It's always the way that injuries are never spread around the team and when one player becomes unavailable his natural cover goes down too. We have an abundance of forward players, and these are the guys who normally take the punishment, but it was the central defence and centre midfield that we came up short. Frazer Wright came in and did a decent job against a tough attack where Rhian Dodds is a more attacking alternative to the sitting midfielder in Locke. But it was another decent performance that brought nothing and confidence should still be reasonable ahead of Saturday's match with Aberdeen.
It's another crunch game as Killie have gone six SPL games without a victory, but ending that run would see us leap over our visitors back into the top five and set us up nicely for an inviting run of games that could cement our place in the top half by New Year.