | |
Mark browbeaten for the third time. -- Mark Brown, beaten for the third | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
time. That is Joe Ledley again! Celtic | :34:15. | :34:34. | |
four, is Joe Ledley School six seconds, just three minutes after | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
his first and that is the pick of the headers. Wonderfully taken by | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
the Welshman. Into the corner, away from Mark Brown. | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
Neil Lennon with -- will be delighted with the reaction his | :34:48. | :34:54. | |
players have given him from the defeat in Amsterdam. Almost a | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
hat-trick. Roberts had the initial effort and Ledley so unlucky. He | :35:05. | :35:05. | |
reacted first. We played well from start to finish, | :35:06. | :35:16. | |
we freshen things up in terms of personnel and formation. There was | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
zest, energy and quality about us today. It has been a frustrating | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
time in terms of set pieces and we had four in one game which is | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
incredible. It has been a very good day and we keep the unbeaten run | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
going. Defensively we haven't done well enough today. The cross ball | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
into the box, that is something we need to improve on. It has been the | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
story of our season. We have been working on it but individually we | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
have to do better in that case. How have you enjoyed your time in | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
Scottish football so far? Very good, still unbeaten in the league. That | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
is where we want to stay. Very happy, of course, after this. Virgil | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
van Dijk amongst the goals. He has looked a class act since they | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
arrived. We talk about him possibly forcing his way into the Dutch | :36:09. | :36:10. | |
international squad. How impressed have you been with him? | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
Very good defensively, a big, tall physical player. A wonderful header. | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
He is getting better with every game. If you have been given the job | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
of matching Virgil van Dijk, you have to stay with him and he loses | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
the run very early and does not stay with him. He is trying to get back | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
but it is too late. A couple of good finishes from him. Neil Lennon will | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
be delighted because we have talked a lot about Celtic creating chances | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
and games. Sometimes struggling to take them in the matches. At set | :36:47. | :36:50. | |
pieces as well, Neil Lennon has spoken about how he has been | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
frustrated with the lack of scoring from set piece opportunities but | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
yesterday they got it right. When they have Charlie Mulgrew who | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
delivers good ball and on the back of that they have great height in | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
their team, looking at the guys playing yesterday, Virgil van Dijk, | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
6-foot, another tall lad they have, Ambrose, it is hard to match up and | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
I know that Derek Adams will be frustrated but you run out of tall | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
players eventually. A tough day for Ross County but it was tough for | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
Celtic mid week in the Champions League against Ajax. They did not | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
show up compared to the games they have played so far. They were not | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
too happy to go to Dingwall for the early kick-off but it seemed like | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
the sort of performance Neil Lennon would have been delighted with. | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
Yes, five changes to the team and Celtic have a squad dealing with | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
that situation. It was a tricky fixture for them and it keeps their | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
unbeaten run in the league going. It was a superb performance from Celtic | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
yesterday. Celtic very much out in front. There is an international | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
break coming up but Sportscene never rests. We are back on Friday with | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
highlights of the Scotland Hyam Wash the Scotland-USA match. Join us for | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
that. On the same channel we have got live coverage of the away | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
fixture against Norway a week on Tuesday. Join us for that. If form | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
is fleeting then St Johnstone are moving in the right direction. Turbo | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
powered by the top end of the team tandem of Stevie May and Nigel | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
Hasselbaink. The duo have been a revelation with me being talked | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
about as a potential Scotland international in the not too distant | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
future -- with Stevie May being talked about. They want two out of | :38:39. | :38:45. | |
their last three games so perhaps Allan Johnson's side were not | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
without hope. When the going gets tough you need | :38:48. | :39:00. | |
your defenders to stand up. Nigel Hasselbaink opened the scoring after | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
24 minutes. If anything the Kilmarnock defending got worse. | :39:06. | :39:12. | |
Stevie May making it 2-0 just after half an hour. Jackson Irvine took a | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
tumble in the box and got booked for diving by the referee. That yellow | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
card would prove fateful, the second half. Jackson Irvine was booked | :39:27. | :39:35. | |
again, this time for a foul on Chris Millar. Really hard to say if he got | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
any contact with the ball. But he got his marching orders. Against the | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
ten men the class of Stevie May really began to tell. Chris Milburn | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
again found himself on the turf. Michael guidon -- Michael Gardyne, | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
in the box. From the spot. No mistake. Stevie May with his 11th | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
goal of the season from 18 appearances, 3-0 to St Johnstone. | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
The Kilmarnock fans were not happy, chanting Johnstone out and there is | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
only one Kenny Shiels. They did have a touch of fortune when Sean | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
Clohessy made it 3-1 but there might have been more goals for St | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
Johnstone. This effort cleared off the line. Tommy Wright was pleased | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
with what he was seeing and after picking up the ball, Caddis was | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
appended by Darren Barr. -- up ended. It will be one of those | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
yellow cards of the fateful variety. Little doubts about the merits of | :40:46. | :40:54. | |
this one. From the free kick, Stevie May went mightily close to getting a | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
hat-trick but there was a fine save. This was a bad day for Kilmarnock. | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
The fans are not happy with Johnstone and Johnston, chairman and | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
manager. They finished the game with nine men, Darren Barr shown a second | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
yellow. Kilmarnock's second bottom of the table, their lead over Hearts | :41:14. | :41:15. | |
is down to 13 points. The two goals came from longer | :41:16. | :41:28. | |
passes from deep and with Nigel's pace and Stephen's pace, that could | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
be a problem for defenders. We started well, passed the ball well | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
and to lose a goal in the way we lost the first goal, you can't do it | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
especially against these players. They were looking for the ball | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
behind and it is far too easy. Tough times for Kilmarnock but a fantastic | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
run for St Johnstone, four wins in a row. We talk about it week in and | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
week out, Stevie May, Nigel Hasselbaink partnership but you know | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
Nigel well from your St Mirren time together. It has clicked for them, | :42:01. | :42:02. | |
hasn't it? It has. They have pace and | :42:03. | :42:12. | |
directness. He is finding more consistency. They have not just got | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
pace but strength, both of them. He shrugs off the defender and composed | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
finish from Nigel. He is starting to did bring it into his game. We had | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
Callum Johnstone suggesting that he could finish second in the table, | :42:29. | :42:35. | |
but why not? It is a brilliant race for second when you consider that | :42:36. | :42:37. | |
Inverness Caley Thistle have had a great start the season, been there | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
from day one but Dundee United are getting motoring now, have had a | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
good start of the season, Aberdeen obviously St Johnstone, any one of | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
five very difficult to call. Terrible play at the back from | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
Kilmarnock for the first two goals of the game, in a sorry place at the | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
moment. The fans getting on their backs as well. Yes, they are, it | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
never really helps. He got a shout to leave it, it is a good finish. It | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
is difficult. The fans are disappointed. When you're on the | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
pitch and things are not going well, confidence is down, the last thing | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
you need is the supporters getting on your back. They are trying to get | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
up into the lead. It is better to be behind them. It seems to be early to | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
be falling for a change of manager, doesn't it? Ella Bob and it is the | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
world we live in in doubt, get rid is the mantra. I hope they stick | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
with him because as we have seen with St Mirren, it was a personnel | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
at six -- it was a perfect example of whether Danny Lennon was the | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
right guy and they have had a great run and you have to stick with your | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
guy and give him a chance. Lets see what that means in terms of the | :43:52. | :43:52. | |
table. That is what the new Scotland top | :43:53. | :44:24. | |
will look like. There is Terry Butcher, they talk about the scope | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
speculation that he might join Hibernian sooner. What about his | :44:30. | :44:38. | |
sartorial choice? He looks like he's auditioning. I quite liked it, quite | :44:39. | :44:46. | |
smart. Maybe it is what they were in Edinburgh. If this doesn't happen | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
and Terry Butcher doesn't go to Hibs, that is a disaster for the | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
Easter Road club, isn't it? They have to make preparations for the | :44:55. | :44:55. | |
possibility he might turn them down. I don't think they have a second | :44:56. | :45:05. | |
choice, we will find out in the next 24 hours. You think it will happen? | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
I think it will, there has been too much going on for it not to. Who | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
will take over at Inverness? At is an interesting question. That is it | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
from us tonight. No Sportscene next Sunday but we return to league | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
action in two weeks time. Let's hope for another eruption of goals then. | :45:27. | :45:29. | |
For now, good night from all of us. | :45:30. | :45:32. |