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Good evening. In a weekend when almost every game avoided power | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
failure, we have electricity quite literally pulsing through the | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
studio. Bolts out of the blue, managers blowing fuses on the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
weekend when the clocks went back and not everything ran like | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
clock-work, but certainly switched on in the studio tonight Pat and | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Michael. For the first time since April 2012, we had a Glasgow derby | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
in the top flight. Partick Thistle, despite a win last weekend and | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
having won plenty of plaudit in general, they were still without a | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
home victory in the League and their chances of changing that statistic | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
didn't look too hopeful this lunch time as they welcomed the champions. | :01:38. | :01:49. | |
Commentary from Rob McLean. Same team as last weekend. Doolan's | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
double was decisive. No James Forrest and Ledley is a starter and | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Scott Brown after his European suspension. | :02:04. | :02:36. | |
A good save by Scott Fox. Important touch from the keeper. Sill tick are | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
six points deR Celtic are six points clear at the top of the Georgios | :02:47. | :03:02. | |
Samaras. Celtic in front. Samaras heads in his seventh goal of the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
season. All very straightforward from the set piece. Samaras not | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
picked up and there was only going to be one outcome there. It's 1-0 | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Celtic. Pukki with a terrific opportunity to | :03:16. | :03:33. | |
make it 2-0. Maybe he made his intentions too clear and it's a good | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
save. He is a big creative influence. | :03:37. | :04:09. | |
Again, Scott Fox denies Pukki. Again, the Finnish international is | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
frustrated that he can't get Celtic's second goal. | :04:14. | :04:35. | |
There's Doolan. There is the equaliser. All square here. Doolan | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
denied that time, but he was quickly back on his feet keeping himself on | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
side and then it was Craigen. A really good combination. Doolan had | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
time to take a touch. Before beating Forster. Game on here. | :05:05. | :05:23. | |
What was missing was the finishing touch. Having got himself into such | :05:24. | :05:36. | |
a great position. Powering away from Muirhead and | :05:37. | :06:19. | |
scoring. The 22-year-old Portuguese striker scores his second goal for | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Celtic. And the leaders are back in front. It was Welsh who lost | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
possession and how he was made to pay. It was a neat finish for 2-1. | :06:32. | :06:46. | |
We said before the game we knew they were a danger and they didn't do the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
job properly. It's not always going to be champagne football and you | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
have to give respect to the opposition, because they can play a | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
little bit and their tails are up after a great win. No mid-week games | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
so a free week where the energy levels are higher than ours, but I | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
have to give credit to the players. It wasn't pretty at times, but at | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
times the football was good and we deserved to win. At this point, we | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
give the second goal away. We had good possession and we end up giving | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
it away. The champions are very, very clinical. Disappointing there, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
but a good three points for Celtic. And that's a big result for Neil | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
after mid-week game, a tough game. Going up to Fir Hill. It's a tough | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
place to go and he'll be absolutely delighted to get that result. Good | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
to see goals, but you look at things from a goalkeeper's view and they | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
could have been avoided. When you have someone like Samaras and van | :07:48. | :07:59. | |
dyke, I don't know whether he was allowed to run across, but I look at | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
the goalie here. He's blocked off, but the ball ends up five yards into | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
the middle of the goal. Look, I think you've got to try to create | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
space for yourself before that happens, to give yourself a chance | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
as a keeper. You know better than I did, because you played there your | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
whole life, but when you see the balls dropping you have to come in. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
He's been blocked off there and obviously had a straight, because | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Pukki was in front. All sorts of problems. | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
It gives you a chance to attack. There was a chance after that | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
actually I think it was headed when there was all sorts of space and he | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
didn't come and you would be expecting him there. He had a very | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
good game but that's his Achilles heel. In terms of Celtic defending, | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
how bad was that? Again, I think it was a nice corner kick out of the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
edge of the box. Go away with it, but when it was cleared out, look at | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
the ball. It is out there with Anthony Stokes, but look how far | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
they are in. The goalie should be pushing them out. Partick Thistle | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
comploiTed it. They switched off. -- exploited it. They switched off. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
There should have been communication. Van dyke has cleared | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
the ball and he doesn't actually move. There's a yard of space that | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
he's just staying in the whole time. The ball is at the back end. She is | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
still not moving there. Once the ball is going back the way up the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
pitch you've got to get out and squeeze up to the ball. Close down | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
the ball and if you're moving away it means that your opponents have to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
be going that way. Partick Thistle had a point. How much were they the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
architects of their own downfall? They like to build it up and they | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
start to build it up and they're encouraged by arch bald to do that. | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
But Baldi gave Muirhead a couple of moves there. Really did well. You'll | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
see in the replay, the first thing in his mind is I'm going to get | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
forward as we have possession. He leaves all that space. That's what | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
the manager wants him to do, but look, you are the architect of your | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
own downfall and good finish. Good composure to finish there. But you | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
need to understand when to attack and when to hold your position and | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
it wasn't comfortable. They didn't have control and you can't go | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
bombing forward at that point. Good win for Celtic. Out with the Old | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Firm, Motherwell have finished best of the rest, and without fuss | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
they've been going about trying to do the same again this season. Five | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
wins out of the last seven have seen them soar up the table. A win today | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
would put them clear. No that Saints wanted it to be that simple. A win | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
for them would see them back to the top six. Commentary from John Barns. | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Scobee is into defence. Another well winning six of the la | :11:19. | :11:44. | |
eight meetings between the sides. -- Motherwell winning six of the last | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
eight meetings. Just couldn't get the direction | :11:50. | :12:13. | |
right for Gary McDonald there. It broke his way. Diverting wide of the | :12:14. | :12:31. | |
target. Deflected by man Manaus. Stephen May, that looked like a | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
training-ground free kick. It's May who follows up. He's flying | :12:34. | :12:52. | |
at the moment. Stevie May is flying at the moment. His eighth goal of | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
the season. His fourth in his last five appearances. | :13:00. | :13:16. | |
Here is Nigel Hasselbaink. It has gone wide. That was tenacious play | :13:17. | :13:29. | |
by Hasselbank after the Motherwell captain slipped. The good deflection | :13:30. | :13:44. | |
for Motherwell. Bob McHugh, he did well to find the yard of space for | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
the shot. He failed to trouble Alan Mannus. He does Wotherspoon. He has | :13:51. | :14:03. | |
a man wide. It is Chris Millar. Hamill with an effort. That is a | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
bitter strike. It certainly warmed the fingers of the goalkeeper. It | :14:12. | :14:24. | |
warmed the midriff of Stevie Hamill. Newell and slips and he has gifted | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
it to Nigel Hasselbaink. The Dutchman delivers! He puts St | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
Johnstone 2-0 in front. It is a nightmare for Gunnar Nielsen. He | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
tried to stop the call for a corner but he only managed to set it up for | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
a St Johnstone goal. It was a difficult angle but Nigel | :14:53. | :15:05. | |
Hasselbaink executed the shot well. Motherwell district to get back in | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
this game. Moors all last week in the win over Hearts. -- more scored | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
last week. Now it is to Dawn one. He has Hasselbank in the middle. He | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
finds the little Dutchman and his touch lets him down. Wotherspoon | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
cannot for what. Hasselbank determined to get his second of the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
afternoon. He just fell down over Nielsen. Hamill to meet you. Sutton | :15:45. | :15:59. | |
cannot get there but Lawson can. The latter appeals for a penalty. It | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
seems to have come off Garry McDonald's hand. It definitely came | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
off his hand. Hutchinson. Another pass back for Nielsen. And he has | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
given it straight to David Wotherspoon. Can he finish it off? | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
Headed away by Ramsden. It looks likes and Johnstone are on course | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
for the fourth league win of the season. I think we were disappointed | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
at half-time. We emphasised to the players if we kept on doing what we | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
were doing, the goals would comment. We were really pleased to get the | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
winning goal and the clean sheet. When we got to half-time 0-0 it was | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
a good opportunity. They probably wear in the ascendancy and then be | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
came out in the second half and did not really get to grips with the | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
game. We got what we deserved which was nothing. Nigel Hasselbaink, how | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
much of the factor was he today in the victory for St Johnstone? There | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
was a lack of width in the game but Hasselbank naturally drifts into | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
wide areas. All the problems he caused where in the wider area. He | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
has got that unpredictability about him. This is a great example. I | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
would be screaming at him. He manages to keep the corner. He has | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
fantastic energy. If he could just finish a few of those opportunities | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
I think he would be a really, really top-class player. Here is | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
unpredictable, sometimes you do not know if you will be good or bad. The | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
goalkeeper will be so disappointed but that was a good finish. The | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
goalkeeper was putting him under pressure and he managed to keep his | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
composure. In terms of this penalty claim, it was quite bizarre, what | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
did you think at the time? It was difficult, we were looking at it | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
from this angle. The referee cannot see this, it is blind for him. You | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
see the linesman, he is in a good position. The problem with these | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
instances is that they happened so quickly, once you lift your hand in | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
the year I think that is a penalty. In the past you could get away with | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
it but lifting your hand like that it is a penalty. I think the shot | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
was also on target. Motherwell could have gone second, a bad day at the | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
office for them. Compared to last year when they were three points | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
ahead. Over the piece they are still doing well this season but Stuart | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
McCall knows he needs the extra pace to break down the opposition. Still | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
to come tonight: Hearts with that sinking feeling, they face | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. It is fair to say that games between Hebburn | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
burning and Aberdeen have had a bad reputation for being rather dull | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
fears. -- Hibernian. Would this be the one that finally got the pulses | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
racing? -- rather dull our fears. Reynolds! A good stop. A fine save | :20:08. | :20:51. | |
there. McGinn's corner. Anderson at the back. Returned by Jack. Anderson | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
with the shot. It seemed to come off the arm of Kevin Thomson at the edge | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
of the box. This is better from Hibernian. Scott Robertson, 40 | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
lovely delivery. Heffernan. Touched away superbly by Jamie Langfield. | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
Paul Heffernan keen to add to his tally for Hibernian, three already | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
since joining. McGivern's header breaks kindly for Peter Pawlett, | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
one-on-one with the goalkeeper. The follow-up. He is turned away by | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
James McPeake. McGivern was the man stretching initially. He should have | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
bought the shout. McGinn could not finish because of the intervention | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
of McPeake. This is good from Hibernian. McGivern in towards | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Robertson. There is a chance for fine. It is knocked away by James | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
Collins go there is a for offside. -- although there is even whistle | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
for offside. Here is burning on the chase. Stevenson. Scott Vernon. That | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
is a terrific strike from the substitute. Aberdeen in front with | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
ten minutes remaining. The manager feels there was an infringement. It | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
seems as though he slept more than anything, I do not think there was | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
any foul by the Aberdeen player. That was a terrific strike by Scott | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Vernon to give his side the lead. The manager is being spoken to by | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
the referee. That was one of the longest pass backs of the day. The | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
keeper slept. What a great opportunity for Collins to level it. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
He has wasted that opportunity. What a howler from Jamie Langfield. James | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Collins really should have punished him. Here is burning. He is doing | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
extremely well. He set up the opportunity for Gregg Wylde. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Cancelling S setup here? He can! The two substitute -- the two | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
substitutes combined. -- can see set it up here? While with the finish to | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
ensure that Aberdeen move into second spot in the Premiership. They | :24:06. | :24:17. | |
did enough. It was a poor day from us. We are disappointed with that. | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
We wanted to pull back a decent win here. We felt everybody played their | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
part. We wanted players in every area of the pitch. We knew we had to | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
handle the ball well and I felt we did that. Suber substitutes made the | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
absolute difference. Vernon and Gregg Wylde at the 44 Aberdeen. Poor | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
defending by Hibernian. That was exploited. Aberdeen capitalised. | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
This man did really well to get the ball between his body and the | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
player. What a great finish. That is poor defending. Sometimes as a | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
defender you have to take it through. For Gregg Wylde, he has | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
electric pace and he uses that. Another composed finish. How much | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
does this express the strength and depth at Aberdeen? They push onto | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
potentially be the best of the rest in the Premiership this season. In | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
the last couple of years they were struggling but he has come in with | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
players, Willo Flood is a great little player. He is a Dubliner. But | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
he can play. Barry Robson has been out injured all year but he has come | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
back in. I was surprised at who he had on the bench. It is unfortunate | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
when some people get the type of Suber sub. -- the kind of super | :26:17. | :26:31. | |
Saab. The warm form is something that the manager will be looking to | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
rectified quickly. By Michael we shall see. A bad day at the office | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
for Hibernian but what about the Edinburgh rivals? Hearts went into | :26:43. | :26:55. | |
the match already looking pretty lost that they bought of the table. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
At Rugby Park for us is Brian McLaughlin. Ahead of the game both | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
managers had spoken of how crucial this game wars. The fans had their | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
own agendas, the telly fans with the red card against the chairman. -- | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
eco-Marnoch fans. Crucial, every game is crucial. We will be | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
struggling for the rest of the season. There is nothing wrong with | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
a pre-match pie to keep energy levels up. Ryan Stevenson had the | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
first effort on goal. The shot from just outside the box tipped over by | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
the goalkeeper. The Kilmarnock boss urged his players forward at every | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
opportunity. Kris Boyd came close to finding the back of the net just | :28:06. | :28:14. | |
minutes later. Another former Rangers player was also causing | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
problems for Hearts. This time it was Barry Nicholson with a volley | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
just over the crossbar. The Hearts defence has come under scrutiny in | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
recent weeks. Once again questions will be asked after allowing Kris | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
Boyd time and space to score. Terrific composure from Kris Boyd. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
He was to prove a real handful for the Hearts rearguard all afternoon. | :28:43. | :28:58. | |
. Darren BAR made the move in the summer. He found himself in the wars | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
after this melee in the home box. The keeper appearing to catch BAR as | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
he comes away. The 28-year-old eventually carried off and both sets | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
of fanned giving him a standing ovation. Nicholson should have | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
scored here. But at the other end Patterson and Wilson were inches | :29:25. | :29:34. | |
away from connecting. There was one more chance. Johnson here. But Jimmy | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
McDonald saving the stay. The half-time report says Kilmarnock | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
were on top, but the Jambos were still very much in the game. Into | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
the second period and Hearts Klose to an equaliser. Jimmy Walker with a | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
cross and Patterson's header wide of target. Kilmarnock pushed forward | :29:59. | :30:00. | |
and McDonald came to the rescue. A fantastic first touch before a | :30:01. | :30:24. | |
neat flick. Hearts youngsters were trying their best. Whenever they did | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
have sight of goal Craig Sampson was in no mood of allowing them any hope | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
of a comeback. It was the home side that finished stronger. Boyd the | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
provider and Chris Johnson, who was one on one with Jordan McGhee, but | :30:43. | :30:51. | |
the shot was deflected over for a corner. Boyd with two terrific | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
finishes and Hearts travel back with a mood as damp as the weather here | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
at Rugby Park and it's here where -- we'll hear what both managers have | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
to say. We have to defend better than that. You can see the | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
confidence in the players. We are passing really well and it's been | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
like that for the majority of the games and we've not been far away. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
It's good to turn in the three points. There wasn't much in the | :31:20. | :31:28. | |
game. The two mistakes have cost us. Pat, did he share any pies with you? | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
We were inside, so we had much better food. In terms of the result, | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
Kilmarnock deserved winners? Very much so. I was very impressed with | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
them yesterday. They had energy about them they played the game in | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
the right way. Alan will be delighted with the way they played. | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
They were a handful upfront. Boyd was back to himself again. Led the | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
line and knocked balls up to him and he's strong and he's running now and | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
lost a lot of weight as we can imagine, but this goal was poor | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
defending, but look at that, strike left foot, back of the net. He knows | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
he can score goals. Is he a better player now? I can't say that, but | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
he'll always be able to score goals. As a striker, he's got that nack and | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
ability. You don't lose that. We are talking about the things he's | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
improved, with movement and weight. He's never going to lose that | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
ability to find the back of the net. I think also he's taken on a | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
leadership role, so he was organised and the players we being told what | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
to do and he was a real leader. The others played around about him. | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
Chris Johnson out on left. This is an opportunity. Different class. | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
SmaS something that he -- shas something he has been -- that's | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
something that he may have been guilty about before. What is that? | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
He did that all day yesterday. It's great to watch. That will buoy up | :32:58. | :33:11. | |
the fans. Not for the first time this season poor defending from | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
Hearts. Confidence is low. Do they have a chance of escaping that | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
bottom part? It's getting slimmer as the weeks pass. It's becoming a bit | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
of a theme that bad defensive mistakes are costing them very, very | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
dearly. The two goals there were straight balls, Pat. As a goalkeeper | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
you need communication at the back and centre halves have to deal with | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
it. On the evidence from yesterday, I can't see them getting out of the | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
their situation. They didn't have any natural striker. When Ryan | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
Stevens went off and Patterson came off, but he's more on the right-hand | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
side and there were real opportunities. It looks bleak for | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
them. Champagne football on Tannadice Street seems to be the | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
order of the day, after an uncertain start to the season. A quarter of | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
the way through and Dundee were starting to play some of the most | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
fun-to-watch football. But after a defeat Mark Wilson was drafted in. | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
They were up against a St Mirren side who have stopped the rot. Two | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
wins on the trot after victories at Hearts and edging seven-goal | :34:24. | :34:36. | |
thriller against St Johnstone. Kello made his debut. They have a Turkish | :34:37. | :34:47. | |
Dutchman who is becoming a real hero. The opening goal arriving in | :34:48. | :35:00. | |
the 27th minute. With Gary Mackay Stephen on from the start they were | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
dominant. Minutes after the goal, there was a penalty. Sean Kelly with | :35:04. | :35:16. | |
the infringement. And no doubting the penalty. He put it confidently | :35:17. | :35:29. | |
past Kello to make it 2-0. United should have been more than two goals | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
in front in the first half. St Mirren were chasing tangerine | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
shadows and some dithering in defence almost allowed in Ryan Gold | :35:40. | :35:49. | |
for number three. At 17 years of age he's a great talent and his chance | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
to really shine would come in the second half. Even from this sort of | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
range, no problem. You won't see many better strikes this season. | :36:01. | :36:10. | |
That goal came with still 30 minutes left on the clock. Still the | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
tangerine tide came forward. St Mirren were toiling. First Ryan | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
Graham denied. And then from Andrew Robertson's cross, Graham would be | :36:24. | :36:32. | |
denied again this time by Kello. By and large a dismal day out for St | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
Mirren. Dobson got a chance, but the goalie did just enough to put off | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
the former United striker. With just seven minutes left to play, Ryan Dow | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
intercepted and surged forward before feeding the ball to Chris | :36:53. | :37:03. | |
Erskine. Number four for them. The side are lighting up the Scottish | :37:04. | :37:11. | |
Premiership. As for St Mirren, after recent improvements, this was a | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
reminder of the bad old days of not too long ago. Disappointed for us in | :37:17. | :37:26. | |
terms of where we have been. In terms of the energy what we've | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
brought and collectiveness and playing as a team and I thought we | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
broke the shadow of that today. I think it's good. I thought | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
everything came together and worked well at passing and chances created | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
and good balls in the We are going to talk about Ryan | :37:44. | :37:58. | |
Gold. 17. Absolutely fantastic. A joy to watch. He is. The team is | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
packed full of real attacking threat and imagination in the final third. | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
Ryan Gold epitomises that. You see he drifts into little pockets of | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
areas and finds space. You could argue that the defence need to close | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
him down a bit quicker, but that's intelligent play. He finds the space | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
and knows where to drift. He causes defence all sorts of problems and it | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
one is a perfect example. Into that wee picket, difficult to pick up and | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
direct and straight at goal. What a shot that is. Fantastic strike. You | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
see it here. Just after this, where the goalkeeper didn't have much of a | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
chance. What Jackie's allowed the players to do in the final third is | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
express yourselves and get in. I don't think Jackie plays with the | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
wingers, but likes them into the inside and play in the little | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
pockets and there are young players coming in. You don't have to be the | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
big guy. I think Barcelona have proved that with the players they | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
have, small, but your movement. Intelligent. Yeah. 29.6 yards. I | :39:11. | :39:19. | |
thought I better convert that for the viewers. Fantastic to watch. | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
Champagne football. Disappointing for St Mirren, because they looked | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
like they might have turned a corner. You could see some on the | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
VT, their defending was so poor. No closing down. Didn't seem to be | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
stretched between the midfield and back four. They dropped off. All | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
sorts of areas for teams to play against them. That was pretty much | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
the weekend that was. Just five games this weekend, because the | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
Friday night match ended up in darkness in Dingwall. Ross county | :39:50. | :40:00. | |
and Inverness was going to on and then the match was abandoned to be | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
played on another date. They'll be reverting back to Victoria Park | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
after that. That's how it finished there, abandoned, so what's the | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
table looking like now? If you thought this weekend was | :40:14. | :40:36. | |
pretty good, next week looks pretty tasty too. | :40:37. | :40:53. | |
Even before all that, there's a small mid-week matter of the League | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
Cup quarter finals. On Tuesday, Inverness are at home to Dundee and | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
Morton are at home to St Johnstone and it's Hibs and Hearts for the | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Edinburgh Derby. It will be Hibs and Hearts for a place in the last four. | :41:13. | :41:29. | |
That game is live on BBC One Scotland at 6.55pm on Wednesday and | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
extended studio analysis on-line at full-time. | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
It's a brave man who predicts an Edinburgh derby, Pat, so over to | :41:41. | :41:50. | |
you. I am not going to predict. Any derby can go. It depends how you | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
wake up and how you approach the gale and get out there and be | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
positive, but I watched Hearts yesterday and I think Hibs pu have | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
the upper hand. The home team. The way that Hearts are playing, their | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
confidence must be down. But it's a quarter final and a big chance to do | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
something this year. You never know. In the last Edinburgh Derby it was | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
Hearts? It was, but they were on a better run than at the moment. Pat | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
is right. The confidence must be at rock bottom at the moment. Difficult | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
to say what will happen, but -- It seems like an age ago in I was | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
talking about it yesterday. That was something that hearts never had. | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
Somebody attacking the front post area and natural strikers is | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
something they lack, but a great finish. They theT got no the | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
positions almost even lease -- they got into the positions almost even | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
less. You have to attack the near post and get in front of the | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
defenders and that improved. He can prove that he can do it. They want | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
to work on that and I know he was talking about improving the | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
defending, but they have to work on the all-round part. Let's hope it's | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
great. A time for a look at tomorrow's back pages before we | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
leave you. There we go. That is the Daily Mail. Rough diamond. And this | :43:11. | :43:21. | |
is the Scotsman Badbe comes of age there. -- Balde comes of age. Neil | :43:22. | :43:32. | |
Lennon promises he'll get more game game. He's a bit of a rough diamond, | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
but he's got so many injuries. Neil Lennon needs to be bringing them in. | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
The injuries are a problem. You had Mulgrew out and Kris Commons has | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
been out. And Samaras went off with a gash. Big games. James Forster, so | :43:52. | :44:00. | |
let's hope he's fit. Balde and Pukki and the guys they've brought them in | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
and they cannot be babies all the time. They have to be men and score. | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
He proved that he can go by people and score and that's what he has to | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
do week in and week out. They've got a big score, so they have to cope | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
with the number of games. I'm sure he'll get the opportunities in games | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
to come. He took his opportunity and make a big impact and he got Celtic | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
the three point in the end. That is it. The weekend in Scottish football | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
is finally at an end. Thank you to Pat and Michael for joining us this | :44:35. | :44:37. | |
evening. There is more football mid-week as we were just talking | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
about. Wednesday night, the Edinburgh derby. Join us for that, | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
but for now, from all of us here, stay safe in the weather, good | :44:47. | :44:47. | |
night. | :44:48. | :44:49. |