Yngwie

Don’t think so, just the dressing room.

I’ll close this Killie thread for now as there is a separate one discussing the semi-final.

Wow you are right, final isn’t until 3rd June. Nice problem to have, though. I recall that when we won the cup final, Falkirk had gone about 3 weeks since their league season ended and they struggled to find opponents for a friendly.

Well that draw is certainly our best chance of progressing to the final, and Falkirk will be say8ng the same thing. As a reminder they have 3 ex-ICT players - Kai Kennedy, Coll Donaldson and Brad McKay.

ICT v Falkirk

Names in the hat - ICT, Celtic, Rangers, Falkirk.

I’d never seen it either, didn’t know it existed! They fail regarding communication and regular consultation with fans and Caley Jags Together. The rest of it they seem to be fully or substantially meeting, as far as I can see.

I suppose that depends on whether it happens or not. You make regular references to broken promises- I’d be interested in seeing your list.

Yes of course - so we’ve played 5 Sc Cup semi- final matches. Only won one of them, but we were underdogs in every one of them, famously beating Celtic (again) and being unsuccessful in the ones that were against teams a league above us. We do of course have a 100% win rate in Scottish Cup Finals.

But seriously, it’s a good question. Hard to see them featuring much if it all, given how long it takes to get fully match fit from the point they get back into training. Maybe a few sub appearances if they are up to it.

Bring them on in the 120th minute of the cup final to take penalties.

As the other 6 sides battle it out over the next 2 days for a place in the semis, it’s great having that smug feeling that our name is already in the hat!

Kilmarnock haven’t reached the Scottish cup semi finals since 1997.. This is our 5th in 20 years! 4 of them when we were in the 2nd flight!

Ridgers was guilty of a couple of handling errors tonight, but that effort was not over the line and he was absolutely right to carry on.

I think the 800 Killie fans will be going home very disappointed - their team came out all guns blazing for the first 5 minutes, then offered next to nothing. We were really good but they were poor.

Great performance by the whole team. In fact Gary Lineker has just tweeted that we reminded him of 1930’s Germany.

Our midfield dominated theirs. Allardyce my MOM.

Yesssss! 2-1 FT. Thoroughly deserved win, well done ICT. Great noisy support too.

I’m struggling to remember us starting a match so badly, in that first 5 minutes we couldn’t do anything right. Got better since then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64251079 BBC article on Scott Kellacher’s serious health scare, and Scot Gardiner’s too. I don’t recall much being said in public about these before.

“Not proven” verdict, despite a reported confession to police, wads of money and all the text messages. BBC report that “the jury accepted Mr Hester's claim during the trial, that he got caught up in the moment during the match and forgot about any agreement to deliberately get booked.”

Depreciation was only £178k of the costs. As for cash flow, ‘only’ £40k was advanced by directors in the year under review. The rest of the cash loss of about £0.6m was funded, as others have pointed out earlier, by not paying suppliers and HMRC as promptly as we used to. You can build up arrears like that as a short term solution to cash flow but you can’t really play that card more than once otherwise the arrears increase to a level that creditors can no longer tolerate, leading eventually to a winding up order from someone. So it is likely that the directors are having to dig a lot deeper this season.

Incidentally, ICT found the money for the squad to travel down yesterday and stay overnight.

The key message from Scot Gardiner’s appearance was that times are tough financially but there is “no danger” of us going bust. He stated that he is more concerned about performances on the pitch.

Great result, well done ICT.