The Scotsman

Players must be ‘up for it’ says Petrie

- BY CRAIG P STEWART

Montrose will go top if they beat leaders Stirling Albion – if enough of their players turn up according to manager Stewart Petrie.

He said: “Games in this league are incredibly tight. Winning depends on having more players up for it on the day than your opponents. We will need that to beat Stirling.”

Stenhousem­uirare on

a four-game unbeaten run which manager Brown Ferguson wants to extend at Annan.

He said: “We are motoring along nicely but we know that if we do not apply ourselves correctly, things can quickly change.”

Cowdenbeat­h entertain fourth-placed Peterhead and former Hawick Royal Albert striker Josh Morris will be given the chance to be a matchwinne­r. Manager Billy Brown said: “We cannot score at the moment. We need someone who can find the net and

Josh will get the opportunit­y to show he can do that at this level.”

Berwick’s new manager Robbie Horn wants to claim his first win against visitors

Elgin City.

Horn said: “We have worked intensely on a few things in training and hopefully the players will take what they have learned into this game.” As Clyde host Edinburgh

City, manager Jim Chapman said: “We set a high standard winning at Stirling and we want to hit that level again.”

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