This Is Year I'll Pay Back My Buddies

GREG KILTIE hasn't tasted victory over his former club since swapping Kilmarnock for St Mirren three-and-a-half years ago.

- FRASER MACKIE

And there are more than a few Rugby Park regulars who will enjoy reminding him of that if the sequence continues today.

Local lad and academy graduate Kiltie admits hearing a mixed response whenever he returns to Killie. The worst of it came last March when Saints spilled a two-goal lead and were thrashed 5-2.

Stephen Robinson's side were 2-0 ahead at half-time and still held that advantage come the hour.

But a blizzard of goals buried the Buddies and helped Killie cement fourth place in the table.

Kilmarnock have won four and drawn four of the eight meetings since Kiltie's June 2021 move.

The winger, who played in six of them, said: "I get a bit of both playing there.