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Caretaker Alex Cleland confident new manager will inherit squad strong enough to secure Premiership safety

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Caretaker Alex Cleland reckons there is more than enough talent in the group for the next St Johnstone manager to work with - and to help haul them up the table.Cleland will be the main man in the dugout for Saints’ match against Kilmarnock on Wednesday night after Steven MacLean and Liam Craig were relieved of their duties.The Perth club’s search for a new boss has started and is likely to step up a notch after the midweek Premiership tussle at McDiarmid Park.Cleland, no stranger to stepping into the hotseat, said: “Am I confident we can get out of it?

Yeah, I am.“I know the players and there’s enough in that dressing room to get us out of the predicament we’re in.“There are plenty of games to go and we can go on a run.

It’s not easy to do, you have to win a game to get on it but once you do you’ll get confidence back and get going.“That’s what we have to aim to do.

You have to stay positive and try to get some momentum because it’s huge in football.“We have been in this league for a long time now and the aim is always to stay in it.“It hasn’t been a great start, we know that, but there are a lot of games to go and the job of the new manager will be to turn that around.“We’re not cut adrift, there’s plenty of points to play for - but we need to start picking up points.“We have had a few seasons where we’ve started slowly but have managed to get through it.“This season we have to battle our way through it again.

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