{"id":395784,"date":"2026-01-06T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:05:11","slug":"neil-mccann-kilmarnock-have-complete-faith-new-manager-and-billy-dodds-can-keep-them-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395784\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil McCann: Kilmarnock &#8216;have complete faith&#8217; new manager and Billy Dodds can keep them up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil McCann has just been announced as the new manager and, much like Stuart Kettlewell, he was not the fans&#8217; choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, every new manager deserves a chance and the Killie support will give him that although our patience is wearing thin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several new faces are required if we want to stay up and decent quality is needed rather than some journeymen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good luck to the new management team and a win at Livingston on Saturday would be the perfect tonic although it is never easy there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kris Doolan&#8217;s interim reign ended without a victory and we once again looked like relegation fodder last weekend as Hibs briefly got out of second gear to brush us aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a 15-minute spell in the second half when it looked like we might get something from the game but our lack of quality and rock-bottom confidence is there for all to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;ve been a Killie fan since JFK was shot so it&#8217;s a sad day when The Traitors ends up being your Saturday highlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Every game is massive when you are in 11th place but the trip to Livingston is your archetypal six-pointer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil McCann has just been announced as the new manager and, much like Stuart Kettlewell, he was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-395784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}