Boyd so relieved whistler Dallas blanked claims he dived for pen

dived under the close attention of County defender Marcus Fraser.

Boyd said: “I felt I slipped and you are always going to try to get something.

“I thought Dallas refereed the game well. It was the right decision. There are no complaints from me – for a change.”

Boyd’s only grumble was Killie’s lacklustre performance before the break, with County storming 2-0 ahead as Chris Routis and Jason Naismith converted chances from the pinpoint dead-ball deliveries of Chris Eagles.

Had they performed in the first half as they did in the second, when Eamonn Brophy and Boyd hit back to level, then the Killie striker reckons his team would have been celebrating a third consecutive win. Boyd said: “When you consider how bad we were in the first half – after the positive result we had at the weekend – it shows we aren’t good enough to turn up believing we have a God-given right to win.

“We always need to put in the effort and didn’t do that in the first half against County.

“In the second half we were a totally different team and it was a great point to go back down the road with.

“If we had turned up in the first half, who knows what might have been? I don’t think it was complacency.

“We just started sloppily and let Ross County dominate, particularly at set plays – something we were warned against.

“They are a big physical team and we got done with two set plays. We have to try to take the positives from it and that is we left with a point from being 2-0 down. We keep the run going.

“But if we had started the game properly it might have been a third win in a row.”

Boyd though feels momentum remains with Steve Clarke’s side heading into Saturday’s home test against Motherwell.

He added: “Under the gaffer we have been organised and difficult to beat. There are lots of positives to take but we need to look at set plays in terms of defending them better.

“We were all over the place in the first half in that regard. Ross County weren’t even in our box in the second half.

“If we can take that second-half performance into the next few games we will do just fine.”