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Back to back wins at Rugby Park, unimaginable only a few months ago it would seem.

Not forgetting a creditable fight back and point in Dingwall with a good showing from both players and fans who trekked north in the deep of winter.

There is a lot of talk about winning ugly, but you can only respond to the team you are up against, and they were plenty ugly.

Motherwell did what they thought they had to do and kicked lumps out of anything that moved while lumping the ball up the park at every opportunity to cut out our midfield.

It was frustrating to watch at times and their tactic appeared to be paying off although the statics show that we had more possession and more shots on goal over the 90 minutes.

We stuck to our task and the other Boyd probably kept himself in the pans for next week with a well taken goal just before half time.

I’m loving it.

Some of the top six and Euro chat is a bit worrying though, we need to cut ourselves some slack and I’ll be happy to finish anywhere outside the bottom three this year.

We have already seen some minor miracles in terms of improvement but there is being positive and there is lumping unneeded expectation on the team.

I have a feeling we are going to do just fine, but we are in this for the duration and it is important that Steve Clarke is given time to re-build his squad from the ground up and we should not get caught up in putting instant gratification ahead of long term success.

A great effort by Killie and Motherwell fans who decided to “Bring a Gift” to the game on Saturday to bring some festive joy into the lives of those less fortunate, well done to the KFCSA, Trust, EACHa and the club of course for making this happen.