Jeffries Sore From Staying On The Fence

There will be no winners as far as Jim Jeffries is concerned when two of his old clubs meet to decide who gets relegated from the SPL Jim Jefferies has affection for both of the sides caught up in the fight for SPL survival today. Hearts manager Jefferies spent five years at the Falkirk helm and almost eight in the Killie hotseat. He knows today's game will see one of his former clubs relegated after the game at Rugby Park on the final day of the bottom-six season and insists he will be equally upset whichever of them does down. Asked who he would be backing, he said: "You've put me right on the spot. I had a lot of great times at Falkirk. I even thought about staying there - that's as big a compliment as I can pay. There's still a lot of people at that club I'm connected with, people behind the scenes who you never hear or see. You always get a great welcome when you go there. It's the same at Kilmarnock: you cannot spend eight years at a place and bring in players and know all the people around the scene (and not feel it). It will sad for whoever goes down, so I'm going to sit on the fence on that one and just say, 'Let the best team stay in the league on the day', because that's what it's down to." Jefferies left Killie to return to Hearts in January after falling out with chairman Michael Johnston over the amount of cutbacks being made at the debt-laden club. He predicts that Killie will have to cope with even more belt-tightening if they go down but is confident Scotland's oldest professional club will not go bust. He said: "The chairman's come out this week and said it wouldn't finish them. I've worked with him and know how tight money was, so it's going to be huge, huge. It just means they'll have to make probably more and more cuts. But I think that'll be the same for Falkirk. Any team that's gone down has had to do that. That's why most of them struggle to come back in the one year." Editor Ger Harley (ger@scottishfitba.net)Admin Team (admin@scottishfitba.net)This is Scottish-Fitba.Net

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