“It wasn’t a very good game.

“They set up well and they are an organised team and Steve Clarke’s got them playing the way he wants. They want to stop teams from playing and that’s what they did today. They didn’t have much quality, but neither did we and I think they came here for a draw today and they’ll be happy with a point.

“You can’t tell just now and come towards the end of the season you can see from there.

“Kilmarnock are a tough team and Steve’s got them playing really well. They are second in the league for a reason and they’re doing things right. There will be games like that where they’ve come out with a victory, but it never really looked like they were going to score today.

“I think we needed a lot more from ourselves to create better opportunities to get a goal.

“I don’t think there’s ever going to be a lack of effort from us. We’ve got a good manager and good players that wouldn’t allow that to happen. It was just one of those games. You could tell from the first five minutes it was going to be that type of game and they are a counter attacking team. They didn’t create much and we felt comfortable at the back. We just needed that bit of spark and I thought we had it when Greg went close and that summed up the game really.

“It’s a clean sheet for the defenders and we’re happy with that. We would have loved the win and I think we deserved the win if anyone did, but we just didn’t do enough. Maybe a point’s fair result, but we dust ourselves down and we’ve got a big game Tuesday against Stenhousemuir. We should have put it to bed when we were here last time and now we have to go to their back yard and put in a good performance.

“The city loves the cup runs and it’s always good to be involved in cup finals. Winning one and getting to finals makes you want to get back there.

“We’re always going to be involved in a title race and there’s strong teams in and around it. Celtic are a strong team and they’re going to be favourites every year. We just keep knocking on the door and keep putting points on the board and we’ll see where it gets us. Come the split we’ll see what sort of position we’re in and we might think we’ve got a good chance.

“We’ll take it game by game and we know what sort of tally we want to get to. Hopefully we’ll get three points more often than not.”