Holt won’t stand for stars in holiday mode in his bid to go final five games unbeaten

GARY HOLT has warned that any Livingston players who are “on the beach” in the final weeks of the season will end up on a permanent holiday.

The Lions boss will not allow his men to take their foot off the gas despite assuring their Premiership status prior to the split.

Holt’s demanding the same work ethic and determination that’s characterised their campaign to date in today’s clash with relegation-battling St Mirren.

He added: “It’s important that we finish the season on a high. Some people will leave and some want new deals.

“We can’t afford to have five games where we just turn up with the shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops on, thinking we’re going to the beach. That won’t happen under my watch.

“You might not be staying BY ALAN MARSHALL here next year if that’s the case. It’s about doing your work. Our fans deserve that and the people behind the scenes here do too.

“The great thing is that I’ve seen the boys working hard this week – they want to keep putting in that hard graft, keep producing and proving people wrong.”

Holt has challenged his players to emerge unbeaten from their final five matches of a terrific first season back in the top flight since 2006.

It was their 2-0 win over the Buddies that kick-started their longest sequence of seven games without defeat last August and the Livi boss wants to emulate that today.

He added: “Hopefully we can win and that’ll start a wee five-game unbeaten run.

“That is the challenge we have laid down to the players: can we go the rest of the campaign without defeat? That would end the season on a really good note.”

Holt, meanwhile, has vowed not to make wholesale changes to his side despite Livi’s safety as he seeks to respect the sporting integrity of a fraught fight at the bottom.

He added: “We have a chance to give one or two players a bit more game time and have a look at them.

“But we won’t make any wholesale changes now because it’s not fair on the other teams in the bottom six. I wouldn’t do that.”

GARY HOLT