Our last midweek trip to Rugby Park had been an utter disaster as Kevin Kyle tore us to shreds in a crucial relegation clash that we lost. There was less pressure in this one, but Kyle and fellow big striker Conor Sammon still caused us plenty of problems in the first half, with Paul Gallacher doing well in goal. We had afew chances, but it was a half in which the phrase "defences on top" was made for.
The second half was pretty similar, until with an hour gone Stephen McGinn ran at the Killie backline and sent a thunderbolt past Mark Brown to put us in front. Andy Dorman missed a chance (sounds familiar) to wrap things up in the last 10 minutes, and it proved costly as Kyle headed a Jamie Hamill cross past Gallacher.
Extra time loomed large, but incredibly in stoppage time Michael Higdon flicked the ball on for Steven Thomson, who fed Dorman and the midfielder slotted it past Brown to send us through. I wasn't at the game and when I got a text message I assumed it was to tell me the game was in extra time rather than we'd scored a winner!
A great cup result, coming just a fe wweeks after we'd beaten Killie 2-1 at the same place. Next stop on the journey was a quarter final game against Motherwell.