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This afternoon's League Cup final was of huge significance to | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
Aberdeen. A club once laden down with silverware, they had gone | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
almost two decades without a trophy. But today's match was also | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
absolutely massive for Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Only in | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
existence for 20 years, this was their first ever appearance in a | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
major cup final. Football's most enduring memories are etched in | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
silver. 18 years since their last trophy Derek McInnis is firing up | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Aberdeen once again, passionate and exciting. Formed just 20 years ago | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
John Hughes is determined to lead Inverness Caledonian Thistle to | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
their greatest ever achievement with a spirited, never say die team. | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
Aberdeen versus Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Who will make their mark in | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
the League Cup final? Two men who know all about what it meant for | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
both clubs join us this evening. The former Aberdeen striker Billy Dodds | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
and former Caley Thistle midfielder John Rankin. We will bring you the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Premiership highlights a little later, but there is only one place | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
to start. Celtic Park, the League Cup final venue transformed from | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
green into a sea of red with a pocket of blue as Aberdeen and | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Inverness Caledonian Thistle took centre stage on a day that meant so | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
much for everyone involved. We must turn our attention to the | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
Premiership now. # this is going to be the best day | :02:11. | :02:37. | |
of my life, this is going to be the best day of my life. Everything is | :02:38. | :02:49. | |
looking up. This is going to be the best day of my life. | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
It is a wonderful atmosphere inside Celtic Park. A battle of the North, | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
Aberdeen from the East against Inverness Caledonian Thistle from | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the Highlands. Where is the trophy going this evening? It has been on | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
the road to Aberdeen five times before. They are at the third most | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
successful club in this competition despite their generation not knowing | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
what it feels like for their team to win silverware. It has been season | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
after season of anti-climax and disappointment. The Dons' fans would | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
sell their soul for a win today. Inverness had just celebrated their | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
first birthday when Aberdeen won this cup. But they are well managed | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
on and off the park. They have stamped their standard on the top | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
table of Scottish football today. There are 40,000 supporters | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
supporting their team. Peter Pollard has succumbed to a leg injury. Cally | :04:20. | :04:43. | |
Bissell is without Warren. -- Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
referee is Steven Maclean and it is his first major final. This could be | :04:53. | :05:11. | |
quite an afternoon. Inverness have yet to get the better of Aberdeen in | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
any cup tied. It is one draw and four Aberdeen wins so far. But this | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
meeting is very different to the ones that have gone before. This is | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
the fourth time the League Cup final has taken place here. He is already | :05:31. | :05:47. | |
in the waters, Hayes. He has landed on his shoulder. Hopefully it is not | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
too serious because there are only seconds gone. | :05:51. | :06:15. | |
That was a fabulous ball almost onto the penalty spot. Maybe you would | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
have liked to have seen Rooney on the end of that. | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
Robson was caught very late. Steven Maclean is going to speak to the | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Inverness Caledonian Thistle captain. There was no contact of | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
note, but it is a free kick. Aberdeen claimed it was over! It | :06:47. | :07:10. | |
looked for all the world it was going to go straight in. It was good | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
defending. It certainly looked at one point as if it had crossed the | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
line. Yes, no debate, it was not over. | :07:29. | :07:50. | |
This might just light the fire under this League Cup final. Not a great | :07:51. | :08:04. | |
clearance from Dean Brill. But Richie Foran was there. | :08:05. | :08:17. | |
A lot of possession for Aberdeen. Can they do anything with it? Rooney | :08:18. | :08:30. | |
goes down! It is a goal kick as well. I think the referee is right. | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
He makes contact with the ball. I do not think it is a penalty kick. I | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
think that was a great decision. Oh, and he drops it. That was | :08:42. | :09:17. | |
horrible for Jamie Langfield. A nervous moment. He has not had much | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
to do, so he went and flapped at that one a little bit. He has got to | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
be more decisive. Dean Brill saves. It came off the | :09:27. | :10:01. | |
arm of Shinnie. Robson goes down. Better play again. We talked about | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
working the ball wide. Dean Brill was forced to save again. | :10:06. | :10:34. | |
That was the best effort from Robson so far. Aberdeen have had by far the | :10:35. | :10:46. | |
best chances in the game. Aberdeen have everyone back except Niall | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
McGinn. Richie Foran thinks he was fouled. Steven Maclean is not | :10:56. | :11:07. | |
interested. I thought it was Andrew Considine. | :11:08. | :11:22. | |
That is a goal kick. I thought Josh Meekings had touched that | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
originally. A massive chance goes begging. The defender does well to | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
put him under pressure and he tries to lift it over him. I think he has | :11:38. | :11:50. | |
to do better. Jack has not had a look in, really. | :11:51. | :12:02. | |
Nicky Low is asking why he did not get the pass. I think at this stage | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
of the game he just wanted to get the shot away. | :12:13. | :12:31. | |
That is the first real save of the match that Jamie Langfield has had | :12:32. | :12:44. | |
to make. It might have been going past anyway. Just three times before | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
a penalty shoot out has settled the League Cup final. | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
Saved by the Dons keeper! Advantage Aberdeen. No mistake from Barry | :13:02. | :13:13. | |
Robson! Greg Tansy scored in the semifinal, | :13:14. | :13:31. | |
but he puts it over. It is going horribly wrong in the shoot out for | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
the Highlanders here. Nicky Low is a substitute. What a moment this is | :13:40. | :13:51. | |
for him. And he scores! They are very close now are at the red Army. | :13:52. | :14:06. | |
He's got to score and he does. That certainly didn't lack conviction. A | :14:07. | :14:25. | |
great penalty kick Scott Vernon against Brill. A wonderful spot kick | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
from Vernon. If this misses, Aberdeen have won the League Cup. | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Oh, it's cool as you like. There's still life in this shoot out, but | :14:40. | :14:51. | |
for how much longer? Aberdeen are so close to that long, long awaited | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
trophy. Addianroomy with a chance to win the Cup for Aberdeen. And he | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
does! The almost two decades of pain, hurt and, at times, ridicule | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
at the hands of others is over for Aberdeen feb Club. They've been | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
guided to silverware within a year of the new manager taking the job. | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
The sleeping giant of Scottish football has finally woken from its | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
slumber. And we can now speak to Barry Robson, one of the heroes. You | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
did it the hard way, but you did it. How does it feel? We won the game, | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
that's the most important thing. I don't care how we won it or how we | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
played, we just won the Cup. You won it the hard way, how do you feel? | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Ecstatic. You can see how much it means to so many people. We had a | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
job we took on and it was a tight final, but we had the better | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
opportunities and once it comes down to penalty kicks, you have to back | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
yourselves and play with confidence. It's unfortunate for Inverness, it | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
was a good final and it was a tight game, but we wanted to win the game, | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
no matter how we did it. And after almost 400 appearances for the Dons, | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
he's from the granite city and in just a second or two, Russell | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Anderson stands free and lifts the 2014 Scottish League Cup, which has | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
been won by Aberdeen. An absolutely fantastic day for an Aberdeen. Those | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
scenes say it all. Absolutely magnificent for the club. Billy you | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
won it almost 20 years ago, what does victory mean? It's huge. It's a | :17:16. | :17:28. | |
platform for them. The penalties, it could have gone horribly wrong for | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
them. There was a good mentality to get through that game today, because | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
there was a lot of text and pressures, but they came through. It | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
wasn't a great game to watch from a neutral perspective, why was that? | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
It was that tension and pressure, it took away from the game. But it was | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
still exciting because there was so much tension and the fans brought | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
the pressure as well. So nerves played a part, but the set-up? After | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
the last two results, 5-0 against cellic, I think the team were spot | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
on. They were compact and hard to beat and they sat deep and it was | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
hard for them to be broken down. And they're hunting in packs. They're | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
not letting anybody in behind them. Johnny Hayes unfortunately got | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
injured but the way Inverness were set up today, they were not letting | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Aberdeen in behind them and it worked well for them And how much | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
was the loss of Ross to the gape? That was massive for them. And they | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
lost Johnny Hayes. Right now he's got nobody to pass to, so he's | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
delaying it and delaying it and eventually somebody gets into the | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
box. And again, Barry Robson is putting one in the box and there was | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
only one person there. And losing Hayes right at the start, did that | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
affect them? Yes, it has to. You can see, they've plenty of ball and | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
possession and usual usually those two will give them the chances, but | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
again, no focal point. Inverness defend in their 18 yard box. That | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
was their game plan, defend deep and don't let them in behind and they | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
let them have possession in areas where they shouldn't. Should | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Inverness have had a penalty due to man handling? This was a certainly | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
pent for me. As much as Aberdeen had a lot of pain over the years, they | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
got lucky with this. Because Foran still wants to get his head on it, | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
he doesn't go for the ball and I think the referee's made up his | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
mind. A fantastic evening for Aberdeen. In the granite city they | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
can now celebrate this magnificent victory. Billy, you spent a large | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
part of your career there. What does it mean for the city? It's huge | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
because of what's gone on and the pain they've suffered. You can see | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
what it means to them. There will be a few sore heads tomorrow. They just | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
wanted to do well in the League and compete for silverware and it's nice | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
to see them getting it back, because they have had some Cup shocks along | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
the way. And a lot of pain, but now the fans are really enjoying it. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
Let's hear from the Caley Thistle manager. They were at it and at it | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
and the fans brought it along. The two sets of support supporters were | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
fantastic out here and we ran them close. We played our part and I | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
could have been here standing talking to you as a winning manager, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
but not to be. We'll get going again, but that's what football is | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
all about. And Aberdeen are so happy and Caley Thistle are hugely | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
disappointed. How do they bounce back? They haven't much time because | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
they've another game on Tuesday night. But I'm sure the manager will | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
have the team fired back up for Wednesday, because he has huge | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
passion for it. But they'll get on with it. Four important matches were | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
played over this weekend, and we start with Mirren. Could they pick | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
up vital points against Dundee United? | :22:33. | :23:03. | |
Thompson battles for it and wins it. In with a chance. It was a short one | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
and tame in the end. Showing good pace that time, Stephen Thompson. | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
Good movement from St Mirren. That's a good cross from Stephen Thompson | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
and the keeper happy to see that go wide. Thompson causing problems | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
again. The long ball and McGowan is free and he scores. The third of the | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
season for Paul McGowan and his first since October. He twisted | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
awkwardly but did really well to get this away from the goalkeeper. | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
Looking to build on their lead, St Mirren. Newton is still going. | :24:05. | :24:16. | |
Blocked and McGowan will try a shot. Well, they've started so well and | :24:17. | :24:28. | |
are causing lots of problems. Into the net it goes. A typical striker's | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
goal. You've got to be in the right place at the right time. Stephen | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
Thompson wheels away in celebration and St Mirren are 2-0 ahead. They | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
need some inspiration, Dundee United. Oh, that's a great ball. | :24:52. | :25:07. | |
Naismith trying to track him back. Just three away wins in the league | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
this season, St Mirren, as they come forward again. Thompson from | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
McGowan. The build-up play has been fun to watch. | :25:20. | :25:31. | |
No communication, and it's sent wide. It wasn't reaching the goal | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
goalkeeper and it was poke the over the top and wide. | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
McGowan spins the ball out idea. A chance again. Kenny has a sweet left | :25:50. | :26:06. | |
foot but that one was too wide. Oh, there was venom in that. He | :26:07. | :26:25. | |
managed to get across and it had real zip in it. A good save from the | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
keeper. That looked offside. They continue to go, but Graham wants it | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
in the middle. He looks offside but it's given. And Dundee United are | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
back in the game with 11 minutes to play. St Mirren desperately unhappy | :26:47. | :27:00. | |
at the decision. There's a different feel now to Dundee United. Armstrong | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
and united looked down on it to all intents and purposes, but two goals | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
in five minutes, since one from Shaun and there's six minutes still | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
to play. St Mirren will be kicking themselves that United have got it | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
back to 2-2. They'll have to be careful here. What a come back from | :27:32. | :27:41. | |
done dean United and now, as he has done in the previous three years, | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
finds the back of the neck. United with a tremendous come back. Yes, a | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
good win. I thought the first half the other then were far superior to | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
us. Every second ball it look us a while to get into the match. You | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
might not look at the video again, but would concede that one goal was | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
well off side. Yes, the player that pushes the ball was offside but | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
sometimes when you're at the wrong end of it and this sort of mix, then | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
these decisions are more difficult to take. A devastating outcome for | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
St Mirren. But, be honest, was the first goal offside. When you look at | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
it here, I think there are three players offside here. You I? | :28:48. | :29:08. | |
Ampullitis I think he looks on side Obviously after that, St Mirren | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
basically crumbled, is that how it felt to you? We didn't crumble on | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
the pip, but if we did score the third goal, it was going to be | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
massive and if we got that we'd go on and win the game. To be honest, I | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
didn't think it would take as long as the first nine minutes to score | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
the first goal. When we got the second goal we knew we could go on | :29:39. | :29:50. | |
and get another. And fair play to the boys, they got on the score | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
sheet again. A devastating blow for St Mirren. You could see what it | :29:58. | :30:15. | |
meant for Danny Lennon. It has to be a big hit me up from him and he has | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
to get his players going again. As the scramble to avoid the play-off | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
place heats up, we check on the progress of Partick Thistle, very | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
much in the mix. But could their opponents, Hibernian, still be | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
sucked into the relegation equation? Terry Butcher sounded a battle cry. | :30:30. | :30:37. | |
You are looking at the top six, so let's have a go at this. You | :30:38. | :30:45. | |
organise the boys and sometimes it is too much. Ross County are also | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
very much in the play-off place mix. They had a Saturday evening match | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
against St Johnstone and already knew St Mirren had slipped up. Could | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
they make up valuable ground on their rivals? St Johnstone one at | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Tannadice by 4-0. Ross County make one change due to | :31:03. | :31:38. | |
injury. Two dabbles in his first two matches. No goals since then. Not | :31:39. | :31:48. | |
quite testing the goalkeeper, but good technique. -- doubles. | :31:49. | :32:04. | |
De Leeuw took the first touch brilliantly and the second was good | :32:05. | :32:13. | |
as well. He has made such an impact. He called for it and he wanted it. | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
The goalkeeper got a touch on it, but could not keep it out. Ross | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
County arrowhead. Concern on the face of Tommy Wright, the St | :32:27. | :32:27. | |
Johnstone manager. Jordan Slew is yet to score for his | :32:28. | :32:38. | |
club. That was a great run at the back | :32:39. | :32:59. | |
post, Dave McKay coming forward and nobody picked him up. He was all | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
alone, but he could not guide it on target. Derek Adams is happy enough. | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
His side are playing well. It was Filip Kiss who made the | :33:11. | :33:26. | |
clearance. Under pressure and he almost stepped | :33:27. | :33:51. | |
on him as well. It is a free kick to St Johnstone. Plenty of players | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
forward, but great height in defence for Ross County. That was Stevie Mae | :34:00. | :34:11. | |
and that is a good save. St Johnstone's top goal scorer this | :34:12. | :34:12. | |
season. Unbeaten in the last nine against | :34:13. | :34:32. | |
Ross County at home. That was awkward on the ankle. But he knew it | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
was a chance. St Johnstone are just not | :34:36. | :34:50. | |
functioning today the way Tommy Wright would have liked. | :34:51. | :35:07. | |
Brown with the fingertips once more. It was spending into the top corner | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
and the deflection made it difficult. Alan Mannus is having to | :35:16. | :35:26. | |
get back quickly. Anderson goes down and the referee sees no advantage. | :35:27. | :35:43. | |
Stephen Anderson has rescued a point for St Johnstone, but it might not | :35:44. | :35:51. | |
count. The referees will be conversing. It will not count. The | :35:52. | :36:00. | |
first header produced a fine save. But it came off his hand and that is | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
what St Johnstone did not want to see. Ross County remain ahead. We | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
are delighted with the start to the game we had and we are positive and | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
the team were ambitious and it paid off for us. The number of times this | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
season we have been able to do that. The midfield three played really | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
well. The first half was as bad as it has been at the club since I have | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
been in charge, but we are still in a great position. We will pick | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
ourselves up and have a clear week to get ready for Hibs next week. We | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
have got that top six to play for and we are still in the driving | :36:46. | :36:53. | |
seat. De Leeuw has popped up with a few important goals this season. | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
That was his sixth. Could he dig Ross County out of the situation | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
they are in? He could, it seems to be. He has got great technique. He | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
sets himself up with a great touch and that was low and hard on the | :37:10. | :37:20. | |
ball, the technique is great. It is a great touch and the finish was | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
phenomenal. How do you rate Ross County's chances overall to escape | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
the play-off places? They have to put a run together, and they are | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
capable of it, and they are too inconsistent this season. But that | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
was great for them to win that game and give them a boost to get away | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
from the relegation play-off. It looked like St Johnstone were going | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
to get a point. Was it rightly chopped off? That was some spot from | :37:51. | :38:00. | |
the linesman. It was an unnatural position from his arm. That linesman | :38:01. | :38:09. | |
was 40 yards away and he spotted that. It is the right decision and | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
good on him for having the bottle to make it. But it took us a few times | :38:16. | :38:22. | |
to see it. It definitely comes off his arm. He has hardly scored two | :38:23. | :38:30. | |
goals in his career! We would have to say it was a handball. What I St | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
Johnstone's chances of staying in the top six? They beat you the other | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
night. I fancy them to go into the top six. After a disappointing | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
result you would expect them to bounce back strongly. Is that how | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
you see it? The top six and the bottom six are all but done. | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
With a first home win finally recorded this season Partick Thistle | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
were looking for more of the same when they faced Hibs who had only | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
managed one single win in their last ten matches, but the beleaguered | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
Hibs fans remain optimistic. One more game still to come tonight. Is | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
it too early to look ahead to next week | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
some of them are not good enough to play for Hibs. He needs another | :39:24. | :39:37. | |
transfer window, to be honest. Thistle are looking for back-to-back | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
home league wins. Chris Doolan returns. There is still no sign of | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
Muirhead and Osborne. Terry Butcher's Hibernian have not won in | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
four matches. Youngster Jason Cummings starts. This is a big game | :40:00. | :40:08. | |
for both teams for different reasons. Partick Thistle are trying | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
to stay above the water line. Hibs are looking to push St Johnstone for | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
that top six place. That was Higginbottom. He draws a great save | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
out of Ben Williams. Partick Thistle's number 23 is a man in | :40:28. | :40:29. | |
form. James Collins is still trying to | :40:30. | :40:55. | |
live up to the transfer fee. Higginbottom looks like the most | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
likely is it for Partick Thistle. That was brilliant from Partick | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
Thistle! A wonderful finish from Chris Erskine. It was all because of | :41:10. | :41:22. | |
the dummy from Chris Doolan. It is his first on loan from Dundee | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
United. Hibs are having to respond. They have not won away from home | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
since Boxing Day. It is something they want to put right. | :41:32. | :41:51. | |
Look at the amount of space Higginbottom has. He had options and | :41:52. | :42:07. | |
he went himself. Higginbottom has got team-mates asking, where was the | :42:08. | :42:09. | |
past? The Thistle boss was sent off mid | :42:10. | :42:28. | |
week. He had a go at the referee. Suddenly it is two. Lee Mayor's last | :42:29. | :42:41. | |
goal for the Saints came in September, 2012. He has doubled the | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
Jags' advantage. Within a couple of minutes Hibs are | :42:46. | :43:09. | |
back in this. The man on loan from Sunderland. It is just his third | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
appearance for the club. He put that are beyond the outstretched Paul | :43:17. | :43:18. | |
Gallagher. It is a fine finish. It is a corner for Hibernian. Danny | :43:19. | :44:11. | |
Haynes went for glory himself. It's getting to be now or never time. And | :44:12. | :44:22. | |
it's Watt moor, e again. But he puts it over the bar. Partick Thistle so | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
close to another home win. They couldn't buy one a week ago, but now | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
they have a covariance and he finishes it. Wonderful! He rightly | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
celebrates. This was a tremendous goal. He had a similar opportunity | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
earlier on in the second half, which he didn't take. But, boy, has he | :44:47. | :44:55. | |
taken that one. Four in four for hiking Higginbotham. It's good for | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
the lads and good for their confidence. We just have to go and | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
build on it now. We've a rough run of games, like the rest of the teams | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
around us, but we know we've got to capitalise on the result. We haven't | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
done enough either end again. We've conceded three goals. It's baffling | :45:19. | :45:27. | |
for me and you organise these boys and set them out and you say, "Go on | :45:28. | :45:34. | |
and play," and some of them don't. It's just too much for them. He's | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
talking about dumping his first team players and playing the youth team | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
against St Johnston, and the Hibs players are simply not good enough | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
at the moment? You have to say that. They go back into their old habits | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
and they're not performing. Is it bad decision making? There's a bit | :46:02. | :46:10. | |
of greediness and selfishness. He's driving, but just put them in there | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
and he takes a shot, so it is bad decision making. Does that mean | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
you're not good enough? Well, it's either a confidence thing but | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
they're not consistent. They have options there, but they clearly take | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
the wrong option. They're lacking a real leader for me. When the leader | :46:35. | :46:45. | |
is not in the side they lack someone of the right quality to drag the | :46:46. | :46:52. | |
team through, that's it for me. Suddenly two home win wins for | :46:53. | :47:00. | |
thistle and they will boost them as they get off the play-off place? | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
Yes, I was there. And it was as if they won the World Cup final that | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
game against Aberdeen and sudden suddenly they took that performance | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
into the game against Hibs. Partick Thistle are in a good place to avoid | :47:22. | :47:30. | |
the relegation position. And that's it for me, Higginbottom, if he's | :47:31. | :47:38. | |
play playing into the final third and driving at players, he's hard to | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
stop. One more game still to come. Is it too early to look ahead to | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
next week yet? On Friday night, just ahead of their | :47:47. | :48:15. | |
match with cellic, it was announced that the chairman of Kilmarnock was | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
standing down. They were another team trying to avoid a play-off | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
place as well. Could they pick up anything against the champions | :48:28. | :48:29. | |
elect? Cellic gave a start to a | :48:30. | :48:46. | |
17-year-old, with Henderson making his first start. | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
The title countdown continues for cellic. Johannsen's pass. Stokes has | :48:54. | :49:08. | |
the ball in the net but it's not going to count. Cellic almost ahead | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
in the opening minute. It was here, as it was flick the on, the flag | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
went up. No goal. A useful ball in. Adam Matthews | :49:19. | :49:36. | |
struggling to deal with it as well. And Michael Gardine taken by | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
surprise as well. Greaves with a shot on target. He | :49:41. | :50:01. | |
was certainly on target last time out. A hat trick against Inverness. | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
Not that time, not adding to his total. Commons, a good shot a great | :50:09. | :50:17. | |
save and tiedied up by Slater. Kilmarnock can ill afford lost | :50:18. | :50:37. | |
possession. It came off Lee Ashcroft, who has been own goal to | :50:38. | :50:45. | |
cellic already this season and he doesn't want to do the same again. | :50:46. | :51:04. | |
Sampson wasn't going to hold that and happy just to turn away a | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
blistering strike. Charlie Mulgrew ups the tempo for | :51:10. | :51:22. | |
cellic. Collins continues the run and opens the scoring -- Commons. | :51:23. | :51:30. | |
Well, they haven't played like champions up till now but Celtic | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
suddenly switch on. 57 minutes, 1-0. Matthews fires it in and Chris | :51:36. | :51:59. | |
Commons is there again, with his 25 Goal of the Season. He doesn't play | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
as an out and out striker, but he certainly has a stricter's instinct | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
in front of goal, sniffing out the opportunity and making the most of | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
it. Oh, it's a good try from Anthony | :52:15. | :52:28. | |
Stokes and it wasn't far away. Curling and dipping towards the far | :52:29. | :52:37. | |
post. Just wide. Can Kilmarnock bring this game back to life? | :52:38. | :52:47. | |
Edemenko finding Boyd and here's Chris Johnson. A little shimmy and a | :52:48. | :52:49. | |
shot across the bows. Room for the drive into the box. It | :52:50. | :53:13. | |
is in off Commons, but it is not a hat trick. It's another offside | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
flag. Cellic cruising at the moment to | :53:18. | :53:31. | |
another three points, another step closer to clinching the title. And | :53:32. | :53:39. | |
it's Chris Commons who completes his hat trick. Make that 26 for the | :53:40. | :53:52. | |
season. And in for 3-0 cellic. We spoke at half time that cellic were | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
really fangs with the counter attack. But obviously they had two | :53:59. | :54:11. | |
many people forward. I thought there was misunderstanding at times and | :54:12. | :54:22. | |
the only real penetration we got was good and I enjoyed watching us at | :54:23. | :54:32. | |
the in. Friday night was a big night for Kilmarnock, not just on the | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
pitch but off it as well. Wiping out that department. A fresh start, | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
almost, for the club. That's great. In terms of the first-half | :54:41. | :54:46. | |
performance, did you see signs of positivivity for them? Yes, it's | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
been like that over the past couple of weeks and they lookedals though | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
they were coming tock as a team. You see the players all circled all | :54:58. | :55:05. | |
working hard off the ball and deny denying a lot of space. Kilmarnock a | :55:06. | :55:14. | |
side that have improved to are, for you, over the season? Yes, they were | :55:15. | :55:23. | |
going at it and trying to show the players down the first half. Look, | :55:24. | :55:32. | |
really tight. And obviously, the second half, when they tire, and | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
that's when cellic get a bit more space. It was cellic's game in the | :55:39. | :55:48. | |
second half and Chris Commons, 26 goals now for the year, is he your | :55:49. | :55:57. | |
pick of Footballer of the Year. He's a great example so think youngster. | :55:58. | :56:05. | |
As soon as he takes his touch he whats whatses it aloaning. And watch | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
this, he gets the ball and passes it wide. And as soon as he's passed it | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
on it's dangerous. And the third one is so intelligent because it's so | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
difficult to pick up. And he just drives it at the defenders and they | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
don't know whether to come to the ball or not. Is he in the running | :56:36. | :56:45. | |
for Player of the Year? Well, I love creative players, forward thinking, | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
I have to say. I think he's been excellent and I think he will be | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
Player of the Year, no problem. Thank you very much for the moment. | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
Let's look at the Scottish Premiership table as it stands this | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
evening and let's focus on the bottom of the table feet. | :57:07. | :57:28. | |
Celtic 24 points ahead of Aberdeen, not that Aberdeen care all that much | :57:29. | :57:36. | |
tonight. The sleeping giant of Scottish football is awake once | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
again. Congratulations to Aberdeen, from all of us here at Sportscene, | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
good night. | :57:46. | :57:55. |