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If the ref thought it was a foul and a clear goal scoring opportunity, the latest rules say straight red (outside the box). Inside the box it's a pen and yellow. Unless it's a handball that stops a goal, then it's a pen and a red. (I think). So I can see why he gave a red - but as I said at the time, not a fan of the rule. Refs should be allowed some leeway and I doubt anyone would have complained about a yellow and a free kick.

Donnelly's 2nd half free-kick routine must surely put him in with a shout.

He didn't lay a glove on the equalizer as far as I could see. (Poor defending from Carroll and Hartley though).

It has surprised me every time I hear we have scored the most goals outside of the OF this season. Mainly because it often feels like we don't take enough of our chances. Delighted to get 3 points from a very tricky game. Killie proved, as we all expected, to be extremely well drilled at the back and didn't give up too many opportunities. And with only a single goal cushion, they kept us on our toes with some dangerous counters. Robinson must be shaking his head at some of the game management though. At times we were playing like it was 5-a-side at Ravenscraig.

That was better.

I don't even think it was a shot on goal.

Another Killie cross that goes in. We've made a habit of that.

If nothing else it shows how difficult these decisions are sometimes, even when you have a video to replay. Glad we scored from the free kick though, as the natural thing to do when you go down to 10 men is sit even deeper.

Looked like a foul to me - the whole "getting a touch of the ball" thing is a bit of a red herring as you can still foul someone when you touch the ball (not convinced he did get the ball anyway). Unlucky it was a red though; not a fan of the new rules on that.

St Mirren hadn't lost a league game by more than one goal until they played us and we managed to put that record to bed. I don't expect it will be pretty this evening, but if ever there was a game we need to score early, it's this one.

Based on his comments last season, I think Gerrard was more than ready to punt him on the basis he'd rather take some cash and invest in someone that could score AND was available for selection every week.

Came on as a sub in the 56th minute according to the Beeb (and managed a booking).

When we played St Mirren at home, we had 19 shots. Killie had 5 shots.

I hear Parks of Hamilton have already delivered Kilmarnock's luxury coach, ready for parking.

As the club mentioned at the time, it took us over 6 months to negotiate the deal for McKinstry, and both of the clubs were very keen to work things out amicably. It's just a slow process once the lawyers get involved. I presume that rather than go with a one-time feem we have tried to negotiate some sell-ons for Hastie (at the expense of lowering the initial payment owed), but Rangers are either dragging their heels or not playing ball. Regardless of the reason, the authorities have more power than HMRC to make them pay up either our agreed fee or one they calculate, as they simply cancel his registration until the cash is coughed up.

Aye, Rangers don't let us share the broadcast for MFC TV. As it's not being shown live on TV, I expect any stream will be the Rangers TV commentary - so probably a good day for the mute button.

I can somewhat understand the formation and the idea we need to keep it tight at the back, but a little concerned we have nobody wide for the out ball - unless the expectation is Long will play that role.

I just hope the players are more confident that we are.

We finished 8th that season. 8 points behind Dunfermline, won less than half the points that Rangers did and ended up on the same points as Hibs who went into the relegation playoff (thanks to a goal difference 6 worse than our -11 tally).

No point in trying to use tactics that involve players we don't have (and from teams below us in the league). We are at our best when we counter with pace, stretch the fullbacks and hit the bye-line for crosses. It needs to start from a solid defensive performance, though, and we have a track record of leaking goals in the first 10 minutes in this fixture and never catching up. I suspect it will be more of the same this time, but one of these days they will surprise me.

In recent times I'm sure it's contractual rather than practical i.e. we need to wear our change kit a minimum of 8 times a season, or similar. Another reason teams used to change kit in the 60s and 70s was when they were televised and wanted to make it easier to distinguish in black and white. I remember that even after all the games were in televised in colour on STV, it took Grampian a few years to get colour cameras; so Aberdeen game highlights on Scotsport were black and white for a while.

Donnelly and Carroll should certainly help. However, we seem incapable of getting a league win at Ibrox and I'd be amazed if that changed at the weekend.

We've had a few players over the years that struggled to initially make the step up to the tempo and intensity of the league - resulting a string of niggling injuries. Some, like Gorrin, work through it and make the grade. Others, like Newell can't seem to stay injury-free.

Polworth, Campbell and Donnelly for starters, I would think.

From memory, when it used to be the home side that changed kit, I'm pretty sure I have seen us change it against Arbroath, Dundee Utd, Aberdeen, Partick Thistle, Hearts, East Fife and Stenhousemuir (in a Scottish Cup game). I have a feeling we changed against Dumbarton when they had a predominately yellow shirt, but I might be misremembering that. I'm sure we also changed against Albion Rovers in the Lanarkshire Cup. The changes against Hearts, Dundee Utd and Aberdeen in particular didn't seem to be consistent and if you look on Youtube you'll see games against them where neither side changed and other games during the same period where a change was made.