Kerr - Gap at bottom of Premiership can be 'easily' closed

Livingston defender Cammy Kerr insists the gap at the bottom of the Premiership can be classed and his side can still claw their way out of relegation trouble.

With 11 games to play in the league, Livi have just 12 points to their name and trail eleventh-placed Kilmarnock by eight points.

Performances since Marvin Bartley took over as manager have brought some encouragement, though the team lost a last-gasp goal at Celtic and had to fight back from two games down to take a point at Dundee.

Kerr says praised Bartley for bringing a freshness that can lift the side and said that it could just take "two or three games" to completely change the team's fortunes.

He told the Scottish Football Podcast: "In terms of the training, Marvin coming in and having his own ideas on how he wants to do things has been great. The training's been really refreshing and he's got a way that he wants to go and he's sticking with it.

"I suppose it's easy for me to say 'Yeah, we've got to believe', but if you're a professional and you don't believe that you're going to stay up with a points difference of eight, then you shouldn't be playing.

"That's easily brought back in two or three games. You've still got the split to play everyone in and around you, and everyone knows how quickly football changes."

Kerr said there has to be focus and the right attitude if Livi are to achieve a great escape but backed his side to give everything they have in the remaining games.

"You've got to have a really good mentality," he said. "It's a different mentality from being at the other end of the league. You've got to have a real fight and desire and never give up. You've got to go in every day, make sure that you're working to the best of your ability, and come a Saturday or Sunday, even against the bigger teams, you've got to believe that you're going to get something out it.

That's got to be the way everyone in the dressing room thinks. We need everyone fighting in the same direction and I believe we've got that.

We're under no illusions about how tough it is going to be but we know that we're still in a fight and we need to keep going to the end.