Jack Ross believes that St Mirren supporters will respond if the team shows the right attitude and desire to win football matches.
The manager, remembering the famous 2-0 win at the Falkirk Stadium back in 2009 in which he starred for the Buddies, says that his biggest memory from that day was the incredible backing from the Saints loyal and knows that if his players can start winning matches and putting in good performances that the supporters will give similar backing.
Speaking to stmirren.com ahead of tomorrow's Ladbrokes Championship match against Falkirk, the manager said: "From my point of view, it was probably one of my favourite games in my whole career. The support we had that day was just incredible.
I think what I take from it memory wise is that it just reminds me of what the supporters do at this club because, as I said, the backing we had that day that will live long in my memory.
The supporters will back the players but we need to give them something to back us for and that's what we're trying to do. We want supporters to see an attitude and desire and they'll respond to that, I know that. If we can go and start the game positively tomorrow that will ignite them as well.
The manager is expecting a difficult match against a Falkirk side who are chasing the play-offs, but thinks the players should enjoy playing in a good stadium.
It's like every game in this league, especially away from home, they're tough matches," he said. "But I think the environment you go to is good. I stressed that to the players today, they should enjoy going and playing there. Especially the players we've got in the team at the moment in midfield area. They've got good pace and quality about the way they pass the ball so it's an ideal environment for them to go to and I think the surroundings make it a good game.
"There's always been a good rivalry between the two clubs in recent years as well so there are a lot of things the players should look forward to tomorrow."
Jack hopes that the team can carry forward the momentum from Tuesday night's win over Spartans into the game and the coming weeks.
We've spent this week trying to look at all the positive things the players are doing well and working on the things that they need to improve on. They're maintaining an optimism and they need that to go and get results.
"Results will do that and Tuesday was a good indication of that because, although we were on a hiding to nothing, the manner of the performance and the margin of the result was a good thing for us.
"We need to put a run together that picks up points but also instils that belief because the belief comes in fits and starts at the moments. You can visibly see it in the players in games but results help that hugely."
