Kris Boyd was disappointed that Kilmarnock failed to turn superiority into a win on Saturday but the ex-Rangers man might have had matters elsewhere on his mind when analysing their 1-1 draw at Dens Park.

His manager Lee Clark had been upbeat about the way the team had gone about their business away from home against one of the teams they are scrapping with to avoid being dragged into the relegation battle.

But at the end of the week that has seen Mark Warburton’s randomness theory intensely scrutinised as the departing Rangers manager sought to justify his team’s record, the Killie skipper’s emphasis on the need to focus on results had wider relevance.

“When you look especially at the last two performances and the way we’ve dominated the ball the first 30, 35 minutes I think we switch off the bread and butter of football, working hard stopping other teams playing, winning your second balls, winning your headers, which we’ve done in the last two games up until the 30 minute mark.

“Then all of a sudden, do we think we’re better than we are I don’t know in terms of we end up popping it about, but it’s part of football.

“Yeah you want to look good, you’re fed up listening to manager going into press conferences after it and saying we’ve had X amount of possession of the ball, we’ve had X amount of passes.

“It doesn’t really matter how you win a game of football,” said the 33-year-old whose second spell at Ibrox ended when he was freed just before Warburton arrived in the summer of 2015.

“You go and score more goals than the opposition that’s it and for us that’s what we need to get back to in terms of go and win the game, do what we need to do.

“Sometimes it takes just doing the ugly part of the game to see it out.”

As even opposing boss Paul Hartley acknowledged, Killie were the better side in the course of a 1-1 draw which saw Boyd’s classy finish early in the match, cancelled out by a Kevin Holt strike midway through the first half.

However the Ayrshire side’s skipper was entitled to feel frustrated that they did not get more from it.

“We’re disappointed but we need to realise that when you’re asked to defend, when you’re asked to do the ugly side of the game we need to do that better,” said Boyd.

“Doing that will lead to getting more points on the board.”