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Welcome, Stuart Cosgrove, and St Mirren captain Steven Thompson. | :00:13. | :00:30. | |
Our first port of call will be Celtic Park, the champions against | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
Kilmarnock. No goals here at a freezing Celtic Park. Killie have | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
defended well. We need a goal. We live in hope. Second half under way. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Let's find out Hearts are doing at home to Dundee this afternoon. Brian | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
is on duty there. Another sellout crowd. The 8th home successive | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
sellout in succession. Djoum's goal has them in front. We are off to | :01:09. | :01:23. | |
Tannadice. St Johnstone and Dundee. A 3-4-two one formation. It did have | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
early dividends. MacKay with a goal but an equaliser from Chris cane and | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Murray Davidson has put St Johnstone 2-1 up at the break. Dundee just | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
don't know what to do at the moment. We are going to head to Ross County | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
and Motherwell. Good afternoon to Martin. Good afternoon. It's Ross | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
County 1, Motherwell nil. A sue pressure shot with his back to -- | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
superb shot with his back to goal has County ahead. A bright | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Motherwell opening. Curran reacted brilliantly. Over his shoulder into | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
the far corner with the Motherwell defense looking bemused. County are | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
one up here. Let's head to Partick Thistle and | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Inverness. John Barnes is there. It's all square here. Inverness came | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
out of the traps flying at the start of the first half. A goal through | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Storey after six minutes. Partick Thistle pulled things level with | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Doolan. It's 1-1. Time for championship news now. We | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
will start with Livingstone at home to leaders Rangers. Let's hear from | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Alistair. Rangers in front thanks to a Jason Holt goal. They're not out | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
of sight against Livingston who could have pulled level on the | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
stroke of half-time. 1-0 Rangers. Hibs are away to Aaloa this | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
afternoon. Hibs have to keep winning if Rangers are but they're not doing | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
so far this afternoon. They're being held 0-0. It's attack against | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
defense with Hibs doing all the attacking. They should have been in | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
front. It was easier to score but he hit the bar. It's taken Alloa 49 | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
minutes to have a first shot on goal but it's a better result for them | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
than Hibs. Let's discuss the matches. Stuart, glad you have come | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
casually. Steven always puts me to shame. Overdressed for this time of | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
year! I am actually boiling! Let's talk about the matches under | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
way. We start with Dundee United and St Johnstone. I like it when the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Saints are playing and we can see the action coming in. You sit there | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
sweating away. I am a nervous football fan. That's a fact. One | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
thing that I would say about this game is I went into this game | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
actually fearful. I felt that the international break might have | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
suited with more time with the players and look out defensively. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
1-0 up I thought it was probably a sign we would have to accept a draw | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
or maybe a narrow defeat. Coming back into it with two quick goals, | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
great to see Christopher cane scoring, a hope with St Johnston. On | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
loan to Dunbaren to. Scored against Aberdeen. He is starting to settle. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Interesting to see when Graham Cummings comes back from injury | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
whether Chris can keep his place, but it's good to have options and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Emperor's Choices, of it a -- and options and choices. We were | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
laughing with the elaborate celebration. He tapped in from about | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
two inches out. They had probably their best first half in a long | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
time. They looked a threat going forward. MacKay's movement was | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
excellent. Scored a good goal. You are thinking at half-time 1-0 up. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
The two goals they lost were extremely avoidable. One was a free | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
header from a set piece. Chris Cane's albeit a good header. The | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
second one they couldn't clear the lines and it was, you know, a | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
desperately poor goal to lose on the stroke of half-time. They're going | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
in dejected when it should have been really a buoyant changing room. I | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
imagine the Killie dressing room will be buoyant. 0-0 there. When you | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
play against the old firm, especially at Celtic, it's a case as | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
a player can we get through the first 20 minutes? Silence the crowd. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Can we get to half-time, if you can get to half-time without having | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
conceded a goal, these are the kind of benchmarks you look for playing | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
against them. Then obviously as the game goes on, can we get to 60 | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
minutes? That's how you work it as a player at these grounds. It will be | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
disappointing for Celtic. They'll had the possession in the game. And | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
they'll have had better chances. But they need to find, the league form | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
has been superb. Five league victories in a row. But they need to | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
find a way of scoring past this Kilmarnock defense. On the back of | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the Celtic AGM this week this is almost the worst type of fixture for | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Peter, because there will be disappointed fans, it's freezing | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
cold. They're feeling, we have turned up, where is the goals? | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
They're not coming. You can't blame Peter. I said it would be the result | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
he would least want because in a way against teams like Kilmarnock at | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Celtic Park the aspiring champions have to win comfortably and | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
entertain fans. I thought that would be the case. Killie will be | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
confident. You go in at half-time and you say keep doing what we are | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
doing really. They've lost the last two games, Kilmarnock and going in I | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
thought it would be three in a row. Troubling time but it's only | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
half-time and Celtic do have firepower to change the game. Saints | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
are one up. Your partner in crime on the radio, his Motherwell team are | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
one down away to Ross County. County have had a real sticky spell of | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
late. Three defeats on the bounce. Yes, I think they'll come through | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
that and I think today will be the measure of that, I might be wrong | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
because Motherwell are not duds. I think Ross County are a team, I | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
think they're supremely fit and they always finish well and let's see how | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that pans out. I don't think they're going to be anything other than | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
comfortable top six team this season. I agree. I was reading | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
comments made of Motherwell and they had been working in shape and on | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
shadow play. I was bemused, what's that? It's kind of, not necessarily | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
play to any tempo or sometimes even without a ball, not against | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
opposition. It's moving people and getting people used to where they | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
should be in relation to the ball within an exercise. I think they | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
have been keen on it over the international break, probably when | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
everybody else has been off they've been working on their shape, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
probably needed and required. It's more so when you are not in | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
possession of the ball that it's important. Shadow play is when | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
they're doing shadows of crocodiles against the dressing room wall! | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Right. Livingston are playing Rangers. And news for us. I did tell | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
you Livingston were by no means out of this match and they've shown why | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
that's the case. Hippolyte has pulled them level. A terrific run by | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Gordon. The shot was partially cleared. It broke to Hippolyte and | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
he fired an excellent shot past. Stuart, you can show me more of your | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
shadow puppets while we take another bounce around the grounds and we | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
start at Celtic Park once more. Over to Chris. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Yeah, 54 minutes on the clock here. A poor first half, Celtic playing at | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
a pedestrian pace. More urgency in this second half. A fabulous free | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
kick from Griffiths about two minutes after the break. 20 yards | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
out, heading for the top corner but MacDonald pulled off an incredible | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
save. Just about two minutes ago Scott Brown back in the side for the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
first time in four weeks, I think it was a knee injury, he went to ground | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
inside the box, waves in the crowd Father a penalty. And amongst the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Celtic players but the referee said no, no goals. But certainly Celtic | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
looking more lively in the second period. Right, let's call upon the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
services of Brian at Tynecastle where Hearts are at home to Dundee. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
News for us? It's still 1-0 to Hearts. Dundee looking more lively | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
in the second period. As yet, they've yet to test the Hearts | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
goalkeeper Alexander but it has been Djoum's show this afternoon. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Brilliant header from a cross from Paterson down the right side. Djoum | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
angling the ball into the corner. Close to a second goal, as well. The | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
shot was on target, deflected high, the ball was looping over but the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
keeper dived backwards and just managed to tip the ball over the | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
crossbar. Hearts had to make a change in the first half. Billy | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
King, who suffered a knock earlier on in the game was replaced by | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
Gomez. Still 1-0 to Hearts. 16736 inside Tynecastle. They're all very, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
very cold. It's 1-0 to Hearts. There is a bit of off camera argument | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
going on with Stuart and Steven here about an incident. Dundee United and | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
St Johnston. Jonathan will be able to clear up what's happening. A | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
penalty claim? Dundee's Ryan McGowan convinced he should have got a | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
penalty that might have brought them level but the referee unimpressed by | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
the way he fell to the ground in the box under challenge from Anderson. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
McGowan still remonstrating that there was contact. There was a | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
yellow card for diving. One to look out for tomorrow night on | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Sportsscene. Dundee did look lively at the start of this match. | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
Initially McGowan firing in a shot just wide of the post, almost | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
playing as a right-winger. A wingback today as part of the four. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
He was heavily involved as Dundee took the lead. He crossed for MacKay | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
who put Dundee United 1-0 in front. Almost immediately St Johnstone | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
almost equalised. MacKay with a free kick from 20 yards. Fantastic effort | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
just off the post. It wouldn't go into the back of the net. Telford | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
then with a chance but a great save. Then it was smash and grab from St | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Johnstone. A header from Kane and smashed the header home, that was | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the equaliser and on the stroke of half-time, Davidson, a bizarre goal. | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
He missed a sitter from a few yards out, somehow the ball came back to | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
his feet and he squeezed it home and celebrated wildly as St On-Stone | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
went in 2-1 in front. Dundee with their balloon well and truly burst. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Not much has happened apart from the McGowan incident. It's Dundee United | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
1, St Johnstone 2. Ross County and Motherwell. Yes, | :12:34. | :12:47. | |
watch programmer, it is very good. Ross County are still 1-0 up. They | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
have struggled to register victories after that did start to the season. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
They are run coarse to reinforce their top six credentials thanks to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the strike from Craig Curran. He hooked the ball over his shoulder to | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
accurately find the far corner. Motherwell were slow to react. | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Lionel Ainsworth had the best opportunity for Motherwell to level. | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
He could have squared the ball to allow a team-mate at tap in. Users | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
back the story of the game is far from written. Motherwell look like a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
danger on the break. Louis Moult going close a moment ago to meeting | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
Pearson's ball across goal. Ross County are still leading. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
We are going to your from Charlie Mann. We are going to Alloa. | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
There has been a goal? Yes, and it could be a big goal for Hibs. They | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
have taken the lead after 60 minutes. It was a good goal, a good | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
ball through to Jason Cummings. He raced away from the defender and | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
Jason Cummings does not miss this season. Jason Cummings 14th goal of | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
the season. Back to the Premiership. Partick | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
Thistle and Inverness. 1-1. Yes, almost an hour played and it is | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
still 1-1. For the first half, Caley Thistle were the better side in the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
opening first part. They had two good shots, Ian Vipers and Liam | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
Polworth. After six minutes, Miles Storey opened the scoring after a | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
neat build-up play by Caley Thistle. The ball was slept through to Miles | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Storey. He got in behind the defence and fired it beyond the goalkeeper. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Partick Thistle only came into the game midway through the first half. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Kris Doolan was always alert up front. He had a header well saved by | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Williams. Wallace fired a left foot effort wide as well. Three minutes | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
before the interval, Kris Doolan was effort wide as well. Three minutes | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
there to send in a left foot shot beyond the opposition goalkeeper and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
level things. The early part of the second half has been all about | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Partick Thistle. They had an early chance with Gary Fraser from a David | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Amoo cross. Williams did well to save. Lindsay scored against Dundee | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
the other week and he was almost on target again. The ball broke to him | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
on his left foot after a set piece. He fired just wide. The latest | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
scoreline, 1-1. I am no expert, but I thought this | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
one had the smell of the draw written all over it. The Partick | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Thistle game? I just looked at the teams and how it was going, and that | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
is what I thought. Partick Thistle drew in Dundee. It would have felt | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
like a defeat because they were winning until the last five minutes. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
They have only had two victories all season. They will be looking to | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
build on that. One more than us. We will get to that later. They will be | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
looking to catch the likes of Kilmarnock above them. For | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Inverness, it is an opportunity to get into the top six. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Diplomatically, Jonathan was treading a neutral path when it came | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
to the penalty incident in the Dundee United, St Johnstone match. I | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
think you're watching it from different perspectives and have | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
different views. Because this is the BBC, I perceive the truth. I thought | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
there was contact. I thought that the tackle was heavy, Steven | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Anderson. But then, the referee was right on the spot. There was no | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
ambiguity in his mind. He considered it to be simulation. He was quick. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
The yellow card. The player was frantically demanding it was a | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
penalty, but it was not to be. Stuart? I disagree. I thought it was | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
rash. Ryan McGowan is not the kind of player that will be diving in the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
opposition box. I thought it was a penalty. You can make up your own | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
mind by watching the Sportscene programme tomorrow night at 10:30 | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
p.m.. We will be discussing it on the radio as well. Hearts are run a | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
brilliant run of form. Yes, Dundee have not trouble them. Hearts have | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
not been at their best. But Dundee have not troubled them. Hearts have | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
won their league games and conceded no goals in doing so. They do not | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
look like conceding, they look strong, and their organisation is | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
superb. A big, powerful team, another sell-out crowd. You get the | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
feeling that this is a team with momentum. No point in speculating | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
whether it will take them, but it is such a success story. The fans are | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
behind them. Who is going to beat them? What do you mean no point in | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
speculating? That is what we do. Fine, I think they will be looking | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
at the title challenge! Now we can take a wee break from | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
today's action to reflect on last The first big derby | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
of the weekend in world football. Who needs El Classico when | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
you've got the St Mirren and Morton? Even by my standards that's poor, | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
but the match wasn't. Indeed BBC Scotland's Tom English | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
described St Mirren against Morton So let's have | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
his illustrated version. Before kick-off, one minute's | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
silence for the victims of the Palace attacks at the weekend, and | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
also a chance to pay tribute to one of the staff members here who passed | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
away recently. Scott Agnew, that was a good chance | :19:14. | :19:36. | |
for St Mirren. The midfielder was supporting. He could not get a | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
proper connection. A good run of form for Jim Duffy's side at the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
moment. Adam coming to claim and he feels to | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
do so. St Mirren are in front. It is Jack Baird, claiming his first | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
senior goal. The goalkeeper let that slip through his hands from the | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
corner kick. Baird made no mistake. Appeals for a penalty. The referee | :20:03. | :20:19. | |
says it is a yellow card for McCluskey for diving. Relief for | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Jamie Langfield. This was a tight decision for the directory. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
McCluskey got the touch on the ball, but did Langfield connect with | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
the Greenock Morton striker? The referee said no. | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
Kelly has done well, options in the middle. The sliding tackle and | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
appeals from the St Mirren players. It may have been a handballed it may | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
have been a handball they were appealing for. I do not think there | :20:55. | :20:55. | |
was much in that. Forbes looked to be kept, but still | :20:56. | :21:16. | |
going, and it is cleared from the line by Craig Reid. What an | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
acrobatic clearance to deny Greenock Morton an equaliser. It was good | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
play by Ross Forbes who managed to keep control despite being clipped | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
by Webster. Is that dangerous play? I do not know what that is all | :21:35. | :21:35. | |
about, but that could be dangerous. Stevie Mallan with the strike. Good | :21:36. | :21:49. | |
goalkeeping by Grant Adam. Stretching well. Spotting the | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
curling effort. A lovely turn by Forbes. That was | :21:53. | :22:11. | |
not far away from the on loan Birmingham player. Forbes sending it | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
in. Johnston is on a good run of form, eight goals so | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
-- so far this season. Johnson finding the substitute. He could not | :22:24. | :22:33. | |
steer that on target, the Greenock Morton midfielder. Anguish for him. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Good play by Johnston and Samuel to create the opening. Pity he could | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
not apply the finish. They have seen lots of the ball in the second half, | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Greenock Morton. Into worse Johnston. He is getting | :22:51. | :23:04. | |
closer. Five goals in his previous four matches. He was close to | :23:05. | :23:16. | |
another they are. -- there. Thomson losing out. Forbes, I need touch. He | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
was caught as well. The shot is parried, but only as far | :23:20. | :23:31. | |
as Alex Samuel and Greenock Morton have the equaliser in the final | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
minute of the match. The St Mirren players are claiming for offside, | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
but Samuel was not hanging about. He dispatched the rebound for his third | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
goal of the season. Despite the claims of the St Mirren defence. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Good striking by the on loan Swansea player. I am not sure about the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
dancing. Greenock Morton is still pushing for the winner well into | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
stoppage time. Ross Forbes. Turned away by Jimmy Langfield. Greenock | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Morton's unbeaten run looks like extending to five, but for St | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
Mirren, their first home league win of the season still eludes them. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
More of that to follow. Breaking news, there has been a penalty at | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Tannadice. Jonathan Sutherland can tell us | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
about it. A great chance for St Johnstone to extend their lead at | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Tannadice. This time no doubt about the penalty. John Rankin pulling | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
down Chris Kane in the penalty area. Steven McLean stepped up to take the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
spot again blazed it over the bar. It is still game on at Tannadice | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
with St Johnstone 2-1 in front. Game over and Victoria Park, another | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
goal for Ross County against Motherwell. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
Yes, Ross County are 2-0 up. It was a special goal, one in two. -- a | :25:03. | :25:16. | |
one-two. It was a really high quality goal. | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
We must get back to the Renfrewshire derby. It was a decent game. Yes, I | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
suppose so from a neutral point of view. There were not many neutrals | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
they are. We did OK in the first half, we scored the goal thanks to | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the mistake. We had some opportunities, as did Greenock | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Morton. The second half was all about Greenock Morton. We dropped | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
the defensively and they put us under a lot of pressure. We could | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
not cope and they created numerous chances. Eventually they got the | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
goal. There has been a goal like paying Kassel. Is it for heart are | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
Dundee? It is for Dundee, the first goal | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
that Hearts have conceded in almost seven hours of football. He beat the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
offside trap and sent in a right foot shot beyond Alexander. Hearts | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
have dominated the game, but it is 1-1 at ten Kassel. | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
Steven, you came on late in the game. I believe you had a dose of | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
man flu? Yes, I was not well. You came on very late. Yes, Lawrence had | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
taken cramp in his car. He put in a good shift. We are disappointed. The | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
supporters will be disappointed as well. I draw in the derby is not a | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
disastrous result. We have moved up a couple of places. The game on | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
Tuesday becomes massive. Raith Rovers? Yes. We need to win on | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
Tuesday. We do not seem to be able to build momentum. The late goals | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
are a problem as well? Yes, we have lost a couple. We were very dejected | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
last night. Do you think it was offside? I think it was. Jimmy | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Langfield was certain it was offside. I do not think it is a good | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
camera angle off it. But Greenock Morton did more than enough to | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
deserve a draw so we will not blame the officials. I will let Steven -- | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
Stuart of the leash in a minute on this one but first, the managers. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
The players showed that they stood up to the intensity of a derby game. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
We have kept the unbeaten run against Greenock Morton going. The | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
downside is we were in a winning position and we have not taken it. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
It would have been a travesty if we had not taken something from the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
game, particularly in the second half, we controlled it. We were on | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
the front foot through the 45 minutes, but it does not matter when | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
you score, as long as you get on. The big man is obviously saw after | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
last night, losing the points and coming away with just one. You | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
surprised that Western men are in the table? Yes, I am surprised. I | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
thought Ian Murray was the right booking for St Mirren. There is a | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
tendency in derbies for fans to be emotional about them and to see | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
history in them. I went to Capbello to see St Johnstone play Greenock | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
Morton in the League Cup and they had a very good 45 minutes against | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
us as well. They knocked out Motherwell. Yes, in the first half | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
against an Johnson, they went 1-0 up. I thought they could have | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
knocked aside. This is a decent team. They are fourth in the table. | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
They will probably drop down to fifth place is Raith Rovers beat | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
Dumbarton, which links on the cards. They are on a good run. They have | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
been doing well but from a St Mirren point of view, we need to start | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
winning. Can you still make the play-offs? It will be a big Ascot. | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
We need to get a run together. We have built up now momentum this | :29:21. | :29:31. | |
season. Do you think that Greenock Morton can make the play-offs? It is | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
not outside the realm of possibility. Greenock Morton have | :29:36. | :29:48. | |
brought in some decent players. Let's continue with the Championship | :29:49. | :29:50. | |
chat and joined Charlie Mann. Terrific goal. A great pass from | :29:51. | :30:04. | |
Bartley. Cummings away from the defender. Raced into the box and a | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
cool finish. That was nearly a second there. David Grey for | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
Hibernian having a shot cleared off the line. Hibs desperate to win this | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
match. Especially if Rangers continue to be held at Livingstone | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
because that could put them level at the top on points. Hibs are leading | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
one goal to nil. Thank you, Charlie. Let's rejoin Chris. He was at Celtic | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
against Kilmarnock. Still 0-0? Killie continue to frustrate David. | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
The home side have upped the tempo in the second with a few decent | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
shouts Father a penalty. They're pushing and pressing but so far | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
Killie are standing firm. 0-0. All square at Tyne Caswell Hearts and | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
Dundee. Brian, furnish with with an update. Still 1-1. Loy scoring | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
midway through the second half have brought Dundee level and 16736 | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
inside a packed Tynecastle now beginning to be a little bit | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
nervous. Dundee and United are at home to St On-Stone. Jonathan, any | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
change in the scoreline there or incidents to update us on? In a | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
word, no. Dundee sporting this unorthodox 3-4-2-1 formation. St | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
Johnstone are flying in terms of form and it was smash and grab | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
before half-time. Cane and Davidson with the goals. | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
Over to Martin and once again he is our man in the Highlands at Ross | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
County with Motherwell. Ross County it 2, Motherwell 0. Two top drawer | :31:44. | :31:54. | |
goals in either half. The second from Dingwall brilliantly worked. | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Released the winger. Around the goal and slotted home. I keep thinking | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
Motherwell will threaten on the break. They've dangerous pace but | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
they're not creating clean enough chances to threaten this Ross County | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
defense. Time to hear again from John Barnes | :32:10. | :32:18. | |
our man at Firhill. Less than 13 minutes left. Inverness taking the | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
lead through Storey after six minutes. Doolan equalising before | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
the interval. Second half Partick Thistle more on the offensive, had a | :32:31. | :32:42. | |
good few chances. It's level at one each. Let's reflect on some of those | :32:43. | :32:51. | |
goings on. We start again in Dundee. Dundee United against St Johnstone. | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
Stuart, you seem calm when McClean strode up to hit that penalty. Can't | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
recall last time I watched a penalty like that. I just said he is not | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
always reliable when it comes to penalties. He is one of the best | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
strikers the club has ever had. He scored our famous Scottish Cup | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
winning goal. My hat is doffed to him. He can squander a penalty. I | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
was saying you never know what he is going to do, whether he will place | :33:20. | :33:27. | |
it in or hammer it. I thought - he blasted it over the bar. I don't | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
know if at the last second he looked up and went back. But there was a | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
lot of power. And if he kept it down it would have gone through the | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
keeper. A missed opportunity there to go, to kill the game. Steven, the | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
game is very much still a foot at Tynecastle. Dundee back in it with | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
Loy. Out of nowhere. It wasn't expected. Dundee have started | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
pushing on a bit now. You can see there is probably a nervousness | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
about the Hearts team that hasn't been there for weeks. They've been | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
so confident and nobody's tested them about their clean sheets. To | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
lose a goal to Dundee it will be a big point for Dundee, especially | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
with the form that Hearts have been in. You are always ready to wax | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
lyrical about Dundee. They've made a habit of picking up points. Too many | :34:17. | :34:24. | |
draws almost. Perhaps that's it and not gone on one of these spines that | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
you need in a season where you get four or five victories on the trot | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
or four wins and a draw, they've not really had that. The interesting | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
thing about it is they can live in any company. This is a good Hearts | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
team. Dundee might end up winning this game. Never rule them out and | :34:40. | :34:48. | |
we will see. You are not going out in Dungeness tee tonight? I am -- | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
Dundee. I am not, I am going to a question and answer for St Johnstone | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
FC. We will have a change of scene and head to the Barclays Premier | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
League and hear how Watford and Manchester United finished. Here is | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
how it went from Jonathan Pearce. Watford 1, Manchester United 2. | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
United go back top if only for a short while. After appearing to | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
throw away victory here Father a short while. They led from the first | :35:15. | :35:22. | |
11 minutes. There were chances to settle it, United looked tired in | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
the league. Watford fought back in the second half. De Gea saved | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
brilliantly. With five minutes left the Hornets captain drilled them | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
level. Deservedly so only for the cruellest of fates. Deeney slithered | :35:39. | :35:47. | |
the goal into his own net. Watford cruelly denied. United grind out | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
another win by 2-1. Right, Stuart is chatting about that | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
other game. I have to ask about Manchester United. That takes them | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
probably temporarily to the top of the league. Everyone is saying | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
Manchester United are boring, they're no fun to watch. Do you | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
think Manchester United... They don't play like they used to play | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
when it was all-out attack. Cross after cross coming into the box. If | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
they win the title... You don't mind at all. They seem to be doing really | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
well without really being convincing but sounds a bit of an oxymoron. | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
They're getting the points at a difficult venue, as well. It's time | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
to turn our attention to tomorrow's match in the Premiership with | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
Hamilton and Aberdeen. Two teams that have been probably we could say | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
a wee bit out of sorts recently. Hamilton losing their recent match | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
away to Hearts. 2-0 in this one. Hamilton have had different form. | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
They had a spell where it propelled them up the league. Everybody before | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
the season started had kind of made assumptions that they would | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
struggle. Then they climbed the league and seem to have gone off the | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
boil recently again. Testimony will be a difficult game for them. -- it | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
will be a difficult game. Aberdeen had been on such a bad run and... | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
They sorted that out. They stopped the rot in the last game. Against do | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
you know tee. That was a massive thing for them to get that victory | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
and the result. I think Derek had given them five days off in the | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
international break to kind of reenergise and come back ready to | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
kick on. Do you think it was maybe a factor in their demise that they had | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
that big European campaign early on and maybe they were just a bit | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
fatigued? No No, because you saw how they started. They started well. I | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
think it was a confidence issue. A blip. A large blip albeit. But I | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
think now they've got that result they've far too good a squad and too | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
many good players not to correct it and I think come the end of the | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
season they will still be in the top three. There was rumours about | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
dressing room discord and what have you. We can't possibly have an | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
insight into that. What do you think went wrong with them? What do you | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
think happened? I think what happens is that it's a difficult thing when | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
you have a couple of bad results to get yourself out of that and again | :38:26. | :38:30. | |
St Johnstone beating them 5-1 at home, for Aberdeen that's a | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
torturous result and I think it was a real shake for them. Derek maybe | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
took them a couple of weeks to get them out of that and by then you | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
start to look at the top of the league and suddenly they're away | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
from Celtic or Celtic are away from them. Aberdeen were the hope that | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
there was going to be a title challenge. It's not kind of quite | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
worked out for them. I would say, I went down to Hamilton to New Douglas | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
Park to see Hamilton and St Johnstone the week before, Hamilton | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
for 45 minutes were comfortably the better. It was 4-2. Hamilton were | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
comfortably the better team for the first 45 and they're a very good | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
team. An extremely good team on their own park. I can see this being | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
another tricky one for Aberdeen. You get the sense that although Hamilton | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
go on these runs they're capable of turning it around at - they're | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
unpredictable. You don't know when they'll get the wheels back. The | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
problem for them has been consistency. They're up and down. As | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
Stuart said, when they play well they're a very entertaining football | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
team. Stuart mentioned about that 5-1 win. Is that the kind of result | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
that can really almost a mortal blow to confidence for a while? When | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
things aren't going well and you take a doing at home it's not going | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
to go down well. There was probably a confidence issue the squad after | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
having on the best run in their history, the irony was they went on | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
their worst run. There was a confidence issue. That's why the | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
importance of winning that Dundee United game was so key because that | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
stopped it dead. Now the perfect timing of the international break | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
for them, a couple of days off, come back refreshed and they'll be | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
looking to kick on and I think Derek will be reemphasising that to | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
players. What about tomorrow I think Aberdeen will win, going back to | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
this strong force. A 2-2 draw, you always get goals. You are so | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
specific! A draw and I am panicking here because he already used the | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
word irony and oxymoron. He is on the wrong show! He is indeed. We | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
will continue dictionary corner later. Celtic and Kilmarnock. Chris, | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
what's happening? Still goalless. Celtic fans urging players on. They | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
continue to push. Actually a few moments ago as the game opened up | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
there was almost one at the other end, a fabulous low drive had Gordon | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
scampering across the goal to make a save. Celtic still pushing. As | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
stands, goalless and Killie looking likely to grind this one out. All | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
square there. Still all square at Tynecastle. Brian? Certainly is. Loy | :41:20. | :41:32. | |
equalising. A blow for Dundee, they've lost both centre halves | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
James McPeek. Both replaced through injury. Nine minutes left here and | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
definitely an edginess inside Tynecastle. There is another chance | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
here for Hearts. But it's cleared away. A free kick to Dundee. No says | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
the referee, it's play on. Still 1-1. Nine minutes left. Time to | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
rejoin Jonathan. Dundee and St Johnstone. Anything to tell us? Not | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
a huge amount. But sl there is no stopping St Johnstone at the moment | :42:05. | :42:07. | |
as they home in on a 5th straight win and 6th straight away win. If | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
they can hold on to this lead here against Dundee United. Dundee took | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
the lead through MacKay. St Johnstone stormed back with goals | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
from Kane and Davidson. Might have gone 3-1 in front but McClean blazed | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
a penalty high over the bar. McGowan was booked for diving. He thought he | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
should have had a penalty that would have been an equaliser but the | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
referee in the impressed by the complaints and booked McGowan for | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
diving. Dundee still with a lot of substance in this game as they | :42:39. | :42:55. | |
search for an equaliser. Now Ross County and Motherwell. Woods went up | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
the other end, had a shot from an angle tipped away. County very | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
comfortable and very much on course for a win that will be stare their | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
top six credentials. John Barnes is next. Partick Thistle and Inverness. | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
Any of the Thistles in the ascendency there? They've enjoyed | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
the better of the second half but it's still one each with about 90 | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
seconds of the 90 minutes left. Lawless has looked lively in the | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
second period. Had a couple of chances but Williams has denied them | :43:34. | :43:42. | |
in goal. Still 1-1 here. A bit of time to chat. Let's go back | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
to that Dundee and St Johnstone match. The penalty that McLean | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
missed was given away by Rankin. This week he raised one of the | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
talking points by says referee were too macho. That will teach him! He | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
shouldn't be bruising one of his own members, you know. He is a rep. It's | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
painful. I was going to... He hobbled off. Do you believe there is | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
a macho culture among referees? I wouldn't necessarily agree. | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
Sometimes when you are having a discussion with a referee they're | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
quick to close the discussion. And not allow you input. That's the one | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
grievance I would have. Someone as reasoned and articulate as yourself. | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
I am not the only person that does it, when the game is going and it's | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
things are, emotions are flying, but often you get kind of no, go away. | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
That's maybe where John was talking about. You don't get the opportunity | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
to voice your opinion. Not that it will change anything, not that it | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
will matter but to have more of a conversation. Tell you what, | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
something has changed at Firhill. Big news there. A late goal is it | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
for Partick Thistle or Inverness? John can put me out of my misery. | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
It's for Partick Thistle. We are trying to confirm who scored the | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
goal. I think it was Stevenson wide on the right side with his left | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
foot, he tried to curl the ball in. It looked like a cross all the way. | :45:16. | :45:28. | |
I don't think Pogba got a touch. I think it was Stevenson's goal that | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
fooled everyone including Williams the goalkeeper. | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
That could be an important goal. Yes, it gives this all that belief. | :45:40. | :45:48. | |
Do they go above Motherwell? We have worked it out. Mr Thomson has his | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
attic is out. I think that would be the case, level on points but a | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
better goal difference. Fantastic for them. I think there is probably | :45:57. | :46:04. | |
too much, it is probably too much for them to get sucked into the | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
final play-offs. Who? Motherwell? Partick Thistle. They scored two | :46:10. | :46:16. | |
wonder goals and Paris. They were out of the top drawer. I think they | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
have a bit of a. They need to find consistency. They have got | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
consistency now because that would be one defeat in the last six should | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
they not lose today. It is not a great result for Motherwell, | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
conversely, because they are getting sucked back in. They going to the | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
play-off spot. They were there last year that the end of the season. It | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
is a bad result. It is a great result for party give it finishes | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
like that. It gets worse for Motherwell. It is a penalty for Ross | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
County and Victoria Park. Ross County look as though they are | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
about to rub salt in the wings. Liam Boyce slot the ball high into the | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
net. That will be the three points for Ross County. 3-0. | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
That is a good result for Ross County. Yes, they have struggled | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
recently. Having been so good early in the season as well. At one | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
point, they were third. That was probably unrealistic. The emperor | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
them will be top six. This was an important result for them, to get | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
back on track. The big news is that is no news from Celtic Park. It has | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
finished 0-0. Yes, goalless, the home fans | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
streaming towards the exits. Disappointing for Celtic but a | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
precious point, Nick who frustrated the champions from beginning to end. | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
It was a stodgy first half and Celtic looked pedestrian with most | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
of the possession. Leigh Griffiths had a couple of chances from close | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
range. James Forrest let fly from the edge of the box. Leigh Griffiths | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
brought out a great save from McDonald at the start of the second | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
period, free kick, kept past the post. Gary Mackay-Steven and Scott | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
Brown went to ground but claims for penalties were waved away by the | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
referee. Celtic pushed as the clock ticked down, but as they did, Greg | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
Kiltie almost burst the net at the other end, Craig Gordon pealing of | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
the save. Dedryck Boyata battered the ball of the bar, but it was not | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
to be Celtic Park snack after noon. Not what Ronny Deila wanted ahead of | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
next Thursday's must win game against Ajax. | :48:42. | :48:50. | |
It has gone full-time at Firhill. Yes, Partick Thistle win two - one, | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
courtesy of a last-minute goal from Ryan Stevenson. What's it good | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
fortune or excellent skill? I think it was more good fortune than | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
anything. Wide on the right-hand side, he swung in a cross, he was | :49:05. | :49:10. | |
aiming towards Pogba, I am sure. Pogba could not get a touch, a | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
deceived the goalkeeper and the ball crept into the back post. That was | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
the winning goal for Partick Thistle who enjoyed the better of the second | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
half. The first half was about Inverness, who opened brightly and | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
took the lead through Miles Storey after six minutes. They had a couple | :49:29. | :49:31. | |
of other chances through Polworth and Ian fighters. Then Partick | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
Thistle got into their stride. Kris Doolan had the save -- had a shot | :49:37. | :49:43. | |
well saved. But three minutes before the interval, Kris Doolan was there | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
to score from a tight angle inside the six yard box. Partick Thistle | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
price during the second period and eventually got the winner through | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
Ryan Stevenson. You can decide if it was lucky or great skill on | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
Sportscene tomorrow night. A big victory for Ross County today. 3-0 | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
against Motherwell. Yes, comfortable win for County with | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
Craig Curran, Tony Dingwall and Boris all netting. Craig Curran | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
reacted first for the opener to look the ball over his shoulder into the | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
corner. Motherwell looked flat footed. Tony Dingwall settled it | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
with a neat 1-2 with wins. Liam Boyce settled it in injury time. The | :50:38. | :50:46. | |
ball was lofted high into the net. At times the visitors looked likely | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
to threaten on the counter, but be disappointed with their efforts from | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
Ainsworth and Grimshaw. Ross County is into victory comfortably. | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
To the Championship and Alloa against Hibs. That is our first | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
full-time. Hibernian have been hunting Rangers | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
down all season at the top of the table. What a difference this will | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
make this afternoon because they have pulled level on points with | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
Rangers at the top. It took a goal on 60 minutes from Jason Cummings, | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
his 14th of the season, to do that. At a river goal. A good pass from | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
midfield, Jason Cummings away from the defender, and he knocked it | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
coolly under the goalkeeper into the net. The Hibernian fans were | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
watching. Terrific stuff from them. Result that Hibernian deserved. It | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
was attacked against defence for most of the game. On 25 minutes, | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
Malonga should have put Hibs in front. He hit the bar when it was | :51:51. | :51:56. | |
easier to score. The goal from Jason Cummings, massive difference. Alloa | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
were down to ten men. B G Hill was sent off. Hibernian at the top, | :52:02. | :52:10. | |
although they have played game more. -- Douglas Hill. | :52:11. | :52:17. | |
How did it finish at Almondvale between Livingston and Rangers? | :52:18. | :52:27. | |
It was 1-1. The league leaders were disappointed. A performance from | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
Livingston, earning them a point. Rangers enjoyed the bulk of | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
possession and were ahead through Jason Holt. He arrived at the edge | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
of the box in perfect time to pick up a loose ball. He slotted past | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
Marc McCallum. Rangers failed to build on that in terms of goals. | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
Livingston might have been level by half-time. They did not have to wait | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
long in the second half to get goal. It was Myles Hippolyte. He picked up | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
on a loose ball on the edge of the box before curling it past | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
Foderingham from just outside the box. Rangers pressed for a winner. | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
We had several chances but Livingston largely held firm. Good | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
saves from Marc McCallum to deny Kenny Miller and Andy Halliday. The | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
shot from Kenny Miller was pushed away by the on loan keeper. It was | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
not to be for Rangers. Livingston deservedly holding out for the draw. | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
Noted and hassle for the full-time report from Brian McLauchlin. -- | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
let's go to paint hassle for the full-time report. | :53:38. | :53:46. | |
He does not seem to be there. We will try and track him down. | :53:47. | :53:58. | |
Let's go to Tannadice. Yes, it has finished 2-1 for St Johnstone. | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
Terrific from St Johnstone, a comeback. As legs straight victory | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
on the road for St Johnstone. They're fantastic season continues. | :54:08. | :54:18. | |
-- a fifth. Dundee United tweak their formation, going 43421. Ryan | :54:19. | :54:25. | |
McGowan's cross found the head of Billy McKay as he nodded Dundee | :54:26. | :54:31. | |
United into the meat. Dave Mackay almost equalise for St Johnstone | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
with a fantastic free kick. At the other end, Charlie Telfer almost | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
extended the lead, but his shot was saved by Alan Mannus. Then the smash | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
and grab by St Johnstone. The first one was a great goal, of NMS header | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
from Chris Cain. Murray Davidson missed a sitter, but the ball | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
rebounded to his feet and he squeezed again to give St Johnstone | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
and unlikely lead. 2-1. In the second half, Ryan McGowan went down | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
in the box. He felt he should have had a penalty. Steven Anderson was | :55:07. | :55:13. | |
the St Johnstone defender then close proximity. The referee was convinced | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
that Ryan McGowan dived and he booked the Australian International. | :55:18. | :55:26. | |
Steven McLean amidst another penalty. Dundee United rallied | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
towards the end, a great effort from Blair Spittal saved by Alan Mannus. | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
St Johnstone continued their winning ways. | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
I got confused. That was Dundee. I was worried about Brian, but someone | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
has tracked him down. I am here. Can you hear me? Tell me | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
what happened. The winning run for Hearts came to | :55:51. | :55:59. | |
an end. That was in front of 16,736. It was a 1-1 draw. An old games | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
scoring for Hearts in a first half It was a 1-1 draw. An old games | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
that they dominated. They should have gone in three ahead. Anode June | :56:07. | :56:15. | |
was running the show. -- Arnaud Djoum. He was denied a second by | :56:16. | :56:26. | |
terrific goalkeeping. In the second half, Dundee came into the game. | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
Rory Loy beat the offside trap. He fired in a terrific shot by Neil | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
Alexander. And they smelt the three points but they could not find a way | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
through the strong Hearts defence. For Hearts, Sam Nicholson came close | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
to a second goal. Once again, Scott Bain in the Dundee goal was in top | :56:48. | :56:55. | |
form. This was the eighth that sick -- this was the eighth successive | :56:56. | :57:02. | |
sell-out for Hearts at home. It ended one - one. | :57:03. | :57:04. | |
No to the Championship and the match between Queen Of The South and | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
Falkirk. It finished 2-2. The start of this | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
game was dominated by a confident Falkirk side taking a deserved lead | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
on 70 minutes, the goal coming from the head of Will Vaulks, after a | :57:21. | :57:23. | |
corner from the left hand side. Queen Of The South started to get a | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
foothold in the game and they won a penalty kick on 34 minutes after | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
McCracken had needlessly bundled over Derek Lyle in the box. Derek | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
Lyle stepped up and slammed the ball home from close range. From the | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
spot, sorry. The second period was a quiet affair up to the 82nd minute. | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
Substitute Lee Miller nodded in from close range. The joyful Falkirk was | :57:50. | :57:59. | |
short lived. Derek Ferguson has been cut off in | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
his prime. We know it finished two - two. Let's get the rest of the | :58:05. | :58:06. | |
results in the classified round-up. This is provided for us by our match | :58:07. | :58:27. | |
fourth official. -- our macho fourth official. | :58:28. | :01:40. | |
Let's look at the teams and tables starting with the Scottish | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
Premiership. Celtic and hearts much Hearts drawing so no difference in | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the points gap at the top. Aberdeen can go back to second if they beat | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Hamilton tomorrow. At the bottom par thick thistle move up from 11th to | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
10th. -- Partick. The Championship is level on points | :02:01. | :02:14. | |
at the tops with Rangers and Hibs. Rangers drawing at Livingston today. | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
Rangers with a game in hand. At the bottom: Scleers scleers | :02:24. | :03:46. | |
Well, lots to talk about. Let's talk about the Championship. Title race | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
looks wide open. It certainly does. If you were to go back two months in | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
time, everybody had Rangers winning the title back. Coasting to the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
title. But things have changed. The run that Hibernian have been on is | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
incredible. I think it's something along the lines of 13 or 14 wins in | :04:08. | :04:19. | |
a row now. They've such confidence. It's difficult to pick too much | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
between them. Hibs probably have an all-round stronger squad but Rangers | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
have probably some better individuals. It's hard to place | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
them. Hibernian certainly have momentum, unbelievable momentum at | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
this moment. You need a player and couple somethings that player who | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
comes alive. -- Cummings is that player. He seems more disciplined. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Don't know how many goals he scored on this run, it's an impressive | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
performance by an individual. 14, you know. Pretty good. Of course | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Rangers are starting to kind of slightly, you know, calmsify a | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
little bit. Results are not as convincing. A draw today and | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
whatever and it just means that we have a great kind of run. It's going | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
to be exciting. Let's go back to the title race, is there a race in the | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Premiership? Celtic drop points today. Aberdeen, if they win | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
tomorrow, they become five points behind Celtic. Celtic will win the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
league. I am not getting drawn into that. What is going to be | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
interesting is the battle for second. I think St Johnstone, the | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
way they're going... Look at the big man smiling beside you you. They've | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
such confidence they think they can win every game. I believe they can | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
fight for second place with awe are Dean and Hearts. -- Aberdeen. I | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
think we might see Celtic conceding more points. I am not ruling out yet | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
there being an exciting end to the season. Isn't it interesting that | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
everyone had both these divisions done and dusted by the back end of | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
February. That's not going to be the case by any means. Aberdeen need to | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
start winning at places like Hamilton. That's about it for today. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Time to prime you with what to look out for. Jonathan is here tomorrow | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
with the highlights show. He might have mentioned it! | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
The best bits of the weekend action and analysis. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
The Results show back next week. Stuart here is champing at the bit | :06:18. | :06:29. | |
to get into the radio station for Off The Ball's Saturday Supplement, | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
there they are, they'll be on air. Thanks to Stuart for his wit and | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
wisdom and thanks to St Mirren's captain Steven Thompson for his. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Thank you to you for putting up with the three of us. Enjoy the rest of | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
of the weekend. We will see you soon. Take care. | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Good night. | :06:50. | :06:54. |