SKIPPER Steven Smith is looking for Kilmarnock to perform at the double when Dundee visit on Saturday.

The Rugby Park club have not put back-to-back wins together this season and their three home victories in the Ladbrokes Premiership has been mirrored only by bottom side Inverness.

With four fixtures remaining, Killie sit in seventh place, six points ahead of Motherwell in the relegation play-off spot.

After a 2-0 win at Hamilton last week, which ensured there would be no chance of automatic relegation, the Ayrshire side have their sights set on Dundee.

Smith, back in contention after being out with a calf injury, said: "We had a meeting this morning about the fact that we have not won two games in a row for a long time which is not good enough if we are being brutally honest.

"Our home form isn't great either, which is something else that needs to change, but we are working hard and hopefully that begins on Saturday.

"So it is a massive game for us. We are confident but not over confident.

"We need to be ready for whatever they throw at us, match it and go again."

Neil McCann made an immediate impact as interim Dundee manager last week as the Taysiders won 3-2 at Motherwell to register their first victory following seven straight defeats

Kilmarnock's interim manager Lee McCulloch hopes to have covered all the bases when he comes up against the ninth-placed visitors, bossed by a man he knows "pretty well".

He said: "We were in the same Scotland squads as him, I played against Dunfermline when he was their assistant.

"I have done television with him, we have spoken about football, tactics, set-plays and we have analysed games together. So I am under no illusion as to how good a coach he is and how hard it is going to be for us.

"I think they will go with a different game plan to the one at Motherwell so we have prepared for a couple of different scenarios, whether they sit in and hit on the counter or go for it, or they just play a normal 4-5-1 formation.

"So we have spoken about it, done the training for it. It is time to stop talking and start walking."

Meanwhile, Mark O'Hara's last memory of Rugby Park saw Kilmarnock clinch their Premiership status via the nail-biting play-offs – and he never wants to go through it again.

The Dundee midfielder was part of Lee Clark's relieved side which stayed up on the final day thanks to a vital win over Championship hopefuls Falkirk as his former club escaped relegation by the skin of their teeth.

Now the 21-year-old wants to drag the Dens Park side even further away from the dreaded play-off zone after his experience of fighting to stay up last year.

O'Hara said: “I played the first leg and then came on in the second leg.

“When I came on I didn’t have to worry about anything.

“It was the last time I was there.

“The first game everybody was nervous especially being the Premiership side where as Falkirk had everything to gain.

“It was a nervous affair but it brought out a good crowd and the atmosphere at Rugby Park was brilliant.

“It is a position I don’t want to be in again for sure."

O'Hara bumped into a few of his old team-mates last weekend as both sides took part in their pre-match preparations but insists there will be no old pals' act in Ayrshire today.

He added: “I am really looking forward to it.

“The first time I was there this season I was injured so this will be my first time back.

“We saw the boys in the Bothwell Bridge Hotel for pre-match last week when they were playing Hamilton, so I saw a few of the boys then.

I have kept in contact with a few of them like Greg Taylor and Adam Frizzell but hopefully we will be taking three points off them.

“When I moved on there was about 10 others went as well, so a good core of the squad left with me.

“I spent most of my time playing in defence there. They won’t be used to me playing further up the park but hopefully I can show them what I can do.”

O'Hara is a fan of the job Lee McCulloch has done since taking over from departed gaffer Clark recently and knows his former club are a much stronger force both on and off the field now.

He said: “Lee has done very well and the fans are happy and the players I have spoken to are a lot happier.

“I think they are more solid now and are a point away from safety which is progression from last year.

“Since he has taken over he has got some good results, including last week and they will be looking to kick on again.

“There was uncertainty at the time with the chairman when I was there.

“I still think there are one or two disgruntled fans but they seem to have more stability and are stronger as a club.”

Dundee hope to use the bounce from last weekend's five-goal thriller with Motherwell which ended a disastrous run of seven straight Premiership defeats, leading to Paul Hartley's dismissal.

O'Hara said: “When the new manager came in everybody was trying to be a positive as they can but after a win at Fir Park we are all good to go this week.

“The manager has said we have to take each game as it comes but we need to target wins.

“The teams in the bottom of six have much more than Motherwell have.

"The game plan worked to a tee on Saturday and we will have another plan this week and we will be looking to execute it again.

“I found last year we struggled at home. Teams were used to bad grass pitches but it is a consistent pitch and you know what you are getting on Kilmarnock's plastic.

“I don’t think it is an advantage.

“Teams are used to it and we have been training at our own astroturf to get used to it.”