East Fife vs Stenhousemuir preview - Double boost for Fifers

Posted Saturday, April 16, 2011 by PA

East Fife welcome back Stevie Campbell and Craig Johnstone to their squad for their home match with Stenhousemuir.

However, Robert Sloan and Jim Hamilton remains sidelined with injury as New Bayview boss John Robertson bids to engineer an important victory.

Robertson said: "We need one more win to avoid the play-offs at the foot of the table and also need a win should the teams above us falter in their pursuit of a promotion play-off place.

"We are undefeated in our last three games and they were against sides above us in the table so we need to bring that type of form to a team below us now."

Stenhousemuir welcome back goalkeeper Chris McCluskey and defender Gary Thom from suspension for the crunch relegation battle.

The injured trio of Scott Fusco, Jordan Smith and Scott Dalziel all remain sidelined and on-loan Hamilton youngster Michael Devlin is a doubt with a dead leg.

Warriors boss David Irons said: "This would be a great game to win as it moves closer away from automatic relegation and would give us one of the three wins I believe is needed to avoid the play-offs as well.

"After a good run where we went five games without defeat we have slipped back a wee bit recently and need to get winning again.

"We need to show the same spirit that we showed to defeat Ayr United twice and take points from Forfar at their place to win this one."