Foster: Jig won’t get any favours from me

RICHARD FOSTER shared a dressing room with Lee McCulloch during two spells at Ibrox. So he knows what makes former Rangers skipper “Jig” tick.

But the St Johnstone defender is aiming to keep the interim Kilmarnock boss waiting for his first win since replacing Bury-bound Lee Clark.

Foster said: “I played with Lee at Rangers and it’s no surprise that Kilmarnock put him in charge after Lee Clark left.

“He is someone you always thought would be a manager one day but even he probably didn’t think it would happen this quickly.

“Sometimes you don’t get to choose when you become a manager. Sometimes it just happens that way and it comes to you.

“He probably thought Lee Clark would be there for the long haul so he was maybe thinking it would be a couple of years before he went into becoming a manager himself.

“But that’s football. Lee has been given the opportunity and I’m sure if he does well in the games he’s got then Killie will think about him for the job.

“Lee has that sort of aura about him, he gets his message across well and he’ll get the players playing for him.

“He won’t be fazed by it, that’s for sure, because he’s played at some really big clubs and at the top level.

“Obviously it’s different as a manager, completely different I’d imagine, but I’m sure he’ll take to it like a duck to water. Apart from Saturday I hope he does well.”

Tommy Wright’s Perth side, who will face Rangers in midweek, finished their preparations for Killie yesterday after Thursday training was blown away by Storm Doris.

But Foster insisted: “What happened with the weather won’t affect us too much because the manager always works on set pieces and stuff on Fridays anyway.

“The lads all know their jobs so it won’t hinder us too much. Missing one day of training shouldn’t be a problem.”