Kilmarnock: Why have club regressed this season?
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Thomas DuncanBBC Sport ScotlandPublished5 hours agoKilmarnock's 5-1 weekend thumping at the hands of St Mirren has set a few alarm bells ringing in Ayrshire.A team who started the season going close to playing in the Conference League after a superb fourth-place finish last term has slipped to 10th in the Scottish Premiership with seven games of the season to play.Derek McInnes' side are just one point above the relegation play-off spot and six from the bottom, the same distance to seventh-place St Mirren above them.A poor season after a strong one is not an unusual phenomenon in Scottish football outside the big Glasgow two.Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian, Dundee United and others in recent years have toiled the campaign after qualifying for Europe as early season qualifiers take their toll.But that in itself is not the sole reason. So what has gone wrong at Rugby Park?Stark downturn in performanceThere is no simple or clean answer to that straightforward question, but the downturn has...