McLeish thankful for senior players' help
· Yahoo Sports
Clear communication and "leaning on senior players" has helped Craig McLeish to two consecutive victories as St Mirren interim manager, the 36-year-old has suggested.
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McLeish was coaching in the youth ranks until earlier this year, but the departure of Stephen Robinson to Aberdeen has accelerated his development.
"The key to it is being really clear in what I'm looking for, being clear in your communication with them as well," he said.
"No matter what level you're at, even working with some of the younger players that I've done throughout the academy, if you're not prepared and you don't have answers to their questions or solutions, they find you out very, very quickly.
"I have to make sure I involve them in part of the process as well. I've tried to do that. I've leaned on the senior players, we've asked them bits and pieces about the structure of the week.
"Not so much about how we're playing, but the structure of the week and just some different things around the training ground and to do with match days.
"That helps everyone buy in and feel like it's a group effort, it's not me just dictating absolutely everything to them.
"Obviously on the football side of it, yes it's our game plan, it's my ideas and they have to carry them out, but if you bring them close to you as well then you probably get more buy-in and I think that's been key to it.
"I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for the support of the senior players. They've been great with me."