Stirling Albion hope to avoid Edinburgh shock and get 2024 back on track

A potential banana skin looms for Stirling Albion as bottom dogs Edinburgh City visit Forthbank keen to add to Binos’ woes.

Albion are on a run of three straight defeats, a slump which has put them within striking distance of ninth-placed Annan Athletic and the relegation play-off spot.

The 2-1 win for the Galabankies dragged their fellow League One new boys into the mire and ramped up the tension for tomorrow’s clash with the condemned Citizens.

And City are no pushovers despite a grim winter that saw them lose almost all of their experienced names and suffer a six point deduction – leaving them rooted to the bottom on five points.

Michael McIndoe’s men are on a high after a remarkable stoppage time leveller from on-loan Dundee United keeper Ruairidh Adams snatched a point against Queen of the South last weekend.

Stirling boss Darren Young has been one of the beneficiaries of the Citizens’ fire sale over recent months, picking up full-back Callum Crane and on-loan winger Kieran Offord to add to his squad in January.

St Mirren kid Offord notched his first goal in Albion colours at Annan with a fine angled drive to level proceedings.

Young said: “The goal we scored was well done and something we had worked on in training, getting in behind the space on their left side and it was a good combination.

“Kieran did well in the wide areas, he did what we were looking for but we need to be doing better all across the pitch than we managed. We just stopped passing it in the second half, we went long and this is something we don’t ask them to do, we should have been in a position to pass it going down the slope but it didn’t happen.

“We’re still trying to get two more loans in this week to improve the squad, so we’ll see how that