Motherwell "won't ever have the deckchairs out", we'll never relax, says boss Stuart Kettlewell

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Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell says they won’t “ever have the deckchairs out” if they beat Livingston on Saturday, and says nobody will be on holiday.The Fir Park gaffer actively bristled when it was suggested that his side could relax, should they take a win on Saturday that would leave them just three points behind their seventh-placed opponents.Kettlewell says he wants his players to be on it until the final whistle blows on the season, and if they relax, that’s how things slip.He said: “I absolutely detest that.

This is where I go strong: at no point does a club like Motherwell ever have the deckchairs out and think that it’s holiday time.“I spoke about this two weeks ago when it was an international break about how it would be a working week, and it was.“I think we reaped the benefits from that in our performance against Hibs.“People pay their money to come and watch us on a weekly basis, so it’s important that we act professionally throughout, no matter what happens on Saturday, or beyond that, or up until that last game of the season.“The demands that will be made from me to the players is that we go out and actively try to win three points in the remaining eight games that we have between now and the end of the season.“That message won’t change.

I think if you start to feel comfortable, if you start to feel that you can let your hair down or your standards drop, that’s exactly the product you will get out of it.“I genuinely mean it, those are the demands that will be put from me to the players right up until the very last whistle of the season, come what may.”Kettlewell has taken Motherwell from a position where relegation was more than a murmur, and got them well clear of the scrapping pack at the bottom, but