Who is the M.V.P?

I listen to talksport. I do this for a variety of reasons, one is that I enjoy it, another is that it’s a terrific alternative to listening to garbage like the Hoosiers, One Night Only, Scouting for Girls or other “indie” guff on our music radio stations, (in new music we trust ma baws, only if its played after 7pm more like), a further reason is that it gets you into a rage with their actually quite jingoistic statements and its healthy I think to get into such rages.

Hi its Ruud here back for another season, personally I am rather curious about this season, after the nightmare last year JJ will have to rebuild a team, either through signings or utilising the youths and bringing them through to be decent players and dare I say it valuable assets?! It could be brilliant, it could be a disaster, but I will reserve my judgement until it the season gets going.

Anyway, Thursday past (I write this on a Monday) they had a great wee debate, favourite schoolyard games, great laugh it was too, incidentally does anyone know the actual rules to British Bulldog? But at the same time they were asking listeners to name their clubs (or any others) most valuable person. The person whom the club would struggle to replace, you know the kind of person I am getting at. The reason was that Hleb the former Arsenal player claims that the day Wenger leaves the Emirates, Arsenal will cease to be the force they are, he is what makes then tick and he is irreplaceable. On talksport they basically agreed and went on to discuss other clubs, Chelsea would be deader than dead if Roman Abramovich decided enough was enough that coupled with him actually being a billionaire makes him Chelsea’s most valuable person. They also asked if Steven Gerrard was still Liverpool’s, food for thought I suppose.

You might be aware where I am going with this, especially as you are reading the first new edition of the KILLIE Hippo this season, if not here goes, who is Kilmarnock Football Clubs M.V.P?

Is it our esteemed Chairman Michael Johnson? The happy clappers are quite happy with his work output so maybe if we tried to replace him we would only end up with someone worse, is it better the devil you know than the better you don’t? is Michael doing a good job, a job that you think he is just around the corner form doing perfectly and proving all the nay sayers wrong? He took it on the chin by lowering the wages at the club to such a point were barely working on a skeleton staff, could another man have had the strength of character to do this? Is he Killies present MVP?

Jim Jeffries? Is it he who we couldn’t do without? We are continually told in our piss poor press coverage that he has done a miraculous job on a shoestring budget? Naisy brought on our best ever transfer fee and JJ brought him through, generating cash by nurturing players as well as picking up dirty rocks from the lower division and polishing them into gems, the work of a MVP? Also what would happen if we lost him? Who replaces JJ, many people on the Killie kickback forums suggest we would be looking at untried young managers or cheap lower league alternative does this mean JJ is irreplaceable and so MVP?

The Killie Trust perhaps? Now we have it could we do without it? Our youth programme would be a thing of the past if it weren’t for the fact that the Trust pays the cash needed to keep it going. If the Trust decided to call it a day would that be the catalyst to implosion of the club perhaps, the first thing in a chain reaction?

Or is it someone else, a player perhaps, Jamie Moffat? We all have our opinions after all.

These are merely suggestions, I am throwing this open to you the readers for answers to this, who is it, do we actually have one? It really is a fascinating question to ask yourself as in these dark days of happy clappers and hotheads/bampots showing up the gulf of opinion on our unhappy club. So either email it to the Hippo through his killiehippo@aol.com address or post a comment on the nhoj blogspot where this will also be published (address below) and your comments could feature in future issues.

Cheers

Ruud Kerouac