Alan Cochrane @ Falkirk Stadium

A draw was probably a fair result here today, but of course Yogi didn't see it that way. Well you wouldn't expect him to. His side went ahead inside two minutes with a well worked goal, and Mr Hughes was unlikely to settle for less than three points after that. But Killie settled, got the equaliser before too long, and over the piece, if they had less of the ball, looked the more dangerous and had the better chances.

We had barely time to settle into our seats when Scott Arfield took advantage of Kilmarnock's 3-5-2, went outside Jamie Hamill, cut in along the bye-line, and squirted a great ball along the goal line to the back post to give Carl Finnegan the easiest of knock-ins. That settled the Bairns, and for nearly 10 minutes they knocked the ball around, and the visitors had trouble getting a touch.

Frazer Wright obviously wasn't having any of that, and he was soon up the left, helping Willie Gibson to hound the Falkirk defence, to such good effect that he forced them to give away a corner. Gibson took it, hard and fast to the back stick, and there was Wright rising imperiously to bullet a header past Krul to draw Killie level.

The Falkirk defence now looked a lot more fragile, and when Colin Barr needlessly , and with something approaching panic, skelped a cross-field clearance off Colin Nish, the striker almost recovered enough to poke a shot at goal, but couldn't get enough meat on the strike. Next up, Nish shielded the ball on the right hand edge of the Falkirk box, slipped it to Invincibile as he swept past, and the Aussie swerved a left-foot shot past Krul, only to see it come back off his right hand post.

In the second half, Falkirk played Higden as a big forceful striker with two colleagues playing off him, but Lilley, who had come on for the injured Ford, O'Leary and Wright played them well, and Falkirk's lack of width allowed Hamill and Gibson to raid up both wings. The best two moves of the half came from this, with one sweeping attack started by a Combe throw out, moved on by Gibson then Wales to Nish, finished with a shot just wide of the post, then a glorious Invincibile - Hamill 1-2 ended with a Wales shot going in exactly the same place.

Gary Locke came on for Killie and Russell Latapy for the Bairns, but neither could break the deadlock, then Kilmarnock's new signing Mehdi Taouil came on for the last 10 minutes. While it's too early to make a judgement, the Moroccan internationalist looks as if he can play a bit.

After the game, with a glint in his eye, Yogi challenged the assembled hacks to call "the Gaffer" a liar if he said Killie deserved a victory. Jim just smiled.

Falkirk: Krul, Milne, Barr, Cregg Holden, Aafjes, Thomson, Arfield, Higdon, Barrett (Mouthino), Finnigan (Latapy)

Kilmarnock: Combe, Fowler, Wright, Ford (Lilley), Nish (Taouil), Wales, Invincibile, Gibson, O'Leary, Hamill, Bryson (Locke)

Referee: Alan Freeland