Scott Allen

It's that semi-final Scots Cup and what a goal it was.

He'll be delighted for that.

Yeah, it was really lively, obviously, when the players were walking up the tunnel.

I just think that two-goal cushion will be enough to see Celtic into the final.

We're just looking at how St Mirren approached the game and early on what we'd want to do in this sort of game.

Make Celtic defend, as we spoke about, close to your office.

I just didn't think they'd done it.

They played out from the back.

Listen, that's the sort of football I would like to play, but you can only do that if you're really brave on the ball and you really want to go and take it off your teammates.

And then when you're receiving the ball, your body shape's the right way to then play forward.

They just look like players who are really nervous taking the ball and uncomfortable under that pressure that Celtic were putting on them early on.

It doesn't help Jesco when they go down after 58 seconds.

I think when you've got Mandolin and Iunga up front,

and you've seen what they've done in the League Cup final you've got to give them something to feed off you're asking them to come and build the game your defence and midfield it just hasn't worked for them at all yes they've had chances from a set piece so they have to sometimes with the sort of players at your disposal you have to just put the ball in an area and get your team up the pitch and allow you to create chances because I don't really see them creating chances from the build out that they've got purely based on the players there's not enough creative players within their side for me who are going to really drive through that heart of the midfield and

play killer passes so their best chance is from set pieces and putting balls in the box you have to get your team up to pitch to do that to get numbers in the box Would you expect that Craig McLeish would make those changes to look a bit more direct in this second half?

I think if you stay more of the same the result is going to be what it is and Celtic are going to go to a final I think you've got to throw the dice and change something because it hasn't worked yes there's been a few hairy moments through pressure but that's all came from moments where they've had their team in Celtic's half

Yeah I would imagine in the changing room at half time they would have been disappointed after I'd say the 25 minute mark it was a bit flat as I said I did think they got far too comfortable in the game

and they lost that bit of energy they had in the early part, so you'd expect them to come out the second half, flying out the traps and looking to wrap this game up with a third.

The changes I think Andrew asked if you were St Miriam what would you do and it would be direct that is the players who have it at their disposal, that's when you see them using their skill set getting up against Celtic players, making it uncomfortable turning

balls where you don't think they're going to get something out of it and the throw-ins and then playing your football in Celtic's half that was the biggest thing for me and at the same time Celtic just you've got to take into account here we're another 17 year old goalkeeper who's come on in a semi-final and that just shows you where they're at in terms of an attacking sense of hardly made them have to make a save and then on another foot defensively all over the place they look nervous