Maintaining performance levels while rediscovering consistency: Killie's big challenge

Kilmarnock travel to Perth on Saturday looking for three points as they aim to start looking up once again.

Played 12. Won Three. Drawn Three. Lost six.

Kilmarnock sit eighth in the Scottish Premiership after just over one round of fixtures this season.

There is the anomaly that the Ayrshire side has faced Dundee TWICE already - both away from home - before meeting them for a third time at Rugby Park a week on Saturday all before they’ve met Motherwell once in the league this term.

For reasons talked about to death at this point, it’s been an up-and-down 2024/25 season so far for Derek McInnes and his players.

There have been highs, such as beating Rangers and Hearts, and lows, like defeats at Ross County and Dundee, where the points were very much in Killie’s hands before capitulating.

It’s been a strange campaign in the sense that it feels like an entire season in its own right.

The away trips to Brugge, Tromsø and Copenhagen seem like a lifetime ago, while four free weekends due to international breaks and being knocked out of the Viaplay Cup early doors have led to such mixed emotions regarding what we’re seeing from our side.

There has also been a distinct lack of Saturday fixtures, however, that’s a talking point for another day.