Over the two Saturdays past, both home games v Dundee Utd and ICT, Killie trivia questions that i thought up over a month ago have been debunked, first of all two weeks ago my "who are the five players to have the number 9 squad number since squad numbers were introduced?" was crapped on because it turns out i had missed one. I had Paul Wright, then by my recollection we signed big Michel Ngonge, however he didnt want to follow Paul Wright as number 9, he wanted 18, the 18 we had was a utility player called Sean Hessey, Ngonge wanted 9 but didnt want nine, he wanted 18, 1 plus 8 equals 9, Hessey said he would give up 18 if he got 9, he did and it was weird. Then i had the jersy going to Kris Boyd who wore it and scored a hatful before moving on, less said the better. Then it was Colin Nish and now its Alan Russell, all well and good, that makes five. Well no, i got a late night phone call to let me know i forgot one.
Gary McSwegan, cant believe i forgot about him, in season 2003-2004 he was number 9 after
being 25 in his first season (the one before), Boydie wore 12 that year, when i was told i went home and checked, i had a wee inkling at the back of my head that it might not be, maybe they were mistaken, he was number 10 was he not? No, he was 9. Arse. Also the Kevin McGowne answer came up, as i knew it would but my actual question insulates me from this as squad numbers came to pass in the season 98-99 and McGowne doesnt count. The reason they mention this is because Killie had squad numbers in Europe after winning the cup. I dont know whos bright idea it was but they were allocated on alphabetical order so Big Kev was 9 ,but that falls outside of the time limit so doesnt count. I always thought that the Hessey answer was the tricky one, the one that would have got people thinking, how was i to know that my own question would goose me when it came right dow to it! Gary McSwegan!See thats what happens with these types of questions, especially if they are dreamed up by dumb asses like me. I came up with it to test the usuals in the pub; Wee Cuthbert, big Aldo, Jake Sharp, big Davie and Burnett on a Sunday and the like, good Killie boys and they all accepted the 5 man answer (this question i had first asked back in mid October time, i was caught out at the end of November) but then one would ask another person at some point down the line if trivia questions come up in another pub (they do, regularly) and eventually Sweggy came out, 6 instead of 5, so i got caught out and insult to injury they arent slow in letting me know, not content to the next time they seen me a phone call at half 10 on a Saturday night was how i was told. So cheers for that fellas.
The next Saturday, it was the poser, name the 10 goalies to have played for Kilmarnock since we won the cup in 97. Thats 10, not including outfield players who have went in ala Gus McPherson who most people name first as if all you want to do is trip people up. No the question regards actual goalkeepers and till that day there was ten. Here goes.
Drago for starters, he won the cup and played on till he was sold to some Spanish mob, he was replaced by Gordon Marshall (in my opinion he could be the finest goalie i have ever seen in a Killie strip), both these keepers had excellent scoreboard animations, Drago had a dragon which scrolled down to a smiling baby dragon or a face made out of the dragons knees or something, alwasy confused me actually. And Gordon Marshall, he had "you've been halted....by the Marshall" Hands down my favourite scoreboard animation (2nd place goes to the three stooges) Melly was back up to both these guys and so makes three. Francios Duberdeau was in there somewhere (THE worst goalie i have ever saw) Craig Samson (goes to expo) played a game too, a defeat in what has been my only visit to Aberdeen, Colin Stewart played in a mauling we gave Hibs, and Michael Watt too, all in some sort of order which i dont know off the top of my head. Then comes the recent ones Graeme Smith played before following the cash to Ibrox, Chad Harpur, who my dad for no reason calls Chud, and so now do i and my brother, again for no reason, just Chud as well too, not Chud Harper, just Chud, i i was to put it in a sentence the sentence would be "god, i hope Chud isnt on the bench today" And Alan Combe our current number 1. this meandering rubbish has a point as such though as that Combe went off injured and the answer became 11. Welcome to the killie first team Damien (Dizzy) Rascale, in your 45 minutes on the park you became the second Frenchman to guard our goal and already the best!
Anyway, the fitba, the Dundee United game showed me that our team is one which only plays when confident, we scored a penalty on the stroke of hal time and came out a new team for the seconf half, i feel that if we hadnt scored then probably we would never had! But we scored again and it was a topper and down at our Moffat Stand end too!
Inverness game saw our newest number 9 make his first start, it wasnt impressive if i tell the truth, but then the whole team were crap. Turning on the stye with half an hour to go and two nil down isnt the way to do it. the fact we had a chance to grab a draw is immaterial. The two goals we lost were defensive boobs and goalkeeping boobs in the first half. Combe never came out for the second half, an injury that to my knowldge hasnt came to light. Sub Wullie G came on and showed flashes that he could be a player scoring one and getting taken down for the penalty, my worry is that for a left winger he only kicks with his right and he never goes to the byeline, a frustrating enigm,a of a player he is. To wrap things up he won a penalty with minutes remaining and us down two one. Mehdi stepped up after not hitting our pen the week before (Hammill hit it and scored, Mehdi has since revealed an old habit from his days in France meant that if he was brought down for the penalty he doesnt hit the resultant spot kick, Wullie G went down this week so Mehdi places the ball) and blasts it high and wide, gutted. Fact of the matter was that we got exactly what we deserved from the game, sweet f.a.
Other info from this period where i havent posted much, a guy called Armand One has been reperted to be training with us. he has been released by soem Finnish mob i think, he still lives in Scotland from his time as a player of Cowdenbeath and Partick Thistle. Not knocking him or anything but he was reported in the papers as saying he read that JJ was looking for a tall striker so asked for a trail, is this really what it has come to?
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