{"id":3824,"date":"2025-12-15T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:02:04","slug":"kilmarnock-sack-kettlewell-after-poor-run-of-results-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Kilmarnock sack Kettlewell after poor run of results \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187502 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187502 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stuart-1-600x306.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Axed: Stuart Kettlewell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stuart Kettlewell has been sacked by struggling Kilmarnock after eight defeats in ten matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Rugby Park club brought in the former Ross County and Motherwell boss during the summer and although things started well enough, an alarming dip in form has seen Killie slide to second bottom of the Scottish Premiership, just three points ahead of Livingston having played a game more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With assistant manager Stevie Frail also being shown the door in the wake of the weekend loss to Aberdeen at Pittodrie, Kris Doolan will take over on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThis has been a difficult decision taken after careful consideration,\u201d said a club statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe believe there is plenty of quality in the squad and had hoped that results would turn around. Unfortunately change is now required to best serve the interests of Kilmarnock FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWith an important run of festive fixtures about to get under way, starting this weekend at home to Falkirk, we hope all supporters can stick with us as we aim to get back to winning ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Kilmarnock #sack #Kettlewell #poor #run #results #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axed: Stuart Kettlewell Stuart&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,265,3732,3730,3733,622,65,3731,3729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}