We can't be one-season wonders - Wright

Defender Joe Wright has urged his Kilmarnock team-mates to put Sunday's dispiriting defeat against Ross County behind them quickly - because they need to prove they are not a one-season wonder.

Killie defied their relatively small playing budget to finish fourth in the Scottish Premiership last season and qualify for Europe.

They had won three successive home games before facing County and could have moved into the top six with a victory but produced one of their worst displays of the season to lose 1-0 and instead fall to 10th.

"It was obviously good to achieve something in one of the seasons I've been here, but it can't be just one season," the 29-year-old said.

"We can't be known for arriving in the top six once. We want to do it year in, year out.

"It was a sloppy game on Sunday. There was nothing really between the two teams but we lost a late goal and weren't really our usual threat.

"We probably didn't do the basics well enough, which is something we are usually really good at."

Wright is poised to make his 100th appearance for the club at home to Motherwell on Wednesday - and is grateful to have got his career back on track in Ayrshire.

The former Doncaster defender joined Killie in the summer of 2022 after 12 months out of the game through injury.

"Coming here on the back of a bad injury, with quite a bit of uncertainty because of that injury, I'm really happy to rack up 100 games in quite a short period of time," said the former Wales Under-21 centre-back.

"I wouldn't say it has exceeded my expectations because I didn't have any expectations.

"To come here and, in the main, play every game I've been available for – I'm delighted with that."