Stuart Kettlewell reveals Motherwell bus trip left stars SEASICK but hopes it's winds of change in relegation scrap

Stuart Kettlewell might have felt sick at some of the results on Motherwell’s 15-match winless run.

But the last thing he expected was his players feeling SEASICK on a bus to Aberdeen on Wednesday that turned into a four-hour ordeal and a waste of time and money as the Pittodrie clash was postponed due to Storm Gerrit. The Fir Park boss and his players returned to Lanarkshire yesterday morning to prepare for the relegation crunch with bottom club Livingston tomorrow.

By then he hopes his travel-weary troops will have found their feet again after that tortuous trip to the Granite City. Kettlewell said: “Half the bus were seasick, with it swaying from side to side in that wind! It wasn’t a great experience, I have to say. I think a lot of people were just trying to keep their head down.

“We genuinely had one or two coming off the bus looking a little bit green, especially going up. Coming back wasn’t quite as bad, but going up was a wee bit of a challenge.

“Without the bus journey or the run we find ourselves on, the unity in this place is pretty remarkable considering where we find ourselves. But what we would like to do is put on three points as quick as we possibly can, and then kick on.”

Kettlewell led Motherwell on a long unbeaten run last season and is convinced his side can kick-start their faltering campaign tomorrow. But he insists the Livi showdown is no different from any other game and refuses to call it a six-pointer.

He said: “I don’t buy into that. It’s the next game of football and it so happens it’s the team at the bottom of the league against the team at second-bottom.

“I take it as seriously as every game this season. If we get a victory it puts a little more daylight between Livingston and ourselves,