Kilmarnock boss gave a large chunk of St Johnstone’s current team their Scottish Premiership debuts, with a number of them coming through the club’s academy.
And Wright reckons there is a misconception that he didn’t give youth an opportunity – a claim that he has refuted over the years.
Speaking exclusively to the Kilmarnock Standard, he said: “There was a lot of perceptions about me at St Johnstone, about how the team played and that I was grumpy and also that I didn’t bring youth players through. “But every one of those were wrong, particularly the youth players one.“If you look at the squad at St Johnstone at the minute, Zander Clark, Jason Kerr, Jamie McCart, Liam Gordon, Ali McCann, Stevie May, Chris Kane, Callum Hendry, those are.
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