Timekeeping, it seems, is not one of the Snodgrass strong points and having turned up late on more than one occasion, including bizarrely the day of his debut against Kilmarnock, he was fined by Allan Preston and banished to the back of the queue of those hopefuls waiting to get into the Livingston first team.
As with all good Prodigal Son stories however, the pair have since kissed and made up and the new town club are now reaping the benefit of their reconciliation with this latest victory putting some welcome daylight between them and the foot of the SPL table.
Not so the Fifers who continue to languish in the nether regions and who, having begun the game looking flat, continued in much the same deflated manner for the rest of the ninety minutes.
"I can’t accept that," said Davie Hay whose return to Almondvale could hardly have gone any more skew-whiff. "Maybe the players should waken up and start to realise the seriousness of the position they find themselves in."
Derek Stillie and Tommy Butler were the only two in black and white to escape their manager’s wrath and so feeble were Dunfermline’s efforts at times that the home fans taunted the Pars poor 150 support with a few choruses of "Can We Play You Every Week?"
Snodgrass made it doubly so when he curled a glorious left-foot effort from 20 yards high into the net and in the process, ensured himself an even more generous reception when he was eventually replaced ten minutes from time.
"After what happened, Robert has shown a willingness to learn and in the last five or six weeks, he has also shown us he has what it takes. We had to take him out of our under-19 side because it was too easy for him," admitted Alan Kernaghan, the Livingston No2.
"We’re constantly on his case as I feel you have to be with someone of his age, so it’s a challenge to Allan and me on the man-management side of things but he has good pros around him and a good captain in Stuart Lovell.
"You lot," he told the assembled hacks, "keep preaching about there being no young talent. We saw some today and he was head and shoulders above everyone else on the park, but will he get his chance in Scotland?"
Oscar Rubio meanwhile joined in the praise of Snodgrass’s performance although tempered it by cautioning everyone, the press included, not to heap too much pressure on him at such an embryonic stage of his development.
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