Stuart Kettlewell reckons priceless nuggets from David Moyes have set him up perfectly to hit the ground running at Kilmarnock. The new Rugby Park manager met the Everton manager during his four-month period out of the game after leaving Motherwell. Kettlewell tapped into Moyes’ vast knowledge and collected one key insight that can be instantly translated for Ayrshire. Replacing Derek McInnes is no easy task given the success the new Hearts manager enjoyed during his spell with the club. Moyes stated that he returned to Merseyside with plenty of good things in place after taking over from Sean Dyche and Kettlewell is now in a similar place. Explaining the day, he said: “I spent a little bit of time at Everton with guys like Alan Irvine and David Moyes, who has over 1200 games of football at the top level, so you learn a thing or two from those experiences. “I just spent a day with them, just training behind the scenes. I had good conversations, picked their brains on the challenges that they’ve faced or not. “That was another thing that sometimes comes to light, sometimes you don’t go to a club when everything’s broken. “That was something that they stressed they found going into Everton. They actually inherited a lot of good things. So just little bits like that you definitely take value from. “To be out at a big club with a top manager that I really respect, I’ve come away with some nuggets there, but I think it always has to be your version, it always has to be your stamp on it and it always has to be in relation to the club you work in. “We’ve all seen everybody sit with Pep Guardiola's book and think that they can coach a team, but it depends on the players you’ve got. “I feel that I have a pretty good model to work with the resources that I have here and it will be put to the test again. It will come with pressure and demands. but I’m absolutely fine with that,” Kettlewell has learned throughout his coaching career as he continued: “I’m not going to be pig-headed and say that I’ve not. "I felt when I left Motherwell. I had 100 per cent backing of the board, the players and the staff. I believe that everybody should sit with a game model and a process in their head. But, I think once you look at tweaks within that, I’m always trying to evolve.” Killie are keen for Kettlewell to develop more young stars and that fits his style as he continued: “I believe it’s always been a model that’s allowed players to grow, I think that has been evidenced. Again, that’s not to massage my ego, the facts will tell you that. “The first place you need to start is to win games and I would hope that I’ve been able to show that record, that win percentage is up there, is good. “Second is that player development. Trying to ensure that you can continue the pathway of guys like Bobby Wales and David Watson here and see if we can unearth another few players from what’s been a successful academy team this season under the guidance of Chris Burke going to win the Youth Cup and be very competitive in that league. “That doesn’t mean that we’re just going to bring 10, 11, 12 young kids in straight off the bat, but what I want to do is try and make sure that there is a pathway which there has been before and to try and accelerate that process as much as we can. “Probably the third bit is the bit that I see for every football club in Scotland, which is that you have to try and ensure that you’re involved in player trading. “I believe we’re all selling clubs in this country and that’s probably the three main factors that were covered between myself and the board and that we felt that we’ve seen a lot of those things in a very similar light.” Kettlewell is eager to get down to business in the middle of next month with the Premier Sports Cup important as he said: "Last year, I was lucky enough to get to the semi-final and to get an understanding of what that brings. So for me it’s about making sure we’re ready. “I feel it’s a fact-finding mission, the one thing I would need to stress is that I believe there’s a really good nucleus of players here. A lot of players I’ve admired from afar. “But we’re without question going to have to add some bodies. That process has started for us to try and make sure we can be as prepared as we possibly can be when we return.” McInnes took Killie to Europe, but, although Kettlewell says it not a should, he knows it’s a could as he added: “It has been done before and it was a brilliant achievement. “But I think when you start to stack the city clubs up, when you look at your Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, it is possible but I think it’s always a very difficult task for clubs outwith that bracket, I think we all understand that the resources are far greater at the city clubs. “But I think what it has stressed with a number of clubs, Kilmarnock being one of them, is that it can be achievable.”