Kilmarnock are always a hard team to play but for me they dominated possession far too much, despite all their possession we stayed solid and I can’t remember them creating a chance or Marciano having to pull off many saves.


Couple of points for me;


Why do we have centre mids that can only do one thing or the other? Killie played with Dicker and Tshibola in there today and both were able to compete and play.


Gogic was very good imo and does small things that probably go unnoticed with a lot of people but appreciated by team mates. Tackles, headers, interceptions and covering his team mates was all there to see today and I think he will be a very good bit of business.


Newell showed signs he can play in there and put in some really good tackles and blocks, I would like to see him dictate the play a lot more though as he has the ability.


Allan was incredibly frustrating. The assist aside which was brilliant he was very poor and gave away possession countless times with little/no pressure. He also seemed to want an absolute age to pick his pass.


Hanlon and Porteous were brilliant for me today and never gave them a sniff. Both dominated everything in the air and defensively. Their team mates should be very thankful. Really hope Porteous is ok but there was a good few times he smacked the ground in anger about the pain he was in.


Boyle, well where would we be without him? I actually thought he was really quiet today but scored two goals so I’m not complaining.


Doig got taught a massive lesson off Burke who is a very good winger. On the ball he needs to be a lot more positive and drive forward, he was getting screamed at for being so deep and just giving it back to Hanlon. Think his confidence took a knock early doors. I’d still start him next week but if he continues with performances like that I think he should be loaned out.

Burkes goal was a screamer but for me Marciano was trying to be too clever. He was assuming Burke would go for the other corner so tried to cheat a bit and get closer to that side. Burke called his bluff and put it in the other one, if he was positioned how he should have been he saves that imo.


Jack Ross deserves credit for changing from a 352 - 433 - 442. All done at the right stages and helped us massively.