A copy of a post in killiefc.com kickback forums. A bit on the luvvie side, but interesting nonetheless…

Is it a patch of ground or a building (the stadium complex), or is it a group of football players (the team), or is it the company that is owned by some shareholders and businessmen, or is it the debt owned by the bank, or is it the name “Kilmarnock Football Club”? Obviously the complete package of all of these together makes up Killie – but my point is that Killie is not in essence any of these.

Is Killie not really us? The fans and the community and the tradition and the spirit?
Now this might sound all touchy new-age , but I seriously mean that Killie is what we see it to be – and what we decide it to be. It is what we choose to follow and support. That is the tradition.

Like all of you, I love my club to bits. But by natural means it changes all the time, from old stadium to new, from one lot of favourite players to new arrivals, from one manager to the next and from one chairman / owner / board to the next boss. It is always changing, but the one continuous thread that links us together is the shared experience and memory and heart and soul. We are the club. We are Killie.

So….what I’ve taken a long way of saying is….if it all goes wrong and KFC disappear due to financial ruin, it need not be the end. We can resurrect the idea we love. The club is us. We can start again and rise like a shining phoenix, meteor-like from the nether reaches of lower leagues, up through the ranks with the biggest and richest small club in the land, forcing our way back into the SFL – and eventually SPL once more. Debt-free and mighty. There will be obstacles and troubles, but we can do it. We can rise again.

Don’t despair. It might even be fun, after the pain is put away. We all fervently hope that we can avoid the drop and the calamity, but remember – it need not be the end. Have faith.

Yes, we can.

KTID, whatever happens.

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