Jim Goodwin insists St Mirren are ready to resurrect their season after holding "clear-the-air" talks.

The Paisley club have yet to record a win this term and head into the weekend action second bottom of the SPFL Premiership.

They suffered a home defeat to newly-promoted Partick Thistle in their last outing and the Saints skipper believes the international break was a timely opportunity to address their problems ahead of today's visit of Motherwell.

The Saints skipper said: "I think the break came at the right time for us to be honest.

"We were on a really poor run and it's given us a week or two to have a couple of team meetings, a few clear-the-air meetings, to get a few things out in the open and just start again.

"The season starts for us against Motherwell."

Asked what has gone wrong for the Buddies so far, Goodwin added: "We've got our opinions but it's very hard to put your finger on exactly what is going wrong.

"It's certainly not through lack of effort or commitment.

"When you look around the dressing room and see the quality that we've got, our starting XI, and our whole squad really, is as good, if not stronger, than other squads out there.

"Every one of us is hurting, we are all proud and we realise what's happening on the park just now isn't acceptable and we hope that we can put it right.

"I can understand the supporters' frustration.

"We won a cup last year and I think the whole level of expectation rises and people expect us to kick on in the league."