Killie are fired up by home truths...

SKIPPER Steven Smith is looking for Kilmarnock to perform at the double when Dundee visit today.

The Rugby Park club have not put back-to-back wins together this season and their three home victories in the Ladbrokes Premiership have been mirrored only by bottom side Inverness.

With four fixtures remaining, Killie sit in seventh place, six points ahead of Motherwell in the relegation play-off spot.

After a 2-0 win at Hamilton last week, which ensured there would be no chance of automatic relegation, the Ayrshire side have their sights set on Dundee.

Smith, back in contention after being out with a calf injury, said: “We had a meeting about the fact that we have not won two games in a row for a long time which is not good enough.

“Our home form isn’t great either, which is something else that needs to change. Saturday is a massive game for us. We are confident but not over confident. We need to be ready for whatever they throw at us.”

Neil McCann made an instant impact as interim Dundee boss last week as the Taysiders won 3-2 at Motherwell to register their first victory after seven straight defeats.

Kilmarnock’s interim manager Lee McCulloch hopes to have covered all the bases when he comes up against the ninthplaced visitors, bossed by a man he knows well.

He said: “We were in the same Scotland squads, I played against Dunfermline when he was their assistant.

“I have done television with him, we have spoken about football, tactics, set-plays and we have analysed games together.

“So I am under no illusion as to how good a coach he is.

“I think they will go with a different game plan to the one at Motherwell so we have prepared for a couple of different scenarios, whether they sit in and hit on the counter or go for it, or they just play a normal 4-5-1 formation.

“So we have spoken about it, done the training for it. It is time to stop talking and start walking.”