Derek McInnes: Europe-bound Kilmarnock still have a job to do

Derek McInnes has stressed that there is still work to be done for Kilmarnock to secure fourth place in the cinch Premiership.

With three fixtures remaining, Killie are six points ahead of fifth place St Mirren, who are Saturday’s opponents in Paisley, with the Buddies five points ahead of Dundee.

While European football of some description was guaranteed for the Rugby Park outfit last week when Dundee lost at home to St Mirren, McInnes wants to clinch a coveted fourth spot.

The Killie boss said: “We don’t need to do it this weekend but we would like to. That’s the intention.

“Obviously we have been in fourth spot for a while now, we are enjoying where we are.

“It was a great feeling last weekend watching as we got into Europe with four games to spare but now we want to finish off what has been a fantastic campaign by securing that fourth spot.

“There is still a job to be done to do that and hopefully we can do that job on Saturday.

“Obviously St Mirren are in a fight with Dundee for fifth and in a fight with us for fourth.

“Our games against St Mirren in my couple of years have been pretty right but we have a pretty good record against them.

“That said, we have to make sure at this stage of the season, in order to get improvements we need to try to make sure the motivation remains pretty high.

“We don’t think for a moment that we have secured fourth spot. We feel there is still work to be done, we will still try to push the players to the limits and see what we can get out of this season and to get fourth spot means a lot and should do for the players and it is important they recognise there is still a job to be done.”