2018-19 Diary Week 27

Two points would have been a good return from the last two matches so it was fantastic to come away with four.

All the talk was about Jordan Jones prior to the midweek match and our opposition started Jermaine Defoe who is paid more than our whole team put together!

He did get a goal, but the best team won on the night and fair play to Jones who got the winner and vindicated his selection by the manager.

I said on the radio at the time that the only man who could fix the problem was Steve Clarke, and he did, with some wry humour thrown in by the Killie faithful.

Now we know he’s still up for the job, time to move on.

Next up some resolute defending meant a clean sheet and a point from Pittodrie.

How Kris Boyd got sent off for his (yellow at most) challenge and yet the dirty Dons got away with the two footed tackle on Aaron Tshibola and the elbow in Scott Boyd’s face…only Nick Walsh will know.

Big game on Friday night against the Jambos, let’s show up in numbers!

2018-19 Diary Week 26

The winter break was not good to us as our rivals seem to have adopted a “if you can’t beat them, sign them” tactic for the run in.

You’d think Rangers would at least be wary of trying to buy league places after their recent come back from the dead!

If the scrappy win over Forfar proved anything, it was that Greg Stewart will be a far bigger loss to the team than Jordan Jones, but no one is irreplaceable.

Jones himself was replaced in the 65th minute, and the Killie fans who had been warned not to boo him, ripped into his “boyhood heroes” instead, apologies to Middlesbrough.

Clever.

The only rocket really worth talking about is Stuart Findlay’s left foot one for the first goal!

We lined up with an almost unrecognisable defence and the big yin still has time to stroll up the park and bang one in.

There are tough times ahead but if we stick together and back the team we’ll keep ourselves in the running…and at least we never drew the all-conquering Talbot in the next round of the cup!

2018-19 Diary Week 25

Greg Stewart’s recall this week has been another blow to our plans but the Club have been willing to push the boat out to keep him and Steve Clarke is waiting on Birmingham responding to our latest offer.

The Trust’s Tweet about how 3,000 Killie fans signing up for the Trust in Killie initiative entry level would have put another £360,000 into the coffers last year has caused a bit of a stir, with a veritable storm of new memberships and fans subscribing to TIK.

There has been 29 new memberships taken out and 100 new subscribers to TIK in the last couple of days! This begged the question for many, what is the difference between the “Killie Trust” and the “Trust In Killie” initiative?

The Killie Trust (Kilmarnock Supporters’ Society Ltd.) has 1,465 Shareholders and 609 active members and costs £10 a year to join. Your first £1 buys your share and the rest goes into the general fund to operate the Trust. Your membership should renew automatically every year as long as there is £10 in your account to cover it. If you keep your membership ‘active’ then you will receive mailshots, be allowed to vote and be eligible to put yourself forward for the Trust Board.  You can sign up HERE

Trust In Killie (TIK) is the main initiative being undertaken by the Killie Trust at the moment. There are currently 357 subscribers who pay between £10 and £25 a month into this and every penny goes to the Club to buy unallocated shares, creating a tax free revenue stream to boost our budget. The initiative has already delivered £100,000 to the Club and in return we now have a representative on the Club Board. Targets for Phase Two of the initiative will be discussed at the Trust’s AGM on  Wednesday 16th January but regardless of what is agreed upon, our contributions allow the Football Club to reallocate funds to whatever they deem necessary so in effect it is all really just going into the same pot. You can sign up HERE

More details including a Frequently Asked Questions page can be found HERE

2018-19 Diary Week 24

This week’s offering should really be all about Scotland’s oldest professional football club’s 150th anniversary launch dinner on Saturday, organised by the KFCSA and Killie’s Gregg McEwan, but sadly that is not the hottest topic this week.

We already knew that Jordan Jones would probably be leaving the club at the end of the season, we also knew it was highly likely that he would go up the road to Rangers (boyhood heroes my arse), we didn’t like it but it happens, you lose players and move on.

The immature and classless way it transpired though was unacceptable and insulting to the fans and club who gave the player the platform to shine which facilitated his move.

Such a shame as Jones has been an excellent player for us and up until now, really good with the fans.

Why any of these guys would choose to align themselves with lowlife factions via the medium of social media is beyond me!

Seems like The Rangers are up to their old tricks of buying out their nearest rivals again, surely the SFA must have something to say about such a recently bankrupt organisation already back in massive debt and losing money hand over fist?

Don’t hold your breath.