SHOOTING FROM THE HIPPO

“Alston won the league at Rugby Park, Alston won the league at Rugby park, Alston won the league, Alston won the league, Alston won the league at Rugby Park” It has now been over 9 months since Blair Alston bagged that famous goal, let’s hope we don’t need someone to repeat the fate next season. When the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest hits Liverpool there is no doubt that this should be our entry, we could maybe get Lewis Capaldi to give it a blast and even the Eastern Europeans would ditch their political bias to give us top marks…..nurse can I have some more Tramadol please!!

Hello again chums, apologies for the delay but the ol’ hippo health hasn’t been all it should be however things are on the up and we’ll make up for lost time. We’ll be churning out an issue every 3 – 4 weeks or for this politically minded there will be a new fanzine out with every new prime minister so keep sending me those articles to killiehippo@aol.com. It has been a very mixed the season, just like the weekly starting 11 selections, but we are in there scrapping and we had a semi final jaunt at Hampden to enjoy

The Howard troops ran a full bus from West Netherton Bowling Club and we nearly booked a mad party bus with karaoke, flowing booze etc. They quoted us £650 which was pricey but we were going to book it anyway until they advised us that was each way!!! As things stand we have just reached another quarter final, incredible to think we have won all four away trips in the cup but none so far in the league……that needs to change.

It would be fair to say my predictions on how we will fare has changed on a weekly basis but my expectations have dipped from the start of the season as the lack of goals becomes increasingly obvious to everyone. Our away record is nothing short of embarrassing but on the flip side our home form has been generally excellent. I have a theory about the “long term project” rather than a fire fighting strategy from the board but that is an article in itself for the next issue.

We will an issue in every issue looking at Killie’s progress but the glaring problem for me is the lack of creativity and goals. As things stand we either score via a set piece or some Danny Armstrong magic, there was nothing from the strikers for long and weary however both Doidge and Vassell have now bagged, one of them needs to go on a spate of goals.. We really have been poor in the final third and our January window was a bit of a head scratcher with Lafferty and Shaw leaving late on simply reducing our option Neither was setting the world on fire but injury to Doidge and Vassell will see a striking crisis.

I’m finishing this as Motherwell have just won two games in 5 days, cranking up the pressure in the process Guess who visit RP next Saturday???

Sandy