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Friz is also one of the few players to score in an SPFL game at Murrayfield, his goal is around 1 min 40 secs in.....

Adam Frizzell has joined Dumbarton on loan until January. The midfielder has signed for the League One outfit on a short-term deal after recovering from an injury sustained towards the end of the 2018/19 season. The 21-year-old has previously enjoyed loan spells with Livingston and Queen of the South. Under the terms of the deal, Adam will be able to play for Andy Millen’s Reserve team against Morton today. Everyone at the club wishes Adam well during his time with the Sons. Friz will do you guys a job......

Kilmarnock Football Club is pleased to announce Dominic Thomas has signed a new deal to remain at Rugby Park until the summer of 2021. The 23-year-old, who joined Killie in 2017, has extended his stay with the club after a promising start to the season under Angelo Alessio. Dom has made nine appearance for the club this term following a standout season for Dumbarton in 2018/19, which earned him a League One Player of the Year nomination. Speaking to the official club website, Dom said: “It feels really good to sign this new deal. I am very happy at Kilmarnock and I went to speak to the manager about the future because I only had one year left on my contract. “He wanted me to be here for longer so for me it was an easy decision and I’m delighted to put pen to paper.” Dom deserves his new deal, he seems to have knuckled down and has been working on his fitness, bulked up a fair bit & found a wee bit pace, over the summer. Deserves to start against Ross Co tomorrow tbh......

Both teams were utter dug shite..... Says a lot when Dom Thomas was the player most likely to threaten in attack & he didn't come on till the 94th minute.

Was only Kilmarnock though, not really worth celebrating for a routine expected win against a bottom 6 team

^^^ Agent for the ex Arsenal left back found ^^^

More like a box of Special K if you ask me......

Denial imminent........

We were big favourites against CQN & look how that turned out. I'm not buying this straight forward stuff from the Hibees fans. Hibs must be hurting after their loss in the derby and will be looking for a big reaction, if the players care enough, to ease the pressure on their manager. It wouldn't surprise me if this game goes all the way to penalties which fills me full of fear given our record from the spot in cup competitions.

Only 14 fit players you say.......

I come in peace..... How about Tommy Sloan with Kris Doolan as his assistant ???

McCall would need his head examined if he left Ayr right now..... besides one look at the double act who penned the BBC article suggests it's a load of shite.....

For the love of god, no...... unless your needing a left back of course.

Kilmarnock have offered a 12-month contract extension to striker Dom Thomas, whose deal runs out next summer. (Daily Express, print edition)

Your a very naughty boy......

J Mac to Alloa is a very good signing at Championship level & at 33, he needs to be playing on a regular basis.... Saved us from defeat on numerous occasions especially pre Steve Clarke but will always be fondly remembered at Killie for his penalty save in the dying seconds of the Rangers game at Ibrox just before Burke scored at the other end in a 1-1 draw. All the best Jamie

The club have renewed their partnership with Stagecoach West. A decent discount for anyone travelling to RP by bus on the day of the match...... Kilmarnock Football Club has renewed our partnership with Stagecoach West to offer Killie fans a deal that will make travelling to and from matches at Rugby Park easier, and cheaper, than ever. After a successful first year with this ticket deal, fans can take advantage of the special offer that will see the cost of a day rider tickets from anywhere in the west of Scotland to Kilmarnock slashed by 50%. With the nearest bus stop to the ground on Portland Road, a ten minute walk, getting to the big game has never been easier. All you need to do is show either your match ticket or season ticket and you’ll be all good. Remember, it’s a day rider ticket – which means you won’t just get reduced transport to and from the game, you’ll get reduced travel all over the West of Scotland for that day.

Are we allowed to criticise foreign defenders after the last 2 nights at Hampden ?

Thoughts ? Imho, he needs to hold more of those shots at him, pushes it away to often for my liking.

You have to wonder what McIntyre was thinking tbf.......

Imho, as a starter I have my doubts, rooted to his line for crosses, doesnt command his box well & he's slow & inaccurate when releasing the ball. As a backup he'd possibly do a job. We've been spoiled thou, especially with Bachmann last season, his performance was night & day compared to Jamie Mac.

I'd expect McDonald to be released shortly......

Today's Times article gives us a wee bit more insight into AA ..... Respect: an easy word to throw around, harder to put into practice. There are those who insist that Angelo Alessio is disrespecting Steve Clarke, disrespecting Scottish football, by trying to adapt the way Kilmarnock work and think. Who is he to tell a side that defied expectation to finish fifth, then third, there might be another way? Let’s reverse the question and ask about the respect that we, the Scottish football collective, have shown Angelo Alessio, this man whose English is easy to lampoon and who left an open goal by losing to the Welsh part-timers of Connah’s Quay in his first assignment. To hear Kirk Broadfoot, who had a good kick at the Italian on his way to St Mirren in midweek, you’d think there is nothing a squad of game but largely modest players can learn from a figure who won a Uefa Cup at Juventus while working under coaches like Giovanni Trapattoni and Dino Zoff. Who, in eight years as Antonio Conte’s lieutenant, helped deliver Siena back to the top flight, won three scudetti with the reborn Old Lady of Turin then brought league and FA Cup success to Stamford Bridge. Doubts, of course, are permitted. Alessio hadn’t been a manager in his own right for more than a decade, had only ever set foot in Scotland for Juventus’ 2013 Champions League game against Celtic, and had never met either of his deputies, Massimo Donati and Alex Dyer. There are questions about the appointment and the man himself, but is it asking too much for people to actually listen to his answers? “When there’s a change when things are going well, it’s difficult to accept the need,” says the 54-year-old from near Salerno in Italy’s deep south. “At the same time, it’s important every one of us stays faithful to our credo, our convictions. If you arrive in a team where things have gone badly, it’s much easier to change. When you arrive in a place where things have gone well and for the most part the players are under contract, it’s not like you can say, ‘Right, let’s change more than half the team’. “I didn’t do that. It wouldn’t have been right to. But at the same time, you need to bring your own solutions. We put more emphasis on the tactical side than on other aspects of training, but every coach in the world will make those kind of decisions based on their methods. Ultimately, my job is to get the most out of every player and find solutions on the pitch.” Alessio says he wishes Broadfoot “all the best” and is “disappointed he left”, pointing out that the centre-back was his captain for the League Cup game against Hamilton on August 17. Kilmarnock went through after extra-time and have since drawn with Aberdeen and beaten St Johnstone without conceding, a steadying of the ship from Connah’s Quay and the first two league games that saw them lose narrowly to Rangers and horribly to Accies. “We needed that first league win. The team wanted it, we all wanted it,” says Alessio of last week at McDiarmid Park. “We’ve had some problems because results make you work in a certain way. Bad results make you work worse. We’re on the right road now, but we need to get better. A lot better. “I want to see a compact team capable of managing every situation. We’ve had to do a lot of work with results being as they were. Now we have the opportunity to keep working, but also to believe more in what we’re doing.” Alessio is enthused by the prospect of easing the burden on Eamonn Brophy via Osman Sow and Harvey St Clair, the strikers who arrived at the end of the transfer window. Alessio knew the Scotland under-21 man from their shared time at Chelsea, while Laurentiu Branescu and Dario del Fabro were sourced through Juventus. Former Hamilton and Motherwell left-back Stephen Hendrie has arrived after Greg Taylor moved to Celtic, and centre-back Connor Johnson has joined on loan from Wolves. “This window was very difficult,” Alessio admits. “Lots of conversations happened, and then at the very end, deals got done, but we now have our face as a team.” As far back as January, Alessio told Italian media that he himself was on the move, uncoupling himself from Conte long before the one-time Italy manager took charge at Inter. “I didn’t want to have any regrets in the future about not trying,” says the man who led Imolese, Massese and SPAL in the Italian third tier before hooking up with his fellow ex-midfielder. There were rumours of an offer to coach the Juventus under-23 team, but the nature of this task appealed. “In the last two years, Kilmarnock have achieved extraordinary things, and now we all must understand the need to work even harder. I’ve accepted the exact opposite of a job where things are not going well, but that’s something I find stimulating. “Working eight years with Antonio, I know what it means to have to stay at the top. Every year we had to do it all over again. It’s a very difficult thing to do, but what we knew was that every year we had to work harder and the same goes for Kilmarnock. “I know the situation and it’s a big challenge after Steve Clarke. But for me, it’s normal to be under pressure. Of course it’s not easy: I’m Italian, it’s another culture, another tradition, different football. But I think now, step by step, our team is building, we are building. I don’t think the players’ desire to learn is a problem. The problem comes when you can’t find solutions.” Whatever training ground emphasis he puts on running, Alessio knows what it is to graft. He was one of 11 siblings — six boys, five girls, “a whole football team” — in an age when silver spoons hadn’t quite reached the Amalfi coast. For years he plugged away with the local amateurs, yearning for the break that arrived at Avellino. “I’d been on so many trials, but I just loved playing; it didn’t matter whether it was in the biggest stadium in Serie A, or some country dustbowl. For me it was the same thing, because I had this big passion. “At 18, I did a summer with Avellino and that was me. I caught the last train. It’s difficult to go straight from the amateurs to Serie A, believe me, but sometimes what you want arrives when you least expect it.” Alessio has three grown-up children, a management engineer, a fashion designer and one who studies in London. His wife is due to join him, but for now he lives “a quiet life” across the road from Rugby Park, working long hours with the odd escape for fresh sea air at Troon. “I always knew this would be a difficult year, for many reasons,” he says. “We’re still building our season and our path. It will be made up of sacrifices, dedication, sweat and difficulty. We need to be patient and really understand the job.”