Neil McCann says Kilmarnock morale is high for battle at the bottom
Neil McCann insists dressing room positivity is high as Kilmarnock bid to avoid William Hill Premiership relegation trouble.
With five post-split fixtures remaining Killie are in 11th place, two points behind St Mirren and five behind Dundee and Aberdeen.
The Scottish Gas Scottish Cup semi-finals at the weekend meant the Rugby Park side were not in action following the 2-2 home draw with Dundee.
Ahead of their trip to Aberdeen on Saturday, Kilmarnock boss McCann said: “I won’t accept anyone going about with their face tripping them.
“We are in a right good place I believe in terms of morale, spirit in the dressing room.
“We have shown in games that we are very much together. We understand what’s going on, we are not stupid.
“But I think in reflection, when you look at the time that we have been in, it has always been pretty positive.
“Billy (Dodds, assistant) and I are that type of people anyway but that’s backed up with the way we are playing and we always look like we can win the games.
“There has been one or two blips, yes, but on the whole it has been great and we are looking forward to the last five games.
“We are going to need to go full throttle so I look at it (break) as maybe a positive, to give the boys a couple of days off.
“Since they have been in, Monday and Tuesday, they have been great, right at it.
“It would have been nice to roll through because I felt we were good against Dundee, without getting the three points I feel in one respect we should have got and the debacle at the end (Dundee missed penalty after long VAR check) we could have got nothing.
“I am really looking forward to today’s training and then we will travel to Aberdeen for Saturday.”
Killie beat Aberdeen 3-0 at Rugby Park at the end of January, before Stephen Robinson left St Mirren to take over as Dons boss, but McCann believes the Ayrshire outfit are now in a better place.
He said: “Irrelevant (January win over Aberdeen). New manager. It is completely different in my opinion.
“Very good win for us, a really important win for us. Beating St Mirren when Stephen was the manager, irrelevant really but we came out on the right side on both of those games
“They (Aberdeen and Robinson) are obviously a combination now and it is a different fight altogether.
“But I think we are better than we were when we beat Aberdeen here.
“I think we are better than when we beat St Mirren but we need to go and prove that.”
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