Last 5 games

Injury problems leaving East Fife boss frustrated

• East Fife 3 Forfar 0 September 23 2017

• Forfar 2 East Fife 0 July 26 2016

• East Fife 2 Forfar 1 July 26 2014

• Forfar 1 East Fife 2 March 29 2014

• East Fife 2 Forfar 1 January 25 2014 the table and should give the players a real lift.

“We now have to make sure it’s just the start.

“When you’re at the bottom for a long time teams start to think that they’ll be OK because we’re struggling, and we have to put the pressure on them and stay in the mix.

“We’ve had a really good training week and are ready to go again.

“We hadn’t been scoring in open play but I’ve been telling the players that we do have creative types here and boys with good goalscoring records,” he added.

Weir’s experience of facing East Fife earlier this season when he was Elgin manager has prepared him for a tough fixture at Station Park today.

“We played them in the cup and I was really impressed by them,” he recalled.

“They know how to win games and Darren’s team has probably got even stronger since then.”

Weir’s squad is likely to be the same as last weekend, with Murray McIntosh and Dylan Easton likely to shake off knocks to be available. East Fife manager Darren Young has been left cursing his luck after the injury problems that plagued his side at the start of the season came to the fore again.

The Bayview side head to Forfar this afternoon with up to six players missing due to knocks, and Kyle Wilkie also remaining sidelined through suspension.

Pat Slattery and Mark Docherty are major doubts and could join Scott Linton, Craig Watson, Chris Kane and Greg Hurst in missing out.

Young said: “It is a frustrating time as there is great potential in our squad, however, we are continually being hampered by injuries.

“We have shown what we can do when we have everyone available,” he said.

“However, we have only had that a couple of times this season.”

Young is also wary of meeting a Station Park side who are beginning to adjust to life in League One under the guidance of Jim Weir.

He explained: “We are now facing Forfar who will have taken a huge boost from scoring four goals at Albion Rovers last weekend, winning the game and coming off bottom spot in the table.

“Jim has gone in there and started to turn things around.

“It is a game where I would strongly fancy our chances if we had everyone available. But unfortunately we could be seven bodies down, which makes it more difficult.”

He added: “We might be low in numbers. However, we will go to Forfar and look to win.”

Picture: SNS. Jim Weir says climbing off the bottom of the table should give his Forfar players a lift.

Picture: SNS. Pat Slattery is a major doubt for the visit to Station Park, meaning that East Fife could be “seven bodies down”.