Creativity of Cairney gets manager’s approval

Midfielder on song as Hibs revival goes on with Dundee win

have come up and said his performance was very good, and I think that shows the high standards he’s set for himself.

“He’s a good player and I think he’s difficult to play against because he gets into decent areas.

“He’s not an out-and-out wide man but he can get into little inside areas and he’s been good for us since we got him in.”

For the best part of the opening half hour it did not look like this contest would be so fruitful for the home support.

Dundee came with a stifling 4-1-4-1 formation and pressed the hosts intosending the ball into wide areas.

But Cairney exited the field to a standing ovation in the 88th minute and the Easter Road faithful, so often exasperated with the team over the last two years, stayed behind to sing their heroes off the park as “That’s Entertainment” played over the stadium PA system.

Yet Fenlon took particularly satisfaction from the cleansheet - theirfirst insix competitive matches.

He said: “We talked about it. We said how important it was to get the three points but we’ve got to stop conceding as well.

“We look like we can score goals throughout the team so it’s really important thatwe stop conceding as a team.”

For Dundee manager Barry Smith, the defeat was less about the team and more about individuals.

He said: “It sounds crazy, butwethoughtwedid okay in the first half.

“We think we had the best two chances but we go in 1-0 down, and that’s the story of the season so far.

“I don’t think there is big difference between themajority of teams in this league.

“It’ll be the teams that make the least mistakes and individual errors that win these games.

“Unfortunately it is us committing those errors.”

THREE CHEERS: David Wotherspoon, left, celebrates with his team-mates after scoring to put Hibs 3-0 up