The Games

Well, well, well, the title race switches back to ON again after the latest merry-go-round of SPL fixtures. The Easter weekend proved to be another resurrection for the Bears and another crack in the egg of the Tims.

The Edinburgh prods started us off with a well deserved point at Tynecastle as they could have and maybe should have claimed the other two. They started badly with a sucker punch goal in the first minute but thereafter controlled good spells of the game and equalised with a fantastic free kick.

This was all the incentive that was needed to buck our boys up as they took the field at Ibrox and it definitely looked to have the desired effect as Rangers bulldozed the first ten minutes of the game with first Velicka and then Boyd smashing home early goals to knock Motherwell out of the game.

This wouldn’t be Rangers mind, if they didn’t try and make life difficult for themselves and when Sutton struck a lucky toe-poke from 25 yards with his eyes closed, it looked once more that an uncomfortable afternoon could be had.

Kris Boyd had other ideas though and with one of his best performances of the season, he rounded off the game with a typically adept penalty that Mendes had won after a late run into the box. At 3-1 the game was dead and buried and the three point gap was back to just one.

Smith was well buoyed by Boyd’s show:

"I think Kris has been playing like that for a number of weeks now. I felt he was excellent today but he has been playing really well or the team. He went a few weeks there where he wasn't scoring but we know he will always come back and get a goal. He scored a smashing second goal for us today and we are pleased with his overall contribution."

In contrast, the reserves and youth teams both had bad weeks as Motherwell took all three points off both.

"It's the first time this season that I can say to the lads that it hasn't been about missed chances or bad deliveries, we just didn't do enough today.

"But the two goals we gave away were poor and I didn't think there was anything between us before the penalty. Over the piece though we only had one shot on goal and I thought Motherwell were well worth their win in the end."

The Transfers

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