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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
Sport
Ewing Grahame

Zach Hemming on the quiet confidence building at Kilmarnock under Derek McInnes

THE mood music around Rugby Park has changed significantly in the last three weeks. Three wins and two draws have seen to that, lifting them out of the drop zone while also carrying them into the last four of the Premier Sports Cup.

Even the loss of their first-choice strikers, Kyle Lafferty and Christian Doidge, has failed to put a dent in their new-found confidence.

In their absence on Saturday, 22-year-old Innes Cameron – rawer than steak tartare but a willing runner – made a fist of leading the line while talismanic winger Danny Armstrong predictably notched the goal which separated the sides with a fierce left-foot drive after Cameron had directed Alan Power’s punt into his path.

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