Mildfielder Gary Dicker says Kilmarnock must grab second chance on Sunday

The Bairns go into the match 1-0 up from the first leg of the semi-final play-off on Thursday night, leaving Killie with the return game at Rugby Park to turn it around.

Published 21st May 2016

Midfielder Gary Dicker has urged Kilmarnock to take their last chance of Premiership survival against Falkirk on Sunday.

The Bairns go into the match 1-0 up from the first leg of the semi-final play-off at the Falkirk Stadium on Thursday night, leaving Killie with the return game at Rugby Park to turn it around.

The 29-year-old Dubliner, who joined the Ayrshire club from Carlisle on February 1, acknowledged Lee Clark's men have just one more opportunity to find a result or suffer the devastation of dropping into the Championship.

He said: "We are lucky, we have a second chance. It is not a one-off game, so we are looking forward to Sunday.

"I think that been the story of our season, everyone saying we have got next week but we haven't got that any more. We have Sunday and that's it.

"We need to embrace it and look forward to it and I don't think we have anything to fear.

"We have felt sorry for ourselves sometimes and we need to learn quicker, everyone as a group.

"You need to stick together, you need everyone in it.

"We shouldn't be in the position but we are. The league table doesn't lie.

"We finished second bottom but we have a game on Sunday, it is a one-off and if we can win that we are staying up which is a great incentive.''

Kilmarnock missed several chances in the first leg before Will Vaulks scored a last-gasp winner for the tenacious Bairns.

However, the former Brighton, Rochdale and Crawley player does not believe in hard-luck stories.

"You earn your own luck in this game,'' he said.

"You earn it by hard work and doing the right things all the time. It not 'this is against us, that it against us'.

"That's the easy way out. We have all said it before but the older you get you realise that you earn what you get in this game and we have to do that on Sunday.

"I have never been relegated and I don't want to be relegated.

"I am sure I will be drumming that into everyone in the dressing room, even the young lads.

"When you are a lot younger you think you have loads of time but it (career) goes in a blink.

"It doesn't matter where you might end up or what you might do - you will be remembered for this game if you don't win it, but I am sure we will win it.''