Dundee manager Tony Docherty has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premiership visit of St Mirren.
Here are the key points:
- The management and players had "a real honest chat" this week to try to address the ongoing defensive issues but Docherty has been "really encouraged by our last two performances".
- He says they have been hampered this season by injuries, particularly to experienced centre-backs, but "all the defenders are back" now and Docherty has the "competition for places defensively that I have been striving for all season".
- The Dark Blues boss adds: "I always think the answers are in the building. They have been in the treatment room, but now they are on the training pitch."
- St Mirren will be a "difficult" opponent and are a team with "an identity" but Docherty says Dundee "are a good side with a real identity".
- Lyall Cameron and Scott Fraser are the only absentees this weekend.
- On league reconstruction being back on the agenda, Docherty is in favour of a bigger top flight and says Dundee owners John Nelms and Tim Keyes also back expansion "because that might allow the promotion of young footballers".
