Stirling Albion boss left gutted after his side's uninspiring derby day defeat to Alloa

Gutted Stirling Albion boss Darren Young has urged his troops to galvanise themselves ahead of their weekend fixture with high-flying Hamilton after a disappointing derby day defeat.

The Binos were confident heading into Saturday’s home match against Alloa, having already picked up two wins over their Forth Valley rivals this term.

But the Binos’ gaffer was left scratching his head as his side fell to a uninspiring 2-0 defeat, thanks to goals from Steven Buchanan and Ally Roy.

On the big derby day, the Binos failed to create the same number of chances that they have in recent defeats and defensively they looked vulnerable.

Speaking after the match, a disappointed Young said: “I think it’s the poorest we’ve been this season.

“It was individual mistakes that cost us today. We never really turned up, and that’s disappointing for a derby game.

“It’s night and day compared to the games we played at the start of the season when we beat them twice at their patch. They obviously had a point to prove and we saw that from the first minute.

“It’s massively disappointing. There was a good crowd.”

Young added: “It’s an eye-opener and a wake up call that the guys need to get together and stick together. It’s the first time this season where we can really say we should have been competing a hell of a lot better than we did today.”

Young was forced to reshuffle his pack due to injures.

“We changed the front two – Spenny [Greig Spence] is injured and Dale [Carrick] came out of the firing line,” he said.

“We felt we wanted to freshen up the strikers. We’ve not been scoring and we’ve got good strikers so we wanted to go with a wee bit of freshness.

“Obviously the result says that didn’t work too well. But it’s not just the strikers, it’s