Jack Ross says he hopes that his players can begin tomorrow night's game at a high tempo as the Saints take on Spartans in the Scottish Cup.
The manager believes his side have ended matches stronger than they have started them and hopes that the Saints can begin well against the Lowland League side and maintain it over the 90 minutes.
Speaking to stmirren.com ahead of the match, Ross said: "I think whatever happens tomorrow and whatever result we achieve we won't get a great deal of credit for it because you're expected to go and win the game.
But I think the players should look at that as a positive because there should be an expectation for them at this club to go and win games week in week out.
"The biggest challenge for us to start games at the tempo that we are finishing games. The recent games against Dunfermline and Ayr United in particular we've played well and we've played with a good intensity and we need to start games like that."
That's not all that the manager wants to come from tomorrow's match as he admitted he hopes the team can use it to try and get into the habit of winning matches.
The Saints are looking to make it seven wins out of eight cup matches this season and hope a win will give the team a boost going into the next stretch of league matches.
We just need to get into the momentum of winning matches," he said.
"I would like us to keep strengthening the things we are doing well. We need to start keeping clean sheets, regardless of the opposition we are playing, and there's a lot of small targets within the game.
"We feel as if, in recent weeks, we've put a lot of quality balls into the box and haven't scored as many goals as we probably should have.
"We know we have good quality in the wide areas from Lewis Morgan and Kyle McAllister and the quality they have in their delivery and it's something we need to use to our advantage."
