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  1. Cardiac arrest in east stand- guy made it . Automatic defribulater at ground . He breathing conscious but agitated. Phew.
    6 points
  2. Apart from a few isolated performances we are no better than under AJ or GL. It's hard for some people to accept that, but it's true. Maybe someone can be bothered to calculate win statistics for all three. In a way I'm not surprised we are struggling. When you look at our at our squad it really is one of the poorest in the league. Clark is partly to blame for his summer signing policy. He should have kept a couple he let go, brought in a few promising youngsters and added a couple of experienced players with know how. There have been a few performances that really looked like we had a plan and were high energy, but we've never been able to repeat them. If Clark doesn't make the right moves in January, we may be in real trouble. We are a bigger club than Hamilron, Ross Co, St Johnstone etc but until the club is restructured and revitalised we'll struggle to prove it.
    5 points
  3. Coulibaly doing great despite playing out of position Lee says. Coulibaly scores goals. How about we play Coulibaly in position then and put Tyson who has bags of pace but is not scoring, out on the right? That's assuming we are having to stick with the formation which never seems to change much other than swapping Couli and Jones around which we did to great effect in the previous match but did it too early and never changed back in this one. Was that really the only tactical move we could make? When Dicker plays, we inevitably have a good game, he doesn't play often enough and last night was one of those occasions. Smith is a complete waste of a shirt. This is where real change is needed, maybe if we had someone more effective beside Dicker it would improve his consistency? I'm really disappointed in Hendrie, been a good signing and now he's left us without a decent right back going to Tynecastle and we may never see him again if we can't extend his loan. Stupid to get a second yellow for verbals, I'm assuming that is what it was for.
    3 points
  4. St Johnstone are very much a T6 team, have not lost away since August and we are in freefall because we lost to them, I honestly struggle to believe some on here realise they support Killie, it has been worse, a whole lot worse, at least Clark is trying to change things while still giving OUR youth a game. Merry Xmas everyone
    2 points
  5. Merry Christmas everyone. We all deserve better times so hopefully soon we can all move forward as we certainly dont deserve what we have been put through as fans .
    2 points
  6. He didn't say that. He said he made wrong change bringing Boyd on for Tyson. McKenzie was injured. Secondly I'd rather hear someone come out and say we were pish and I hold my hands up, rather than the status quo nonsense like "we must work harder" or blaming referees or bad luck. Our fans are the worst in the world. After every poor result there's a full inquest and the usual doom merchants out talking about relegation. I assume those thinking we will go down were not at the Inverness and Hamilton matches because there's a good few sides in this league worse than us!!
    2 points
  7. With Hendrie now suspended for Tuesday night who'll be playing at right back?
    1 point
  8. Merry Xmas to all Killie fans wherever you are. Hopefully 2017 will see a winning team on the park, and the end of Michael Johnstons association with the club.
    1 point
  9. Merry Xmas to everyone with Killie at heart. KTID/MJGTF
    1 point
  10. Do we have a problem with the roof in the East Stand? Just before kickoff tonight there were 3 guys (2 looked like firstaiders) picking stuff off the ground and pitch about 30 yards inside the Rugby Road end of the pitch ... and several times they looked at the roof. The groundsman was called and he was also staring up at the roof.
    1 point
  11. The last few mins when Saints had the ball in the corner was hilarious and summed up the experience of St J.If that had been Killie controlling things in the corner at any away ground in the SPFL I would have been laughing my head off. Our boys really embarrassed themselves with their inability to cope with the keep ball displayed. In Fowler,Hay,Pasca we had such players in the past but are sadly lacking with such players at the moment.
    1 point
  12. It was only a few seasons ago I was excited to go watch us play, we played on the deck, took chances and won plaudits for our style. We need to get back to that, play the game the right way have an identity. I can accept defeat and realise there will be transitional periods but this being served up right now is the most depressing brand of "football" I can imagine. The management team need to get there heads together and work on passing and movement off the ball, teach them how to create and use space on the pitch, not narrow the pitch and hump it long.
    1 point
  13. Don't think Clark has recognised the problems. He's definitely improved us defensively but the glaring problem we've had for years has not been addressed. The CM. The first failure is the 4 CMs we signed in the summer were not up to scratch. Secondly we haven't won enough midfield battles. I wasn't at Motherwell so won't use that but recently vs Accies and ICT our midfield couldn't get on top of what are IMO the two poorest sides in the division. Stevie Smith has been a passenger probably since Hearts. McKenzie isn't cutting it. We are almost at the winter break and aside from a few decent run outs he looks no more a CM than he did in the league cup games. Yet we persist with them every week. The new signings haven't been up to scratch but we have Taylor playing at LB who is a CM and Frizzell on the bench who has done nothing wrong anytime he's been called upon. We've become predictable because the CM is so poor. Our play will go wide and more often than not it will be blatant which wing or we go long to the striker in the hope he can hold it up or flick it on. Dicker aside no one in the midfield is looking to take the ball on. Smith couldn't get rid of it quick enough last night and McKenzie despite having pace and skill seems to always want to slow things down.
    1 point
  14. Could you not find another seat? There's 1 or 2 going spare
    1 point
  15. it pishes down directly on my seat, even when its dry outside..... really adds to the ambieance of misery when watching the Killie
    1 point
  16. Is a decent midfield. Tonight proved yet again we still need to sort out the CM positions. Dicker is on a decent run of form but can't do it all himself. The other three who featured over the course of the game could barely get a foot in and were dominated by Miller and Davidson. Reckon we need two new CMs in. Preferably in the mould of Kelly and Bryson and as an added bonus one of them would be able to take a half decent set piece. looking at the points dropped at home recently. Hamilton we never got a tight grip of the game in CM, ICT on Saturday the same then tonight we were dominated. Yet playing Hearts we had total control and played really well.
    1 point
  17. Coz I'm a f@ckwit who can't see or count after a few drinks. They'll be above us but thistle and Motherwell will be below us. Oops. Sorry
    1 point
  18. Hearts supporting mate says he is absolutely hopeless and doesn't know how he scored as many goals at Killie .Reckons he and Watt will be moved on if anyone is willing to take them.One season wonder at Killie and a good money earner for the club wouldn't touch with a barge pole now
    1 point
  19. Often i think highlights are hard on us. That said we reakly looked like relegation fodder last night. Tactics seemed to be hoof the ball up the field and hope something happens.last night we looked like we have gone backwards. With exception of coulibally many of clarks signings have been dire with us bringing in our own youngsters. We look lightweight devoid of ideas inexperienced with no leadership
    1 point
  20. Cool story mate you must be very proud
    1 point
  21. Another issue that we seem to have is that we concede very easily from set pieces but never seem to threaten from our own ones. Surely these are the areas where you would expect the manager and his full-time coaching staff to be adding some value?
    1 point
  22. Agree with muza. A few piss poor performances and little if any signs of improvement. The players that Clark brought in don't look much better than the ones that left. Been going to rp for 26 years and my dad for 64 years. We're both close to calling it a day after this season.
    1 point
  23. The way we are playing there's not just a problem with the roof there's a problem with the whole stand ----its facing the pitch!!
    1 point
  24. Glad to hear it. Hope he makes a speedy recovery.
    1 point
  25. Very poor overall,resorting to long balls 2nd half which they were just heading back out easily,very rarely got in behind them all night.Can only think of a couple of chances created.They are an experienced side who are highly adept at killing a game when they are ahead,very cheap goal to give away. Thought Hawkshaw and Taylor were 'okay',Jones and Coulibally were effectively closed out of the game by their defence.Both Smith and Dicker too pedestrian in the middle tonight.We ended up with a very young side indeed on the park,good to see the likes of Wilson,Hawkshaw and Cameron get a chance though tough to come into a side struggling to create chances. Glad to hear the guy who was taken ill made it.
    1 point
  26. utter s**te ..... sorry but how this a team to be proud of ! no creativity in the team, set plays are shocking, long ball tactics, been giving Lee a chance but sorry big change needed .
    1 point
  27. The manager is getting desperate.
    1 point
  28. to have any aspirations to get out of the relegation dogfight, you'd have been looking at 4 from 6 from the last two home games. Just 1 leaves us very in it
    1 point
  29. Dundee win, Thistle win; face it - we are poor. Lowest goalscorers in the division and none too impressive in defence either. If we are to avoid another relegation scrap, Clark needs some drastic surgery to the squad in January.
    1 point
  30. Footballer Born: December 12, 1941; Died: November 7, 2016 ERIC Murray, who has died aged 74, was a footballer and one of the unsung heroes of the Kilmarnock side that won the Scottish League Championship in 1965. Like the majority of that team, Murray was an Ayrshireman – he was born in and lived all of his life in Symington – and the Rugby Park fans recognised him as one of their own, fortunate enough to represent the club on the park. He came through the then prolific Saxone Amateurs development club, joining Kilmarnock as a centre-forward in 1960. He was briefly farmed out to Dreghorn Juniors, but was soon back at the club and making his debut, wearing the number nine shirt against Hearts in the League Cup in August, 1962. Willie Waddell, however, converted him to a right-half, and, with the adoption of a 4-4-2 formation, Murray would eventually slot in as one of Killie’s twin centre-halves. He did not make that place his own until the league-winning season, however, having to battle for the number four jersey with Pat O’Connor, following Ian Davidson’s transfer to Preston North End. Indeed, Waddell would use his versatility in a number of positions, including a spell back at centre forward. He found this difficult, but there was one tale which brought laughter at his funeral. Waddell, having been impressed by Eric Murray’s display at centre forward in a midweek practice match handed him the number nine jersey for Hibs’ visit to Rugby Park. However, Murray struggled to get into the game; if he came short, Kilmarnock played the ball long, and vice versa. Then, when his team mates played a high ball in, either John McNamee or Morten Jensen, the Hibs’ centre-halves would out-jump him – he touched the ball twice, to kick off. Then, towards the end of the game, Davie Sneddon mis-hit a cross, it glanced off Murray’s head and past Ronnie Simpson in the Hibs goal to win the game for Kilmarnock. Needless to say, Murray always claimed the goal was a result of a superb Sneddon cross and his great run, but both players knew differently. Murray played in 59 of Kilmarnock’s 60 games in the wonderful 1964-65 season – including in the unforgettable second-leg Fairs Cup win over Eintracht Frankfort, when Kilmarnock overturned a four-goal deficit to win the tie; forming a superb defensive partnership with the late Jackie McGrory. He was again a fixture in the side the following season, when Kilmarnock represented Scotland in the European Cup, and were drawn against Real Madrid. Murray always claimed: “I had Puskas in my pocket in the first leg at Rugby Park.” This game finished 2-2 and, many years later, after a Kilmarnock fan had “rescued” the Scotsport highlights tape of the game from a skip outside the STV studios, the surviving players were shown it at a function in the Killie Club at Rugby Park, held to celebrate goalkeeper Bobby Ferguson coming home from Australia for a visit. Everyone knew of Murray’s claim to have had Puskas in his pocket, so, it was somewhat disconcerting to hear commentator Bob Crampsey repeatedly refer to the legendary “Galloping Major” being on the ball. At the end, one of the team asked Murray: “How come, if you had Puskas in your pocket, he was never off the screen in the highlights clip?” “That was only 15 minutes – there were another 75 in the game,” was the unabashed Murray’s reply. After over 200 games, Eric Murray was released at the end of the 1968 season, as Kilmarnock went part-time. He joined St Mirren for a couple of seasons, before running down his playing career with Cumnock Juniors. After football, he worked for a time with The Evening Times before joining the legendary bookmaker Freddie Williams in his company. However, following a stroke some eight years ago, he was never the same. His footballing ability was passed to his son Stevie, who played senior football, before his career was ended far too soon by a terrible injury. Eric Murray, who is survived by wife Anna, and sons Stevie and Eric Jnr , was one of the good guys of the game. He was modest about his achievements, and was always ready with a laugh and a joke. One day, while he was in the Wee Windaes pub in Ayr, he was at the bar as mine host Jim McSherry, a former Kilmarnock team-mate, was telling a local sports writer, whom McSherry thought had maligned him in print, he was “barred”. Murray got hold of the offending article, read it, then told McSherry: “Hey Jim, that’s just about the nicest thing anybody’s ever written about you.” The banning order was promptly lifted.
    1 point
  31. If we got rid of Accies from the league and replaced them with Hibernian attendances would go up again. Throw Dunfermline, Dundee United in the mix and even the dark chaps from Ayrshire and we'd probably have averages of around 5,000 a season. Hence reason a 16 team league would be advantageous.
    1 point
  32. Think we all know who's on the naughty list this year. Hopefully we'll all get what we're hoping for.. a parasite free 2017. Slainte!
    1 point
  33. Merry Christmas one and all. And to all a Paul Wright
    1 point
  34. My Christmas Wish is to see the Mighty Killie win the Champions League. Obviously that's a long term project so for now Happy Christmas to everyone on the Killiefc.com site.
    1 point
  35. Merry Christmas folks and a Johnston free new year!
    1 point
  36. Merry Christmas to all Killie fans, hopefully an enjoyable festive period on and off the pitch
    1 point
  37. Boyd scores 100 goals for us. And nearly everybody wants to take a pot at him. How sad.
    1 point
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