Kettlewell urges Kilmarnock to make 'own history'

Manager Stuart Kettlewell is urging Kilmarnock to "create our ain portion of history" and emulate immoderate of the glory days from the club's caller past.

The erstwhile Motherwell and Ross County squad brag is overseeing his archetypal adjacent play astatine Rugby Park and admits helium needs to enlistee good aft 15 players departed.

Kettlewell has recruited Jamie Brandon, Greg Kiltie and Scott Tiffoney and determination could beryllium 2 much arrivals this week.

"I ever bash a small happening with the players connected time 1 - my non-negotiables," Kettlewell said.

"I'm not a schoolhouse teacher, it's not a dictatorship, but what I request them to bargain into is the civilization that I judge successful and the civilization that already exists astatine this shot club."

And helium added: "Learn the past of this shot club, recognize what the past of the shot nine is.

"2012 [Scottish League Cup win], the Scottish Cup triumph backmost successful the 1990s - you request to recognize that these things haven't happened precise readily. European shot past year, you spot what that means to the shot club. You person to larn that history, but you past person to adhd to it.

"We person to effort to make our ain portion of history. It's not easy, it's not a given, arsenic we're surely not the biggest nine successful this country, but those are the goals you person to acceptable for yourself.

"How precocious tin you decorativeness successful the league? How acold tin you spell successful cupful competitions? Because those are the things that mean an atrocious batch to the supporters."

On the imaginable signings, Kettlewell said: "We're rather acold down the roadworthy with different mates of signings.

"It's conscionable to effort to springiness america those options and that balance. There's a tenable equilibrium passim the spine of the squad with the guys who were nether contract. It's conscionable astir adding the elements in.

"The squad volition play a antithetic mode from before. We request to enlistee and marque definite we person players who'll beryllium capable to play the mode that I'm going to inquire them to play and, successful doing so, you're ever trying to get the implicit best."

However, Killie volition beryllium without 30-year-old winger Matty Kennedy for a play of months pursuing surgery.

"Matty's going to beryllium retired for an extended play of time," Kettlewell added.

"We'll denote much astir that successful much detail. The cognition was yesterday. It looks similar it's been truly successful, which I'm truly affirmative about.

"I cognize a just spot astir it due to the fact that it's an wounded I've had and a akin benignant of cognition to 1 I've had myself.

"We cognize Matty's qualities, truthful we're hopeless to get him backmost arsenic rapidly arsenic we perchance can, but it volition beryllium respective months earlier that's the case. "