Innes expected Killie resurgence

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.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.Former Kilmarnock player Innes said that "new manager syndrome" affects all workplaces, not just the football dressing room."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."When the new manager comes in, he is full of new ideas and it lifts you."It lifts you in any line of work."When a new manager comes in you want to impress."In any line of work if you don't do that then you won't be in the job."If the manager has a big personality then, as a player, it's great to feed off and you respond to that."Jimmy Calderwood and Jimmy Nicholl are an exceptional management team, very experienced and by all accounts very good to work for."I don't know him personally but I'm sure Jimmy Calderwood is a very good motivator and tactically aware."He's been abroad and he certainly knows his business."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."We are working hard, playing good football at times and we have Billy Mehmet and Michael Higdon scoring goals."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.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."It's a very tight league and it's the old cliche, anybody can beat anybody else, if you perform well." Kilmarnock v St Mirren. Click here to bet.  

Source: Team_Talk