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By David Sharp
1605: Swashbuckling is a good word to end this commentary on. Never mind the buccaneering Broadfoot, it was an all-round swashbuckling second half performance from Rangers. They close the gap on rivals Celtic to two points at the top of the tree. Thanks for your lively banter. Bye for now.
1604: "Aye, Miller and Boyd are building up a good understanding. Bodes well for the future. Well done to them both today. And captain Kirk is, shockingly, developing into a swashbuckling full-back." DavidAttenborough on My Sport Join the debate
1602: "I cannot remember the last time Steven Whittaker scored an easy goal. What a finish!" AllyMorrison-RFC on My Sport Join the debate
It was an absolute beauty Ally.
1600: The outstanding Majdid Bougherra gets the man of the match vote from BBC Radio Scotland pundit Billy Dodds. He stood firm at the back for Rangers like the Rock of Gibraltar. Do you agree? On our Player Rater you've plumped for Kris Boyd with a score of 7.47. Remember you can still cast your vote here:
1556: Here's a wee riddle for you. BBC Radio Scotland's Chick Young said this earlier on when Rangers were denied a second penalty after Boyd went down in the box (see 1445): "No way was that a stonewaller in the was or wasn't situation."
Was Not Was? Isn't that the name of a dodgy band? Classic Chick!
1555: FULL-TIME: Kilmarnock 0-4 Rangers. Convincing victory for Walter Smith's side. After a tight first half Rangers blew Killie away after the break.
1553: Miller hares through mano-a-mano with Combe but this time the Killie keeper makes himself big and saves with his feet. Four is bad enough but five goals would be very harsh on Kilmarnock. The Ayrshire men have put a lot into this game. Especially in the opening 45 when they went toe-to-toe with Rangers and knocked them off their stride.
1551: Goal Kilmarnock 0-4 Rangers. This time Broadfoot curls in a cross to Combe's near post and substitute Steven Whittaker extends a telescopic right leg to lob the ball over the stranded keeper's head with the most delicate of touches. Lovely pillow feet there. Or is he wearing foam boots?
1550: "I'm really loving Boyd and Miller up front. Another great goal by Rangers!" superally1193 on My Sport Join the debate
The pair of them are on fire!
1548: Goal! Kilmarnock 0-3 Rangers. Steve Davis sends a hanging cross into the Killie six-yard box and Kenny Miller rises in splendid isolation to nod the ball into the net. Game well and truly over.
1546: Kevin Thomson is being stretchered off. The Rangers midfielder was left writhing in agony on the turf after Fernandez landed clumsily on his left leg. He could be out of action for a while after that one. Ooyah!
1544: That was a penalty. No question about it. Eddie Smith got that horribly wrong. Broadfoot went down rather elaborately but it was still a penalty.
1542: Kirk Broadfoot is scythed in the box by Alan Combe. Kenny Miller sends him through and he takes the ball past the Killie keeper who definitely caught the gallivanting right-back with his outstretched left leg. Not only does Eddie Smith not give a spot-kick, he books Broadfoot for so-called simulation.
1539: McGregor slips under pressure from David Fernandez but the Spaniard's ambitious bicycle kick soars into the stratosphere and beyond.
1536: The home side are battling gamely to haul themselves back into this game. If they could nick a goal then we could be in for a barnstorming finish. But, alas, I just can't see that happening...
1534: "Scottish referees are, by and large, the most incompetent I've ever seen anywhere. Not one game goes by where there isn't a 'shocking' or 'terrible' decision that, often, has a direct effect on the outcome of the match. Every game I've gone to see there's been abysmal decisions - not bias, just incompetence." MagnusMaximus on My Sport Join the debate
Strong words MagnusMaximus. Do you agree with the outspoken gladiator?
1532: "What a goal, flashbacks of McCoist and Gascoigne linking up to score against Celtic that, utter brilliance!" Pedros Magic Feet on My Sport Join the debate
1529: Jim Jefferies make another change. Sammon for Simmonds.
1528: Killie look a bit flat. The buzz and energy has gone from their play. Rangers have sucked the life out of them with those two goals.
1525: Kirk Broadfoot gallops down the right flank like an excitable lamb and plays a cheeky back-heel to himself before firing a left-foot shot across Combe's mainsails. The keeper does well to paw the ball away. Broadfoot's rangy run down the wing was reminiscent of the man he replaced, Alan Hutton.
1523: Rangers skipper Barry Ferguson is stripped and ready to enter the fray. Pedro Mendes trots off. It's a straight swap in midfield.
1521: Jamie Hamill is about to hobble off with Tim 'Chief Wiggum' Clancy set to take his place. In fact, poor Hamill is being stretchered off. He was clobbered a few minutes ago by Kyle Lafferty.
1519: "Amazing! A Rangers player hits the deck in the box and a penalty is not given! When did that last happen? Answers on a post card, please." dundee_red on My Sport Join the debate
1516: Rangers are on easy street now.
1514: Goal! Kilmarnock 0-2 Rangers. Kenny Miller sends a wonderful angled pass across the Killie box to Kris Boyd who takes the ball first time on his left foot and tucks it past Combe with aplomb.
1512: Rangers have a fresh spring in their step. Walter Smith must have given them a rousing half-time team talk of Churchillian proportions.
1510: Goal! Kilmarnock 0-1 Rangers. Rangers take the lead as David Weir stoops to head Kevin Thomson's inch-perfect corner into the net.
1507: We're off again!
1506: Kyle Lafferty is on to replace Nacho Novo.
1504: "I have arrived to this afternoon's debate scratching my head at how Rangers are not at least 2 or 3 up. I am now even more stunned to see the author of this article, David Sharp, thinks it wasn't a penalty!!! Are you serious? What match are you watching?!?! You should have went to specsavers, don't give up the day job!" LaneOfPain on My Sport Join the debate
You are dead right on the first point. Rangers missed a penalty and hit the woodwork twice, so they SHOULD be two or three goals up. But they're not. However, I don't think either incident was a penalty. The first one perhaps slightly more so than the second. In the second instance Boyd had a clear opportunity to score and collapsed to the ground with little or no contact made by Allan Combe. At a push, the Killie keeper grazed the striker's shinpad with the faintest flap of his giant goalie's mitten. It was more of a dive from Boyd than anything else.
1500: Apparently David Fernandez took a chunk out of the Killie dugout when he came off to get stitches earlier on (see 1424). He was apoplectic with rage after tussling with Majdid Bougherra and took his anger out on the plastic shelter.
1458: "We better not lose this one, hitting the woodwork twice and missing a penalty. Need to be taking these chances away from home. Mon' the ready steadies." DavidAttenborough on My Sport Join the debate
1456: What did you make of that then? It took 28 minutes for anything to happen but the final fifteen minutes were jam-packed with incident. Was the first penalty a penalty? Was the second 'penalty' a penalty?
1454: "Nice of Boyd to combine the game of statues while playing football at the same time. I've seen milk turn quicker." 1waster on My Sport Join the debate
Not the most nimble is he? He had the turning arc of an oil tanker.
1450: Half-time. Phew! That was hectic.
1447: That was like a scene from the Keystone Cops where everyone careered in one way and the ball went in the other direction. I don't think anyone touched Boyd though. He tumbled to the ground like a man walking on a high-wire wearing clogs.
1445: Boyd springs the Killie offside trap and races clear on goal. Combe comes hurtling out. The ball gets caught up under Boyd's feet but he manages to collect it is poised roll the ball into the empty net as the Killie defence desperately scramble back. Boyd then falls in a scrum of players. Another penalty? No!
1441: Hamill's probing cross is clawed away by McGregor. The Killie man had no targets in the box there. Where were his team-mates?
1440: Eight minutes to go until half-time and the pace has not abated. It's been a whirlwind of a game.
1438: Mendes prods a dinky ball over the top of the home defence to Novo who birls on the spot and fires a great shot past Combe but it smacks back off the post and falls into the grateful Killie keeper's arms.
1436: Boyd nearly uproots the goalposts with a howitzer of a strike which crashes back off the underside of the bar.
1434: Wow! That was dramatic. Perhaps a little justice has been done there since it didn't look like much of a penalty to me. Boyd went down like a sack of tatties.
1431: Boyd steps up to take the spot-kick and thunders the ball straight down the middle but Combe somehow manages to direct it over the bar. What a save! I think it struck the Killie keeper's knee and pirouetted high over the crossbar.
1430: Penalty! Grant Murray fells Kris Boyd from behind. Was that a penalty? Perhaps more than a tad soft. Ref Eddie Smith doesn't think so.
1428: It's like a schoolboy match. Everyone is chasing the ball around like a flock of heedless chickens. Neither team has settled into any kind of rhythm or groove. The wild wind has certainly not helped matters.
1424: Fernandez clashes with Bougherra. The Spaniard has a boxer's cut just below his eye and leaves the pitch for treatment. He's getting stitches in the wound. It's not for the faint-hearted out there today.
1422: It's getting a little tousy out there. A few tempers at breaking point. There's a real edge to the game. Killie have upset Rangers applecart with their determined start to this game.
1420: Papac gets a rather harsh booking for accidentally booting Frazer Wright in the midriff. It looks like a sore one but the Bosnian didn't see the Killie player coming. He had both eyes on an up-and-under that was bobbing about in the breeze.
1418: Fernandez kills the ball stone dead on the edge of the Rangers box and slides it sideways to Willie Gibson but he slashes his shot wide. That was Killie's best chance so far.
1417: "Good to see Rangers finding a use for their 'European nights' third kit." QatarBhoy on My Sport Join the debate
Oooh cheeky!
1413: Kenny Miller's curling cross foxes Allan Combe as it gets buffeted about in the swirling wind. But the Killie keeper leaps high and snatches the ball at the second attempt. Testing conditions for goalkeepers today.
1411: After a breathless start the game has begun to settle down. But the ball still seems to be constantly in play. Pretty evenly matched at the moment too.
1409: "The game has yet to calm down. It's 100 miles an hour." BBC Radio Scotland pundit Craig Paterson
1407: What a chance for Rangers to open the scoring. Lovely floated free-kick from Kevin Thomson. Bougherra rises above the Killie defence but the angle is too tight and his header drifts wide. In fact, his team-mate Broadfoot maybe got the last touch on that. Whatever, it was a golden opportunity squandered.
1406: Killie have made a vibrant start to the game. They're roaring about like a human bush fire.
1405: Donovan Simmonds makes his first start for the home side today. He has an electrifying turn of pace which could cause old man Davie Weir some problems in the Gers back-line.
1404: And we're off!
1403: Rangers are sporting a peculiar red away kit today. They look like Crystal Palace in the 1980s.
1401: Fans and players observe a minute's silence at Rugby Park for Remembrance Sunday.
1400: Both teams are on the pitch. The rain is teeming down. The surface will be as slick as a linoleum kitchen floor lathered with Fairy Liquid.
1358: BBC Radio Scotland pundit Billy Dodds is plumping for 2-1 to Rangers today. How do you reckon it will pan out at Rugby Park? My Sport and via text on 80295
1355: "RE 1334: Kris Boyd has scored 11 goals in 10 games against Kilmarnock, bet you didn't know that." KrisBoydIsLegend on My Sport Join the debate
I didn't know that! That's an amazing stat.
1350: Still no place for Barry Ferguson. Mind you, Rangers midfield is so strong. Who would you drop? Thomson, Mendes and Davis have all been excellent so far this season.
1347: As I said below, Walter Smith names an unchanged side from the one who drew with Dundee United in midweek. That means skipper Barry Ferguson has to settle for a place on the bench yet again and continues his wait to make his first start of the season following ankle surgery in the summer.
Kilmarnock make three changes from the side who lost to Aberdeen. Frazer Wright returns from injury and starts along with Donovan Simmonds and Willie Gibson. Manuel Pascali misses out through suspension while Conor Sammon is dropped to the bench and David Lilley is bumped from the squad.
1344: "If Kilmarnock play against Rangers like they did in the last two games against Celtic, then Rangers will have a pretty easy afternoon." Hail__Hail on My Sport Join the debate
1342: "I hope the defending is of a much higher standard than it was on Tuesday. Losing three goals is bad enough but at home it's ridiculous." KrisBoydIsLegend on My Sport Join the debate
Too right KrisBoydIsLegend. Rangers were pretty sloppy at the back in the 3-3 midweek draw with Dundee United. And Allan McGregor will have to cut out the gaffes if he wants to avoid Walter Smith's ire. There have been a few uncharacteristic howlers this season from the normally rock-steady Rangers keeper. Remember Smith dropped him earlier on this season with Neil Alexander coming in. McGregor will have to watch his back...
1337: Rangers have an incredible record at Rugby Park. They haven't lost there since May 1994.
1334: Can Gers hotshot Kris Boyd continue to prove his critics wrong and bang in a few goals against his former club today? My Sport and via text on 80295
1332: "Rangers got what they bought with Kris Boyd - an out-and-out goalscorer." BBC Radio Scotland pundit Craig Paterson
1331: Early team news from Rugby Park: No tinkering from Walter Smith today; Rangers are unchanged for the third game in a row.
1330: Afternoon all! It's chucking it down all over the west coast of Scotland. Torrential rain. And even though we're just past lunchtime it's almost dark already. A medieval gloom has enveloped the country.
Indeed it's a stereotypical dour, dreich Scottish winter's day (surprise surprise!). But let's hope that doesn't spoil what should be a corker of a game at Rugby Park where Killie take on Rangers.
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