The assassin might be firing blanks for now...

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...but it won't be long before Kris Boyd hits the target.

 

by Jonathan​McFarlane​

 

BOYD might still be looking for his first league goal of the season but JONNY says there is a very good reason why the Rangers fans are not writing him off.

 

THE biggest shock of the season so far has been seeing Kris Boyd, the top goalscorer in SPL history, struggle to get off the mark in the Championship.

 

Eight games and zero goals is a dreadful statistic that few would have considered possible at the start of the campaign.

 

To most of us it looked like a top signing.

 

Here was a club legend, a striker of undoubted repute, leading the Kilmarnock line like a man reborn and scoring goal after goal at the top level for a struggling team. Surely, with his confidence back and a new appreciation for hard graft forged in his years abroad, this was the quintessential no brainer signing.

 

So far it’s not worked out that way and Boyd cuts a frustrated figure at Rangers with his eagerness to please the support seeming to have affected his killer instinct. He looks like a player who wants the goals to come so much that his goal radar has been knocked slightly out of sync.

 

Against Livingston on Saturday, he had the sort of game where he couldn’t hit a barn door. It didn’t matter if it was a header, volley or open goal, he just couldn’t find the calm precision with which he made his name. This assassin is currently firing blanks.

 

To be fair, at times he’s not been helped by the style of play of the team and this has seen him feeding off scraps in the bigger games. He is much more likely to get back to his best when he has creative players like Aird, Templeton and McLeod buzzing about him creating chances.

 

Ally McCoist must do his bit by giving Boyd the platform to succeed.

 

Perhaps this is why few are writing off the striker just yet.

 

He has shown that he is a better all-round player than in his last spell and is more involved in the team’s patterns of play. While he has been enduring a frustrating spell he is still getting himself in great positions and history has taught us this will inevitably lead to Boyd goals.

 

Thankfully, confidence, the main stumbling block for strikers in this kind of fallow period, is never going to be an issue for such an experienced and self-assured guy. You always get the impression that no-one believes in Kris Boyd’s ability to hit the net more than Kris Boyd.

 

That is exactly the reason he will soon be back with a flurry of goals, I’m predicting 20 before the season is out.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/record-fc-rangers-assassin-might-4393960?

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"The assassin might be firing blanks for now..."

 

Saw the title and thought this was about Merlin.