The Great Big Kilmarnock Thread

[tree house tam]

6 hours ago, ancientnoise said:

Oddly enough all three describe your posting style, but in a different manner. 

Words, eh?

[BlueKillie]

5 hours ago, C4mmy31 said:

Fowler is away to Sunderland as JR's assistant....

Ah didn't know that, cheers

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

Looking forward to when my kids get to that age where they want full strips, name badges etc.  Total for two kids = £162 

[the west curve]

4 hours ago, Nutz_the_Squirrel said:

Looking forward to when my kids get to that age where they want full strips, name badges etc.  Total for two kids = £162 

Great value for all that. 

 

Edited May 26, 2018 by the west curve

[C4mmy31]

Chris Burke is plotting the next phase of his career on the SFAs training grounds at Oriam this week. But he insists the first phase isn't over yet as he negotiates a new deal with on fire Kilmarnock. And as the 34 year old prepares to take on the first stage of his UEFA "A" Licence, he said "we are still in talks but hopefully in due course something good will happen. I'd like to stick around. Kilmarnock have been great the manager has been great - there's such a good feeling there. "

Sunday Mail.

[dumpweed]

Any thoughts on Templeton?

 

Good player but there has to be a concern over his injury record.

[kilMARKnock]

Any thoughts on Templeton?
 
Good player but there has to be a concern over his injury record.

His dad's a c**t, that is all.

[Estragon]

Any thoughts on Templeton?
 
Good player but there has to be a concern over his injury record.

I'd rather we signed Chris Burke again.

[kennysmassiveego]

Would give Templeton a 1 year contract with MJ levels of add ons re injuries, games played etc that may trigger any extension clauses 

[Killie Alan]

His father was a p***k so don’t think he would fit in. Not good enough for us

[PrestersKTID]

 O'Donnell made his debut last night for Scotland. Well deserved, bit nervy to begin with but did ok. 

[Nadroj]

Absolute. Fucking. Ride.

[C4mmy31]

Stephen O'Donnell expressed his pride at earning his first cap for his country and hopes there'll be more to come.

The Killie defender was one of seven debutants as Alex McLeish's men lost out 2-0 to Peru in Lima with the Rugby Park defender featuring for the full 90 minutes.

O'Donnell produced a solid display in dark blue and won praise from the manager for the mentality shown on the night. 

He told the Scottish FA's website: "I’m obviously very proud, that would go without saying. Hopefully there’s more to come, obviously I can only try and play well for my club.

"It’s something in a couple of years’ time that I will look back on and be really proud to have achieved. We didn’t win and I want to win so it puts a slight dampener on it for the short term."

A penalty from Christian Cueva and goal from Jefferson Farfan saw off the Scots and O'Donnell reckons the hosts showed why they'll be playing at the biggest show on Earth this summer.

He added: "I think they showed why they are going to the World Cup. They passed the ball very well, had good movement and they punish you.

"I think they had two chances in the full game and scored both which was disappointing but they’re a good side.

"It’s one game I won’t forget. It would have been nicer if we’d got a result but it was a full house and there was a party atmosphere and we were hoping to spoil it. 

"We’d worked on a few things during the week and they came into the game but sadly they had a couple of chances and took them."

Looking ahead to the weekend friendly with Mexico and beyond, O'Donnell was asked if he could become Scotland's regular right back.

He added: "I would love to be the man but there’s Callum Paterson, who came on and has played right back as well as James Forrest and Ryan Fraser back home who have played there.

"I was delighted to get the opportunity, I hope I didn’t let anyone down and it’s not for me to say I will make that my own."

[Fide]

2 hours ago, Nadroj said:

Absolute. Fucking. Ride.

That's borderline pornographic.

[Fide]

Ladies and gentlemen, a ride:

 

[Dindeleux]

1 hour ago, Fide said:

That's borderline graph

What does this mean?  Borderline Graph?

[Dee Bliss]

4 hours ago, PrestersKTID said:

 O'Donnell made his debut last night for Scotland. Well deserved, bit nervy to begin with but did ok. 

Not sure about that. Thought him and Stevenson were poor for that level. The keeper was worse tho. 

[BlueKillie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44304566

Kilmarnock director Billy Bowie is aiming to build a club capable of breaking the traditional league dominance of the Old Firm.

No club other than Celtic or Rangers has won the title in Scotland since Aberdeen in 1985.

But Bowie is a man who knows about making it big from modest beginnings.

Asked if Kilmarnock could challenge, he said: "I would like to think so. We have to be modest. It would be great if we could do it next year."

Bowie has gone from starting a waste disposal operation with just one truck to building a business worth £20m.

Now he hopes to grow Kilmarnock in a similar way that would, one day, see them challenge at the top of the Scottish game.

"This is a big stadium, a 19,000 stadium," he told BBC Scotland. "Slowly, we are getting there - season-ticket sales are going great at the moment.

"If we can start to fill the stands here, do more commercial work, raise more funds towards the club, then the more we can improve the player budget."

But, in reality, can a side like Kilmarnock - or Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs - really aspire to break the stranglehold the Old Firm has had on league football in Scotland for the past three decades?

"We have really just got to see how we play, how the other teams have fared up," Bowie said.

"Every year, turnover has grown, employment has grown within the club. Our media department has three people in it. When I came there was one guy sharing media and hospitality.

"We've got the backroom staff, we've refurbished the gym, we've got a sport scientist.

"The way I look at it, we have got all the tools for the job. We need to make sure all the facilities are there for the players. Every year we're going to build on that."

Although his ultimate ambitions are big for Kilmarnock, it is clear Bowie's feet do still remain on the ground. For now, simply surviving in the Premiership is the immediate aim.

"We need to stay modest," he said. "The other teams out there have got to up the ante and raise their game. It will be very competitive next year but, ideally, we'll finish top six.

"My strategy with my own business is that, year on year, we grow by 10%. Ideally, I would see that as being something achievable here at Rugby Park as well."

Last season was almost revolutionary at Kilmarnock. Gone is the doom and gloom that clouded the air while the unpopular former chairman Michael Johnston reigned supreme.

Steve Clarke then arrived and took a failing side off the floor of the Premiership to fifth place - Kilmarnock's highest league finish in seven years.

Bowie positively brims with enthusiasm as to what he sees as the possibilities at Kilmarnock. It's an optimism fuelled by what he has already achieved in his business life and good old-fashioned community spirit.

"I'm very community minded. I love doing things for the community," Bowie said. "I'm buzzing with ideas for other things to help other junior football clubs out as well.

"I like helping. I like doing things that I can do. It's not all money either, a lot of the time it's just giving up a bit of time.

"Really, I just felt I had to do something for the football club - and even Kilmarnock.

"Kilmarnock had lost Johnnie Walkers. They used to have carpet factories here and this was a major employer, and one thing that couldn't happen here was for Kilmarnock to lose its football club."

Bowie's own success story is about steady progress. Building things from the ground up seems to be the Bowie mantra from his first days in business in the early 1990s.

"I saved up £5,000 and went out and bought one truck, refurbished it in 1991, and went out driving that myself doing industrial cleaning and whatever you could do with a tanker - cleaning up floods, drains," he recalled. "One truck led to two trucks, two led to four.

"In 2000, I bought a site in Moorfield, because at that time I had 40 trucks and I was upsetting the neighbours because I stayed on a C-class road.

"Since 2000, it's just helped us grow again to the extent that Moorfield was a 10-acre site and we've outgrown that as well. So, every year, I like enhancing things. I don't like to stand still.

"So, from one truck in 1991 to where I am now, it's been a fair whirlwind."

It's maybe not quite a whirlwind yet at Kilmarnock, but there is now certainly a sense of breezy optimism in the air.

Bowie is aiming to sell 4,000 season tickets this summer - that would be a rise of a third on last season. Money from that would be used to increase Clarke's playing budget.

Plans are also afoot to have a bespoke training centre up and running within the next 12 months.

The club is no longer in a position where it has to sell prize assets, as they did with striker Souleymane Coulibaly, with hopes still high that midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu will stay with the club for next season.

But what about the manager?

"I'm confident he'll be here the next two years, unless a bigger club come along and give him an offer he can't refuse," said Bowie. "But, to be honest, he's happy here. The fans love him.

"Sometimes you have to take all that into consideration - the feel-good factor and the respect he's got - and everything seems to be going the way he wants things to go."

Edited May 30, 2018 by BlueKillie

[Swello]

The headline is one of those ones that you immediately scoff at and then you realise that the what Bowie actually says is pretty sensible and unobjectionable in terms of his aspirations. I should have realised when I saw the single quotation marks of bullshit in the headline.

Most people think that the BBC Sports section is 'increasingly copying the shite you see in tabloids'

Edited May 30, 2018 by Swello

[C4mmy31]

44 minutes ago, Swello said:

The headline is one of those ones that you immediately scoff at and then you realise that the what Bowie actually says is pretty sensible and unobjectionable in terms of his aspirations. I should have realised when I saw the single quotation marks of bullshit in the headline.

Most people think that the BBC Sports section is 'increasingly copying the shite you see in tabloids'

More & more I'm finding the amount of bullshit the MSM claim to have "exclusive" can normally be found, 24hrs prior, as a vicious rumour circulating on fans sites & social media.