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Kink - that's big K and small k!

If Kink's in the pink then he can impress on the wing. No one will call him a dink and we'll laud his success with a drink. If we don't give him a try then time will fly and Maybe Ross County will buy And then it'll be Kink the Tink and we will have lost the link. I think!

We'd probably have to go far in the tournament before that happened! The English Premier League is ranked at no.2 by UEFA so clubs from there enter much later than SPFL teams! I did read that if Celtic beat Inter Milan, then in 2016/17 we (Scottish clubs) will get 5 teams in Europe for the following season. Maybe wrong, the whole system appears shrouded in secrecy! But, as much as it sometimes pains me, I support every Scottish team in Europe. To do otherwise is simply betraying your own club's future opportunities!

What on earth have these factors got to do with anyone's opinion on the entertainment value of the game itself? The game is what it is. If it's a dull draw it's a dull draw whether you happen to be top of the table or bottom. Suggest you go back and read these posts again on this thread rather than bite back at me. Not that many comments about entertainment but plenty about the team, us having a poor right back and missing mckay still. If the game wasnt deemed to be high value entertainment to you then thats fine but you could easily go to a theatre or cinema and see a poor product there too. My point is that if fans on here expect that with our small budget and playing squad we can provide barcelona style football every week and win every game then they need to get real snd stop assessing every game through their rose tinted championship manager computer glasses. Win, loose or draw its becoming increasingly hard to find many positive threads or posts on this site demonstrating an appreciation and acknowledgement of what is being achieved.

I like this. Playing 16 players should give us the edge in most games!

I've gone through the original footage frame by frame and would say that there was no deflection...slight or otherwise...although it is very close.

The ball did not get deflected by the defender I had a fairly good view. The shot was powerfully hit @ it swerved a good bit. (Anyway maybe we should start a deflections thread)

Nice compilation of his best goals and there are some real stunners in there. He certainly looks like more of a replacement for Marley than Billy though. I was also impressed with his first touch . Of course these very brief videos can showcase highlights of a career of several years in just a few seconds. It's hardly a complete picture and it begs the question of why he is currently a free agent. But the boy obviously has a great talent and so well worth Yogi having a good look at him. This weather should make him feel at home!

I'm not saying we don't need a replacement striker, but I have noticed that our goals per game average is exactly 2, without Billy, which is higher than for the rest of the season! Also, the quality of some of our recent goals has been outstanding, Williams on Saturday , Tansey against Partick, and Christie against Midden come immediately to mind. I repeat, these are merely observations, not a case for not replacing Billy.

I love it when people comeon and say 'I remember that guy from Middelsborough'. He played twenty games in the Championship, you looked him up on Wikipedia, I know it, you know it. Hopefully signing a player called Kink is us trying to tap into the Fifty Shades of Grey market. Our stands will be filled with middle-aged women expecting a hunky billionaire with rippled abs to come out the tunnel and choke them while their blindfolded. SHould be good IMHAHO.

Exciting, yes, nerve-shredding, yes - especially towards the end as both teams lost their shape and resorted to schoolboy football. Either team could have scored again, so we might have lost and dropped 3 points rather than 2. But definitely frustrating too, to have lost the lead 3 times - and the soft nature of the goals we gave away. Credit to Kilmarnock, they didn't look like a team that has struggled for most of the season, and always looked dangerous on the break and showed some quality. We started strongly and had several spells of good passing and generally decent performances. Over the 90 minutes I'd say we were the better side, but not by much. We had a couple of chances at 3-2 that if we'd sunk we'd have cruised home but it wasn't to be. I didn't see it as dull, certainly entertaining, but ultimately disappointing. I was emotionally exhausted by the end! Roll on tomorrow night and hopefully can put together a strong performance against Utd...

Any idea who 3rd is and also, what position he plays? We know 2 from 3; Prince Rajcomar and Marko Vukanovic (both Strikers). Reported on bbc website as Tarmo Kink, 82times capped Estonian striker

So did I. Different sort of trial.

Didn't see it as thrilling either tbh just very very frustrating! Not helped by the ref being totally pedantic especially in the second half.

Anything but thrilling, we tried our best to throw it all away. Frustration was the order of the day. We played football, Killie played Rugby.

Doofers Dad--as soon as I read your first sentence I gave you a like. What was wrong with the old names? Change for the sake of change isnt it, but nothing else as far as I can see? Full back probably was used to differentiate a Full back from a Half back and, even if that statement is somewhat half-baked, you understand an old Pimple don't you? It's almost as baffling as the cricket terms:-- silly mid-off etc. I think that meant the guy was off his game and when he was on it they called him Silly mid-on. Or when his bat disintegrated on impact the he was derisively called a "silly-billy" (with a small K.).

In my experience as you travel up the A9 you leave the pollution of the cental belt behind. everything becomes much clearer, you can see for miles, the air is good so can anyone explain to me why referee's appear to loose their ability to see things happening when they step on to caley park. Yesterday we had a man mountain running round the pitch clattering anything in a blue shirt which was apparent to all but the referee. I have to say this not the first time this has happened which makes me think it must be somthing in the air uphere. having said that we were not at our best yesterday

Had utd won as expected and we won as expected then it would have been status quo, as it is they lost a game many feel was winnable and we took 1 point thus are plus 1 from pre-match expectations. Still unbeaten in 2015, 3rd in the league, cup QF, still scoring goals even after losing our top striker. Why such negative posts?

All our expectations are naturally high as a result of our great season. So disappointment at 'only drawing' with Kilmarnock is a natural first reaction. However don't forget Killie have been playing really well recently and have beaten other top six sides.. They may surprise one or two others before the end of the season. Even County who we also dropped points to seem to have found some form. So there is no such thing as an easy game and we will have to concentrate hard for the rest of the season to maintain 3rd place and have a chance of Europe. I'm still confident that we can do it, barring significant injuries. So lets do our bit and get behind the team without calling for players to be dropped if they have one poorish game. We are still unbeaten this year! Its in our hands. Believe!

He's the best footballing brain we've had at the club since Marius Niculae.

Like a lot of folk I was properly fizzing with frustration at full-time - at our players for blowing the lead three times, at their players for kicking us (and, in Magennis' case, shoving) and at the referee for a performance best described as 'inconsistent'. On reflection, though, it was just one of those days. We dominated for long spells. We played some decent stuff. And of the three goals that we conceded, two were really very unlucky - Eccleston gets a hugely fortunate break of the ball for the first, and the second was a great free kick that goes in via the post and Esson. The third equalizer was the most hard to stomach. We're far more vulnerable at set pieces than we used to be, and I think it's crazy that we keep three players up when defending corners. It just means there's more space in the box, which is one of the reasons why Obadeyi got a clear shot away. A lot of criticism for Esson from the folk who sit around me, but I thought it was harsh. He was unlucky for the second, and he'd have been struggling to fight through a scrum of players in the six yard box to get to the cross for the third. As stated elsewhere, Christie was absolutely magnificent today. He floated in between their defence in midfield and caused havoc. On a lot of occasions, I thought he was let down by less talented teammates who weren't on the same wavelength! Call me a pessimist, but I've never really believed that a second place finish was going to happen. However, today is the first day I've ever really thought that third place was on the cards, thanks to Dundee United's result. So let's look back on it as a point gained.

Jeez. Guy who has had a pretty decent season is a bit below par, so should be punted? And what exactly has Esson done wrong? Lot less bomb scare back passes since he's been in net.

Given the run we've been on I thought that was a pretty nervy and lacklustre performance against a team we should have beaten. We have a huge game against Dundee Utd on Tuesday and we are going to have to play better if we are to get anything out of that. I thought Tansey and Draper were both well short of their normal high standards. Ross and Williams both did reasonably well in midfield (great strike from Williams!) but MOTM for me was Christie by a country mile. He worked tirelessly and was always wanting the ball despite getting some pretty rough treatment which the referee seemed happy to condone. Defensively we were not great and there were a number of individual errors which led to goals. Whilst it is, of course, fantastic that we are still unbeaten in 2015, it is a bit worrying that after taking the lead against County we were pegged back to a draw, then against both St Mirren and Partick we had a two goal cushion and they pulled one back and then today, we took the lead no less than 3 times and were pegged back each time. Yogi was talking about this last week saying we have to learn to kill teams off. Whatever he said to the team clearly didn't work! That is now 4 games in a row where we have allowed the opposition to score the last goal of the game and these games have been against 4 of the bottom 5. Interestingly, that coincides with Brill's absence from the team. It would be good to know how close he is to a return to fitness. On the balance of play we might consider ourselves a little unlucky not to get all 3 points but to be honest, we never created a lot of chances and at times gifted them opportunities to attack through sloppiness. So we probably got what we deserved. A 3-3 scoreline sounds great but in truth it reflected defensive frailties rather than good attacking football. At least Dundee Utd lost and we strengthen our hold of 3rd place.

Do I feel robbed? No, we should have been able to defend a bit better. I do feel hard done by however. The first Killie goal was as the result of a speculative shot that took a deflection. The defence didn't track back and left their striker one-on-one with Esson. The free kick that led to the second equaliser was a bit soft I felt, and followed a head shot on Nick Ross that should have been dealt with by the referee but wasn't Killie then got another lucky break when the ball came back off the post and hit Esson on the back and went in. The third came about from some sloppy attacking - that would be my main gripe with us today, we gave the ball away when we had them under pressure too many times - unfortunately we gave the ball away on the halfway line and they scored from the header. Difficult to judge our first two goals as I was at the other end, but the third by Williams was a beauty. That nob Rob Maclean was spouting some pish about it being deflected - dream on no Killie player got near it, including the keeper. And now we come to the waste of a skin that was the referee. WTF did Macgennis have to do to get booked? Every jump that he had no chance of winning was either a barge or an elbow into the defender (in fact all the Killie forwards were guilty of that). The last "challenge" that led to his final warning looked like a clear elbow into Warren. A yellow on its own at the least. That the treatment handed out to Nick Ross went unpunished was appalling. And why did he not need to use his vanishing spray for free kicks on the stand side, but did need to on the far side? His "I'm in charge" talk to Pascali when he was shoving Warren at the free kick they scored from was pointless, considering he then proceeded to do nothing. And what was the added time at the end of the match about? 1 minute which was taken up by the Killie defender rolling about after Meekings was booked. And why was Pascali pulling his own player's shirt at a set piece in the second half? Clumsy attempt to con the ref?

Maybe international players in the sense that they ply their trade in a country different from birth ... Anything more than that is stretching it a bit in the case of Prince and non-existent as far as I can see for Vucanovic ... But I take your point about our existing squad maybe not all having startling career stats. Appreciate we have a budget to operate in but given we are an established top 6 team, can we not start to dip our toe in slightly more ambitious waters? Without being overly simplistic, if we have the smallest squad but comparable attendances with 3 or 4 other SPL teams, are we being slightly over-cautious? That website I referred to is well worth a browse btw ... Astonishing source of up-to-date data even to refer to if nothing else ... Foolhardy to dismiss so readily IMHO. Your point lacks logic. Existing budget only allows for small squad...if we are to pay more, then we would need to shrink squad further to be able to afford it. If there's a bit of spare cash, then it's use needs to be viewed going forward. You can't base long term spending by way of increased wages on one off, non guaranteed, cash injections...how do you cover the wages next season without it? We're not awash with cash and being "over cautious" is better than being overdrawn with debt/costs we can't sustain...that would be foolhardy! Think you should change your Avatar. Maybe appropriate in your past life but nowadays you seem to roll over, believe everything your told and then defend it with your all. Are you offering to tickle my belly?

Had a youngster there today for his first ever live game. He went away delighted with the fare on show - we were the better team in terms of possession and smooth football but from a neutral's point of view this would have been an excellent game to watch - lots of attacking play, meaty challenges, bizzare refereeing, etc. The lad has signed up to Caley Jags Together and I am sure will be at more matches pretty soon.

2 points dropped. Like a bad dog owner we couldn't hold on to a lead. Our defence all at sea for their first and third goals. Saying that Killie got lucky and were helped by poor refereeing. MacLean paid more attention to his spray foam settings instead of picking up blatant elbowing and shirt holding by McGennis and Pasquale all the way through the game. Nick Ross was also fouled before the free kick for their second goal. I agree that our attacking faded in second half. Marley needs more help up front and it was too soon to blood Calum Ferguson.