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  1. I couldnt careless what he thinks about the standard of the spl etc but to have a dig at his former team by saying the players in his own team are better, the lad has a short memory, if it wasnt for Killie he wouldnt be where he is now. At least when Connor Salmon had his one season wonder and left, he didnt disrepect his former club. What a prick.
    4 points
  2. He seems to get suckered into the same kind of interview every time, either that or he just loves talking about himself. At the moment his managerial career is in the sh*tter, if it wasn't he wouldn't be here. Best case scenario is that Lee rebuilds the club and his managerial career on the park and a new board (or a board without bawface) rebuilds the club off the park. The important question for Killie isn't whether he met Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck when he was at Fulham, it's whether he is a competent manager or not, because merely competent will be a vast improvement on the last two.
    3 points
  3. So the likes of Hawkshaw, Taylor, Kiltie, Frizzel among others all getting game time this season is not bringing through some of our own?
    3 points
  4. This got me thinking about 'fans rights.' I mean what are they? If you look at football from a commercial point of view what a club is just a super brand. There's only one Kilmarnock or any other club your affiliated to. So it seems to me that a fan is vulnerable to being exploited; wants to feel part of the club and that the heart of his club is decent. The thing owners don't seem to get is that although 'fandom' runs pretty deep it's still voluntary and people can and do get weaned off it. As an exile every game I get to (Dundee will be my first this season) is a special event no matter what the outcome. Also I don't get some of the hatred that's been wafting around for years. To be a success on our resources everyone needs to pull together. It seems that can't happen with MJ so he has to go. But it's true to say that as a fan I have no rights ..... except to walk away and I won't!
    2 points
  5. Cracking interview with Lee Clark below When Michael Jackson popped his head around the door at Craven Cottage that day, Lee Clark knew he had entered some kind of parallel universe. It was impressive enough being introduced to Sophia Loren at Harrods on the day he joined Fulham as a player in 1999, not to mention the time his new chairman, Mohamed Al-Fayad, told him to come and say hello to Tony Curtis and listen to his stories about starring alongside Marilyn Monroe. Jackson was trippier still. "Aye, I met Michael," says the Kilmarnock manager. "Or, at least, I saw him. We were sitting in the changing room and the door opens and this head comes through the gap. Michael Jackson." The only head that has come through the door at Rugby Park this afternoon belongs not to a global superstar but a representative from a local venetian blinds company wanting to measure some windows. It's not Hollywood, baby, but it's enough. For Clark, the job of trying to drag the team out of their annual grind against the drop is the only thing that matters. What strikes you about Clark is his intensity, his raging desire to make things work at Killie where he has a virtually brand new team on his hands and an Everest to climb to try to tie it all together. "Absolute faith" is a favourite expression. 'I was a handful at times' He says he eats and sleeps football, has done since he was a boy growing up in the east end of Newcastle. "I come from a tough part of the city, a place called Walker," he explains. "Two sisters and a brother. My father worked on the building sites, my mother had various jobs to keep things ticking over and they made me the person I am. I'm not a quitter. I like to think that I'm tough. "As a player, I was honest, I gave my best. I had to think quicker than others because I didn't have huge pace. I could pass and create but above of all I had a never-say-die attitude. "I know I was a handful at times. I'm not sure that Lee Clark the manager could have handled Lee Clark the player. He was just an absolute hot-head on occasion. There were many, many times when I blew up. I could be the nicest lad off the pitch, but on the pitch I could go crazy. I would have hated managing me." You put it to the test and ask if he'd like to have his younger self at the heart of his Kilmarnock midfield. "On reflection, aye," he smiles. "He'd be useful. He'd be well up for it." Faith in youth Clark's career has been a fascinating one. He made his Newcastle debut at 17. Ossie Ardiles became his manager. Ardiles believed in young players and pitched them into his side in great numbers. Newcastle didn't get consistency, but they unearthed some talent. "We played against Tranmere in what was called the Zenith Data Cup and it finished 6-6. That kinda summed up Ossie. We were naive but we were entertaining and some foundations were put in place for what Kevin [Keegan] did afterwards. "Here at Kilmarnock I've done a similar thing to Ossie. I did it at Huddersfield as well. Young players. Freshness and dynamism. I have to show the same faith in them that Ossie showed in me and seven or eight of my team-mates. "Some of our new players from down south are not used to this type of football. They're used to more technical stuff, not the in-your-face aggression of up here. Plus, a few of them have never been away from home before. They're experiencing what that's like as well. They're learning that to win a game of football, it's not just about ability, it's about a battle. "You have to man-up, you have to fight your way through it. It's the players who are strong mentally who'll survive." That was never a problem for Clark. He laughs now when he talks about his youngest son, Bobby, who is 11 and is in the Newcastle academy. Bobby was never quite sure whether to believe his father when he told him that he used to play for the club. Then the young man was shown around the place and found his dad's picture on the walls and went, 'Ah, so it's true!' Twice a runner-up at Newcastle Clark almost achieved immortality at Newcastle under Keegan in that famous season of 1995-96. At his next club, the Geordies' arch-rivals, Sunderland, he achieved notoriety. He had two fine years there - getting promoted to the Premier League in one of them - but exited under a cloud. Newcastle played Manchester United in the 1999 FA Cup final and Clark had arranged to meet some mates in a pub on Baker Street in London beforehand. When he got out of a taxi, he was spotted by Newcastle fans who pulled a t-shirt over his head and started taking pictures. "There was a derogatory slogan about Sunderland fans on it," recalls Clark. "I had it on for about 30 seconds but the cameras were flashing for fun. When the pictures got out, that was the end of my time at Sunderland. "A big regret. Huge. I would love to go back to the Stadium of Light and for them to appreciate me for the two great years we had, but there's a bit of hatred there now from the fans." He entered the wonderful world of Al-Fayed's Fulham and loved his six years there. He won a First Division title in 2001 and, under Jean Tigana, finished ninth in the Premier League. "A great period in my life," he says. Promising start at Terriers Clark's first step into management was at Huddersfield in late 2008. They were entertaining, broke club records for unbeaten runs and goals scored [he signed Jordan Rhodes from Ipswich and made him an £8m player], but fell agonisingly short of promotion to the Championship two seasons running. "What gives me hope at Killie is what we did at Huddersfield," he says. "We built a young team, went 43 games unbeaten at one stage and came very close to promotion. On the day I lost my job we had three defeats in 55 games. That's life. The queue of lads that came to see me to say goodbye was humbling. "Jordan was one of those. A wonderful kid. There's a picture I have on my wall at home of me embracing Jordan after a game at Sheffield Wednesday. We drew 4-4 and Jordan got all four." He said he a choice at that point to buckle or to fight - and he fought. He became Birmingham City manager in June 2012 but it did not work. The club's owner, Carson Yeung, had been arrested for money laundering a year before - he was later sentenced to four years in prison - and the club was in financial limbo and forced to sell its best players. He was sacked in October 2014. Five days later he joined Blackpool. "My silly ego got the better of me. The club was bottom of the league and I thought I could turn it around. I quickly realised I couldn't. "It was an unhappy place. Fans were demonstrating about the owners and it got very nasty. The atmosphere was poor and we went out of the league with a whimper. I resigned (May 2015) and then took some time out to take stock. Then I got the opportunity to come to Kilmarnock. "Will it take time to get the club up the table on a consistent basis? Yes. Do managers always get time? No, but I'm hopeful. I want top half of the league. I don't to be always seen as a fire-fighter. I want to get back to where I was at Huddersfield where we were always looking up and striving rather than looking down and worrying. "I've always said that it's not how people perceive you when you come through the door, it's how they perceive you when you go out." Can this driven Geordie turn Kilmarnock around? He answers: "A lot of people would say no and that's understandable. We're underdogs, but underdogs have their day, too, you know." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37216984
    1 point
  6. Record is reporting he will sign. He was actually decent when with Rangers, and was he not Algeira's captain? Think he could still do a decent turn and bring good bit experience to a decidedly dodgy deffence
    1 point
  7. How he led Kilmarnock to the Scottish Premiership title and Champions League glory the following year?
    1 point
  8. We have 7 loans from a first team squad of 24/25. I'd rather be replacing 7 loans, who probably aren't all going to be regular starters than be in a position where we need to release panic buys from their 3 year contracts in order to improve. I'm sure his goal is to build a stable squad who are here permanently, but if the players aren't available for free at the minute then I don't see the problem with loaning in numbers.
    1 point
  9. I don't know whether this makes me feel sad or proud but it's very well put.
    1 point
  10. I think he could do a job for us even at 33. Give him a contract til the end of the season and see how he does. I doubt his wage demands will be that high
    1 point
  11. Cards on the table time? CLICK HERE
    1 point
  12. I had a pie at Huns game and it was f**king vile-like Michael Johnston
    1 point
  13. Nonsense. Look at this beautiful example from yesterday: Heart is always a tough place to go to.
    1 point
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    1 point
  15. I just came back from some time off there and thought I'd arrived in 2010. Pravda was never in it! Seriously though... This has you know who's sticky fingerprints all over it. I cannot believe that the other directors allow a statement such as this to be put out there. Did they miss their own AGM where the new financial guru stated quite categorically that we couldn't continue to keep going the way we were? Are they saying we were lied to at the AGM or are they trying to orchestrate some cover up now? We're skint, its not a fucking state secret. We all know it, they especially all know it...so how can they possibly sanction saying that "KFC is financially stable with no financial issues" unless they mean the fried chicken chain? This is part of the reason we got into the state we did in the first place before Billy Bowie and the bank bailed us out. Head in the sand flat out denying that we were in any trouble and telling the fans there was nothing to worry about when we were closer to administration that we had ever been. That's not scaremongering, that's facing the truth and trying to get something done about it. That Michael Johnston is still on our club board and still being allowed influence brings shame to us all. We are not responsible for all that he has brought about but we are collectively responsible for allowing him to remain. Are we so beaten down that between the fans and all the other directors that we can't show this charlatan the door and take our club back? It says a lot that I was happy to turn my phone off and get away even though we are but a few weeks into the season. I want to focus my time and energy into turning the club around and bringing some community and fighting spirit back to Killie, sadly that has proved impossible while we are still being torn asunder from within.
    1 point
  16. Funny that he had a good debut. I thought all new players needed several months to get used to playing for a new team - especially in a foreign country.
    1 point
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