St Johnstone v Motherwell: Fir Park boss backs side to turn tide as he says he'll take flak for poor form

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Stuart Kettlewell says the buck stops with him and he’s happy to be the guy taking the flak, because he genuinely believes Motherwell have the players to get out of their poor run of results.Motherwell have gone seven games without a win in the Premiership, taking just a point from 21 available, as they head into battle away to Craig Levein's St Johnstone tonight, with a visit by beaten League Cup semi-finalists Hearts looming on Saturday.Kettlewell says there has been plenty of praise given to Motherwell this season, so he’s happy to be in the cross hairs just now, while they try to get it right again.“I understand it, I get the nature of the job.

I get people’s frustration, I get people’s anger,” said Kettlewell.“I can assure you that when I go home after the game I don’t speak to the family, I keep my head down.“But I’m never going to shirk responsibility.“I’m quite happy to be the guy that’s getting shot at when it’s not great, and equal to that, there has been plenty of praise for us as a football club over the last eight or nine months, whatever it has been.“Quite simply, you have to take the rough with the smooth; I was brought up with the old man telling me if you’re not going to be prepared to take the criticism you’ll never get the praise.“Whatever comes my way, in terms of criticism with the run that we’re on, I’m big enough and ugly enough to take that.“But what we need to do is take all of that aside and we have to be able to act as we had been for a long period of time, within 90-plus minutes of football.“We need to get bigger decisions right and we need to be switched on in big moments.”Kettlewell added: “I genuinely believe that if we do that we’ll be able to turn things round, and I genuinely believe