Foster aims to keep manager McCulloch waiting for first win
RICHARD FOSTER shared a dressing room with Lee McCulloch during two spells at Ibrox, so he knows what makes former Rangers’ captain “Jig” tick.
But the St Johnstone defender is aiming to keep the interim Kilmarnock manager waiting for his first win since taking over from Bury-bound Lee Clark.
Foster said: “I played with Lee at Rangers and it’s no surprise that Kilmarnock have 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 today, I hope he does well.”
Tommy Wright’s Perth side finetuned their preparations yesterday after Thursday training was blown away by Storm Doris. And 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. The roads were closed getting to Stirling and the boys based in Perth said it was the same going the other way, so there wasn’t much could be done about it. But missing one day of training shouldn’t be a problem.”
Foster was delighted with claiming three points against his former club Ross County but now the challenge is to improve on the home front.”
Manager Wright has midfielder Liam Craig suspended and Murray Davidson, Danny Swanson, Graham Cummins and Keith Watson injured. But Paul Paton is available after suspension.