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Well maybe you should go also Skygod because you couldn't see when you were driving home the other night and you don't even wear your glasses.

The Drongan destroyer is a wind up merchant and is fantastic at being a grade A Bawbag .Kissing the badge against Sevco ,blowing kisses at great unwashed and just being a dick all through the game One of these players who if was playing against you would be getting dogs abuse and be the biggest ham shanker that ever played .He's a Killie player now and he is our very own dick and long may it continue

I'm not even sure what your point is now... lose the man who's revitalised the club? Where is he going? Everyone wants to be appreciated? Isn't he appreciated? Must be a slow week for you. Jamie McDonald has dropped easy crosses in the past two games and I'd have expected you to be all over that rather than inventing a problem, that isn't there, with a manager who has two YEARS left on his deal. If Clarke wants to stay he will stay. If this is a stop gap to something else closer to his family in England then no ambition or appreciation will keep him here.

No, I gave my opinion - that’s what “I think” usually means. It’s always a shame when you resort to snide and sarcastic remarks when we are having an otherwise civil debate. McLean seemed to capture the mood of the thread best by suggesting that the way to “reward” Clarke is for people to get along to RP on match days rather than to push a few bonuses his way.

Yes, the fans will play a part in SC staying......he is revered here which is a great and comforting feeling that you are doing a good job. I do think, however, that he has a point to make and won't be happy until he's got us back where we belong in the upper echelons of Scottish Football. I may be dreaming here but I do think we will have a strong case next season to be pushing towards the top of the league. Why not? 2 or 3 key signings and we could be. He has already stated, he has a plan which for now is working and delivering results. Stop the rot at the back. Harder to break down. Fitter. Away from bottom 2 spots. Who would ever have thought that Leicester City could win the English Premiership? All we kept hearing was that they wouldn't be able to sustain the form....they'd falter etc. etc. So long as SC is doing the do, he will be here. BB will support him and as such we should support both as much as possible. Not to forget Dyer. 150th anniversary + League Title. How amazing would that be? Dare to dream?

Stop looking back, time to catch Hearts.

Did he mean to end up there?

Calm down sugar.

Rubbish. His final decision is what lets his game down. Numerous instances this season where he could have passed it on to someone in a better position, but he's taken it on himself from an unlikely angle - or skied what seemed an easy shot over the bar. But to say he has no end product is just nonsense. Are we just ignoring the fact he was heavily involved in Boyd's goal away to Aberdeen, set up Mulumbu vs Celtic at home with a wonder-pass to win us three points, scored away to Celtic at Parkhead to earn us a point, scored away to Aberdeen to earn us a point? He's also responsible for dragging defenders out of position with his trickery and pace, often finding himself surrounded by two or even three defenders, allowing space for other attackers to run in to. I don't think anyone on here disagree his end product is the part of his game he needs to work on, but to say he has none is just daft.

Looks like Motherwell have accidentally published the highlights. Oops!! Watch them quick!

Man too apathetic to support his team away from home, calls other people apathetic.

Aye you

I thought it was fairly clear when he joined that since his family is down south that his where his home is. The club has three things to do here to turn us into a big club again: 1. Support the manager in terms of improving the infrastructure and team. 2. Plan for succession - someone with the calibre to continue that work. 3. Marketing. Get the message out EVERYWHERE!!!! Hoping that people will turn out isn't good enough. Failing all that, @mathematics has facilities for this kind of scenario. He might have to move an ex-defender or two out though.

Mmmm tad harsh. The irony is your the one ruining the forum with comments like that.

Alex Dyer bought into it first game the night at Ibrox. Straight over to us at final whistle with the players , he is a big part of what's going with Killie just now and like Stevie Clarke, Alex Dyer is pure class.

Just spoke to Steve Clarke and he's said he'll stay for ten years if you stop posting on the Killie FC forums, Zorro.

Clarke of the Course - A look at Kilmarnock’s revival Kilmarnock, perhaps more than any other club in Scotland, outside of perhaps East Stirlingshire in their “too awful to not be last every year but the pyramid’s closed!” period, have been in a state of simply existing for a long time. They rarely did well, they rarely did much noteworthy. Even Dieter van Tornhout could only lift the malaise for a short time as Killie settled into being, well, pretty crap - six of the eight managers with the lowest win percentage in club history have been since 2010. They have been a club who have been through a period of being offensively inoffensive, almost superfluous to the entire existence of Scottish football and, well, just there. But that isn’t the case now. And that is thanks to Steve Clarke. Clarke has been touted by sections of fans (those who, you know, actually pay attention to football outside of the top three) as a man who should have been picked up by Rangers or even by Scotland due to the quality of job he is doing at Rugby Park but also to the quality of player he has attracted to the club. Part of me has always wanted to downplay Clarke’s impact slightly. Lee McCulloch put together a good core of a team with his summer signings - Messrs Greer, Broadfoot, O’Donnell, Erwin and Brophy all targeted the weaknesses that we knew about in the side. What Lee McCulloch didn’t know was how to put that team out on the pitch as a decent team and his sacking was a reflection of that. That the club got Steve Clarke was a coup. He may be a Killie fan, but to go from EPL to a big Championship club in Reading to Killie is not the career trajectory one would normally expect. What Clarke was was known - an exceptional coach but one who had probably made the wrong decisions in his career and taken on difficult jobs which ended in him being fired. What he has shown at Kilmarnock is that, as much as talent is a huge factor in being a good manager, as important for a career is to take the right opportunity at the right time. Kilmarnock in mid-October was that. A team low on confidence but with all the materials there to mould a good team and also a collection of players who all had growth in them that we all knew about. Clarke’s genius has been to coax it out of them. Since taking over, Kris Boyd has scored 9 goals. That Boyd scores goals is hardly news but Clarke has adapted the team to make the most of his experience and relative lack of mobility (although, it has been noted that he’s been pressing players!). Youssouf Mulumbu has been a brilliant signing who has threaded everything together in terms of linking defence and attack. Aaron Tshibola looks like he may be similar. This site is not one renowned for extensive looks at tactics and the like (but do read https://spielverlagerung.com/2018/02/07/kilmarnock-revival-continues-with-celtic-shock/ for an in-depth look at their win over Celtic) but one point is important to look at - Clarke’s use of zonal marking. Scotland is not, this season, a place with a vast amount of tactical flexibility, so Clarke’s drilling on the training ground to, firstly, keep play compact and, secondly, to starve the opposition midfield of supply coming from the back has been vital to Killie’s recovery. Zonal marking is, of course, a favourite thing for pundits to beat on and is done so regularly, but what is important to point out is that Kilmarnock are both one of the few sides who actually employ it in Scotland and that, even with that, Clarke adapts it. Zones are not a permanent construct but, instead, slid around the pitch to suit the match situation. Where man-to-man marking (and the now associated high press teams like to employ) can be manipulated through quick ball movement to create space (See Man City as a great example of this). Clarke (and Killie) however, employ their zonal system to target not zones of the pitch but channels of attack. Key to that is the striker (and hence the mention of Kris Boyd) - in a defensive posture, full backs stay back, wingers track back the opposition wide men and the striker curls into the blind side inside the opposition full-back. This forces opposition teams into either a) putting a hopeful cross into areas where Killie are already compact, b) playing a riskier pass sideways which can be picked off by either the winger tracking back or the striker or c) going back to the defence and slowing play down. This forces opposition teams into low xG situations and while, yes, this is Scottish football and mistakes happen, they are individual mistakes and not overall errors with the system. Only Derek McInnes, it seems, has been able to master Kilmarnock and, even then, that may be more luck than planning as the Dons’ lack of conventional central midfield balance (and Shinnie’s physicality) and lower reliance on wing play pose a very different threat than other sides (and, even then, their January win over Killie was down to two superb goals from McKenna and McGinn). The amazing thing is how quickly Clarke drilled this all into the side to the point where, arguably, they are a fair tip to win the Scottish Cup in a field with Aberdeen, Hearts, Celtic and Rangers all still in it. They may, by no means, be a mathematical certainty for the top six but few would doubt that they will be in there and, with two wins in their games in hand (against Accies and the totally out of sorts St Johnstone) a late run on fourth place might not be entirely out of the question. But, more than all of that stuff on the pitch, perhaps the most important thing Steve Clarke has given Kilmarnock is purpose. This is a club which has drifted for so long (arguably, the entire Michael Johnston era) that it wouldn’t have been a loss had they suddenly flopped out of the division has what feels like a definite direction. Perhaps it was best evidenced in their Rugby Park victory over Rangers - late goals to win the game and Rugby Park was bouncing. Rugby Park, possibly the most sterile ground in the country, was bouncing. Forgive me for perhaps thinking at points that wasn’t even possible. This won’t last forever but there is a feeling Clarke is still operating under most people’s radars. Summer will perhaps be the key as keeping hold of Clarke into next season would be a real game changer for the club itself and, potentially, the landscape of the top six as a whole as Kilmarnock would have a chance to make themselves a fixture of it rather than an interloper. No-one has yet found the way to consistently get results against Clarke’s system and, even with four pops a season at it, it’s hard to see anyone getting to that point given how proficient his side are at actualising his instructions. Long may it last. (The Football Life) This begs these questions, to my mind: Would the side be as effective without, as seems probable, Mulumbu next season? Or can Clarke recruit so effectively in the summer that the team is even more efficient and flexible tactically? Retaining Clarke is key, but that has already been discussed to death elsewhere.

Moaning c**ts on here as usual ---- Jordan is a great footballer yes he could improve his final ball but ffs give it a rest ---- oh he was in bakers nightclub last night is that a fault also ?

Really? Yesterday showed the true JJ plenty of skill and can take on anyone in the league but when it comes to the final ball it’s rarely there. Main reason he is playing for us and not higher. If you see anything different please explain and don’t use the pass for Mulumbu goals as he had all the time in the world to pick the pass.

We have to look up! Although probability would suggest we are due a few defeats the momentum. spirit and confidence we have at the moment could have us fighting for 4th/5th place. Although saying that Id happily lose every game after the split if we were to beat Aberdeen which could open up the Cup and give us some European nights! Fringe players have stepped up recently which give me great confidence in us being able to give a good account of ourselves in each game regardless of who pulls on the shirt. We are lucky in that SC is an unusually intelligent man within Scottish football and as mentioned previously on a game to game basis we can take on anyone, every team in the league will currently be worried about our fixture, I have no fear of us not making the top six...what a time to be Killie!

I had no idea advertising was so prohibitively expensive. I wonder how all of those other companies afford to advertise around Kilmarnock. I would say it's utter bollocks to suggest that just winning a few games (because in the cold light of day, that is all we've really done) will immediately add thousands to the gate. We've already added a thousand since the manager came in, but you repeatedly ignore that fact. We were so low under Michael Johnston that even the hardcore had drifted away. I think those folk are mostly back, but now it's the rest that the club need to entice into the ground. It's up to the club to convince them to do that. It isn't some sort of duty, like you suggest. People have many commitments and things to do with that time and money, and it's up to the club to convince them to put Killie up at the top of those priorities. If people have 'excuses' as you piously put it, then the club has to overcome those objections and give people fewer reasons not to go, or more reasons to go. It's how sales works.

Hardly. All the national media have talked about, with some exceptions, is how our manager should be the new Sevco manager, or once that job goes, the Scotland manager. In one of the most entertaining games I've been to in a long long time, our media could only put together TWO MINUTES of highlights. "Who, in the surrounding area, could possibly not know what is happening with Killie just now? " Several people - I've said it before and will again - you could walk all the way round the town and surrounding area, and with the exception of the floodlights poking out above the houses on Dundonald Road, you could be forgiven for having no idea we even had a football team, let alone one that is the form team in the country. Contrast this with a movie - when the studio releases it, and it gets a bunch of award nominations, do they think that the product is good enough for them just to release it to cinemas? Or do they put up billboards, advertise on local and national radio, local and national TV, put out Facebook and Twitter ads and put ads in the newspapers? The club should be jumping on this success and advertising it wall to wall. But they aren't. They're still doing better than they were, but I'd rather just now that we spent some serious money on getting people in the door.

His name is Ding. Race has nothing to do with it.

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That's plenty son.

He will be here for the foreseeable future. Here he is loved by the support and both us and the media hang on his every word. He's got folk like me going yesterday to my first away game in 7 years as well as getting people interested in the club. We had a new supporter travel with us yesterday who is now committed to going to see us play more. In England you're four games away from being sacked. Steve Clarke here has the time to build something without the pressure of relegation or getting sacked because of a few bad results. That is what I think he wants more than anything. Lets enjoy him while he is here as I firmly believe that this is the start of a golden era for our club.

Today's stand side linesman is a very good friend of mine.Here's what he messaged me after the game : " Ur manager is a true gentleman mate! I wish him & u boys all the very best!!!"Made me proud to be KTID

I preferred it when we were pish and getting gubbed most weeks . Things were simpler . Now it’s like trying to hold on to that girlfriend that you know , hand on heart , is a wee bit too hot for you . Money would help , the odd trip to the gym , but hey, she’s off as soon as Pablo flashes his six pack . Enjoy it while it lasts .

I'm astounded that in a team that has the best record in the league over ten games, and in a week we have won 3 games that we are debating current first team players not being up to standard. If JJ could deliver a ball and run at folk like he does he wouldn't be in Scotland let alone Killie. He's fundamental to our side because he allows us to play 20 yards further up the field. He can't be man marked and usually sides double up on him releasing space elsewhere on the park. Give the guy a break... he's 22 years old!

Thanks for that skygod Thought yesterday showed the Jose influence on SSC; 5-3-2 changing to 3-5-2 when we attacked. Then in 2nd half switched to 5-4-1 when Boydie went off. Not seen many/any Killie teams change tactics and formation as often and as successfully as we’ve done in 2nd half against Dundee and then at Fir Park. The players have clearly bought in to the the SSC way

With all that knowledge you have why are you not a football manager?

We’re a better team with him in it than not. Every defence in the league fears his ability to beat players and we have more space to play in midfield cos he ensures defenders sit a bit deeper. He’ll improve his decision making and final pass with good coaching and experience. Both will br provided at Killie.

"3rd nutmeg" that goes round the player. not through his legs

if there were more well fans there yesterday, than we had at rugby park on Tuesday, then i'm a monkeys uncle. some very creative counting goes on in attendance figures imo

Agree that we should be looking up the table but the managers remit was to avoid relegation/play-off spot. Ross County need to win 5 more games than us to overtake us. Considering that they have only won 5 in their first 27, it is extremely unlikely that they will win 5 in their last 11, let alone 5 more than us. Which leaves the play-off spot, Hamilton and Partick would need to win 4 more than us - again it is highly unlikely that either, never mind both are capable of such a feat. So not mathematically safe but I have no doubt we will be in the SPL next year.

I think Well are probably aggrieved that they haven't taken any points in the last two games against us. To be honest we were fortunate to win both matches but despite having the bulk of possession yesterday they created far fewer opportunities than they did in the game at RP. As piffer said, when you are not losing goals it makes a huge difference and our defending, from front to back, is excellent at the moment. Very well organised with everyone doing their job. O'Donnell struggled at the start yesterday but was helped out by his teammates and after that their winger didn't really get past him very often. A great performance for a guy who was struggling with illness.

Did you go yesterday? No way they did. See you at Aberdeen for the biggest game of the season.

I loved yesterday the fans were in great voice and I'll definitely be making the effort to go more often.

Pretty much, most of our chances were breakaways and if JJ had made better decisions it could have been a more convincing win.

I took my five year old granddaughter to the open day last season and had to admit I struggled to know several players as we walked round the park suite getting photos and autographs (due to the incredible turnover in staff). Had to check who SOD was as he was brilliant with my wee one, chatted to her and was genuinely interested, great to see. What a difference in a few months when we now actually recognise the players in our team and are building under SSC a bond with them that I don’t think has happened since the Tommy Burns era. KTID

Reading some of the reaction in the papers today that was a huge win for us yesterday. O'Donnell climbed out of his sick bed to play, A makeshift midfield and a group of players who run themselves into the ground on Tuesday night. Taking all those factors into consideration you’d expect defeat but there is an attitude and winning mentality in the squad. Hopefully players will return over the next few games and we have a renewed freshness about the squad. The two suspensions in the last couple of games may be a blessing as it’s given two players a chance to recharge who we probably wouldn’t have dropped. Some of the guff fans from other teams spout can’t be taken serious. We at the moment will be guilty of the same but the reality is there will be players at Motherwell or Thistle, Hamilton, Dundee, St Johnstone who would improve us. And what’s more given the job Clarke has done with some of the squad it’s not the obvious players we’d be looking at.

There's always that one older guy who just really shouldnae be nicking about with a bunch of teenagers.

I hope it's your sickbed and not your deathbed!

Go and lie down you lunatic

I know of 2 instances where managers where financially compensated for transfers. McNamara at DU and Ian Holloway at Blackpool. In both instances the managers started well but as soon as a dip in form is hit the issue of them gaining from the selling of players is raised and used to beat them with as it is seen to be their motivation rather than them trying to take the club forward. The board managed to sell the club and its future to Clarke and he bought into it, I trust the board will do its utmost to keep him happy without using some gimmick.

I'm glad we have the Edinburgh duo next because I think that's the level we're at just now so they will be good tests. Then we have the shot to nothing in the cup. I'm thinking we need to consistently beat the likes of Ross Co, Partick and Hamilton home or away especially the latter away games with the kind of support we're attracting at the moment. A lot will depend on injuries/suspensions but I got to 15 points albeit with slightly different results. With luck and an improved injury situation it could be better still. For me the lessons are 1) Keep a clean sheet and you can't lose and 2) Fail to score and you can't win. Point 2) is the one the pro Motherwell pundits today need to understand ..... I'm old enough and can remember plenty of seasons when their team operated on the basis stop the opposition at all costs .....ruggedly!

You realise its YOU that's insinuating that?

Can you just f**king stop and enjoy the moment Jesus H

Depends what your looking for to be honest. IMO he has the potential to be a midfielder we can build around. I don’t see him as the Bryson or Kelly who will go box to box, create chances and pitch in with their shares of goals. To me he will be the long term replacement for Dicker. A player who will keep it simple and do what’s needed to allow others to do their best work. To say he’s not been great is harsh. In his debut season he got passed from pillar to post. Asked to come in and play at CB he didn’t let himself down. Cover at RB likewise. An inexperienced player asked to hold together a calamitous midfield and again he gave it his best and was nowhere near the worst. Now is when we will see what he’s made of. With proper coaching in a decent set up and a clearly defined role in the team.

Let’s be fair here as well. All of the teams in the top six atm, had a seven or eight game lead on us. We weren’t even in the same league when big Lee was in charge. To even get close to the top six is a bloody miracle, especially as we’ve the same set of players, Mulumbu and Tish excepted. utterly astounding from SC.