Motherwell Consider Changes For Kilmarnock Clash

Mark McGhee has indicated he will make changes again when they take on Kilmarnock as he continues searching for his best team.

McGhee only made one change for his second match back in charge, the 1-1 draw with Aberdeen, but has now seen 16 players in action.

With Keith Lasley out with a calf injury, McGhee will make at least one switch at Rugby Park on Saturday but there could be more.

"I have several players who I've not had in the team yet and I haven't seen what they can do," he said.

"I said when I came here that I wasn't coming in in the first weeks with grandiose ideas about how I was going to change the face of Motherwell. It was about good performances and hopefully good results, and that remains the same.

"So I do have to see the others, so there could be changes again because I want to keep being fair and learn as much as I can as quickly as I can.'' Little was expected of Motherwell in McGhee's first two games against Celtic and the Dons, but now they face the two teams directly above them in the Premiership with Inverness visiting Fir Park on November 7.

But McGhee said: "The priority for me in the short term is learning about them. I have got to make sure we give ourselves a chance of winning games at the same time.

"I won't do it to the detriment of the team really but I do have to do that.

I'm not just going to go there and think 'we can't lose or we have got to win' and play the same team.

"Others need to be given the opportunity to prove that they should be here or shouldn't."

Kilmarnock have won four of their last six league games and Josh Magennis, who McGhee signed for Aberdeen, has netted six goals in his last eight games, one of them helping Northern Ireland seal a Euro 2016 spot.

McGhee said: "Josh is on fire and will be a big threat to us on Saturday. I know Josh well, he is a player and a boy I like. But I will also be looking forward to big Mick (Stephen McManus) taking care of him.

"I took him because I was convinced he had something about him and he suddenly seems to be finding it.

"He is a great physical specimen, he is quick and he's willing. He's got a lot going for him so he should be doing well."