IT WAS a fairly comprehensive victory. I think we were playing against a Hamilton side which had a few of its better players missing, so we have to take that into consideration.
It was a good day for us to go there because it will be a much tougher place in the weeks to come.
We started well. We worked very hard, much harder than we worked against Celtic, so that was pleasing.
We wanted to ask questions of the young players. We wanted to know to what extent we could use them. I thought Jonathan Crawford did all right before succumbing to a bit of cramp.
Fraser Fyvie was still going strong at the end. The good thing was that our supporters got to see what he is all about. He is an industrious midfielder.
When you bring a 16-year-old into a game he has to have the right temperament. He has that already.
He is confident but he has a calmness and assuredness about him that allows him to be able to play at this level. It is similar to other players I have played at that age.
I gave Robbie Keane his debut at Wolves when I was manager and he was not fazed by things at 17 years old. I did not think Fraser would play badly because of being fazed, I knew he could handle the occasion, but I did not know he would play as well as he did.
I did not know he was the youngest player to play for the club, at least that is one good record we have now.
It was good to score three goals and we could have scored more.
It was also good to get a clean sheet, particularly for Crawford and for Jamie Langfield. The goalkeeper has been exposed in the games so far with the improvised back fours but he had a defence in front of him at Hamilton that we would expect to use at times this season.
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