Bryson looks to future with Killie

09 September 2010 17:00

Kilmarnock skipper Craig Bryson wants to draw a line under Hearts' failure to buy him and concentrate on his Rugby Park future.

Bryson, 23, spent the summer being linked with a move to join his former Killie boss Jim Jefferies at Tynecastle. The Ayrshire club, believed to be looking for around £500,000 for the former Scotland Under-21 player, knocked back several bids from the Gorgie club including two on deadline day and thus the expected transfer failed to materialise.

"It's always nice when teams want you but now I can just concentrate on playing for Kilmarnock and that's what I want to do." he said. "It was fine for me. Some people were asking me what was happening but I didn't know so that was it."

He added: "But I would rather move it to one side for now and concentrate on playing for Killie.

"We play St Mirren on Saturday and hopefully we can get a positive result.

"I want to do as well as I can for Killie and help the team get some good results."

A 1-0 win at Aberdeen in their last outing gave Mixu Paatelainen his first three points as Killie boss.

However, Bryson has seen enough from the Finn's new-look Rugby Park side to set his sights higher than simply avoiding relegation this season.

"At the start of the season I think we just wanted to stay up but we have been playing well and we got a good result at Aberdeen," the former Clyde midfielder said. "It was massive to get our first three points after we had been beaten in our first two games when we should probably have taken something out of them.

"Now we want to push on as much as we can. The gaffer has brought a new freshness in to the way we play the game and has has brought new ideas."

Source: PA