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Update

2006-03-16T23:47:00.000Z

I've been trying to resurrect this with a new design but it's all went bananas. Sorry about that. I'm working away and trying to get it back into order.

Post Split Trauma

2005-05-02T22:13:00.000Z

True to form this season, my laziness has meant that there has been a whopping eight matches since my last post here. True to Killie's season, it's been a mixed bag of results too. The record reads P8 W3 L4 D1 and in those games we've managed to beat - and get beat by – both Dundee and Inverness Caley. Go figure.The latest run started pretty miserably. Despite my bold

Losing Heart

2005-02-28T21:42:00.000Z

I was intending to hold off with an update only until our titanic triumvrate of matches with Hearts had passed. Things being as they are, though, another two games have come and gone; but more of them later.The Cup match at Tynecastle was, for me, just like the old days - and went some way to reinvigorating my belief in football. Killie took around 3000 fans to Gorgie. The atmosphere was terrific

It's been a long time....

2005-02-01T22:47:00.000Z

Christ, bang goes all my hard work - and just when I thought that I could get into the flow of this. Since my last post all those weeks ago Killie have plumbed the depths and recovered to just about get their head above water. It went something like this...Going to East End Park back in November dreaming of another 6-0 win was something of a mistake (we got humped 4-1). The only plus point was

Nothing in reserve

2004-11-19T23:52:00.000Z

You may have noticed that I have singularly failed to keep this site up to date with reports from the away Reserve fixtures. There are a few reasons for this, the principal one being that, since they changed the format of the league from "U21" Monday night games to "Reserve" play-them-whenever-they-feel-like-it games I've not actually made it to any yet! In actual fact, they have only played 8

Hanging in there

2004-11-19T23:21:00.000Z

I was just about in danger there of letting this all slip again. Three matches have come and gone since my last post and, in keeping with the recent trend, it's been a mixed lot. The 3-1 humbling of Hibs at Rugby Park provided as entertaining a first 45 as I've seen for a while. Memories of the 6-2 drubbing we handed them (last season was it?) came flooding back as we raced into a three nil lead,

2004-10-30T07:52:00.000Z

Script for a supporter’s tear It’s been an eventful week these last seven days at Killie. We went into last Saturday’s home match with ICT thinking, surely, this was three points for our taking. And for much of the match this looked to be the case. Like Dens Park the previous week, Killie took the lead in the opening few minutes, this time a rare goal from wee Stevie Murray. Such was Killie’s

2004-10-19T21:48:00.000Z

Word just in... ...the Reserves beat Dundee tonight 2-1 thanks to a Naismith brace. Check out Hippo's report at killiefc.com for full details.

2004-10-19T21:41:00.000Z

I’m sure I’ve seen this movie before Once again, a couple of weeks have lapsed since I last got my Killie-angst off my chest. Perhaps I should consign myself to fortnightly updates rather than some deluded notion that I can keep this up more frequently. Defeat at Ibrox, one tended to think, was inevitable – and so it proved. 2-0 in the end, yet it all could have been so different had Boyd’s

2004-09-29T20:09:00.000Z

Reserve Update There's not been much in the way of U21 action (or "The Reserves" as they are known again) so far this season, and I've managed to miss what there has been. After the 2-1 victory over Hibs, the youngsters/injured/crap (delete as appropriate) have been beaten by Hearts 1-0 and inflicted the same result on Livingston (Dargo netting the winner). All of these matches have been at

2004-09-29T20:05:00.000Z

Fowler's howlers and Boyd goes Nap A couple of weeks have passed since my last post, a period which has seen Killie plumb some pretty deep depths only to recover in astonishing style at the weekend. Just like our trip to Tynecastle earlier in the season, the optimism and fervour that preceded our home match with Aberdeen was misplaced and, perhaps, misguided. The expected bumper crowd didn’t

2004-09-15T20:15:00.000Z

Keeping the sheets clean Turns out we're not that bad after all. Since my last post Killie have managed to put the skelping at Tyncastle behind them to turn in three pretty decent performances that now sees us sitting joint second in the SPHell (with Aberdeen) and in the next round of the CIS Cup. The 3-0 cup win over Hamilton Accies came first, with second-half goals from Danny Invincibile (2

2004-08-23T20:05:00.000Z

Same old same old Oh dear. And it was all going so well, too. Saturday’s fixture at Tynecastle was always going to benchmark how far we had progressed from last season; Hearts, after all, finished comfortably third again last year and are now the recognised “best of the rest” outside the gruesome twosome and a legitimate standard to aim for. Unfortunately, what it did prove was that we haven’t

2004-08-17T20:50:00.000Z

So, after Hamilton scudding Ayr United 4-1 tonight, it's the Accies we face in the second round of the CIS Cup. I think I'm right in saying we haven't played the Lanarkshire lot since a certain nervy 0-0 draw at Rugby Park over 10 years ago saw us promoted to the Premier League. This actually serves as a reminder that, despite our travails of recent years, the Club has now had it's longest

2004-08-16T21:12:00.000Z

On another day... Saturday’s 4-2 defeat at home to Celtic encapsulated everything that is at once exhilirating and punishing about watching Kilmarnock. In a breathless first half hour Killie played some of their best attacking football for a long while, pressing an unusually porous Celtic defence into several errors, and twice taking the lead through goals from Gary MacDonald and Gary Wales –

2004-08-12T19:14:00.000Z

Ayr we go again As now seems customary each season, Killie have been drawn from the CIS Cup purple bag paired with Ayr United (if they can get passed Hamilton Accies that is). The tie will take place at Rugby Park which gives us a better than even chance of progressing into the third round. Let's hope it's at the expense of our neighbours from down the A77.

2004-08-11T22:11:00.000Z

Ally Graham's a loser (again) I took myself along to see my 'other' team tonight, Stirling Albion, in action at Forthbank against Queens Park in the first round of the CIS Insurance Cup. The Binos ran out 3-2 winners in the end but were made to sweat after a spirited second half performance by the Spiders. The home side took a comfortable 2-0 lead into the break thanks to goals from Martin

2004-08-10T21:54:00.000Z

Myth and MagicThe U21s got off to a winning start at Rubgy Park tonight against their Hibs counterparts. Killie ran out 2-1 winners thanks to a brace from Craig Dargo. Read the Hippo's report here. Making his debut in the stripes was new signing Allan "Magic" Johnston, ex of Hearts, Rennes, Sunderland and Middlesborough. Time will tell, but this could well be a neat piece of business by Jim

2004-08-07T22:31:00.000Z

Radio Ga-Ga Funny how things sometimes turn out a bit different from what you planned. There I was all set for our opening day match against Hibs – I ’d actually got as far as parking the car in Edinburgh – when a mini domestic crisis (everything OK now, thanks) required that I promptly re-start the engine and get my arse back home. Not only did this mean I had to miss Killie’s fine 1-0 win in

2004-08-04T21:56:00.000Z

With a little help from friendlies Every year I say I'm not going back to pre-season friendlies. This promise to myself usually comes in the wake of either a hellish thumping like last term's humbling by Portsmouth (0-5), or a hellish snooze-fest like last week's practice match with Derby County (0-0). Whatever the result, it seems, these games are always hellish. Looking back a few years I

2004-07-22T20:46:00.000Z

Friendly Fire Fresh from thumping 31 goals past three hapless amateur sides in Italy, Killie take on the local amateurs of Ayr United this weekend in the Westsound Big Match Trophy at the Theatre of Piss in Ayr. This pre-season "friendly" replaces the now defunct Ayrshire FA Cup. The match should hopefully see some fresh faces in the Killie line-up with new signings Gary Wales and Peter Leven

2004-07-08T22:01:00.000Z

In through the out door It's been very much more out than in at Rubgy Park over the summer. Gone are Steve Fulton, Alan Mahood (both training at Partick), Martin Hardie (Partick or Morton), Gary McSwegan (Ross County), Francois Dubordeau (ADO Den Haag), Colin Meldrum (Livingston) and, of course, the magnificent Eric Skora has returned to wee Broon at Preston after his loan spell So far the only

2004-07-08T21:45:00.000Z

Small, but perfectly formed Ah, here we are again. Good to be back. This whole Heiland Coo Jags v GFT-Going Jags debacle is getting out of hand. You know what I'm talking about. I'm actually past caring which of them ends up in the SPHell, and I've long since abandoned any reasoned argument on the matter. What IS getting right on my wotsit, though, is the delay this mess seems to be having on the

2004-01-30T00:36:00.000Z

Update... There's been too many results to report on since my last post (and very few of them positive) so if you want the lowdown head over to the official site. I'll continue to post reports from the U21 away matches I make it to and you'll be able to read them here first beofre they appear on killiefc.com. The Hippo's reports from the home U21 matches also appear there. The upshot of our

2004-01-30T00:03:00.000Z

Hibernian U21 2 Dobbie 47, 48 Kilmarnock U21 2 Dargo 3, 78 Easter Road, Monday 26 January 2004, 7pm In what was an excellent match, the Killie second string put in an encouraging performance to leave Edinburgh last night with a well-deserved share of the points. Killie made several notable changes from last week’s defeat to Dunfermline. The ever-impressive Steven Naismith was recalled to a

2004-01-30T00:01:00.000Z

Dunfermline U21 3 Hunt 60, 88 Dempsey 76 Kilmarnock U21 0 East End Park, Monday 19 January 2004, 7pm Killie’s youngsters took to East End Park’s plastic pitch likes ducks to cement last night and ended up on the receiving end of a 3 goal beating that could have been a lot worse. With the likes of recent U21 regulars such as Di Giacomo, Hessey, Dodds, Dillon, Fowler and Invincibile missing for

2003-09-16T21:24:00.000Z

Hearts U21 0 Kilmarnock U21 0 Monday 15 September 2003, Forthbank Stadium, Stirling, 7pm As the proclaimed third force in Scottish football, Hearts have followed the example set by the Old Firm and now play their Under 21 matches at a new dinky wee stadium nowhere near their own – in their case Stirling Albion’s Forthbank Stadium. A fair distance from Tynecastle it may be, but, as it

2003-08-21T23:42:00.000Z

The new site I've royally mucked about with the formatting of this and now have a few gaps to fill. Please bear with it. If you've wandered onto this page looking for the U21 report v the Jags, you should see it below. Enjoy. More stuff to come soon. Comments etc to dave@killie.net.

2003-08-19T22:33:00.000Z

Partick Thistle U21 3 Mitchell 50 Ross 54 McBride 88 Kilmarnock U21 1 Nish 90 Monday 18 August 2003, Firhill Stadium, 7pm A strong Killie side failed to capitalise on their possessional advantage and ended up being well beaten by an energetic and direct Thistle side. François Dubourdeaux took the number 1 jersey, fresh from signing on at Rugby park until the end of the year, whilst Jim

2003-07-29T21:30:00.000Z

Up Pompey As the new season rapidly approaches, Killie entertain English Premiership newcomers Portsmouth in a friendly at Rugby Park tomorrow evening. This game - and the subsequent visit of Sunderland on Saturday - should provide a stern test for Jim Jeffries' re-jigged team after three comfortable victories during their mini north of England tour last week. 4-1, 8-1, and 2-1 triumphs over

2003-07-01T22:37:00.000Z

Time flies by when you're the driver of a train. Or not as the case may be. For anybody that's interested we did in fact beat Hearts, but skelpings by Rangers and Celtic, coupled with a meek draw with Dunfermline, put paid to any lingering hopes of Europe. And so onto another season. More to follow when something of interest actually happens down Rugby Park way.

2003-05-02T21:23:00.000Z

Talk is that Hearts are bringing 5000 fans down the A77 tomorrow. Shame the Chadwick stand only holds 3500! Seriously, should be a great match.

2003-05-01T21:14:00.000Z

So we got beat at Parkheid after all. And a pretty lame performance to boot. So much for optimism. Last week's away win to Dundee, though, keeps the fading Euro flame alight for this Saturday's visit of Hearts to Rugby Park. Without doing the advanced mathematics bit, to get our passports out again we need Hearts to collapse in the run-in and for Killie to have a blinding last four games -

2003-04-11T19:32:00.000Z

As appears to be customary now, several months have passed since my last post. I blame that darn killiefc.com. All of my wisdom seems to get sucked in over at their place. I notice from below that this whole thing started on the eve of a visit to the Potatodome in the East End of Glasgow. That game came off the back of a 5-1 spanking from Livingston at Rugby Park. As the fates would have it I

2002-11-29T22:35:00.000Z

Well, since my last post we managed the unthinkable and strung two wins back to back. A last gasp away victory at Fir Park and a convincing home defeat of Ferranti Thistle. Then last week it all went pear-shaped again as we slipped to a home defeat to Hearts in a truly dire match. This seems to be a theme at the moment; the quality of football we're playing leaving a lot to be desired. However,

2002-03-29T21:11:00.000Z

If you've arrived at this page then I guess you did it by accident or were hunting down all the Killie related domain names to see where they pointed. Now you're here let me explain myself. There IS going to be something here soon worth reading. Honest. When I say "here" I mean at killie.net. This blog is simply my means of writing the odd comment to convince myself that I've not forgotten about

2001-10-23T08:13:00.000Z

OK, OK it really is time I did something with this. I've been busy. Honest. After Saturday's humiliation and the impending doom of Parkhead looming, though, I'm still in too much shock to write anything sensible. Stick with it though and I might just get this thing off the ground before our next home victory. Should give me plenty of time.