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Tam McManus, now in pain, admits that he thinks Hearts are going to win the league. Motherwell might not like the tag, but they look like King-makers for the title. The PFA Scotland Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year nominees are discussed.
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00:00sponsored by Cameron Commercials. If you want a new or used quality van, then Sean Germain,
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00:10business. I'm Peter Martin, Alan Ruff, Alec Ray, Tam McManus here with me in the studio today.
00:17Not quite the weather for shorts, but some people are just sticking with it, hoping that the sun
00:21comes back out again. We've got lots to talk about. Some people are feeling as if it is a
00:26sunny day and some people are well in the doldrums. We'll get the thoughts of you on the weekend's
00:32football Saturday and Sunday in the Scottish Premiership. Two Hearts and two Motherwell players
00:36are nominated for Player of the Year at the PFA Scotland Awards. Today at the Hilton it was all
00:42announced. Motherwell deliver a blow to Rangers title aspirations. There's four games to title
00:47glory for Hearts after their derby win and Dyson Maeda starting to find his shooting boots for Celtic.
00:55That's your CancelMyParkingTicket.com headlines to digest. And as ever, we'll give you an
01:02answer to our quiz at the end of the programme from Elite Joinery and Fire Protection. Who's
01:07Rangers' top goal scorer this season? And if you want to throw in how many goals that person
01:12has scored, then we'll be more than happy to take your answer for it. Ruffey, why have you
01:17got that look on your face?
01:18I look on my face every time there's a quiz question.
01:21Yeah.
01:21Yeah. I'll try and get near it this time.
01:23Okay. Okay. It is a good question. Who's the Rangers' top goal scorer, Ruffey?
01:28You want the answer then?
01:29Yeah. Well, you may as well. Have a wee...
01:31See how far away I can get.
01:33Yeah. Have a go at who you think it is and how many. It's a double whammy.
01:38I'll go Tavernier.
01:40And how many?
01:4214.
01:44Tavernier, 16.
01:45Germany, 14.
01:47Okay. Right. We'll give you the answer at the end of the programme. Simple as that.
01:52And of course, the results over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. It was Celtic 3, Falkirk
01:571, Hibbs 1, Hearts 2, Rangers 2, Millwall 3, Aberdeen 1, Kilmarnock 0, Dundee United 3,
02:04Dundee 0 and St Mirren 0, Livingston 2. That was the overall scores. Let's talk first of
02:10all about Champions Elect. It was at Easter Road. It was the Derby. Only one of us predicted
02:17the correct score of the panel. I wonder if you can guess who that is, Ruffey.
02:22Yeah, I thought you obviously had insight that there was going to be two players sent
02:27off to go for that halfway. Because we thought we were 1-0. We thought it was going to go
02:36one
02:36way. The place looked as if it was absolutely bouncing. But again, you can't predict these
02:40things in football. You've just got to deal with it.
02:42It was a fabulous atmosphere to start with, Tam, wasn't it? I mean, it was just absolutely
02:46bubbling along. Yeah, I mean, both sets of supporters. Obviously, Hibbs had the big Tifo
02:52in both stands and then the Hearts fans were there in force as well. The atmosphere was
02:56brilliant. I thought Hearts probably started the better side in the first five, ten minutes.
02:59Then Hibbs got the goal and then the whole place was up. I turned it to you and saying,
03:03it's a long way back for Hearts with this atmosphere.
03:05And you were waving to everybody in the stands at that point. I was.
03:08All your pals, people that were asking.
03:09As soon as, about ten seconds after I said that to you, the goalies had a brain fart come
03:14out and handed it outside the box. Stonewall red card, really.
03:19Yeah. Did you think it was a stonewall red card?
03:21Yeah. I think he actually thought because his feet were in the box, he was all right.
03:25Yeah.
03:26I've got a funny feeling.
03:26He's lost his bearings.
03:27He's lost his bearings, but I've got a funny feeling. I mean, time to go back in, I just
03:32thought he thought because his feet were in, he was okay. But he's obviously, the ball
03:37was out. But again, it's one of the ones that I don't get the denying a goal scoring
03:42opportunity because I don't think the Hearts forward was going to get the ball.
03:44Well, Kapoor is racing.
03:46Bearing down.
03:47He's bearing down on him, close range. But the other thing about it is the goalkeeper
03:50then has a dilemma. Do I control it? Do I then try and sell him the dummy? Do I just
03:54launch it? You know, these are the things that the referee's taking into consideration.
03:58Yeah. And I think they give the benefit of doubt to the striker at that situation. And
04:02as I said, he clearly got his bearings wrong. And from being in a dominant position, they
04:08were now up against it.
04:09Yeah. At that point, you know, at that point, I actually started to wish I'd gone to the
04:15game with someone else because he became Mr. Doom and Gloom.
04:20Oh, I'm empty.
04:21Sitting next. No, not even half empty. Nothing in the glass. Because as soon as the keeper
04:26went off, this is him sitting next to me. Oh no, that's it now. That's it now. They've
04:31blown it. Oh, they're blowing it now. Hearts will score. Hearts will score. And I'm thinking
04:35to myself, is there any chance you shut up to let us have a wee...
04:39Try and enjoy it.
04:40Yeah, try and enjoy the game. Oh no, the goal's coming. I can see it. I can see it. And
04:44I'm
04:44thinking to myself, you know, I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Hollywood movies
04:48where the two of them are in the car and one of them is like a Jason Statham type. Bill
04:53it yourself, you modelled on. And Jason Statham eventually just turns around at the passing
04:57year and goes, boom, and takes them out with one punch and just leaves them there. Knocked
05:02out. Sparkled. I was actually sparked because he's ruining the game for me. But nevertheless,
05:07when the second one went off, I thought to myself, okay, keep mornin'. He's just about
05:11to get pumped. We have to wait to the end because he says, I've done a wee bit after the
05:14game
05:14now. So as soon as it goes to 2-1, I want to go. The game was finished. But yeah,
05:18I just
05:19thought as soon as the second player gets sent off, pass slack, which is a ridiculous tackle
05:23on a booking. It could have been a red card itself. I was going to say to you, I thought
05:26it was a red card, never mind. It's eye, it's reckless. It catches him on the hip, an experienced
05:30player. And then nine men. Ten men you can maybe hang on with, played in games. Ten
05:34men you can maybe just see it out. Nine men. No chance really. And I think the Hearts goals.
05:40Goals, a wee bit of fortunate as well. Don't like it was sitting with sour grapes, but Shanklin's
05:45back heel. Takes a wee nick, goes in and then the deflection off the Spittles goal. I think
05:50they keep saving it. Hearts get the wee breaks on the day. But I think second half, obviously
05:55they deserve to win the game.
05:56You know, the funny thing is, and you have to give managers credit and sometimes, and
06:01you'll be well aware of this with yourself and Mark, when you have to make little tweaks
06:04in a game. But one of the things that Derek said, which was very interesting, was the
06:09fact that he had to emphasise to the players, listen, stop getting the angle and launching
06:15it into the box because Bashiri, you know, it's food and drink to them. The two centre-halves
06:21just kept nodding the ball out. He then says to them, listen, you've got to work, get them
06:26shifting the ball and then once you get it into the wide areas, get it to an area where
06:30you can cut it back. And that's eventually where they got their goal.
06:33Yeah, and that's partly because they were overloaded in the middle with the eight guys.
06:37So they just kind of defend the hing me. So you have to drag them back to the byline.
06:41And then cutbacks then become important because you can get shots off because that's where
06:45your spare men are. So it's about recognising that. And I think that's a valid point which
06:49Derek made after the game. He says, we don't really kind of prepare for nine men because
06:53it's not something that kind of occurs that often. The thing is, they've managed to get
06:57that late go through Spital. And he's one of the guys that actually has that little
07:00bit of quality just to try and he does get a little bit fortunate. But the thing is,
07:04he's managed to try and pick that first post and he's managed to beat the keeper.
07:07It's funny you can say that, you know, Derek was in good form roughly because as...
07:12You can talk to him this week. Did you say he was lucky?
07:14No, but there's a good line about it all. As he walks in, right? As he walks in, he
07:20sits down and he went, I suppose we were lucky today then, eh? And I actually turned around
07:26and said to him, my wife said to tell you you're lucky. And he went, aye, right. But anyway,
07:32listen, I think...
07:33Don't play him.
07:34Listen, I mean, at the end of the day, you know, you've got to relish these moments.
07:39You've got to see the funny side of things. But I think he deserves credit because there
07:44was that sense in the stands of impending doom coming. The Hibs fans knew it. And the
07:49Hearts fans, they had that belief that it was coming.
07:52I think it was a massive goal in the context because if Hearts didn't get the goal, you
07:56know, that would have been the way they bottled it against nine men. They couldn't
07:59have beat nine men. You know, it totally flips the narrative. And I always thought the
08:04goal was going to come. I just thought there would be an opening. I think Hibs would
08:07retire, you know, playing near enough the full second half of nine men. And to be fair
08:11to the nine men who started the game and the subs that come on, Hibs, you know, they all
08:14worked their backsides off. David Gray mentioned it after the game. You know, the guys that
08:17were still on the part couldn't do any more, couldn't run about any more, couldn't work
08:20any harder. But you're two spare players and it was eventually that was going to tell
08:24and it did at the end. But yeah, listen, I think obviously it's a massive result for
08:29Hearts. They go into a game next week, possibly try to make it a two-horse race if they
08:34beat Rangers. And Celtic obviously went to Easter Road. So, all in all, a fantastic day
08:39for Hearts, who were, I think, singing Motherwell songs throughout the game as well.
08:43Yes, they were. Which was weird. Well, of course, because there was a great noise up because
08:47as they were coming in, you know, they were singing the song for Motherwell because obviously
08:52Motherwell are against Hibs for that European spot as well. So there was a great bit of banter
08:58then. Brilliant atmosphere in the ground, but a sense of belief. The only thing I think we
09:04felt, Tam and I, was the fact that it would have been really, really good to see 11 against
09:0911. I think as a spectacle, as a Sky game, you know, they had the, you can always tell
09:14when it's a big game, they put extra cameras in, they've got the drone up for the elevated
09:19look at the stadium as well. I would love to have seen it as a spectacle, 11 against
09:2411, Ruffy. Yeah, well, if you're in a game against your rivals and you go 1-0 up, you know,
09:29when you're at home and the place is absolutely bouncing, you would like to think that the
09:33players would grasp to kick on and win the game, you know, when you're up and everybody's
09:38behind you, but obviously they're sending off snookered that. So if you were to take a
09:43stab at it, you would have said, if it would have been 11 against 11, you would have liked
09:48to have thought Hibs would have taken something out of that game.
09:50Yeah, you think so?
09:51Yeah, I think so. I think the momentum, a 1-1, 1-0 in a big game like that, when
09:55you're
09:56at home, kicks you on to something better.
09:59Yeah, but in the end, that's all conjecture because quite simply, when they eventually
10:05got the equalising goal, there was a sense that they were going to go on and win it.
10:09They did win it. They've got that crucial element of three points of a gap. And then,
10:16of course, and just before we start to talk about Rangers and Celtic, I was just looking
10:20there at some of the social media posts because we're well aware of the fact that next up
10:27at Tyne Castle is Rangers. And this is the forum. Derek mentioned something at the end
10:32of the game. He says, our win ratio against the top six clubs is better than anybody.
10:38So, Hearts Forum versus the teams they've still to play, they've won eight, they've drawn
10:42three, they've only lost one. Celtics have won three, drawn four and lost five. And Rangers
10:47have won five, drawn five and lost two.
10:50Well, not everything's favouring Hearts, you know, in current form.
10:54And being at home all season, no.
10:55Yeah, no, that's obviously going to be a factor as well. And I've seen that stat as well and
11:00I thought to myself, oof. But the thing is, I've often said this, you know, we were talking
11:04about the Hearts had to come up against the Rangers and Celtic and obviously the split,
11:09as well as the other teams, even Hibs and things. Over the course of this season, they've
11:14always got the job done. They should be getting into these games with real confidence and these
11:17stats actually back that up. You know, so it's not as if you're going, we've lost three
11:21games against them, they turned us over the last time. This group of players know what
11:25it takes and also they've got the kind of body of work behind them to support that.
11:30And the other thing I think is in their favour, Robbie, is this is a squad league this season.
11:34It's the squad that's contributing to it. You know, when people start to throw the 1986
11:39season up in Hearts' face, Hearts lost a couple of key players, albeit there was all sorts
11:45of conjecture over, listen, Craig Levine's got the flu, he should have been able to step
11:50up, he should have been able to play. A couple of players dropped out and it was detrimental
11:54to them in the game up at Dens Park against Dundee. There's none of that now. The squad's
11:59contributing for Hearts. The players coming off the bench are making a difference as well.
12:03This will be a collective. I think anybody who wins a league medal, and if it's Hearts,
12:08they will all feel as if they are part of it because Derek has used everybody.
12:12Well, that's been the success for Rangers and Celtic over the year. You know, the squad
12:16that they've got and the ability to get a squad like that, you know, because they've got money
12:20to bring people in, you know, and that's been their strength. Particularly Celtic. I think
12:24Celtic's bench has been coming off and winning games for them for a wee while now. It's not
12:29happening as much now. But I think, I know we're going to go into the game, but I think
12:34next week's game will show us where Hearts are. I don't think we can take any of that
12:39Hibs game of, you know, how they're playing or that kind of thing. But I think the Rangers
12:45game next week will be a definitive. Are they getting away with games because of wee bits here
12:52in there? Or are they there because they are a right good side? And if they go and beat
12:56Rangers next week, I think everybody will have to. Peter, Peter. With one game? I mean,
13:00you've got to give them a fact that they're a right good side now, Ruffy. No, I know they're
13:03a right good side now, but I think the pressure of this game, I mean, everybody's going to
13:08feel it. The Rangers players are going to feel it. The Hearts players are going to feel
13:11it. Whoever comes out on top of that game next week. I think you made a really good, valid
13:17point. I think for the first time in as long as we can probably remember, they have strength
13:23and depth. And the reason being, Finlay's been out. Halkett's been out. Devlin's been
13:27out. They're going to get the boy, Leonard, who's been a real good addition. Shanklin's
13:31been out. So they've had a core of really important players through that squad and they've managed
13:38to negotiate it. So that tells you in itself that they've actually managed to get guys to
13:43come in and do a job and also be successful at the same time.
13:46Okay. Well, we're done and dusted with Hearts. You know, they got the win. They're in the
13:51box seat. Four games to go. They believe. The fans believe. There's a real chance. Destiny's
13:57in their own hands. But it's not over. But suddenly you get to, talking about spectacles,
14:05you get to Ibrox. It's retro kit day. It's everybody as high as a kite. The sun is shining.
14:12There's Big Marvin's mural. Drag Big Marvin out there. Yeah, they drag Big Marvin out there.
14:17Not that he had to be dragged out, to be honest with you. And then you've got the fantastic...
14:21Hey? Is he singing? No.
14:22No, no, no. No. No.
14:25They've emptied the place. Yeah. And then on the right-hand side, you've got this brilliant
14:28Tifo. Keep believing. The manager's talking about it. Five games to go. Everyone's a cup
14:33final. And then suddenly you've got Motherwell who haven't read the script. Because I like,
14:41you know, somebody said, you know, that the manager had a private conversation with the
14:46players. Somebody had asked him the question about whether it was good to go away for that
14:50warm, you know, weather training. And if there was going to be something, a reason why they
14:55lost. And he said, he said something curious, Danny Role. He said, you know, I know the reason
15:00why they lost the game. I won't mention it to you, but I'm going to mention it to the
15:03players. I'll tell you the reason why they lost the game. They were beaten by a better
15:08side. They played them off the park.
15:09The first 45 was an absolute schooling. They couldn't get near them. And they almost played
15:15with a false nine, where they was just kind of dropping in their little pockets. And unfortunately,
15:21you know, that was the motto of the day was keep believing. But when you're defending in
15:25the manner and being deep against a guy who wants to drop into pockets, and you have two
15:30of them who can just, one can go and mark them. They don't allow them to turn. And they
15:34just, they carved Rangers open at will, time after time. And as I said, it was so impressive.
15:41I was really impressed with the way, the rotations, the middle of the park, the box. And then
15:46all of a sudden, the route balls in the wider areas to Langello and Juan Manici. I just thought
15:52that they were absolutely outstanding. And the quality of the goals in which they scored
15:57were absolutely at the top drawer. Now see, if that would have been your Man City or your
16:01Barcelona's and that, you'd have been going, wow, because they'd done it time after time.
16:04And they were really lucky that it was only two at halftime because it could easily be
16:08more. They were blocking. And they just never got to grips in the transitional moments.
16:13It became, or Rangers are popping around about the edge of the box. And in that moment,
16:16they just go, bang. And then they're obviously right at your backline. And they never, and I
16:21think that's one of the things about this Motherwell team. See, as soon as you keep
16:25a, kind of collects a ball, it's literally, that's, that's, like, warning signs should
16:29be signing because you just go, bang. Or when you play around with his feet, you just find
16:33that's Berman or the play through. And, and it was a, it was a joy to watch really from
16:37that, like a footballing perspective. But if you're a Rangers-oriented guy, it was painful.
16:41Well, on that point, and again, I'm, I'm, it's not that I'm loathe to ask you this
16:46question because I feel as if, obviously, you're the coach of Partick Thistle with Mark.
16:51And, and of course, you've been on the coaching team at Rangers as well. So I'm going to ask
16:56him this, you can mull over it yourself, but quite simply, if you are a Rangers manager
17:00and you know what they've been doing to sides, and you've played against them before, is that
17:07a sad indictment of the players who couldn't execute what the manager was saying? Or is it
17:12a case of you've just come up against a team who are better than you, and you can't
17:16compete against them? Because John Brown comes out at half-time and said, by the way, that's
17:20not a Rangers team. You should be getting in their faces. You should be closing them down.
17:23And this is that Rangers ambassador, who was a great player than John Brown, coming out
17:27at half-time and saying it. Now, did the manager not get the message across? Or are those players
17:32just not good enough to be able to get in Motherwell's faces?
17:35No, I think it was the players, Peter. I thought it was a real lack of energy in the first
17:37half.
17:38You know, a real lack of going and pressing and getting after Motherwell. They just sat
17:42off Motherwell. And if you sit off this Motherwell team and they're on it, you're going to get
17:45popped. And they got popped the first half. They couldn't get close to players. They didn't
17:48put a tackle in. I think that's why John Brown came out at half-time with a rallying call
17:52to try and get, you know, the crowd were up for it. You can't blame the crowd. The atmosphere
17:56sounded as if it was great.
17:57It's electric, it was.
17:58And, you know, it's the players, Peter. And if you're not, if you're going to sit off
18:01players, if you're not going to go and get after players and close people down and make
18:05tackles and do the dirty side of the game, against a team like Motherwell, you're going
18:09to get popped in the first half.
18:10Sorry, so see, the thing is, and I agree with you, Tam, in terms of they just couldn't
18:14lay a glove on them. So you're obviously saying about getting after them. But the
18:18first goal was kind of indicative of that first half. Nico Raskin sells himself. He
18:23actually literally runs past the boy who turns on the outside. But the actual recovery run
18:27from himself, Asgard, trying to recover back in. So you see, you know, it's okay running
18:33forward.
18:34Busting yourself to get back in.
18:35You need to get back in. And the guy who turns on the halfway line, Asgard is goal side
18:40of him. And when it's a turnover and they get beyond Asgard, they end up, I don't know,
18:4510 yards of difference. And you think, how are these guys, and again, it's back to, how
18:49are these guys running harder than the guys that are at home? There'll be 50,000 fans
18:54behind them.
18:55Yeah.
18:55I've said it a lot of times, unfortunately, that not all the Rangers players, but if you
19:00go 2-0 at home, there's a shock level there. You've got to mentally say, hey, how do I turn
19:07this round? And I don't think there's enough Rangers players who've got that mentality in
19:11them to turn it round. And obviously, when they come in at half-time, the managers had
19:15a goal, you know, and that's had a wee bit of effect on them. But on the park, I mean,
19:21I've never played in front of 50,000 people, but I would imagine if I'm 2-0 doing at half
19:25-time
19:26and it's such a crucial game that you need to win, there's a wee bit of fear factor coming
19:30in. So you have to be big enough and strong enough to see through that.
19:33What are you blethering on about? There's 100,000 at the 1971 League Cup final year
19:374-9 up.
19:38Yeah. No, that's just a one-off, isn't it? This is every second week you've got to perform.
19:42This is every pressure. But people don't know. I mean, I don't know. The pressure you're
19:47playing with Rangers and Celtic, you've got to win every week.
19:49What are you blethering on about? There was about 60,000 in the game and Dave Neri scores
19:54you're against Brazil when you're 1-0 up. Do you want me to keep going and just keep
19:59emphasising? Do you want me to keep emphasising that games were you?
20:01No, no. There was no pressure on Scotland. There was no pressure on those two games on
20:05you. Playing for Patrick Düsseldorf against Celtic and playing for Scotland against Brazil.
20:09Yeah, but as I'm saying, there is a pressure.
20:11There is a pressure.
20:12There is no pressure.
20:12By the way, he's popping them off. Alex talking about this. Alex talking about the fact
20:16you've got to press them. You can't allow the goalkeeper. Suddenly the goalkeeper, they
20:20can break on you quickly. Suddenly when you want to play the ball out the back, which
20:23sometimes they do. They want to play out the back and they want to play the triangles. You know
20:28that there's going to be a midfielder dropping. You know there's going to be a midfield runner
20:31because that's their game. Once they get to the triangles, then they start to say to themselves,
20:35right, we'll now go down the flanks. So you know all that's coming. So Danny Roe must have
20:41said to the Rangers players, this is what's going to happen. You've got to get in their
20:44faces. You've got to be on their case for minute one. On a day when the crowd's there,
20:49everything is geared towards, let's have a celebration. Let's go out and make sure that we are
20:55in the mix for this game. You can't. It's like Jock Wallace turns around and says to
20:59the players, could you stick your hand up anybody that needs a wee bit of motivation?
21:03Before they can prefer a sculpture?
21:04Yeah, no. And then somebody goes like that. Maybe puts their hands up and they go, well,
21:07you shouldn't be playing for Rangers. You need to be motivated playing for Rangers.
21:10I agree with everything you've said there, but that all goes out the window when all of a
21:14sudden you're 1-0 done. And you can fear the fans. You can fear the fear factor coming
21:20for the stands and then it comes on the park and then it's just certain individuals.
21:25The biggest question for you is, unless there was something, I can't believe how the wee
21:29boy Moore was in the play right for the start. I don't know how he'd come to that decision.
21:33The game turns into half-time. When he came on, he turned that game.
21:37But we shouldn't have to wait to half-time before you get that kind of response.
21:41From a youngster? With a loan signing?
21:43No, and you talk about character and so the first couple of months that Manky Moore came
21:48to Rangers, you're thinking, OK, he's a young boy and you're kind of gone. He's not quite
21:51ready for what's ahead of him, but he's really kind of carried the team for a while.
21:57And I think the substitutions at half-time, but see, even before we get to half-time, see
22:01that Fernandes, you know, when Rangers do put a pressure on the ball and the midfielders
22:10looking at he's doing one of them, he cannot allow that boy to drop into that kind of half-space
22:15in between the lines. Turn, fire it out to Magoma, and then Magoma leaves his man, and
22:21then Sterling leaves his man, and it's just a catalogue of errors. So then, I've heard
22:25people online saying that Dujon-Sterling, if that was to have an area, they'd be getting
22:29battered. But Dujon-Sterling has to leave Longolo to come centrally because the whole
22:34backline's so disjointed because of the ball into the little gap.
22:38Another thing I was going to say to you, and I have pointed it out to you before, and again,
22:42listen, everybody's got an opinion, we get it wrong sometimes, we've been erratic on
22:46this programme, and so many people across every other platform you could think of as
22:52being erratic on their opinion on it. But I have said consistently that I never thought
22:56Rangers were capable of winning the league because I believe that their defence gives
23:00away goals.
23:01I think...
23:01What have I been saying for weeks, Peter?
23:03Yeah.
23:03Do you remember I said to you when they go to Spain, I said, I bet they're sitting down
23:05and saying, because obviously everybody was talking about the, was it 14 goals in three
23:10games?
23:11Yeah.
23:11I said, I'm sat in here last week and went, I bet I'm more concerned when the goals are
23:14shipping.
23:15Yes.
23:15Because if you don't score at the top end, then you're susceptible.
23:19We lost six in the last two now.
23:20And the other thing as well is during the season, or halfway through the season, the main man in
23:26the Rangers team was the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper was making saves.
23:31He's not going to play a year last night as well, didn't he?
23:32Yeah.
23:33He's not making the same saves now.
23:35Do you think he was at fault for the first one?
23:36First one. I've seen that tip of the other day.
23:38I thought he was soft, by the way. I thought...
23:39He seems to be a wee bit vulnerable on his left-hand side. You know, he doesn't seem to
23:44have that extension. And he has it on the right-hand side, he makes it trim. But it seems
23:49to be when balls come across him, he's not strong.
23:52Yeah. I thought he was soft in that one, did you?
23:54Yeah.
23:55Just out of curiosity, and I must apologise to a lot of Motherwell fans who would watch the
24:00programme, and I apologise now on the basis that sometimes when Celtic and Rangers are
24:04beaten, you know, everybody starts talking about what's wrong with them. That's not something
24:11I think you can accuse us of on here, because I've been waxing lyrical about them. They're
24:14a joy to watch.
24:16Yeah, they were, and I think that was the first goal. It was fantastic. I think Eli just pops
24:21into the wee space, plays it wide, I think, to Sparrow, who plays the ball right to the
24:26back post, and Langello comes into the back post and sticks in the second goal, sorry.
24:29And that was a fantastic goal. And even the winning goal as well, I don't know if it's
24:33a wee deflection, but the way they work it, in the areas, and they get their shot away,
24:37cuts inside and hits the shots, but Motherwell in that first half, a joy to watch. And they're
24:42without a doubt the best team in the country to watch when they're on it. I know people
24:44will say, well, they'll win a game the last five games. They're very unfortunate not to take
24:48anything out of the Hearts game. You know, they could have easily won that game. They
24:52haven't really been fired in terms of goals. Certainly yesterday, I thought they were
24:56first half. You know, it was like a European night. It was somebody coming to Celtic and
25:01Rangers, like an Ajax or a Benfica or even a Juventus or something like that, and just
25:06battering them. And that's what it was like, Peter. It was men against boys that first half.
25:09But do you know what's great about it? And this is what's great about the football, which
25:13I think, I have said before about the standard, I'm not going to go back on that, but one of
25:18the things that I really love, Alec, and you'll get it more in the Championship than
25:22we do see regularly in the Premiership. But I love the fact that just because of, and
25:28I know people will say Celtic and Rangers are going backwards a bit, but I love the fact
25:31that teams are coming and having a go, and we're now seeing games where you don't know
25:35the outcome.
25:37That's the beauty of it all.
25:38The joy of it, isn't it?
25:39No, without doubt, because in days gone by, you were thinking, right, okay, and I mean
25:43this with a great disrespect, the smaller provincial clubs you're going, it'll be three or four
25:46a day. And then the punters get after 20 minutes, if it's no two, they're going,
25:50oh, what's up? So it was like a foregone conclusion, but I think this season has been
25:54really refreshing, whereas these teams are actually having a go. That top six has been
25:58really, really impressive of taking points off each other and things. And I think, and
26:03you're right, you talk about the levels and things, but the fact that they cannot take
26:07points after it has made it more enjoyable, I think, this season.
26:10I agree with you 100%. And again, he mentioned that Jens Bertha Lasko at the end of the game,
26:16he said, you know, maybe we should, we're angry with ourselves, Ruppie, because we're not in
26:20the mix to win the title, because they've had 12 draws and seven defeats. And the draws
26:24for me are the thing that's killed them, because they, on the evidence of what we've witnessed,
26:28they should have been chasing the title.
26:30Yeah, well, I think it was one stage of the season, we were wondering whether they could
26:33split the big two. You know, obviously, Hearts have done it, but Motherwell didn't. But Motherwell,
26:38again, and I would say Hearts, Motherwell, and I'd throw Falkirk into the equation, they've
26:43been a joy to watch, as you were talking about there. They've all been going to Parkhead,
26:47and they've all been going to Ibrox, and they've not been sitting in, they've not been
26:51backs to the wall, they've had their fair share of getting something out of the game,
26:55which has been encouraging. I mean, I know, I sell it by one of my pals, you'll know him
26:59as well, he's a season ticket. And way back in the year, Dot, he handed his season ticket
27:05back in, because it was getting boring, one and five and six, nothing.
27:07Do you want me to tell you, and I'll tell you right now, and I'm not making this up, Ruffie,
27:11I'm telling you the truth. Obviously, because I was going to the Derby, I had journalists out at the
27:16other games on the Saturday, so I drove into the town centre in Glasgow, well ahead of the Celtic
27:24Falkirk kick-off, and I drove into the town centre in Glasgow, a lovely sunny day to drop my wife
27:30and
27:30my daughter off in the town centre, and the guy you're mentioning shouted at me, and I said,
27:37Tom, what are you not going to see Celtic for? And he said, I'm going out for a bevy.
27:41It was his mate. No, I wasn't. No, Tam was getting ready to call a penalty for Celtic before kick
27:47-off.
27:49It was your mate, because he doesn't go to the games. I said, that's what you're not going to see
27:54Celtic for.
27:54And he said, I don't go now. Tom, so there you are. That backs up your point.
27:58See, the question you posed there about Motherwell, I'm going to throw one back.
28:04Is it partly to do with the strength and depth over the course of the season?
28:08They might have not had the same as...
28:10They lost Elliot Watt. He was out for a wee while as well.
28:14I think they've missed one other real bit of quality at the top end of the park.
28:18I think they would be challenging to win the league.
28:19He's supplementing Masuanisi?
28:20Yes. Because defensively, I think they've got the best home defensive record in the league midfielder.
28:25Them hearts and the rangers.
28:27I think the top end, Masuanisi, if they had somebody just maybe chipping in with 10-15 behind him, I
28:33think they'd be in a mix.
28:34And just the one last bit before we move on to the Celtic game, and then of course, obviously, there's
28:37the Tayside Derby.
28:39What Aberdeen have managed, and congratulations to Livingston as well.
28:43We'll discuss that shortly.
28:45But I have to say to you, Rangers battled back, got it to 2-2.
28:50But again, Motherwell come up with the winner.
28:52Because suddenly, when they flooded forward and got Langello, Langello, the full-back, to win the game for them.
28:59No, and you're right, Peter.
29:00I think the substitutions made the difference at half-time.
29:03They showed their real intent.
29:04They got after them, and you could feel it as if they were going to get back in the game.
29:08And that's the thing that was as if, you know, the Rangers potentially could go on and win that.
29:13However, again, in the transitional moments, Rangers are not locked on in their rest defence.
29:18And so, the thing, the keeper catches it, releases, and I actually thought it was really, really poor defending by
29:25Jiga.
29:25To allow him to come back inside with the full goal, because at that point, the keeper's knackered,
29:31because he can actually go to the far post, or he can drag it to the first post.
29:34If he's on that angle, and just show him down the line, it becomes more acute.
29:39And then if he flashes it across the goal, then you're hoping for the other defenders to then deal with
29:45that.
29:45But to allow him to come back inside, for me, I thought it was a really poor defender.
29:49And another re-deflection.
29:50No, no, but listen, I have no issue.
29:52The fact that the boys travelled 60 yards, or whatever it was, again, no engagement.
29:58You know, you're saying to yourself, you can't allow him to come in the box.
30:01He's just threw the old, he just fell for the dummy.
30:05And then ultimately, he's got the winning goal.
30:09But see, even as dominant as what Rangers were in the second half,
30:13there's periods where you see that same consistency from Motherwell,
30:18where you're going, oof, and they go, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, and they're in front of you a goal.
30:22So, I just thought they were excellent throughout yesterday.
30:25And you expect Rangers to come back and have a goal, but I just thought they were excellent.
30:29We're going to talk about the nominees for the Player of the Year shortly,
30:32but I just wonder how many of their players are going to get cherry-picked.
30:35Well, that would be the thing.
30:37It's like, and I mean this sincerely, and I know people will say that the Rangers midfield are,
30:42you know, there's some good players and they're higher up in the league than Motherwell and so forth.
30:47I look at their midfield and I look, see if you want to get guys to dictate the ball,
30:51which Rangers and Celtic, for that matter, have done historically.
30:56I just think their midfield are more progressive than what I'm seeing this current season for the Rangers midfield.
31:02Well, I will twist that comment that you made and suggest, Tam, that the reason they're more dominant
31:09is because of the manager.
31:11And I still think if Celtic are looking at a manager and they don't go for this guy,
31:15I think it's down to the manager.
31:18Because he says to the players, this is what I want you to do in the structure.
31:22Do it.
31:23Have confidence to do it.
31:24You're a professional footballer.
31:26You're technically gifted.
31:27You maybe not be the, you know, the top-drawer player that everybody thinks.
31:32Do it this way and be confident in doing it.
31:34If you make a mistake, I'm not going to slaughter you.
31:36Keep doing it.
31:37Yep.
31:38But he can do that at Motherwell.
31:41He can't do that at Celtic Rangers.
31:43He can't go the way they started the season.
31:45I don't think they won a game in their first six or seven.
31:47Motherwell draws and, do you know, they're getting time.
31:50He's got time to do that and work on that.
31:51He can do that with better players, surely.
31:53Yeah, but you wouldn't be able to bed them in like at Celtic and Rangers to play that way.
31:59Because if you don't win any of your first six or seven games, you're under pressure
32:02to get in the bullet.
32:03Do you understand what I'm saying?
32:04There's a less expectation on Motherwell than there's Celtic.
32:06See you in that situation, Tam.
32:08So see if you say, right, okay.
32:10He's a strong board.
32:11Oh, listen, so see if you're buying into this guy and you go, oof, this guy's your man.
32:15Yeah.
32:16We've seen the body of work.
32:17He's got evidence, but it's taking time to actually, say it's six weeks, eight weeks,
32:21whatever it is.
32:22I think at Celtic, as soon as you've seen the body of work and the evidence with better
32:28players, because I think Celtic will have an absolute spending spree in the summer because
32:32they really need to splash.
32:34And he would have the identity to actually go and go, we're going to bring him in, we're
32:38going to bring him in.
32:38Yeah.
32:39And then they're all going to fit into this particular model of playing.
32:42And I think as soon as they've seen, and I know it's very short termish what you're
32:48saying to him and agree in some respects, but I think if you're bringing him in, you're
32:51giving him time because you're thinking, see if this guy gets us playing Celtic, playing
32:54in the manner with Motherwell then, particularly in Europe and things, because I think that's
32:58what's been lacking.
32:59Yeah.
32:59They'll never be able to dominate the team.
33:0021 years of poor results in Europe.
33:04No ambition.
33:05But that style of play will get you joy in Europe.
33:07Yeah.
33:07Yeah.
33:08Interestingly enough, Ruffy, Celtic 3, Falkert 1.
33:12And again, I understand where John McGlynn's coming from at the end of the game.
33:15He said, listen, I'm happy with the boys.
33:18They bounced back.
33:18They played football the way we want to play football.
33:20And for Celtic, having watched the game, I saw signs of a greater percentage of them getting
33:28back to where they want to be.
33:30Well, again, you've got to give credit to Falkert.
33:32You know, they've went there and had a go.
33:34You know, on any other given day, they might have got something out of the game with the
33:37chances that they had.
33:39You know, but at the end, you know, Celtic, second half, got the possession.
33:42They got the goal when it mattered.
33:44But John McGlynn's right.
33:46You know, the players at Falkert don't seem to have any fear.
33:48You know, when you're away back, when you used to go to Celtic and you'd be going, if you
33:53were at Partick Thistle or whoever, you'd be going, oh God, this is going to be a nightmare.
33:57But they don't seem to have that fear.
34:00They seem to think, well, any of the games we've played, and I think you always take something
34:05out of the games that you've played against teams before, if you've had a reasonable result.
34:09Success.
34:10You go with a wee bit of confidence.
34:11You go with knowing you've got players who can hurt them.
34:14But unfortunately for them, Maida got back to where he was.
34:18You know, as sharp as anything.
34:20And I think anybody at the game, that was the first thing, just as you've touched on there,
34:23the first thing they noticed that Celtic were pressing the game a lot better than what they
34:28had been in the last month or two.
34:30So, you know, maybe they've got the wee bit between the teeth and, you know, we'll have
34:35to wait and see in the big games.
34:36Alec, some people think that football's been reinvented.
34:40Some people think football only started after 1992 when the English Premier League was formed.
34:45It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out how you should set up your team.
34:52Every great manager down through the years has worked it out.
34:55And I've read countless books on people's philosophy on it.
34:59And quite simply, build it from the back.
35:03Build your spine.
35:04Don't lose goals.
35:05Walter Smith managed to do it.
35:07Graeme Souness did it.
35:08Jobstein did it as well.
35:10Sir Matt Busby did it.
35:11Bill Shankly.
35:13Bob Paisley.
35:15All of these great McBrien.
35:16Clough.
35:16First thing he did, two centre-halves.
35:19And I'll buy the best goalkeeper in Britain in Peter Shelton.
35:22Then what he does, and then what Man United and Sir Matt Busby and everybody else has done,
35:26is said, OK, now that we've got the spine of this side right,
35:28we're now going to have wingers.
35:31And they're going to supply the strikers.
35:34I mean, that's why Falkirk are a joy.
35:36Because the boy Calvin, the boy Calvin Miller, brilliant.
35:39Did you see the way the boy Carrell Wilson hit his winner?
35:43Not his winner, his goal.
35:44No, that's right.
35:44No, that was an incredible strike.
35:46I actually don't know what the keeper was doing diving,
35:48because the ball was beyond him at that stage,
35:49but it was a really well-executed strike.
35:54And as he says, Ruffey, I just felt, you know,
35:57see when you're Celtic, and this is the thing,
36:00you want to overwhelm the opposition.
36:02You want to get after them.
36:03And see if you've got a team that are actually trying to play like Falkirk,
36:06like a mother, well, Celtic did that.
36:08They get after them.
36:08Yeah.
36:09And then they actually kind of create,
36:10you know, there's going to be times when you break that press
36:13because of the confidence that Falkirk have.
36:15Yeah.
36:15And that's, again, what Ruffey says,
36:16that's on the back of having good performances.
36:19So you have that confidence going in, going,
36:21we can pop through them.
36:22Second half, they had a 15-minute spell
36:24where they had the total grip of the game.
36:25No, no, and listen, that's credit.
36:27And then I think last, was it two weeks ago,
36:30St Mirren had the same as well against Celtic.
36:32But the one thing about this lot is
36:34that they are showing a real hunger and desire,
36:37and I can't think that stems from the manager.
36:39And he's been patient.
36:40He's a wee bit grisly.
36:41People are suggesting, you know,
36:43that the one that is flashing or that,
36:46he's going to be among these.
36:47It's about winning.
36:48Yes.
36:48It's about winning, especially at this time of year.
36:50Well, I think he deserves credit on a number of things.
36:53One, having spoken to him prior to it,
36:56having spoken to him at times on the assessment of it.
36:59He's inherited this side, Tam.
37:02That's why Martin O'Neill deserves tremendous success
37:04because he knows the quality's not there.
37:08He's actually squeezing every bit that he can
37:11out of a team that's mediocre at best.
37:14And he's somehow managed to get them in
37:16with a chance of winning the title.
37:18He's starting to get a couple of players back of quality,
37:21which I think is going to be a vital time as well.
37:23Maeder, obviously, is going to get the headlines
37:24for two goals and an assist.
37:26But getting the angles back in,
37:28I think they're driving force to the middle of the park.
37:29Alistair Johnson come on in the last 20 minutes.
37:31These are key players for Celtic, really key players.
37:34Regular starters with a wee bit of quality.
37:37Celtic just seem to be just hitting for them
37:40at the right time.
37:41I wrote them off against after the Dundee 90 game.
37:43I just thought, nah, I don't see this Celtic team.
37:46Even up until the weekend there, I thought,
37:49I just don't see Celtic winning it.
37:50But the results at the weekend, they're well in it.
37:54They've got to go to Easter Road next week.
37:56But Dyes is Maeder.
37:58The first half of the season, Dyes Maeder
38:01was playing like Eddie Reader.
38:04That's a gag.
38:05It's got to be perfect.
38:07The other thing is, I've got to put a stop there right now.
38:13Eddie Reader was a great singer,
38:15but he's gagging about it.
38:17I'm going to give you your fairground attraction moment.
38:19Sometimes you've got to stop and let him have his moment on these.
38:23But listen, 11 goals he's got now,
38:25when he's back to that, I'll hunt it down.
38:28Yeah, I think the confidence that he got
38:29from the goal against St Mern,
38:30just hunting the keeper down and getting a wee break.
38:32And listen, does the same.
38:33It's poor defending.
38:36The boy, Alan, the boy at Fafalkirk, Adams, sorry.
38:39And he takes his goal well.
38:41And then he takes his second goal away as well.
38:43He assists the second goal for Tierney.
38:45So yeah, I think he's got a wee bit of mojo,
38:48a wee bit of confidence back.
38:48And that could be the crucial factor for Celtic going forward.
38:52What about Tierney?
38:52Six goals, Ruffy.
38:53And that one was an absolute raker.
38:55It was an absolute raker.
38:56I mean, at one stage, I went, did he mean that?
38:59You know, Hank, he just put his foot...
39:01Keep it on your foot?
39:01Hank, he just put his foot through it.
39:04I think he just...
39:06It was on his stride.
39:08Yeah.
39:08And he just put his foot through it.
39:10I don't think he actually meant it.
39:12He'd go in where it went in.
39:12Cut across it.
39:13Oh, come on.
39:14Give him a bit of credit, will you?
39:15I think it was one of them,
39:16the also beauty, no, the dunk in the heap.
39:18Aye, and he just got to say it as hard as you like.
39:19Yeah, that's called super striker, that game.
39:23If you do that with a sabotee old man, you flatten it.
39:26But nevertheless, you've got to give him credit, for God's sake.
39:28Just a little footnote here, Johnny Kenny, five goals.
39:32League One, obviously, with Olton.
39:34Five goals in five games.
39:35They're raving about him down there.
39:36Yeah, well, I think we all saw something, but it wasn't he.
39:40Unfortunately, at that particular time, when he was given a shot,
39:43Celtic weren't playing particularly well,
39:44and all the pressure was on him to be the main striker,
39:47and he had chances that people were saying,
39:50oh, a big, right-quality striker would have put that away.
39:52So he fell into a character.
39:54He was in the Celtic team at the ring time.
39:56Yeah, OK.
39:57Before we talk about the Tayside derby and other matches,
40:00just briefly, roughly, you know,
40:03we might as well call it now at this juncture.
40:06There's four games left.
40:08Hearts are in the box seat.
40:10They've got that three-point cushion.
40:11Celtic are second.
40:12Rangers are now third.
40:14It's Rangers at Tynecastle and Celtic at Easter Road.
40:18It's a strange Sunday, Monday situation with the bank holiday.
40:24Have you changed your mind?
40:26Don't do it.
40:27No, no, I haven't changed my mind.
40:30No?
40:30No.
40:32You think?
40:32I'll stick my mother on.
40:37No, I just...
40:38I mean, Celtic still haven't found that striker for me.
40:42They've not found the striker that should be scoring the goals
40:45at winning them games.
40:45Obviously, everybody else is chipping in.
40:48Hearts against Strangers is magnificent next week.
40:51Honestly, it's just...
40:53For everyone that's happened this year,
40:55I know there'll be other games later on,
40:57but this one looks like...
40:58It's a pivotal weekend.
40:59Every other supporter's going to be supporting other teams.
41:04Can I ask you this?
41:04Who's the most famous Hearts fan who's a singer?
41:07I know they've got the boy Colin who sang the Hearts song.
41:11I can't remember his second name,
41:13but he was there the other week there.
41:14He came out.
41:15Who else?
41:16Have they got anybody famous?
41:18I think Stephen Henry's a Hearts fan.
41:20Who else have they got?
41:21A singer?
41:22Have they got any singer that's a really famous Hearts fan out there?
41:26No, the boy from...
41:27What's that, Dunfermline group?
41:29No, they were Dunfermline fans, the Skids, or Big Country.
41:33Big Country.
41:33No, they were all Dunfermline fans.
41:35Because, quite simply, they'll be...
41:38I mean, if they could exhume the body of Hector Mickle,
41:40they probably would.
41:41But they'll roll everybody out, Alec.
41:43Of course, yeah.
41:43I mean, they'll be the hold your placards up.
41:46They'll be, here's John Robertson doing the halftime draw.
41:50Everything.
41:50It's all there, you know.
41:52But it should be as well,
41:53because the magnitude of this,
41:55and the importance,
41:56because ultimately,
41:57listen, without stating the obvious,
41:59if they can beat Rangers next week...
42:01One of the next three games have won the league.
42:03It's...
42:04It's simple as that.
42:04No, no, no, but if they beat Rangers next week,
42:06you just jumped in and we were going to say something.
42:08No, it's just, it's curtains.
42:09For Rangers, it's curtains.
42:11That puts that to bed, obviously.
42:13But I think it's going to be an absolute,
42:16an incredible game.
42:19You know, there was a lot of people kind of moaning
42:21about the actual time of it,
42:22but I think it's, you know,
42:23hopefully it's a nice summer's day
42:25and we're just enjoying the spectacle,
42:27because I really fancy it.
42:29I can't...
42:29I'm abroad next Monday,
42:31so I might have to watch it
42:33from the tap of the strip
42:34and I'll be fair.
42:35Yeah.
42:36Which, again,
42:37obviously our heart goes out to you,
42:39but thankfully,
42:40Tam's given you a satellite
42:41so that you can get a signal.
42:43But the other thing I was going to say...
42:44FaceTime made to imagine.
42:45Oh, no.
42:46Can I just say something to you?
42:47Who's winning it?
42:48I fancy Rangers next week.
42:49To win it, Tyne Castle?
42:50I do, yes.
42:51I think they have to respond.
42:53I'm not keen on...
42:55See, this kind of way
42:57and kind of camps
42:58and this little bit of a month
42:59to go and things,
43:00I'm not keen on it at all.
43:01I know, obviously,
43:02the counter-argument was
43:03Hearts went away and went,
43:04but they're coming back to a derby.
43:05There's no motivation there.
43:07It's already there.
43:08I just think they were a bit lacklust
43:10yesterday,
43:11particularly in that first half.
43:12So you don't think Rangers are out of it?
43:14No, I don't, no.
43:15No, I genuinely don't.
43:16That's the reason why I'm doubling down.
43:17Yeah.
43:18Are Rangers to win the league?
43:19Yeah, I'm still thinking
43:20they've got a chance to win it, yeah.
43:21Okay.
43:22Ruffy, you didn't mention
43:23who you thought was going to win the league.
43:24Celtic, I said.
43:25You still think Celtic are going to win it?
43:27Yeah.
43:28So, what do you think?
43:29See, after the,
43:31I mean, it's Hearts Rangers
43:33and then the Celtic game.
43:34What's that Hearts game
43:36just before Celtic?
43:37Motherwell.
43:38It's Hearts Rangers
43:39and then
43:41it's Hearts then go to Motherwell.
43:42Go to Motherwell.
43:43Well, Celtic are at Rangers.
43:45Celtic Rangers.
43:45You're talking about the A-Games,
43:47Motherwell
43:47and the evidence of yesterday.
43:49Hearts have got
43:50a big ass to go there
43:51and win that.
43:52Well,
43:53this is the permutations
43:54because
43:54the twist
43:55for this whole thing
43:57it's hard to,
43:58it's hard to pick a winner, Peter.
43:59It really is.
43:59But I think this weekend
44:01coming
44:02will be the pivotal weekend.
44:03Yeah.
44:04I think if,
44:05obviously if Hearts beat Rangers,
44:06Rangers are out it.
44:07And if
44:08Celtic don't beat
44:09Hibs the day before,
44:10Hearts are massive favourites
44:11to win the league.
44:12Yeah.
44:13You know,
44:14they'd be five,
44:14six points
44:16clear.
44:16With a better goal difference.
44:17Yeah.
44:18So,
44:18if you're a Hearts supporter,
44:20win the next three games
44:21you've won the league basically.
44:22Do you think they'll win
44:23at home against Rangers?
44:24No,
44:25I'm going to go for a draw.
44:26A draw on that one.
44:27I think that looks like
44:28a big draw for me.
44:29And Celtic to beat Hibs?
44:30I think Celtic will beat Hibs
44:31because Hibs might play
44:32their under-15s.
44:33Okay.
44:34There you are.
44:36I'm not advocating
44:37that they do.
44:37I'm not advocating
44:38that they do,
44:39but I want to have support of that.
44:40They're a good outfit as well,
44:41the 15s.
44:42Yeah,
44:42they're really good.
44:43I've just got the Scottish Cup.
44:44Well,
44:44they're high pressing.
44:45The other thing I was going to say to you
44:47which is getting mightily worried,
44:48we did a,
44:49we did our TikTok live yesterday.
44:51We get battered.
44:52Then we've done various things
44:54over the course of,
44:56over the course of the day.
44:57But quite simply now
44:58they're posting things.
44:59They're posting Tam
45:00in Heart Strips
45:01because we're four games away
45:03from you being in the full
45:04Heart's kit.
45:05It's getting mightily close,
45:06son.
45:07It is.
45:07I was looking at the
45:08Heart Superstore last night
45:09and it's well over a ton
45:11for a strip or not
45:12which just adds insult to injury.
45:14Yeah,
45:14absolutely.
45:1680 quid for a home jersey.
45:18Is that what it is?
45:1880 pounds.
45:18Is that what it is?
45:2080 pounds.
45:21Oh,
45:21jeez.
45:22Well,
45:22to be fair by the way,
45:23even if it is 80 pounds,
45:25if you want the strip
45:26from the team that won the league,
45:28you shell out the 80 quid
45:30forever,
45:30don't you?
45:30I'll get Shanks to get that
45:31signed for you as well,
45:32Tam.
45:32Yeah,
45:33absolutely.
45:34So,
45:35on that basis,
45:36Ruffy,
45:37got to say well done
45:38to Jim Goodwin.
45:39He was praising Will Ferry,
45:41scored two,
45:42created one.
45:43It was just a great day
45:44for him in a Derby,
45:45wasn't it?
45:45Yeah,
45:45certainly we were a bit fortunate
45:46with the first one.
45:48Do you know what I mean?
45:48I think he meant that.
45:51Well done for getting
45:52into that position
45:52for where he is,
45:54you know,
45:54but I think the controversy
45:56is obviously the goal
45:57that gets disallowed.
45:58I mean,
45:59we spoke about it
45:59in the show,
46:00didn't we,
46:00a bit of pulling jerseys
46:01at corners.
46:02It's happening
46:03all over the place
46:04and if you actually
46:05look at the goal,
46:06there's more jersey
46:07pulling elsewhere in it.
46:12Elsewhere in it,
46:13you know,
46:14but they noticed that one.
46:15That's what Alex said
46:16the other week.
46:16Well this is the problem,
46:18so you know when
46:20the ball was going in,
46:21say for example,
46:22that corner,
46:23the guy who's getting
46:25his top dragged off him,
46:27the Dundee player,
46:28literally goes up
46:29to win that.
46:29So is that not
46:31a penalty prior to that?
46:33Do you know what I mean?
46:34Yeah.
46:34Because he actually goes up,
46:35but because he's actually
46:36got his top
46:37kind of ripped right up,
46:39and I'm thinking,
46:41and everything.
46:42Consistency.
46:42But the thing is,
46:43I'm just thinking to myself,
46:45we have not gotten
46:46top of that situation.
46:48But the two players
46:49were pulling each other's
46:50jersey as well,
46:51that's what I noticed in it.
46:52One's got a hold
46:53of the other's jersey,
46:54the other one's got a,
46:55you know,
46:55a dragging him back
46:56effect on it,
46:56but he's still,
46:57the other player
46:58who's been dragged back
46:59has his jersey as well.
47:00It goes on in the game.
47:01Well I thought,
47:02I thought that there was,
47:04if you and I
47:05are holding each other's
47:05jerseys,
47:06I thought it negated,
47:08you know,
47:09because the two's a holding.
47:10Yeah.
47:10So it negates,
47:11it's almost as right,
47:11the two of them are holding
47:12and how do you go,
47:13he's holding longer,
47:14they took the ball for it,
47:14he's at it.
47:15And as I said to you,
47:16I just don't think
47:17we have gotten top of it.
47:18I told you,
47:19Clermont said in a meeting,
47:21he says,
47:21just give penalties for it.
47:23Across the board,
47:24if they keep holding,
47:24penalty.
47:25And then,
47:26then you have to defend properly
47:28without holding someone's top.
47:29But as I said to you,
47:31and this is the thing,
47:32I've been in the game
47:32for a long time,
47:33I've no idea
47:35how long
47:35warrants
47:37a misdemeanor.
47:38Well,
47:39we've had that,
47:39haven't we?
47:41We've had that situation
47:42where somebody said
47:42he didn't hold it long enough,
47:43remember?
47:44I listen to this
47:45and I go,
47:45what?
47:46It'd be someone that's in the game.
47:47I still don't know
47:48what warrants
47:49long enough.
47:50So is it subjective?
47:51Is this ref going to go,
47:52oh,
47:52it's two seconds,
47:53this guy will go three seconds,
47:54this guy will go,
47:55oh no,
47:55he'll let it,
47:57but the thing is,
47:58if you have a carpet
48:00blank across the board,
48:01they'll stop doing it.
48:03Dundee United
48:04deserved their win,
48:05Dundee are still not safe.
48:07No,
48:07they aren't,
48:07they've got a massive game
48:08next week,
48:09I think they've got St Myrna
48:09next week,
48:10so that's a huge game
48:11for both clubs,
48:11obviously,
48:12by St Myrna losing
48:12at the weekend,
48:13so yeah,
48:14I think over the course
48:15of the game,
48:16I looked at the highlights,
48:17Dundee United deserved to win,
48:18Will Ferry had the game
48:19of his life,
48:20his second goal's a great goal
48:21and he's a lovely assist,
48:22gets wide and whips a great ball
48:24in for the header
48:24for the third goal,
48:25so yeah,
48:27there's a tremendous victory
48:28for Dundee United
48:29and they'll be looking
48:30to finish the season strongly,
48:32Dundee I think
48:33still need another win
48:33for somewhere.
48:34Still think they're safe,
48:35do you?
48:37No,
48:38I don't think they're safe
48:39as of yet,
48:39I think they need another win,
48:40Peter.
48:41No,
48:41I know they need another win
48:42but I don't see them
48:42being in the play-off,
48:43do you?
48:45What is the points talent
48:46at the moment?
48:46The five points,
48:47I think,
48:47player of Camarnett
48:48and they've thought to play them
48:49so I think Dundee
48:50need another result.
48:51Yeah?
48:51I think they need
48:52another three points
48:53just to make sure.
48:53Do you think they'll be
48:54in the play-off?
48:55No,
48:55I think Camarnett will.
48:56Thank God for that,
48:57I tried to get you
48:57to that point already.
48:58Do you think Ferries
48:59was a proper strike?
49:01No wonder they wanted
49:01you cut across it
49:02and you know,
49:03it was a proper strike.
49:04Was there a,
49:05are you going to give him
49:06the credit?
49:07The first goal?
49:08No,
49:08the second goal.
49:08The second one?
49:09Did he hit it
49:09where he was aiming?
49:10It was funny,
49:11wasn't it,
49:11the way the goalkeeper
49:12never reacted to it at all,
49:14you know?
49:14God almighty.
49:15Did he go in
49:15where he was aiming?
49:15Just out of curiosity,
49:16is there any goal?
49:16It was a great goal
49:17but it seemed to be...
49:19Is there anybody
49:20who gets a credit
49:21for a goal
49:22for you this weekend?
49:23No,
49:23that boy,
49:24the boy,
49:25the Falkert boy
49:26was the goal
49:26of the weekend.
49:28Yeah.
49:28He knew where it was going,
49:31I.
49:31Okay.
49:32Well done to Cariel Wilson.
49:34I liked the commitment
49:36at that goal
49:37that we're talking about
49:38that was disallowed.
49:39I liked the commitment
49:40of the boy on the line
49:41who just went right through
49:42the ball.
49:43Well,
49:43a brave header
49:43for the boy Wesley.
49:45absolutely.
49:45Very brave.
49:45Almost took him out,
49:46yeah.
49:47To get up and it's chopped
49:48you're thinking,
49:49why'd I even put my head in there?
49:50I was reading some
49:51of the Aberdeen papers
49:52regarding the 1-0 win
49:54over Kilmarnock
49:55which I think,
49:56you know,
49:57obviously makes Donson
49:58a really good place.
49:59I think they'll be safe as well.
50:01Well done to Afiza Remu
50:02who scored the goal early.
50:05Again,
50:05I found that a chilling statistic.
50:07Three times
50:08they've lost a goal
50:09within the first minute
50:10of play Kilmarnock.
50:11I never knew that.
50:12That's just outrageous.
50:13No,
50:13I never knew that.
50:13That's a brilliant start.
50:14Definitely lost one.
50:15I remember one at Hibs.
50:16They lost one at Hibs
50:17a few weeks ago.
50:17Definitely kick off.
50:18Yeah.
50:19I mean,
50:19that's poor.
50:21You know,
50:21Neil McCann must be
50:22pulling his hair out for that
50:23but the Aberdeen papers
50:25are saying,
50:25you know,
50:26it's only two games
50:27he's been in charge
50:28and he's creating
50:28a siege mentality.
50:30They love a siege mentality
50:31in Aberdeen.
50:32Don't you, Ruffey?
50:33Well,
50:34certainly where they have
50:35and what these supporters
50:35have had to deal with
50:36for the last two seasons.
50:38Any role,
50:39any momentum
50:40of winning games
50:41is fantastic
50:41and there was
50:43a wee bit of pressure
50:43but as you said there
50:45it's just relieved
50:46just a wee bit.
50:47Well,
50:49you only deal with
50:50what you're watching
50:51and what the manager says
50:52and Stephen Robinson
50:53has come out and said
50:54we're difficult to beat now.
50:56So what he done?
50:57Showed up.
50:58He just goes in
50:58and says,
50:59listen,
50:59this is what you do.
51:00Defend.
51:01Don't start thinking
51:03about goals first.
51:03Let's stop losing them.
51:05Did you know
51:05mention something
51:06that I earlier
51:06on this show
51:07about building
51:07from the back?
51:08Yeah.
51:09And that's the premise.
51:10You can't,
51:10you'd have the best
51:11attacking team
51:12in the world
51:12but see if you're
51:13shipping goals
51:14it's not a good
51:15basis to build.
51:16Great for them.
51:17We need Aberdeen
51:18in the top flight.
51:18I know there's
51:19a wee bit of needle
51:20between Rangers
51:21and Aberdeen
51:21all the time
51:22for years.
51:23We need them.
51:23Without a doubt.
51:24Listen,
51:24the actual goal
51:25was very fortuitous.
51:26It actually took
51:27a little deflection
51:27as well
51:28but they'll
51:29no mind that
51:30at all
51:30and listen,
51:31I think it was
51:32important because
51:33I think up until
51:35maybe a week or two
51:36ago everyone's
51:36going,
51:361-1 in 16
51:37they're going to
51:38get dragged
51:38into the mix.
51:40So that win
51:41gives you that
51:42breathing space
51:42required.
51:43Yeah,
51:44and with it
51:45it was really
51:46deflection weekend
51:47wasn't it?
51:48Apart from
51:48Gogic's
51:49because Gogic's
51:50finish was
51:50absolutely brutal.
51:52It was just
51:52fantastic.
51:53He just finished
51:53it off nicely
51:54from the cross.
51:55What not a chance
51:57in hell.
51:57I'm going to
51:58stand behind you
51:58get him
52:00because Gogic
52:01is for me
52:02brilliant.
52:03I'd take him
52:04if you're looking
52:05for flair
52:06you need a bit
52:07of grit
52:07and he's the
52:08man I'd take
52:09but he was
52:09really unlucky
52:10because it's
52:10fired across.
52:11Yeah,
52:11he's unlucky.
52:12St Martin
52:13first half
52:13should have
52:14been two or
52:14three up.
52:15I mean the
52:15chances they
52:16missed prior
52:16had some
52:16great saves
52:17for Livingston
52:18but you've
52:19got to take
52:19the opportunities
52:20being on top
52:21in the game
52:21they go 1-0
52:222-0
52:22the game's dead.
52:24Livingston
52:24I've said it
52:25in the last
52:26few weeks
52:26I've just felt
52:27there was a
52:27win coming
52:27from somewhere
52:28I've asked
52:28them
52:28I put
52:29Dundee
52:29a couple
52:30of weeks
52:30ago
52:30they were
52:30close
52:31I think
52:31they lost
52:32two late
52:32goals
52:32to lose
52:333-2
52:33but I think
52:34the win's
52:34been coming
52:35I still think
52:36it's too
52:36little too late
52:37but
52:37he deserves
52:38credit
52:38I do think
52:39Marvin Barley
52:39has went in
52:39there
52:41they've not
52:42been battered
52:42in any games
52:42really
52:43and they've
52:44been competitive
52:44every game
52:45he's had a few
52:46draws as well
52:46yeah
52:47they've just
52:48struggled to get
52:49wins
52:49and I think
52:50they're 9 points
52:50behind now
52:51with 4 games
52:51left
52:51and a miracle
52:52but
52:53great win for
52:54them
52:54and a
52:55disappointing
52:55result for
52:55St.
52:56Murm
52:57Starting to
52:57look like a
52:58bit of a
52:58gamble
52:58isn't it
52:59the Craig
53:00McLeish
53:00situation
53:01because he's
53:01now got to
53:03in the early
53:04stages of his
53:05management career
53:07try and work
53:07out a way to
53:08get a trick
53:08out of them
53:09in a
53:11situation
53:11and a set
53:12of circumstances
53:13that you don't
53:14really want to
53:14be starting in
53:15I don't think
53:16it's the ideal
53:17situation to start
53:18off your
53:18managerial career
53:19however he did
53:19do get a couple
53:20of back-to-back
53:20wins
53:21he ran Celtic
53:22close as well
53:23at Parkhead
53:24so I think
53:25they've shown
53:25enough Peter
53:26and as Tam
53:27said there
53:28they have managed
53:29to create a lot
53:30of chances at
53:30the weekend
53:31if anything
53:31you'll just say
53:32they're not
53:32clinical enough
53:33so it's not as
53:33if they've been
53:34battered by the
53:35team at the
53:35bottom of the
53:35league and you're
53:36thinking there's
53:36no signs of
53:37improvement there
53:38so I think
53:39he'll just
53:39continue doing
53:40and try and
53:41get that win
53:41it'll take them
53:43away from
53:43Camarnock
53:43just to clarify
53:45thank you very
53:45much to everyone
53:46who's offered
53:47their comments
53:47give us your
53:48thoughts on who
53:49win the league
53:49rough he's gone
53:49for Celtic
53:51Alec has gone
53:52for Rangers
53:53Tam
53:56Jonah
53:56I think
53:57Hearts might
53:57win it now
53:58are you changing
53:59I think Hearts
54:00might win it now
54:01have you changed
54:02your opinion
54:03from Celtic
54:04you're going
54:05for Hearts
54:05I didn't fancy
54:06Hearts at all
54:06yesterday I
54:07thought that was
54:07the one that
54:08came unstuck
54:10I'm going to
54:11lie
54:12are you going
54:12for Hearts
54:13I think Hearts
54:13might win it
54:14I think Hearts
54:14are a certainty
54:15I think they can
54:15only throw it
54:16away
54:16yeah
54:19I know there's a
54:21wee bit of
54:21devil in it
54:21but you
54:22genuinely
54:23honestly I
54:25just
54:25gunned
54:26sick yesterday
54:27sick I'm not
54:27going to lie
54:28and by the way
54:29when I suggested
54:30that Hearts
54:30were going to
54:31win the title
54:31he just looked
54:32at me as if
54:33it was a piece
54:33of dirt on
54:34his shoe
54:35but now
54:37now he's
54:38with me on
54:38it so we've
54:39got two
54:39two for Hearts
54:40to win it
54:41one for Celtic
54:42and one for
54:43Rangers
54:44so give us
54:45your thoughts
54:45on it
54:45the PFA
54:47Player of the
54:48Year Awards
54:49is Sunday
54:503rd of May
54:53loved it
54:54I loved it
54:54for 20 years
54:55hosting it
54:56Ruffy
54:58and obviously
54:58used to take
54:59all the staff
54:59everybody there
55:01and give you
55:02free drink
55:02and I used
55:04to
55:05you didn't
55:05put your hand
55:06in your pocket
55:06and you know
55:07after the 20 years
55:08and after the 20 years
55:09I thought why the
55:10fuck did I bother
55:11doing that
55:11so there you are
55:14what a great day
55:15it's going to be
55:15eh
55:17I wish I hadn't
55:18have done it
55:18so there you are
55:20I said if you're
55:21not doing it
55:22I'm not going
55:23so that's fine
55:24what is happening
55:25so there you are
55:26you've been subbed
55:27oh my
55:27no no I gave it
55:28up last year
55:29oh to be fair
55:29you had a really
55:30good kick
55:31in the ball
55:31oh it wasn't
55:32I had a great
55:32kick in the ball
55:32no no I had
55:33nothing against
55:33the PFA or
55:34the awards ceremony
55:35just the mob
55:36oh no to be fair
55:37you kind of keep
55:38carrying on for
55:3920 years
55:39exactly by the way
55:40I had some guests
55:41that let us down
55:41in the
55:43more than a few
55:44but to be fair
55:46no no the awards
55:47was great
55:47I had my 20 years
55:48and I thoroughly
55:49enjoyed it and I
55:49left on a high
55:50and I left on my
55:52own volition which
55:53is rare these days
55:55but it was a great
55:57time I thoroughly
55:58enjoyed it because
55:58the players that
56:00came on the stage
56:02you know I loved
56:03the banter with
56:04them I loved the
56:04fact that we were
56:05able to pay tribute
56:06to them because I
56:07think if you're
56:08nominated by your
56:09fellow professionals
56:09it's the ultimate
56:11award I absolutely
56:12loved the whole
56:13thing
56:14it's had some
56:15great characters
56:15some great nights
56:16had it but the
56:17nominees Claudio
56:18Braga for
56:19Hearts
56:19Eli Just from
56:21Motherwell
56:22Lauren Shanklin
56:22from Hearts
56:23and Tawanda
56:23Mazwanisi from
56:25Motherwell
56:26there's your
56:26four nominees
56:27Tam
56:28yeah I don't
56:29think there's any
56:30arguing with
56:32three of them
56:34I think Braga
56:35Just
56:35Mazwanisi
56:36Shanklin's been
56:37injured a wee bit
56:38the only one
56:39maybe Negrin
56:39for him
56:40would be the
56:40two
56:41I think
56:42there's three
56:43I mentioned
56:43but
56:44the first time
56:45somebody might
56:45be able to
56:46tell us this
56:46the first time
56:48that Celtic
56:49Rangers has
56:49not been
56:51represented
56:51since 2012
56:5213
56:54there you go
56:55so there you
56:56have it
56:57I don't think
56:58you can include
56:58Negrin
57:00I just think
57:00his goal return
57:01has been
57:01incredible
57:02it has been
57:04but does he
57:05beat the overall
57:06play of those
57:07four players
57:07I'm not so sure
57:08probably not
57:09I think the
57:11good thing
57:11about it is
57:12it's the
57:12players who
57:13vote for this
57:14and I think
57:14the players
57:15have got it
57:16right
57:17usually there's
57:18a lot of
57:18wee jiggery
57:19bockery
57:20voting going
57:21on but I
57:21think the
57:22players
57:22have got it
57:24right because
57:25these four
57:25players have
57:27for the
57:27majority of
57:28the season
57:28you can't
57:29vote for
57:29your own
57:29players can't
57:30you know
57:30no you can't
57:31who wins it
57:32just
57:33by far
57:34or just
57:35no I don't
57:36know how the
57:36votes go
57:37dearie me
57:38Tam
57:38honestly you're
57:39really bad
57:39you're honest
57:42does he win
57:44it just
57:44or by far
57:45who are you
57:46going for
57:47I'll go for
57:47Braga
57:48I'll go for
57:49Braga
57:49I'll go for
57:50Mazwanisi
57:52I think it
57:54might be
57:56do you know
57:57what I'm going
57:58to go for
57:58Eli Just
58:00I'm going to
58:00stick with
58:01Just
58:01young player
58:01of the year
58:02just before
58:02we finish
58:04Barney
58:04Stewart
58:04Finlay
58:05Marshall
58:05of Arbroth
58:06Luke
58:06Graham
58:07of Dundee
58:07and Mikey
58:08Moore
58:09of Rangers
58:09who are you
58:10going for
58:10then Ruffy
58:12I'm going to
58:12go for
58:13Mikey
58:13Moore
58:14yeah
58:14Alec
58:15he's been
58:15entertaining
58:16yeah
58:19I'm going to
58:20go for
58:20Barney
58:20Stewart
58:21I think
58:21his trajectory
58:22in a year
58:23has been
58:23nothing short
58:24of spectacular
58:24I'm with you
58:25on that
58:25Barney Stewart
58:27okay listen
58:28you can give us
58:28your thoughts
58:29on that as well
58:30it's been
58:30absolutely brilliant
58:31talking about
58:32the football
58:32it's going
58:33to go
58:34right down
58:34to the
58:35wire
58:35I fear
58:36it's going
58:37to be
58:37nervy
58:38next weekend
58:39is going
58:39to be
58:39unbelievable
58:40we'll continue
58:41the build up
58:41all the way
58:42through the
58:42week as well
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59:03the answer to
59:04our quiz
59:05courtesy of
59:08Elite Joinery
59:09and Fire
59:10Protection
59:11Rangers top
59:11goal scorer
59:12the answer is
59:13indeed
59:1313 goals
59:15Tavernier
59:15James Tavernier
59:16with 14 goals
59:17Ruffy you were
59:18on it
59:19like a car bonnet
59:20well done to you
59:21look at that
59:22face
59:22look at him
59:22you got one
59:23right
59:23absolutely
59:26thanks to
59:27Ruffy
59:27thanks to
59:27Alec
59:28Ray
59:28thanks to
59:28Tom McManus
59:29and myself
59:30Peter Martin
59:30thank you for
59:31listening
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59:32for
59:32watching