Motherwell must make the most of 'home comforts', says boss Stuart Kettlewell

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Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell says it’s important to make home advantage count at Fir Park, and give fans 100 per cent commitment in games.Kettlewell says he gets a lift from the stadium environment and says it’s time his side make sure visitors are well aware that they’re in a game.Ahead of this afternoon’s visit by Hibs, which is Motherwell’s first home game of the new Premiership season, Kettlewell says it's important to get off to a good start.He said: “Putting teams on the back-foot here early is massive.“I look at the place and I don’t want to sound too corny here, but I get a lift every day when I come in and look out my office window and see that pitch, see the work that has been done, and the infrastructure about the stadium.“It’s a proper football stadium, with a really loyal following.“I think it’s so important that we get off on the right step.

We found it so hard to win games here, prior to February, and people throw in the excuse of ‘the pitch is incredible and the other team gets a lift’ but we need to get a lift, we have to feel good about it when we play here.“Historically for me I’ve always found Fir Park such a difficult place to play – as a player, to coach, to manage, it has always been a difficult place.“I think we should probably shelve the excuses and, rather than talking about how good the pitch is, how good the place looks, and other teams getting a lift, we need to make sure it’s us that get the lift from it.“Every time somebody comes here they need to know they’ve been in a game of football – that has to be a part of our make-up, and out identity.“I think the players and the staff around this place, and especially the supporters that come here in their numbers, they’re owed 100 per cent