Wouter Vrancken and James Wilson have spoken to the media to preview Saturday’s William Hill Premiership match at Kilmarnock.
The Jambos are looking to bounce back from the midweek loss away to Falkirk, in what was a first defeat in ten games.
Head Coach Wouter and Scotland call-up James are eager to dust themselves down and go into the international break with another three points, and both are well aware of the part the Hearts support can play with 3,500 Jambos packing into Rugby Park this weekend.
Wouter said; “For the players (the international break will be) very welcome. But like I said, we have to push for this game because when you can have a good result now in this game, it gives you a very good mindset to go in the days off and get a few days off.
“But at the same time, it's also a good moment to work on things.
“Also, when I see it's not only the players, but when I see the fans from (back in) Sturm Graz, and now turning up with 3,500 on Saturday in Kilmarnock...I never experienced in my career such a big support and I know how loud it can be.
“So it will be also a lot of times feeling like a home game. It has to also give the players extra energy and show the fans that we want to finish this round of games, this series of games, in a good way with a good performance and a good result.”
James said; “I think you can see we've had a good run up until then (Falkirk), we were going in all the right directions, we were doing really well.
"I think we still are going in the right direction, it was just we probably had one of those one-off days where it just wasn't really going for us and we just need to make sure going into the next game now that we're going to be ready.
“3,500 Hearts fans sold out going to Killie, so I think we just need to show that we can bounce back and we can put on a good performance for them.”
Both press conferences are available to watch on Hearts TV by clicking here.
