Kmcalpin

Its unlikely we'll keep a clean sheet so we'll have to bank on scoring 2 at least. To do that, our formation and personnel will have to be tweaked to give us more threat in the final third. On paper, the 2nd easiest home game of the season so if we can't win this?

John Chapman, a farmer by occupation, made this very point about undersoil heating baking the soil, years ago.

Hopefully we'll see something of Jack Vale tomorrow. With an intense run of games coming up, we can't rely too much on Bair, irrespective of how well he's been performing.

It's should have been a yellow card at least. Shocking challenge.

That's certainly true. However undersoil heating didn't seem to damage the previous surface. No something else is going on but I don't know what. I'm no groundsman.

I don't know who you have spoken to about this. However if you mean club directors or management; or Society Board members then I am not close to them nor have I spoken to them.

If you're going to post "facts" don't be selectively one sided.

A great result for them, but to put that into perspective, the Pars had an injury crisis.

I had exactly the same thought earlier. Great minds think alike or fools seldom differ? Its all I can come up with by way of an explanation.

If we keep changes to a minimum then yes, Paton drops out. However we could also move Paton back and drop Halliday.

Quite a few of the new lads had just arrived and are settling in, so its limited what we could /can change during games. However I take your general point that we could have been slightly more adventurous. Given Vale 10 minutes (like KVV was given) or have given Nicholson say 15 minutes (he was given more time at Perth). Miller could have come on a bit earlier, when we began to flag. We need to be more adventurous on Tuesday evening.

Agreed. He's a busy, mobile and combative lad, who can drive forward, but lets himself down when near goal. Probably better suited to a slightly deeper role. It was interesting yesterday that that Maguire and Elliot (how mnay wing backs do we need on the bench?) didn't make the bench. I get the impression that Elliot is on a relatively low wage and is here as more of a project to be assessed before the summer. That may be a wild take though.

I'd have taken a draw beforehand, providing we win on Tuesday. Not a bad result and SK has steadied the ship. We deserved to win but were toothless up front where it counts. In many ways a carbon copy of the St Johnstone game. I know we're very limited due to circumstances, but I'm not a fan of playing with one striker. Yesterday, Bair put in a good shift and scored a nice goal but for long spells was left isolated and unsupported. Too often we broke well but failed to get bodies into the box. I was a little surprised that some of the new boys, like Jack Vale, didn't get 10 minutes or so to ease them into the side. We're going to need squad rotation in the coming weeks. I thought we need some subs say aroungd the 65/70 minute mark when we began to flag. Still, not a bad performance and we managed to hold Killie to a single point. We were in control for considerable spells and had more possession. We also largely blunted the threat from their wide boys, with some tactical nous. I thought McGinn, Bair, and Paton were the pick of the bunch. Spittal had a good first half but faded in the second. Butcher is coming back onto a game as he regains match fitness. Paton was my MOTM, but isn't suited to such an advanced role. The goal that we lost was again soft and Kelly was rightly raging at his defence (midfield). Their first and only shot on target. They had 2 or 3 men waiting unmarked for clearances on the edge of our box. Sure as fate Mayo managed to get a free, unhindered shot on target. Poor, or rather lack of, defending from our midfield. Spittal released Bair with a peach of pass and the big man did the rest with a cool finish. In the second half, we looked dangerous on the break and created several chances but lacked a killer touch. I was a bit uncomfortable though with the amount of pressure we allowed Killie to exert as we sat too deep as the clock ticked down. The referee was again weak and inconsistent and that caused various flare ups during the game. We were warned beforehand by management to expect a hard bruising encounter and thats how it turned out. Killie were physical, streetwise and cynical and were fortunate have 11 men on the pitch at full time. Not a great result, but not a bad one. We really need to start winning though.

Its not a make or break game but its hugely important given the hard and intensive run of fixtures coming up. We're now hard to beat, which is a start, but are pretty toothless up front. We're still losing cheap goals, although maybe only one per game. Tactics and team selection need to be tweaked slightly if we are to win this.

Pretty much my view although there are exceptions. There were mixed reactions to KVV in the POD Stand today. I half heartedly booed KVV today not in a malicious way but in a pantomime villain way because he was going to try to score against us; damage us if you like. But then I checked myself and stopped. In such situations you don't know what's going through someone's head. From where I was sitting there was no bile or malice coming from the stand.

Yes. Will Killie fans get roasted in the media for their smoke bombs?

Post of the night sir. Spot on.

I agree, but he's being asked to fill a role for which he isn't suited. My MOTM though.

Paton for me. Kept running for 90 minutes and wasn't intimidated by Killie bruisers.

I don't understand Killie splashing out £250-300k for him for only 5/6 months. They are already in 4th spot and won't finish higher. They won't win the Cup. They won't finish below 6th. So what's the point? An expensive act of vanity

Finished the first half strongly after a poor start. Killie are treading a fine line with their indiscipline.

Great finish by Bair.

No cutting edge at all.

High balls to an unsupported lone striker are not working. There's plenty of time to change it though.

I would now say that 12 month loan deals should be out for us - just too risky. 6 months at the most. Steelboy is right though, perhaps we weren't the best club for him for the reason he states. He does come across as being disrespectful though. As with Max Johnston, they're simply an entry in our records now.