East Kilbride boss Kevin Rutkiewicz was happy to see his side thump Celtic ‘B’ 6-1 in a closed-doors friendly on Saturday, but was raging about losing a goal.
And he said the win wasn’t a true reflection on the game.
A Neil McLaughlin double, a Cami Elliott brace and strikes by Bob McHugh and Kyle Munro put the Glasgow giants to the sword.
Rutkiewicz said: “It was 3-0 at half-time but it was never a 3-0. The game was a lot closer than what that suggested.
“But it’s good for confidence. When you’ve got a new squad together, results are everything.
“To get results like that is great, and it helps us to galvanise the squad. It lets them believe in us.
“As a management team you’re selling all the time, and trying to get boys to buy into ideas and the best way of doing that is results.
“It’s a result that will definitely help in the short-term, but what sort of impact it has going forward is very little, I would say.
“We play Celtic ‘B’ in as little as four or five weeks and it’s going to be a totally different game.
“But what it does tell us is that we’re on the right track and we’ve just got to keep pushing forward, now.”
Kevin says his ‘moaning g**’ persona came out and he said: “I was really in a bad mood to lose that goal as well. The boys heard me!
“I would rather it was 5-0 than 6-1, but that’s the central defender in me, wanting that clean sheet and being greedy.”
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