Innes expected Killie resurgence

19 February 2010 15:52
Saints have beaten Killie three times this season but travel to Rugby Park to face a team buoyed since new manager Calderwood took over from Jim Jefferies in January.[LNB]The Ayrshire men are unbeaten in their last six games including a 1-0 win over Celtic, their first home victory over the Hoops in nine years.[LNB]Former Kilmarnock player Innes said that "new manager syndrome" affects all workplaces, not just the football dressing room.[LNB]"When things aren't going well at a club and the manager gets sacked, the players maybe feel very down and everything is negative," he said.[LNB]"When the new manager comes in, he is full of new ideas and it lifts you.[LNB]"It lifts you in any line of work.[LNB]"When a new manager comes in you want to impress.[LNB]"In any line of work if you don't do that then you won't be in the job.[LNB]"If the manager has a big personality then, as a player, it's great to feed off and you respond to that.[LNB]"Jimmy Calderwood and Jimmy Nicholl are an exceptional management team, very experienced and by all accounts very good to work for.[LNB]"I don't know him personally but I'm sure Jimmy Calderwood is a very good motivator and tactically aware.[LNB]"He's been abroad and he certainly knows his business.[LNB]"They obviously have had a great response but at the same time we are going there in a positive fashion, we have beaten them three times and we should be confident.[LNB]"We are working hard, playing good football at times and we have Billy Mehmet and Michael Higdon scoring goals."[LNB]Innes, who scored the only goal of the game when the sides met in January, is not so concerned about personal glory this time around.[LNB]He said: "I scored the winner against them the last time so it would be nice to get another but ultimately it is about concentrating on getting a clean sheet and defending.[LNB]"It's a very tight league and it's the old cliche, anybody can beat anybody else, if you perform well."[LNB][LNB] Kilmarnock v St Mirren. Click here to bet.  

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