Tight at the Top
The hectic week continues with the visit of Championship leaders Kilmarnock on Friday night for a 7:45 kick off. With only two points separating the top five, there's little room to slip a fag paper between the lot of them. We managed to surreptitiously extricate ourselves from the Challenge Cup on Tuesday night to alleviate the fixture schedule thanks to a couple of weak penalties. Not too weak to bring us to the attention of everyone, but just enough to get dumped out of the event. Next up for the same treatment is a trip to Cappielow in the Scottish Cup next midweek, another waste of our time. So, let's concentrate 100% on the Championship from now until the end of the season.
GAME ON BBC SCOTLAND
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Venue Head to Head | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Agst | + / - |
Home | 23 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 32 | +11 |
Away | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 36 | 44 | -8 |
Neutral | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 48 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 79 | 76 | +3 |
Last 10 Competitive Meetings |
1 - 0 (A) |
1 - 2 (A) |
1 - 1 (H) |
1 - 1 (A) |
1 - 1 (H) |
3 - 1 (H) |
1 - 2 (A) |
2 - 1 (H) |
0 - 2 (A) |
3 - 3 (H) |
We have a decent home record overall against Killie although most of these games were in the Premier League. We shocked Killie earlier in the season when a Michael Gardyne strike earned us all three points. Killie have taken nine points from there last five Championship games, whilst we have been dropping points all over the place with only five points from a possible fifteen. We did however stop the rot with a deserved 2-1 win at Palmerston, our first win in six league games.
Last Time out on league duty we beat Queen of the South 2-1 having been cruising at 2-0 with only fifteen minutes to go. However, we do nothing the easy way and had to be wary in the final fifteen after Lee Connelly threw Queens a lifeline. As it was, the two goals from Billy Mckay were enough to give us all three points. Since then we drew 1-1 with Morton in the Scottish Cup, Mckay scoring his tenth of the season in that game, and a weakened squad went out of the Challenge Cup on penalties after a 0-0 draw with Raith Rovers on Tuesday night.
Killie's last league game was a home defeat by part-time Arbroath (0-1), the success story of the season so far. They followed that with a 1-0 win over Queens Park in the Scottish Cup, Euan Murray with the goal. And in the Mickey Mouse Trophy they put Accies out with a very late double to win 2-3. That was basically a second string for Killie, but unfortunately for them, they still managed to get through
Latest Team News
The midweek squads can be disregarded as both sides rested players. Look out for Ridgers, Broadfoot, Devine et all returning to bolster the squad for the better...... maybe. No news forthcoming on the 'niggles' front so be prepared for anything, except you know who.
Killie also rested a raft of players in midweek so apart from any outstanding long term injuries, they should have a full squad to pick from.
Billy Dodds.....not really saying much to be honest
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