Jimmy Nicholl returned to his former club on Friday to add Kilmarnock central defender Stevie Old to his squad on loan for a month due to the defensive injury crisis at Central Park.

Old left his home land in 2009 and signed a 3-year contract with SPL side Kilmarnock in March 2009 but has not featured this term and Mixu Paatelainen was happy to help out his former club and get some game time for his player.

The 24-yeard old New Zealander has 18 caps for his country but narrowly missed out on the squad that travelled to South Africa for the recent World Cup.