This piece is an extract from yesterday's The Rugby Road Gates newsletter, which is emailed out at 6pm every Wednesday. To receive our full, free Kilmarnock newsletter straight to your email inbox, click here . So, there we have it.
As if by design, in perfect timing for the release of this newsletter, Kilmarnock have announced their first signing of the summer – Bruce Anderson . The striker has signed a two-year deal with Ayrshire’s Premier team and will officially join upon the expiry of his contract at Livingston next month. Of course, the 25-year-old worked with the gaffer at Aberdeen.
The frontman came through the youth academy at his boyhood club and went on to make 39 first-team appearances at Pittodrie before joining Hamilton on loan, then Livi permanently. He scored on his debut for Aberdeen in dramatic fashion . Rewinding the clock back to August 2018, after swivelling on the edge of the box, Anderson stuck one into the bottom corner beyond Allan McGregor to earn Derek McInnes’ side a 1-1 draw in Steven Gerrard’s first game in Scottish football.
He went on to add another two to his account in the north east before eventually making the Tony Macaroni Arena his new home in 2021. It was here that the diminutive forward properly developed into a proven, well-regarded Premiership striker. Over the course of his three full seasons working under Davie Martindale, he found the net 30 times – including twice against Killie – and managed eight assists.
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