Killie boss says team must shape up to survive
TOMMY WRIGHT reckoned it was Kilmarnock’s season in a nutshell.
The Rugby Park manager is still searching for his first win since taking charge and saw his team plummet to the foot of the table despite leading in the first half.
The Northern Irishman pointed to woeful defending and warned his side they must shape up defensively to survive.
Wright said: “If you defend like we did for the three goals, you don’t deserve anything out of the game.
“We’ve got to look at ourselves long and hard, and it’s obvious it’s got to be better.
“After dealing with their early pressure, where they didn’t work our goalkeeper, we got ourselves in front.
“We shouldn’t have let them back in before half-time but we did.
“Then our defending for the second and third goals is littered with individual errors, with people not being positive enough on a difficult pitch to go and meet things. We’ve only ourselves our blame for being 3-1 down.”
Killie did respond to County’s early second half, quickfire double but Wright wasn’t for gleaning positives from the costly defeat.
He stressed: “It doesn’t matter what we did after that, because we lost a game we should have won and that we were in control of.
“To lose a game where we are in control in the manner that we did is difficult for me to defend.
“Now it’s just about getting as many points in the table as possible and it’s about winning games.
“We’re in this position because we’ ve not been good enough over 32 games and today the goals epitomise and identify why we have had the problems we’ve had.
“In my previous games, we’ve played reasonably well and the performances were good, but today was way short of the performance that’ s needed to win a game.”