St Mirren ran riots at SMISA Stadium to cause a 5-1 loss in Kilmarnock in difficulty.
The paisley pair dominated off and found himself 2-0 up within nine minutes of opening thanks to the low hit of Caolan Boyd-Munce and Roland Idowu’s penalty.
Boyd-Munce doubled his score in the 58th minute before the Skipper’s Skipper Mark O’hara and Declan John both found the net during a four-minute magic to accumulate more misery over visitors.
A late Bruce Anderson’s penalty offered some comfort to Derek Mcinnes’s men.
St. Mirren have moved to the seventh and inside a heart point in the last sixth place.
Both teams had to cope with the car’s rain and the wind at the beginning, though the hosts would make a fiery start.
They broke the block in the sixth minute with the first match attempt. Jonah Ayunga put the Boyd-Munce ball, who found the net with a low blow beyond Robby Mccrorie from just outside the box.
Things became even better for the saints when a penalty was given just a minute later after Ayunga was judged to have been dropped by Lewis Mayo.
Idowu got up to take the shot in the country and easily sent the goalkeeper to duplicate their advantage with just nine minutes.
Killie had a great opportunity to reduce their debts in the 24th minute, but Liam Poworth would go from the close distance after the accurate delivery of Liam Donnelly in the posterior post.
Mcinnes introduced David Watson instead of Brad Lyons in half the time, while he seemed to arouse a life on his difficult side.
However, it was St. Mirren who continued to seem more likely. In the 52nd minute, Richard Taylor was locked on the Boyd-Munce cross, just to be denied by posting from two yards outside.
Five minutes later, a good stop by McCrorie deflected Ayunga’s blow, but would only prove that it was a temporary return to visitors.
John’s surrender from the resulting angle was only cleaned in terms of the edge of the box, and the Boyd-Munce was perfectly placed to wipe into his second afternoon.
The men of Rugby Park were enduring a terrible afternoon, and the issues deteriorated only when the saints’ skiper O’Hara was pierced in the lower corner in the 66th minute after some scary construction games.
The saints continued to throw the men ahead in search of more goals, and with 21 minutes left, John added his name to the score sheet after beating the Killie goalkeeper in his close post with a powerful angle.
Four minutes from the end, Anderson returned from place after Taylor’s foul on Joe Wright.
However, she offered little to cheer for remote fans who remained to express their anger at their team’s performance.
What did managers say …
St. Mirren’s Assistant Brian Kerr: “The performance was great, I think it was coming to be honest.
“We’ve had some real good shows over the past seven or eight weeks without the support of the score.
“Just felt that everyone was loud today, we had a really good feeling about how the boys were prepared.
“Everything has joined. It was a good performance and good result.”
St. Mirren Derek Mcinnes manager: “It was such a disappointing afternoon, we never came out first.
“I can apologize only from supporters – they deserve better than that. The conditions were terrible, more for my players in the wind, but it’s not an excuse.
“I think we will (stay up). I think we’re better than some teams in the league. I feel we have bigger and better shows in the SH.BA
“Of course, we will be in the lower six, the only team we play that will not be inside and around us will be Celtic.”
