Kris Boyd’s Kilmarnock jersey – not to mention his shorts – may be a little neater these days.

He may also have looked a forlorn figure for the best part of an hour at Hamilton on Saturday as he operated in a sole striker role that his athletic prowess is wholly unsuited to.

One thing that the passage of time hasn’t diminished though is Boyd’s voracious appetite for goals, and he proved the point again as he buried his 100th for the club to drag his side off the canvas at the Superseal Stadium.

The striker may be coming towards the end of his career, but he showed the same desire to get on the end of Jordan Jones’s cross that he did when bagging his first goal for the club back in 2001.

“I can remember it,” Boyd said after the match. “It was against Motherwell at home, in the league. We won 2-0 at Rugby Park. I think it might have been my first league start.

“It was a good few year ago. I think Lee McCulloch was playing for Motherwell, that’s how long ago it was!”

Boyd’s bullet header was a key moment as Kilmarnock turned Saturday’s encounter on it’s head, cancelling out Louis Longridge’s opener for Hamilton.

It set the stage for Souleymane Coulibaly – who had by this time mercifully climbed off the bench to aid Boyd in attack – to hit a stunning winner.

That gave Lee Clark’s men a most welcome, if entirely unlikely, comeback win.

For Boyd, the three points that lifted the gloom that has been threatening to envelope the Rugby Park club was the most important reward from their visit to the Superseal Stadium, but the century of strikes in the blue and white stripes was a welcome by-product of the victory.

“I’m delighted to get there," Boyd said.

“I’m never happy with what I’ve got. Yeah, you might look back at the end of your career and be pleased with it. But, while you’re still playing, you have to keep looking to add to it.

“I’m delighted to have done it for Kilmarnock, especially having done it already with Rangers. To do it with two teams, yeah, that’s a great feeling.”

With boss Clark serving a touchline ban – and giving the locals earache in the stand – it was left to assistant manager Lee McCulloch to try and gee up a Killie side who had been woeful for the best part of an hour from the dugout.

Boyd feels that the decision to throw on Coulibaly and go with two up front was the pivotal moment in the game.

“When we went to two up, we caused them a lot of problems,” he said. “And I thought the boy Jordan Jones was excellent on the left wing.

“When you are playing the way we’re playing, getting it forward and getting bodies in the final third, it is better to have two up front.

“When you are flicking things on, there is someone there to pick it up. That’s better than flicking it on and trying to chase it yourself – especially with my pace!”

The goals and the win reminded Boyd why he continues to put himself through the rigours of playing at the top level in Scotland.

As long as that appetite remains, Boyd will continue to cause headaches for Premiership defences.

He said: “What keeps me going? I love the game, I love playing football.

“I’ve been fortunate in that it’s all I’ve done. When I finish, I might look back on it all.

“But right now, I’m getting up in the morning and loving going training.

“As long as you keep sharp in training, get on the pitch and keep scoring goals, you want more of it.

“It’s like a drug. Once you’ve experienced scoring goals, you go out there feeling as if you can do it every single time.

“I’m coming to the end of my career, but with the young legs around about me, I can still score goals.”