We start with Hearts at Tynecastle on Saturday, then Rangers on the following Sunday, Dunfermline away and then Celtic at home. It is a tough schedule but there are no games in this division which you would describe as comfortable and easy, and we will have to take each fixture as it comes. I think relative success for this season will be to stay in the Premier League. We are in a position at the moment which would see us be relegated at the end of the season so we are obviously looking to improve on that. That's the only objective on the horizon at the moment, there's no point in running before you can walk.
Confidence is important.
The players have impressed me throughout training, and on Tuesday, and they now need to prove they have the mental capacity and the will to win games. This is very different to playing well and we need to add that. I think trying to play pretty football is not really the recipe at the moment. We need to compete from first to last and I'm not saying that we will deliberately go out not to play attractive football, I've always been one who feels you should be entertaining fans. But, results are paramount and I will hope to find the mix to combine the two attractive play in the quest to get the required results, two factors that don't normally go hand in hand.