Stuart Kettlewell has admitted he would welcome the chance to manage Motherwell on a permanent basis.
The former Ross County boss was made interim manager after Steven Hammell was sacked following a brutal Scottish Cup exit to Championship side Raith Rovers on Saturday. The Steelmen are joint bottom of the Premiership and Kettlewell reckons he would be up to the task of guiding the Lanarkshire outfit away from the drop zone if handed the opportunity in the long-term.
He told BBC Sportsound: "I've heard a lot of interim managers speak about this recently and when I was asked this question years back at Ross County when I stepped in place of Owen Coyle, my answer was a resounding yes, 100 per cent.
"But there's so many factors behind it. Do I believe I can do the job? Yes, I do. I would back myself and I would pitch myself in that I can do something and I can help the group of players out. But I think it's a slightly different situation from that point of view because I never really had this one in my head.
"At Ross County, it was a club that I knew so well and I had spent such a long period of time there and had a lot of success which I'm immensely proud of. So the answer was always yes, I want to do the job.
"From this point of view and Motherwell, it needs to be a question of what do Motherwell want? You know if it's somebody like myself and they felt like I could get a tune out of the players and I could get them going in this last 14 games, a third of the season still to go, then absolutely. You pitch yourself forward and you help out where possible.
"I regard myself as a team player, I say this all the time, I'm not about ego. It's not about me sitting here talking about Stuart Kettlewell and what I'm going to get out of this situation or what I'm going to do, it's absolutely about the players and the results. That's all that's concerned.
"I know it's maybe a little bit of a politically correct answer, it's maybe sitting on the fence when I say that but you know what if the football club want me to do it for a longer period of time, yes. If they don't and they want me to go back to the role I was doing previously then that's fine and I'll give them every support I can."
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