Falkirk made a dream start to this game with a well worked goal and made a few other improvements on the previous two defeats to Hearts and Inverness Caley.

Within the first minute Scott Arfield broke upfield on the left, nut-megged his man and sent in a super ball across the face of goal which evaded the Kilmarnock defence and found Carl Finnigan unmarked at the back post to fire the bairns into an early lead.

Just for once it looked as though this might be Falkirk's day but in the 10th minute the bairns conceded a corner and promptly surrendered their lead when Frazer Wright rose unchallenged to direct a header past Krul. Falkirk were then let off the hook when Danny Invincibile ran across the edge of the penalty area to curl in a shot which came back off the post and was eventually put out for another corner.

How Michael Higdon finished the half with his shirt intact was beyond most of the Falkirk support. Apparently if you're a big lad then you're fair game for a bit of jersey pulling and Alan Freeland failed to spot this happening to the big striker a number of times.

HT: Falkirk 1 - 1 Kilmarnock

Although Falkirk started the half brightly Kilmarnock looked the more likely to score when Gary Wales appeared at the back post to direct a header goalward that was saved by Krul.

Falkirk fans again found themselves screaming at Alan Freeland when Steven Thomson received an elbow thrown by the aptly named James Fowler. The blunderman again had Falkirk fans out their seats when Higdon raced into the box only to be pulled back for a foul that Freeland was the only man in the ground to have seen.

Higdon Barett and Cregg all had shots on goal before Pedro Moutinho and Russell atapy were thrown into the mix. The effect this had was instantaneous and Moutinho sent a toe poke wide of the goal.

FT: Falkirk 1 - 1 Kilmarnock

Thankfully Falkirk finished the stronger side when many of the fans felt this had 1-2 Kilmarnock written all over it. Big improvements from the previous two games though the defence still needs to tighten up.