It may have been a friendly, but the visitors brought with them no shortage of quality internationals, such as Teddy Sheringham, Yakuba Aiyegbeni, Boris Zivkovic, Dejan Stefanovic and Patrik Berger.

Four minutes was all it took Aiyegbeni to barge through a sleepy defence and side-footing home. Then Zivkovic, signed from Leverkusen, crossed for Sheringham and a universal cheer complimented his perfect execution. The Nigerian then collected his second thanks to his pace and power.

There were Killie home debuts for hard-working Martin Hardie and other recent new signing, the Australian, Danny Invincible. His first few touches were more comic than hero. He did get in to good scoring positions twice but lacked the required edge to net a consolation.

The visitors added two more deserved strikes with 15 minutes remaining courtesy of a Sean Hessey own goal and a low Steve Stone drive. At the end both sides trudged off with seagulls squawking overhead, as they did the visitors could easily have mistaken this for a sizeable home win.

Kilmarnock Meldrum, Shields, Fowler (Hessey 70), Locke, Innes, Dindeleux, Mahood, Fulton, McSwegan (Di Giacomo 45), Hardie (Boyd 45), Invincible (Nish 45)