2018-19 Diary Week 43

It's a bittersweet symphony this life.

We finish third, we qualify for Europe, we get ditched at the altar by the best thing that’s happened to us in years!

Let’s start with the game.

A well-deserved hard fought win over the new team from Glasgow.

We’ve taken ten points off them this year so the SFA forced Steve Clarke to sit in the stand to give them a better chance.

Then they offered him the Scotland job so he can’t torment them next year.

Our directors decision to restore home advantage resulted in the biggest crowd at Rugby Park in years, hopefully many of them will return next season.

The atmosphere was fantastic, and the fans were outstanding, to which the players responded and delivered the three points we needed.

There are too many people who deserve praise for the season as a whole to name, but I am going to mention the foot soldiers of the blue and white army…this one was for you.

We loved Steve Clarke like a brother but we have to wish him all the best and move on, he was a massive part of our renaissance but we are Killie…and Killie are back!

2018-19 Diary Week 42

Another game, another clean sheet, another three points in the bag and everything now hinges on the last fixture next Sunday.

It was a nervy afternoon for the fans but we did what we had to do and a penalty won by Alex Bruce and dispatched down the middle by Eamon ‘the wolf’ Brophy was enough to see us through.

It has been a wonderful season and we are just ninety minutes away from securing third place and a berth in European competition next season on our own merits.

There is always the back door route if Celtic win the Scottish Cup but we really don’t want to be in that situation and I am sure that the players will once again give their all against The Rangers and get us the result we need.

The home crowd increased yet again on Saturday and hopefully that trend will continue next week.

Let’s nail this myth that we need to have a full house to justify the Board’s stance on reducing future matches against the twisted sisters to one stand right now.

We don’t.

Any amount of Killie fans more than we normally get is justification in itself, and increased crowds over next season is the real goal here.

Be there!

2018-19 Diary Week 41

There were absolute scenes at Tynecastle again as Stuart Findlay cracked home the winner in the final few minutes of Saturday’s match.

We sold out our allocation and they had to open pay gates as a vociferous blue and white army rolled into the capital.

It was a strange first half as there only seemed to be one team doing anything, we were making all the chances and also making a few mistakes, but there was no goals to be had at either end.

We lost momentum in the second half when Uche Ikpeazu went off injured and Hearts had to change their tactics and play the ball short.

The last twenty minutes were ours again though, and the winner was a real team effort; and how we celebrated it.

It is all in our own hands now, we sit in third place with better goal difference than Aberdeen with two home matches left and two cracks at a Europa Cup place.

Sounds good eh!

It’s far from job done yet though, let’s fill those stands at Rugby Park and do our bit.