Gaun ra Killie!
Was at the 1-0 victory over A*r last night. Not a great advert for Scottish football. A decent crowd of 8700 odd, with the wee team from down the road bringing a solid 1500. United look like a pub team, with a lot of ex-pros working their way down the leagues, lumping it long, booting everything that moved and hoping for a set-piece. None too surprisingly they had a couple of ex-Killie players in Mark Roberts and Andy Millen in charge.
As for Killie? If this lot are 4th the rest in the SPL must be pretty dire. The boy Magennis up front would struggle to get into the Hurlford Juniors team, despite all his huff and puff he really is not a striker. Lee Miller was running up and down the touchline for most of the game, but is just coming back from injury. Some decent young players: Robbie Muirhead, Rory MacKenzie (who scored the winner) and Chris Johnston when he came on. Alexei Eremenko is obviously a class above everyone else, but can`t actually run.
Two other notes: I forgot we had a plastic pitch, they have obviously come on a great deal and had no discernible effect on the game. Also I was in a local pub and a group of twenty or so A*r fans cunningly made it past the doormen (mostly wee boys and "their dads") and tried to wind up the Killie fans with some rude songs. I was most shocked. 6 bobbies came in and asked them to leave and they left meekly. Having said that the cross-county banter was better than the football.
SEVCO in the next round plz.
