Carson insists confidence still high as Livingston battle to stay in the Premiership
David Carson accepted Livingston's perilous position in the cinch Premiership with confidence when he opted for a move to the top-flight.
The 28-year-old midfielder departed cinch Championship side Inverness for the Lions on an 18-month contract last week after five years at Caley Thistle.
The Newcastle-born player made his debut in the 3-0 defeat by Rangers at Ibrox on Saturday which left David Martindale's side without a league win in their last 16 attempts and six points behind secondbottom Ross County having played two games more.
Ahead of tonight's game against fourth-placed Kilmarnock at Rugby Park, where the in-form home team have lost only once in ten games in all competitions, Carson conceded that some people may have questioned his decision to join a club whose Premiership future is fraught.
He said: "I agree, people will look at it like that but I am a player, I know the situation we are in and there is still a lot of football to play. I am coming in with the aim, like everyone else at this club, to keep us in the Premiership. That's what I have come to do.
"As a player you always want to play at the highest level you can and there was an opportunity for me to do that.
"I know the situation that we are in but we can affect that and hopefully we can start to pick up points.
"We are confident. There is a good group of lads, I have seen that in training already. There is some real quality in there so why not start a good run on Wednesday?"
Killie go into the game sitting pretty in fourth place and manager Derek Mcinnes wants his team to "motor on" towards the split and clinch a top-six spot that he would have described as "utopia" before the season started.
"We have a target for what can get us into the top-six, we are still a bit shy of that, we still have work to do," said Mcinnes. “No one is going to give us it, we have to earn it.
"At this stage of the season it is the team that can find top form that can be the difference. Can we be the team between now and the split that can really push on and motor on?"