Kettlewell seeks Ross County ‘hunger’ against Partick Thistle live on BBC

Despite that, County have won only twice in nine outings and are on a run of three without a victory.

“Psychologically, we need to change something,” Kettlewell suggested.

“I think there have been a number of games where County have been the better team, dominating the ball, had the better chances in the game and lost it.

“There’s no magic wand, but I do point to experiences in the past a few years ago taking over Motherwell whilst they were bottom of the Premiership table and then having a pretty remarkable string of results and I will draw on a lot of those experiences.”

Kettlewell has had to show his own recent resilience after he was sacked by Kilmarnock just before Christmas after a downturn in results.

Despite a positive start to the Premiership season, Kettlewell departed Rugby Park after a 10-game winless streak.

“We know we were on a poor run, that speaks for itself,” he said. “Started the season very, very well, a good winning run, finding ourselves high in the league in the early stages.

“Do you have the group onside, are the players 100% with you, are we close in games? I think the answer to all those things is without question, yes.

“We probably felt we were on the wrong side of a few key decisions which people will all point the finger to. We suffered some really key injuries, no more so than Max Stryjek and Djenairo Daniels to name but two of several.”

Kettlewell points out that both he and Kilmarnock have moved on, with the Ayrshire club replacing him with Neil McCann and Billy Dodds, “two guys I know and respect really well”.

“Spent a lot of time with Doddsy at Ross County, working under him and Jim McIntyre, so I wish them nothing but the best,” he said.