East Fife v Queen's Park

Ryan Blackadder could return to the East Fife line-up for the second second-leg of their play-off final.
Blackadder missed his side's 4-2 first-leg defeat with a knee-ligament problem, but he has a chance of returning for the New Bayview clash.

Queen's Park's Paul Ronald faces a late fitness test on a calf injury as the Spiders aim for promotion.

But both Richard Sinclair and Tony Quinn trained on Thursday night and could be considered for the squad.

Manager Billy Stark is hopeful his side's first-leg led will be enough to get them through.

"We put in a very good performance in midweek and we know what we are capable of," he said.

"We have a healthy lead and we feel we can also go there and get a result.

"Losing the second goal in midweek doesn't really make much of a difference, unless you are East Fife who reduced a three-goal deficit to two.

"But we will go out with the same approach as we did in the first game."

The home side are outsiders and manager Dave Baikie knows the Methil side must put on a great show to have a chance of coming back into the tie

"We are hanging in there, but only just and we'll need a good start to have any hopes of getting through," he said.

Really can't understand why Stark keeps playing down the second goal for us.

It makes a huge difference as the first goal on Saturday is now massive.

To me Stark is really sayin we have no chance tommorow.
Well if hes saying that lets hope the players read it that way and that can get them fired up even more for tommorow to prove him wrong.

To be fair to Billy Stark, they went to Arbroath with a two goal lead last Saturday. By half time they had a four goal lead. I think I would rather be in their position than ours.
Hope for an exciting match, and a positive outcome.

Stark is playing down the second goal because he knows how potentialy important it can be to this final.

Hes playing mind games with his players trying to get them to focus on the positives of having a 2 goal lead rather than theres only 2 goals in it.

We can do our bit by mentioning at every opportunity just how massive a goal that was and keep mentioning it here, on Pie n Bovril and any place else we can.

You're dead right Lonefifer, and he's not kidding anybody. He is sh!tting himself about that second goal.

Of course he is, that's why he keeps downplaying its signifigance.