Preview Stranraer

Pars travel to Stranraer for first league game there since April 1995

It was April 1995 when Dunfermline Athletic last travelled to Stranraer for a league match and it is 19 meetings back since Stranraer last won against the Pars.  In fact out of 35 fixtures between the two, the Galloway opposition have won just twice but both those wins were at Stair Park. For those preparing to support the Pars on Saturday bear in mind that Kilmarnock is basically only half way there!

Last time Dunfermline went to Stranraer was in the League Cup on 14th August 1996 when they won 2-1 courtesy of goals from Hamish French and Allan Moore. The last league meeting there was on 8th April the year before when a Craig Robertson goal earned the points for the Pars.

Stranraer have lost four of their opening ten league games but have a good recent record being undefeated in their last five league games. Last Saturday they registered a win over second placed Stenhousemuir and Jim Jefferies will be very aware that the 3-1 win over them at East End Park was only really settled in the final ten minutes. The Pars have failed to win their last two away games, losing at Forfar and drawing at Brechin.

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v East Fife): Ryan Scully, Ross Millen, Alex Whittle (RyanThomson 45), Kerr Young, Callum Morris, Andy Geggan, Shaun Byrne, Stephen Husband, Ryan Wallace (Ryan Ferguson 72), Josh Falkingham, Jordan Moore (Robert Thomson 59) 
SUBS NOT USED: Lewis Martin, Allan Smith, Fayssal El Bakhtaoui, Ryan Goodfellow

STRANRAER (v Stenhousemuir): David Mitchell, Frank McKeown, David McGregor, Scott Robertson, Mark Docherty; B Trialist (Mark Corcoran 68),   Chris Aitken, Andrew Stirling (David McKenna 89), Grant Gallagher, Martin Grehan, Jamie Longworth (Ryan Borris 84).
SUBS NOT USED: Chris Fahey, Lewis Kinnaird, 

Referee will be Euan Anderson.