McCann on attacking the run-in, Killie morale & Pittodrie trip

Kilmarnock manager Neil McCann has been talking to the media before his team's Scottish Premiership trip to Aberdeen on Saturday.

Here are the key points from his news conference:

• McCann wants his team to go "full throttle" for the final five matches as they try to escape the relegation play-off spot.
• He won't accept any player going around with "faces tripping them". He believes morale in the squad is high and that has been reflected in recent performances. "We've shown in games that we're very much together, we understand what's going on, we're not stupid."
• The tight nature at both ends of the table brings a "wonderful excitement", according to the Killie boss.
• McCann is keen to use the split to prove they are better than their league position suggests: "All the teams in the bottom six we are going to face have their own strengths, but I believe we are a team that can really make a mark, and in the last five games it gives us an opportunity just to show how good we can be."
• And he is bullish about their chances, starting at Pittodrie: "I'm expecting a big performance from our boys on Saturday. I'm looking to try and go and win five games."
• Killie beat Aberdeen 3-0 in January and defeated Stephen Robinson's St Mirren 4-3 in February, but McCann isn't reading too much into those results. He says: "Beating St Mirren when Stevie was the manager, irrelevant really, but we've come out on the right side of both of those games. I think we are better than what we were when we beat Aberdeen here. I'm very aware of how Stevie plays, I'm very aware of how Aberdeen have been playing. We'll respect our opponents, but this is about us."
• Team news: Marley Watkins is still not fully fit, Jack Thomson is a doubt after picking up a "nick" in training, but other than that Killie are "full steam ahead".