Craig Brown, Mark Reynolds and Ryan Jack on RedTV

Craig Brown quotes | “Kilmarnock are having a good season but they are on the same number of points as us and we seldom get any credit for our season. I think in fairness there is a group of teams there all of comparable ability and we’re in that group and hopefully on the day we can be the better team. We’re told every team has a danger man and Heffernan, with a hat-trick last week, has got to be a real threat to us and he’s got an eye for a goal. We’re wary of their overall team play, they pass the ball but they have weaknesses which we are aware of.

“I think Kilmarnock will respect the performance we gave at Rugby Park earlier in the season and they won’t be thinking that because it’s a home fixture three points are a certainty. I hope we justify our excellent away record.

“It’s a major disappointment that Isaac should suffer his injury. It coincided with a decision that I made that turned out to be a wrong one, in making the final substitution before his injury was flagged up to us. Joe Shaughnessy indicated his leg was troubling him and we asked him to battle on but we decided to go for it and freshen the team but as soon as we did that Isaac pulled his hamstring. It was a real heartbreak to see Isaac limp off as he did and now he has the realisation that he won’t be fit until after the split.

“Declan McManus scored four goals in the Under 20 match this week against Dundee. He was in the right place at the right time. He’s a consistent scorer and if you’re doing that you’ve got something about you. His game awareness if very good and he should have scored in the first team at Kilmarnock a year ago so he may make reappearance quite soon.”

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